97: Chapter 97 Preparations for the New Game
It was the fifth day of the Anti-War Competition.
Zhou Yang glanced at the competition leaderboard; wwii: eastern meat grinder had remained at the top.
The gap between it and the second and third-place entries was constantly widening in terms of overall data.
Not only were the download numbers far ahead, but the payment numbers were also significantly higher.
Even so, the game's anti-war rating did not decrease but instead rose.
Securing first place was no longer in doubt.
In two more days, unless some ghostly army crossed the border or a deity intervened, first place was secure.
Zhou Yang opened the system interface; he had earned enough Emotion Points to produce his next game.
Not only that, but he also had enough Emotion Points to produce subsequent DLCs.
Aside from letting the people of this world witness the War of Resistance from his past life, he also wanted to show them the brutality of World War II.
A single World War II resulted in over 80 million deaths.
Including the injured, the casualty count exceeded 100 million.
This was a war that engulfed the entire world.
With enough Emotion Points gathered, Zhou Yang immediately redeemed the Pacific War.
Countless relevant memories flooded into his mind, and it took him quite a while to basically digest them.
The impact of these war memories on him was not very strong.
He didn't feel any shock, but he saw the madness of the Japanese Army.
Aside from that, it was pure satisfaction.
In the early stages, the Japanese Army had some advantages against the US military, but later on, it was completely a one-sided beating of the Japanese Army by the US military.
In the end, it was two "Little Boys" that ended the war.
One went south, one went north, and no matter where one went, they were familiar faces.
Seeing this part, he was completely satisfied and left.
He could already imagine how comfortable the players would feel when the game was finished and released, and they reached this part.
However, before that, he still had to let them suffer a bit more.
The history of the War of Resistance had not yet ended; he would continue to release DLCs, creating all the battles that should be remembered, and bringing new shocks to the people of this other world.
Thinking this, Zhou Yang immediately began the production of the new game.
The production task for the new game was even higher than the Battle of Shanghai, mainly because the timeline was a bit long.
Besides that, the Pacific War was basically naval and air warfare.
Of course, there were also several amphibious assault battles.
Quite a lot of people died in these landing battles; it could be said that these were the few battles in the Pacific War that people could easily remember.
For example, the Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the Battle of Okinawa.
The Pacific theater was basically naval warfare; once a landing occurred, it meant massive casualties.
Thinking of this battlefield, Zhou Yang remembered a game from his past life.
One of the maps in it was created based on the Battle of Iwo Jima.
There seemed to be a meme in it: if it was the US military, they killed hard; if it was the Japanese Army, they sent themselves to their deaths.
Two days passed quickly.
It was now the seventh day of the Anti-War Competition, and today was the final day.
In these two days, Zhou Yang had created the framework for the game.
After the framework was done, it would be much easier to fill in the content later.
With the experience of making the first game, Zhou Yang found making the Pacific War much easier.
Now he was not short of money, and similarly, he had plenty of time, so he didn't need to rush to release the next game so quickly.
After all, the popularity of the first one was currently soaring; he had to wait until the popularity started to decline before releasing the new game, so that he could raise the popularity again.
Emerging from the virtual capsule, Zhou Yang prepared to rest and relax.
Coming to the garden attached to the villa, he sat on a chair nearby and lay down leisurely.
In his past life, he never had time to drink tea so leisurely, so relaxed and carefree.
Let alone owning such a villa.
In his past life, he was just a miserable corporate slave.
Zhou Yang opened his phone to check the competition leaderboard.
The mobile phones in this world were not much different from those in his past life; although there were technological products like virtual capsules, mobile phones had not been eliminated.
After all, for portability, mobile phones were essential.
Perhaps in the future, this world would develop portable virtual capsules, but not now.
Although he knew his game would securely take first place, Zhou Yang still felt a little uneasy and wanted to check it a few more times, fearing that this was all like a dream.
Fortunately, he checked it over and over again, and it was still at the top of the leaderboard.
During these two days, other games on the leaderboard seemed to have given up, with their data growth slowing down; only wwii: eastern meat grinder was still growing steadily.
It even had a trend of becoming more and more popular.
After these days of fermentation, the game had become completely famous.
It was not only famous in the gaming circle but had even spread to other circles.
It sparked quite a lot of discussion.
Almost the entire internet was discussing this game, not just the gameplay, but more so the meaning the game conveyed.
And the game's background story.
Especially in the history circle.
Many history scholars were very surprised after seeing the background story and introduction in the game.
The game's story background, world view, social view, international relations, and historical development context were all well-founded and logical.
Everything strung together as if it were real history.
Whenever they had a point of confusion, relevant content would appear in the game to support or clarify that doubt.
Many Netizens were even calling for a novel to be released, telling the background story of this game.
Zhou Yang naturally saw these calls from Netizens; summarizing the entire history of the War of Resistance in a novel, Zhou Yang thought this idea was feasible.
In the past few days, he had also been writing this novel.
Besides the novel, Zhou Yang was also trying to compile this history into a modern history of China.
Compared to a novel, compiling a history book was definitely more difficult.
It not only needed to be rigorous but also comprehensive.
It could not be compiled from too subjective a perspective.
It was only because of the virtual capsule; otherwise, he didn't know how long it would take to complete such a huge workload.
Just like that, after working for two days, he was tired.
He felt there was no need to push himself so hard now; it was too exhausting.
There was still plenty of time; he could take it slow.
Just as Zhou Yang was resting on the lounge chair, a call came in.
Zhou Yang picked it up and saw it was a call from Yang Ruoxue.
He immediately sat up straight and answered the phone.
He guessed in his heart that Sister Yang was looking for him to talk about the competition results.
Or perhaps about the next new game.
"Hello, Sister Yang, is there anything you need?" Zhou Yang asked with a smile immediately.
"Can't I call you if there's nothing going on?" Yang Ruoxue's voice came from the phone.
Zhou Yang heard this and quickly laughed awkwardly, "Of course you can, Sister Yang, you can call me anytime."
"Are you very busy lately? I see on the internet that many Netizens are asking you to release some novels or something. If you can't handle it, you can hire people."
"Now that you've earned so much money, hiring some people to share the workload is better; doing it all by yourself is too tiring." Yang Ruoxue said with concern.
Zhou Yang felt a warmth in his heart upon hearing this.
He also began to consider whether or not he should hire a few people to help out.