– Inside the experience store –
Wen Lingwei and Chang Xiuya were playing against Jia Peng and another guy.
"Senior, help me add a Nut Wall here!" Chang Xiuya said.
"How many zombies have you saved up? Here, I'll leave them here and steal Xiuya's Cob Cannon, "Jia Peng said to the other guy.
Chang Xiuya panicked, "Hey, Jia Peng, you can't do that!"
Wen Lingwei said expressionlessly, "It's fine, I still have two more Cob Cannons waiting."
Chang Xiuya screamed, "Ah!! Jia Peng, why aren't you playing by the rules! Didn't you say you were going to steal my Cob Cannon? Why did you eat my Sunflower instead! "
The experience store was bustling with activity. Wen Lingwei and the others were all playing the new multiplayer mode, and it was hard to tell who had the upper hand.
Su Jinyu was using the developer tools to design new plants and zombies. Of course, it was mainly in terms of appearance. Her hand drawing skills were much better than Chen Mo's, as she had already drawn two or three new plants.
The three plants were all very China themed, namely Wheat Machine Gun, Sweet Potato Bomb, and Bamboo Wall.
The community function in Plants vs Zombies had also started to attract more and more players.
After being online for almost two months, Plants vs Zombies had over eight hundred thousand players, and more than half of them were still active. These people had formed thousands of communities of various sizes, with many friends and classmates in real life joining these communities, allowing them to see what others were up to every day.
Some hardcore Plants vs Zombies fans really liked the developer tools, especially those who were interested in game design, and were trying to make new mods.
There were already more than ten mods, but most of them only made simple changes to the stats, such as Unlimited Sunlight, Faster Plant Fire, etc. Although there were quite a few people playing them, they wouldn't last long.
However, Chen Mo wasn't too worried. With more mods, there would naturally be better ones, and the players would just have to pick and choose.
As for the multiplayer mode, it had indeed set off a wave of excitement among the players. In the Plants vs Zombies community, many players were posting, discussing the tricks and tricks of the PvP mode. There was even a three-man team that had achieved twenty wins in a row, and was bragging about it in the community, attracting a lot of attention.
On the forums, the players were mostly praising Plants vs Zombies, and it even caused another wave of downloads.
"I studied the developer tool today, and I feel that this tool is too powerful. It can change anything, and it's completely up to us to develop it ourselves! I'm waiting for the big hands to make a mod that is comparable to the original! "
"At first, I thought that I had already understood this game, but now it seems that I'm still too young … If this game is constantly updated with mods, I can probably play it for a lifetime …"
"I can only kneel to the designer. No one else could make a standalone casual game to this extent!"
"However, releasing the developer tools means that anyone can study the data of Plants vs Zombies as they please. The designers are really daring!"
"That's right. It's not like other companies that hide all their game data and use all sorts of methods to encrypt it, afraid that others will plagiarize it."
"Yeah, I've become a fan just because the author opened up the developer tools!"
Chen Mo was relieved after reading through the comments of the players.
For him, this was enough for the new update. This update had greatly extended the lifespan of Plants vs Zombies. He could foresee that in the next few months, Plants vs Zombies would continue to dominate the casual puzzle games leaderboards.
Suddenly, Su Jinyu said in a panic, "Manager, bad news!"
"Hmm?" Chen Mo raised his head, "What's wrong?"
Su Jinyu came up to Chen Mo with her phone, "Look, this game … is copying us!"
Chen Mo took the phone from Su Jinyu.
The screen showed a game from the app store. From the game's introduction, the gameplay was very similar to Plants vs Zombies, with five paths on the left, and enemies on the right.
However, the art for this game was completely different from Plants vs Zombies. The game was called Defense of the Moon, and the main content was that the players would deploy various high-tech weapons on the moon to defend against the invasion of the alien Zergs.
Although these high-tech weapons didn't look like plants, they had a lot to do with the plants in Plants vs Zombies.
For example, the Peashooter was changed into a Machine Gun, the Spikes were changed into Magnetic Traps, the Sunflower was changed into a Supply Station, and the Cob Cannon was changed into a Nuclear Missile Silo.
The packaging for the Zombies was also changed into various alien creatures. They were all ugly Zergs of different sizes, and had different attack styles. However, most of the Zergs' attacks resembled the Zombies.
"What's wrong?" Jia Peng also came over.
Su Jinyu said, "Look, this Lunar Defense game is plagiarizing us!"
"What? How shameless! "
Everyone took out their phones and found the game on the app store.
Indeed, everyone could easily tell that this game was copying Plants vs Zombies. Basically, the art, music, sound effects, and UI were all changed, but the gameplay was exactly the same as Plants vs Zombies.
"How can we tolerate this? I'm going to give it a bad review! "Jia Peng said angrily.
"Yeah, give it a bad review! I'm going to get everyone in the community to give it a bad review! "
Chen Mo didn't say anything, but took a closer look at the stats of the game.
It was released two days ago, and was completely free to download. The rating was very low, only three out of ten. Most of the player reviews were one star negative.
Obviously, these players had played Plants vs Zombies before, and didn't care about copying games like this.
The game was paid through built-in advertising. There would be a simple banner advertisement on the screen every time the game was cleared.
Moreover, there were some value-added services. Players could pay to buy energy supplies (Sunlight from Plants vs Zombies), and after dying, they could pay to get three chances to revive.
The developer was Flying Limit Entertainment, and the designer was a C-grade video game designer that no one had heard of.
Flying Limit Entertainment was a video game company located far away in Magic City, and could barely be considered a second-tier company. There were a few normal mobile and client-side games before this, but none of them were very popular.
The company's reviews on the internet were very bad, but because it wasn't famous, most people didn't know about its bad record.
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