Chen Mo explained, "What I mean is that you're too limited in your thinking. There's basically nothing new in these two designs, they're just extensions of the outline I wrote. "
"Uhh …" Su Jinyu was confused.
When Chen Mo gave her the outline, he did mention 'do more of your own design', but Su Jinyu didn't take it to heart.
Most of the time, a game designer's assistant would do repetitive work. Moreover, many game designers were a one-man rule, and they didn't like their assistants making changes to their designs, even if it was just minor adjustments.
Therefore, Su Jinyu only followed the outline and expanded Chen Mo's design document without adding any of her own ideas.
However, it was the opposite, Chen Mo wanted her to design according to his own ideas.
Chen Mo said, "That's fine, I'll give you three more days. Remember, I want to see your own ideas. "
Su Jinyu nodded vigorously. "En, alright!"
Su Jinyu continued to think hard after returning to the first floor.
After Su Jinyu left, Chen Mo looked through her design document twice more.
Indeed, she had a solid foundation and logical thinking, but her biggest problem was that she lacked inspiration. Su Jinyu could only take on the role of an executive, but to become a qualified video game designer? She was far from it.
Persistent, willing to work hard, well-rounded, but lacking inspiration. That was Chen Mo's current evaluation of Su Jinyu.
Perhaps it was because of her long-term thinking habits, or perhaps it was because of her personality.
Of course, Chen Mo could order Su Jinyu around as an assistant and let her take on the role of an executive, but that would make Su Jinyu's growth minimal.
Su Jinyu's personality was strict, but not imaginative. Therefore, Chen Mo needed to give her some pointers, at least to train her into a well-rounded video game designer in a few months time. That way, Chen Mo could save more effort.
…
Su Jinyu spent every day trying to change the design document.
The second draft had some improvements, but still didn't pass.
The third draft had one or two bright spots.
The fourth draft had Chen Mo finally nodding his head.
"Well, although it's still a little different from what I expected, I've passed." A smile appeared on Chen Mo's face.
Su Jinyu was delighted, "Is that so? That's great! "
Chen Mo nodded, "Yep, thanks for your hard work, take a break. I'll revise it a little more tonight and finalize the draft. I'll send it to you tomorrow. "
"Okay, thank you for your hard work, Manager!" Su Jinyu happily left work.
Su Jinyu spent almost two weeks on the four drafts of the design document, and Chen Mo was finally satisfied.
What Chen Mo cared about was the highlights of the design. If it was a design without highlights, even if Chen Mo approved it, the players wouldn't approve it.
Chen Mo could tell that Su Jinyu had racked her brains to come up with the ideas for the fourth draft. She wouldn't be able to come up with a better plan no matter how hard she tried.
Chen Mo's original plan was to finish it in two weeks, but it had already exceeded that time. Any further delay would affect the progress of the next game, and Chen Mo didn't have the time to wait.
Chen Mo turned on his computer and found his design document.
Actually, while Su Jinyu was changing the design document over and over again, Chen Mo had already written one for himself. However, Chen Mo didn't want his thoughts to affect Su Jinyu, so he didn't tell her.
When the two design documents were compared, Su Jinyu's design document, which she had changed a few times, looked terrible. From the UI to the functionality, it was completely crushed.
Chen Mo compared Su Jinyu's document to Su Jinyu's document, adding in better designs from his own document, as well as adding notes to explain his design intentions.
As for the parts that could be changed or not, Chen Mo completely followed Su Jinyu's design.
He finally finished changing it in the middle of the night. Chen Mo went through the version update document, and didn't find any major problems.
Since this update was still within the framework of Plants vs Zombies, there was no need to create a new project, as he could just make changes to the existing project.
… …
The next morning, the experience store opened on time.
Chen Mo yawned and said to Su Jinyu, "I've sent you the updated design document. Just follow the rules and add it to Plants vs Zombies in the game editor."
"Alright," Su Jinyu nodded.
Chen Mo was still a bit sleepy, so he went back upstairs to sleep.
Su Jinyu turned on her computer and looked at the design document Chen Mo had changed.
"… That's a lot of changes!"
Su Jinyu was shocked. The design document Chen Mo sent was at least twice the size of her previous design document. Looking closely at the details of the design document, almost seventy percent of it had been changed.
However, Chen Mo didn't delete Su Jinyu's previous design, but inserted the revised design in the middle, along with some comments.
"Impressive …"
Su Jinyu was shocked as she looked through the changes. The interface was basically flipped through, and many of the features were changed.
As Su Jinyu looked through it, she made changes in the game editor. She felt like she had made a fake design document.
"The manager sure is impressive, changing so much in one night? This kind of efficiency is terrifying! "
Su Jinyu's respect for Chen Mo increased by a few notches.
In fact, Chen Mo had written all of this in advance …
… …
One week later, the new version of Plants vs Zombies was officially updated!
After the new version was completed, Chen Mo first uploaded it to the computers in the experience store, and played it with Wen Lingwei and Jia Peng for a few days, fixing a few small mistakes.
When Chen Mo felt that there weren't any issues, he uploaded it to the market.
Very quickly, the players of Plants vs Zombies discovered that there was a new forty MB update, which they all downloaded.
"Hmm? Plants vs Zombies got a new version?! "
"How nice of a single player game to get a new version!"
"Awesome, I wonder what's new this time? Are there new plants or zombies? "
"Look at the update description, there's developer tools, and a multiplayer mode!"
"Damn, is he trying to defy the heavens? I'll go take a look! "
The players all downloaded the update as soon as they could, and the forums for Plants vs Zombies were in an uproar, discussing this completely unexpected update.
Normally, single player games like this would rarely get updates, as they couldn't charge for updates, so most designers weren't willing to do something that didn't pay for itself.
Moreover, Plants vs Zombies hadn't even been online for two months, and it was still quite popular. Although the first batch of players were getting bored of it, there were still new players coming in.
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