Making up his mind, Pei Qian entered ESRO's official resource website and searched for common templates for mobile card games.
Before long, Pei Qian found one.
This wasn't the template for Qute Three Kingdoms.
That was because Qute Three Kingdoms was the creator of mobile card games and was the most popular mobile card game in the market at the moment – it was akin to a cash cow – there was no way that the company would be dumb enough to sell their own game as a template.
However, that didn't mean that others wouldn't.
Many game companies followed suit and created mobile card games. Even though they wrote the code themselves, they merely borrowed Qute Three Kingdoms' gameplay from it.
As for those companies, they had no choice but to modify their own games and sell the templates on the resource website – that way, they could recoup some of their costs.
The template that Pei Qian had found was from a failed mobile card game imitation.
"A failed product? I like it! "
Pei Qian felt that this was a good sign.
He clicked on it and looked at the gameplay system.
Ever since the popularity of mobile card games in 2008 till now, Qute Three Kingdoms had gone through many revisions as well with many more playstyles.
As for this template, it was clear that it was outdated and only had the most basic of things.
For example, levels, wipeouts, arenas and so on.
There were no new gameplay at all!
That made the entire game seem rather shabby.
Pei Qian was extremely pleased with this!
This was the type of mobile card game template that he had been dreaming of. There were no fun functions and there was no advantage in terms of gameplay at all!
He looked at the price – 100,000!
"… Why is it only 100,000?"
Pei Qian was extremely dissatisfied with that price – it was way too cheap!
He would have bought it even if he had set the price at 150,000!
But on second thought, the driving simulation template was only twenty thousand. Although the template for mobile card games was a bit more complicated and contained many more complete systems, a hundred thousand wasn't cheap at all.
Pei Qian could tell from the number of downloads that this template was a far cry from the driving simulation game template that he had bought previously.
That meant that its price was way too high and it wasn't practical at all.
Without hesitation, Pei Qian placed the order!
He loved products as such that he could burn through money without being warned by the system.
After buying the template, he had the basic gameplay and all that was left was to fill in the art resources.
Art resources included the UI, battle effects, card concept art and a series of other content.
Other than that, there was also the purchase of music and sound effects, renting a cloud server, etc., but these did not cost much money.
Most of it was still art resources.
After some consideration, Pei Qian decided to keep twenty to thirty thousand yuan for music and sound effects, ten thousand yuan for other expenses, and the remaining 160,000 to 170,000 yuan for art resources.
One hundred sixty or seventy thousand was not a small amount, but it was not a lot either.
However, Pei Qian had no idea what the art resources should look like.
Card games were the most suitable for changing skins.
It could also be understood that for card games, "skin" was the most important.
It was precisely because this layer of skin was so important that Pei Qian had to ensure that it would not fail!
Of course, he couldn't deliberately make it look ugly.
This was because the system stipulated that he couldn't purchase goods or services that were obviously of low quality.
After spending 160,000 or 170,000 yuan, if he only bought art resources worth 50,000 or 60,000 yuan, he wouldn't be able to get past the system.
They had to purchase services of roughly equivalent value. A slight fluctuation was allowed, but not too much.
At that moment, Pei Qian had to use his brain.
How could he buy art resources of decent quality while ensuring that gamers wouldn't like them?
It was simple. He just had to get the artist to use his exquisite skills to draw in a style that gamers wouldn't like, right?
The key was to come up with an art requirement plan.
Pei Qian wasn't too confident in his abilities in this aspect. After all, he had a failed experience with The Lonely Desert Road and he was starting to doubt his ability to execute.
At that moment, Ma Yang's usefulness could be seen!
Pei Qian downloaded a generic art resource requirement form from the resource website.
On the requirement form, the dimensions of the various resources were written in detail. After that, he had to give a simple description of the resources.
There were two types of resources. One was original art. Those were more expensive and had higher requirements for the artist. They had to be detailed and the requirements had to be clear as well.
The other type was other resources such as UI, special effects, etc.
All of these resources were similar online and could be used with a few modifications.
However, Pei Qian was naturally not satisfied with just a few modifications. How could he spend money just by making a few modifications?
That was why all the art resources had to be custom-made!
Pei Qian first listed out the system UI, special effects and other less important resources before filling in some simple requirements himself.
For example, it had to be cool!
It had to be in line with the Three Kingdoms style!
They were all vague statements like this.
As for how the final product would look like …
Pei Qian didn't care! Whatever!
Pei Qian then sent the form to Ma Yang.
By then, Ma Yang was already awake.
However, after reading that huge book for two minutes, he was already showing signs of dozing off.
When he saw that Pei Qian had sent him a form, Ma Yang was instantly energized. He tossed the book in his hands onto the bed and poked his head down from the top bunk, asking softly, "Are we starting work?"
Pei Qian nodded. "Fill in the form. Use your imagination and fill in the form boldly! "
Ma Yang nodded furiously. "No problem!"
His passion for work was extremely high!
Ma Yang took a look – it was an art resource requirement form. There were quite a few parts that he had to fill in. The main thing was the description of the character's original art.
Pei Qian had already confirmed the theme of the game – the Three Kingdoms.
There were only so many characters in the Three Kingdoms. Pei Qian picked out a total of 50 characters, 15 of which were rare, 25 of which were superior and 10 of which were normal.
In terms of price, there was a huge fluctuation in the price of an original art. The cheapest one would cost 700 to 800 while the most expensive one would cost 4,000 to 5,000.
Even if he were to go to a second or third tier city to recruit a student, he would be able to get one for 100.
It wouldn't be strange if he were to look for a famous artist to custom-make one for 7,000 to 8,000.
In any case, you get what you pay for.
There was no way Pei Qian would look for a famous artist to custom-make even though that would cost him more money.
That was because the fame of a famous artist was there for all to see – there was a high chance that it would serve as publicity for the game!
By the same logic, he could definitely spend more money buying an original art that cost 4,000 to 5,000 each. However, what if gamers fell in love with it once it was released?!
It was still the same saying – the most important thing for a mobile card game was an appearance. If the appearance was too good, there was a chance of earning money no matter how crappy the gameplay was!
Therefore, Pei Qian decided to buy cheaper original arts!
If he wanted to spend more money, he would buy more!
50 characters, and then different characters, after leveling up, the different states after leveling up.
In other words, it was equivalent to 50 base maps, and each base map had four variations to represent the effects of leveling up.
Based on the base map and 4 variations priced at 3,000, that would be 150,000 – that was just right for Pei Qian's budget.
After all, first-generation card games did not require models and that saved him quite a bit of money.
But of course, the other party would have to come up with the exact price – Pei Qian was just making a rough estimate.
Ma Yang was puzzled. Now that everything had been decided, what was his main job?
He looked at the note that Pei Qian had written and understood.
His job was to create original art and modify it!
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