2: Theme selection: Make it fantasy!

The original owner had almost spent all the money, and now Illusion Dream Game Studio only had thirty thousand yuan left in its accounts, which was not enough to afford top-tier computing power that cost millions to start.

Jiang Feng could only modify the original owner's game, changing it to a Xuanhuan style.

The production quality of "heroes in troubled times" was good; although it was just a demo for the preliminary selection, it still offered at least 6 hours of gameplay.

A small town with a few thousand people, a martial arts school with dozens of apprentices, three boxing styles and two leg techniques, and a stage boss, who was the Master of the martial arts school.

Players needed to practice boxing in the martial arts school, battling and defeating newcomers who entered at the same time, Senior Brother who had been learning martial arts for years, the Great Master who was internally designated as the next head of the school, and finally the Master.

After defeating the Master, players would leave the small town and venture into the wider Jianghu, to witness its ups and downs.

The plot was decent, with the highlight being the exquisite design of the boxing and leg techniques, and the enemies' movements were also carefully crafted, making the game very engaging.

If it hadn't been plagiarized, this game would definitely have attracted many hardcore fighting players, as well as those who were obsessed with the Wuxia style.

The chances of winning the championship were slim, but it could still gain many players through the promotion of the Ancient Style Game Competition, becoming the foundation for the studio's start.

But now that it had been plagiarized, Antarctic Studio's upgraded PLUS version would completely crush his game. With a better option, who would play his?

Even if he held up a sign accusing plagiarism, players would at most help him shout a few words. But when it came to buying and playing the game, their choices would be different.

After all, many people thought that whether a game was plagiarized or not wasn't important; what mattered was if it was fun!

"Let me see how to modify it..."

Jiang Feng considered it carefully.

In his previous life, after Xuanhuan appeared, it directly squeezed out the Wuxia ecological niche.

The new generation of children might not have read Wuxia, but they would definitely have read Xuanhuan.

And in this world's Blue Star, the technological level was even more advanced.

It was not impossible to create a Xuanhuan game.

Starting with a VR Xuanhuan World, who could resist?

Several game scenes quickly flashed through Jiang Feng's mind:

Cultivators flying on swords, high above, with Nine Heavens lightning exploding down with every gesture, truly a grand spectacle.

Immortal Dynasties standing tall, divine kingdoms on earth, with peerless great powers turning all living beings into fuel to open a Cauldron for Alchemy!

The lowest-level Cultivators, with strength comparable to a Dragon-elephant, capable of collapsing a house with one punch and cracking the earth with one kick. Even hundreds or thousands of Mortal martial artists could not get close.

Hot-blooded young men making a three-year pact, rising against the odds, refining all fires to become an Emperor.

Peerless Great Emperors covering the sky with one hand, dominating all eternity, living against the flow for nine lives.

Even the river of time, even the myriad realms of the universe, their annihilation and flow, were all at the whim of a great power... Just thinking about it, Jiang Feng felt his heart surge.

In this world where the limit of imagination was merely Wuxia, Xuanhuan, once it appeared, was bound to cause a huge stir!

He didn't even need to bring over those famous scenes; he just needed to release the Xuanhuan Worldview, and he would immediately reap countless Emotional Value.

No sooner said than done, Jiang Feng directly opened the AI.

The best game development AI in the Huaxia Federation was called Tiangong AI, and almost all major productions used it.

[Basic Package (10 hours): 3 million]

[Business Package (24 hours): 6 million]

"Excuse me."

AI was advanced in this world, but the price was also steep.

What human employees needed to do was organize the AI commands they needed to generate the required game resources as quickly as possible.

Therefore, positions like modelers, concept artists, and designers from the old era were all retained, and their job content was to interact with AI.

Now, all dozens of employees of Illusion Dream Game Studio had jumped ship, leaving only Jiang Feng and the sole customer service girl.

Using AI would be extremely inefficient, consuming more time, and time meant money.

24 hours, that would be 6 million.

Goodness, this was even faster than robbing money... [Ding!]

[Detecting successful Transmigration of Host, currently checking Host's current situation...]

[Detecting that Host is preparing for the Ancient Style Game Competition, specially activating the Universal Game Production System. With a mere thought, it can directly generate corresponding game resources based on brainwaves!]

"System?"

Jiang Feng beamed with joy; in this era, Transmigration without a System meant suffering.

A panel appeared in his mind:

[Universal Game Production AI]

[Can automatically generate game resources based on your brainwaves, simple, efficient, and with extremely high generation quality]

[Each use requires consuming Emotional Value]

[Current Emotional Value: 100 (Newbie Welfare)]

[Publish games, let players generate various emotions in the game, and you can obtain Emotional Value]

"Making games with brainwaves? What kind of Sky-tier black technology is this?"

Jiang Feng imagined the Xuanhuan World in his mind.

Nine layers of Nine Heavens stacked upon each other, myriad beings in the universe, great power Cultivators strolling in the river of time, Heavenly Gods from beyond the heavens poking their heads out of the void...

[Insufficient Emotional Value, unable to generate game resources!]

Hearing the prompt in his mind, Jiang Feng's mouth twitched.

He glanced at the Emotional Value requirement displayed on the panel:

"Units, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands..."

As expected, even a System-produced item couldn't simply generate an entire Xuanhuan World for him.

To create a complete Xuanhuan World, the Emotional Value required was absurdly high, beyond what he could afford.

"Then what about my modification of the current game?"

Jiang Feng's thoughts stirred, and he re-conceived in his mind.

Anyway, the competition process was a PK System. Initially, everyone only needed to submit a demo. Subsequently, they would continuously PK and refine the game until the final top eight were determined, at which point they would need to release a complete game for the final battles.

He only needed to focus on the demo now.

"No need to build a complete world, just modify the small town from the original. Change it to a Mortal town managed by a certain Sect, where the strongest expert is a great Cultivator who can fly on a sword, and then build the entire Xuanhuan Cultivation System..."

[Insufficient Emotional Value!]

"Alright, the strongest expert is at the Qi Refining Realm, who has just embarked on the path of Cultivation. He possesses bronze tendons and iron bones, is impervious to blades and spears, and a casual strike can obliterate everyone in the martial arts school. Then, construct the game System corresponding to the Qi Refining Realm: Cultivation, combat, daily life..."

[Emotional Value required: 100!]

Jiang Feng exhaled. With existing game resources, merely supplementing the System corresponding to the Qi Refining Realm indeed didn't require much Emotional Value.

As long as the demo went online and he harvested more Emotional Value, he could make the Xuanhuan World increasingly rich.

Each Cultivation Rank would have a corresponding Cultivation System, combat System, and corresponding skills like Alchemy, talisman drawing, and mining, constantly enhancing playability.

At the same time, as the Rank increased, the worldview would also continuously expand, and the survival of the fittest and dark Laws unique to the Xuanhuan World would all be revealed.

Jiang Feng hadn't forgotten that the Ancient Style Game Competition required games to expose the dark side of ancient times.

A triad-like Xuanhuan World was most suitable for this theme.

By then, players would enter the game drawn by the highlight of suppressing heaven and earth, only to find themselves being suppressed... They would enter with the amazing idea of refining humans into elixirs, only to find themselves becoming the dregs... Thinking of this, Jiang Feng couldn't help but curl his lips. He was very curious to see what kind of actions players from the Huaxia Federation would take in the Xuanhuan World.

Would they collude with the Xuanhuan natives, disregarding everything for the sake of dominating all eternity, using heaven and earth as a Cauldron and all living beings as alchemical ingredients?

Or would they continue to maintain the qualities cultivated by modern civilization, even if they were brutally suppressed and abused by stronger Cultivators?

Knock, knock, knock!

At this moment, a knock came from the office door.