NIP #480 - "Payment Simulation: Lying Down Life" is officially launched!
#480 - "Payment Simulation: Lying Down Life" is officially launched!
Later, Taoyuan Township Company held a new project communication meeting.
Lu Yu deliberately led his brainstorming astray when initiating the project in order to make the project develop in a mediocre direction.
In the meeting room, core members from various departments gathered together. On the table were the project proposal documents and development requirements manual for the new game project. The atmosphere was a bit solemn, after all, this was an important link that would determine the fate of the company.
At this moment, Lu Yu walked in full of ambition. He held a red marker in his hand, looking calm and composed. After looking around, he said:
"Everyone, our company is about to embark on a new journey. This game, called 'Recharge Simulation: Lying Flat Life,' will be Taoyuan Township's first work to truly touch on current social reality topics."
As he spoke, he heavily drew a huge " lying flat" on the whiteboard.
"We all know that young people today generally have serious social anxiety, confusion, and numbness. They pursue quality of life, but at the same time they have endless disappointment and dislike for this world," Lu Yu said eloquently. "Our game is to seize this point and create a game that truly fits the current lifestyle of young people, a game that is completely about lying flat!"
The staff in attendance looked at each other, revealing a hint of suspicion. Lu Yu turned a blind eye and continued:
"Therefore, the core gameplay of the game is very simple: players will play a fat otaku who does nothing at home. What they need to do is to watch videos, eat snacks, scold people online, and constantly recharge money for the virtual wife in the game with their mother's retirement money to buy clothes and props!"
"But..." An employee hesitated to say something, but was quickly stopped by Lu Yu's big wave.
"Now let me describe the game architecture in my mind." As Lu Yu spoke, he began to scribble on the whiteboard non-stop. "First of all, this will be a two-dimensional cartoon-style game, and the protagonist is a 300- jin, a unit of weight, approximately 500 grams fat otaku."
On the whiteboard, a character image with excessive fat all over his body, clothes open, and a greasy face was quickly outlined.
"Secondly, players will be trapped in an extremely realistic, slowly flowing space, which is a small apartment consisting of only three rooms: bedroom, living room, and bathroom. Everything they do will revolve around the three home appliances: bed, refrigerator, and toilet."
Lu Yu gestured on the whiteboard to a room with minimalist decorations such as sofa, TV, and game console.
"Most importantly, the entire game will be composed of an infinitely cyclical schedule: eating, drinking, defecating, sleeping, day after day, year after year, endlessly! And if players want to jump out of this infinite cycle, they must continue to recharge the virtual wife endlessly to make her happy, otherwise the game will end!"
Speaking of this, Lu Yu scribbled a picture of a beautiful two-dimensional girl's head on the whiteboard, next to which was a string of money symbols surrounding the head.
"Mr. Lu, this idea is a bit puzzling," one employee couldn't help but ask, boldly raising a question. "Are we really going to make it like this? It seems a bit overcorrecting."
"Hmph, does this still need to be explained?" Lu Yu raised his hands and smiled triumphantly,
"We want to create a game that completely focuses on lying flat and having no desires, and interprets the current absurd and excessive consumer culture and the logic of hedonism to the fullest! Let all the players who pursue this kind of game see their sad and helpless living conditions in our venting works, so as to trigger huge reflections!"
Lu Yu's eyes shot out a firm look. However, the staff present looked at each other and fell into a completely silent and embarrassing situation.
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Affected by Lu Fan, the ideas of game producers Wan Xiaotong, Hua Wu, and Mo Xiaoxuan also began to go wrong, and they sinicized Lu Fan's ideas and proposed project ideas.
"Everyone, you have all seen the core concept of the game that I described on the whiteboard. This game, called 'Recharge Simulation: Lying Flat Life,' will be the first masterpiece of Taoyuan Township that truly faces realistic themes, vents emotions, and triggers reflections at the same time."
"We all know that young people today are generally caught in a mire of numbness, negativity, and hopelessness, whether in life, career, or emotion. Most of them are addicted to the online world, addicted to the virtual anime culture, and desperately recharge money to buy clothes and props for their virtual wives every day in order to gain a moment of satisfaction."
"Our game is to infinitely exaggerate this absurd behavior to the extreme! Let players play a dead fat otaku who does nothing all day long and tirelessly recharges money for his virtual wife! And in order to satisfy the infinite desires of his virtual wife, he must do his best to pay for consumption, even if he eventually becomes mentally deranged and his body is dying!"
Mo Xiaoxuan paused here and looked at everyone. He saw that the production staff below were looking at each other, obviously not fully into the state yet. So he continued to add:
"Specifically, the core gameplay of the game is a constant pay loop. The dead fat otaku played by the player will be permanently imprisoned in a small, smelly room at home, repeating the monotonous and meaningless behaviors of 'lying in bed, peeping movies, verbally abusing online, and recharging wildly' day after day."
"And in order to please his favorite anime virtual wife, he must constantly use his mother's retirement money to buy more and newer clothes, weapons, pets and other virtual items for his wife. Once he has no money to continue recharging, his wife will immediately leave home, and the game will be forced to end!"
"In other words, the meaning of survival of this dead fat otaku is equivalent to a non-stop recharging generator! He has to constantly recharging for his virtual wife every day in order to maintain this distorted and pathetic life, otherwise he will immediately die physically and mentally. You should be able to appreciate the social moral that this game wants to convey, right?"
The production team below suddenly understood and began to record something on the documents at hand. Seeing this scene, Lu Yu raised his eyebrows, and then continued:
"Of course, in order to make the game more entertaining and watchable, we can't just copy reality so bluntly, but we have to make appropriate modifications and exaggerations on this basis. Therefore, you can make some very ' sensational' imaginations and expansions on the gameplay and experience of the game, as long as it does not deviate from the core theme."
"For example, we can design hundreds of thousands of categories of virtual items for this dead fat otaku to pay for. From clothes and accessories to weapons and armor, from pet props to home facilities, everything is included! All these items must be extremely ingenious and lewd in appearance and attribute design, so that players can rack their brains to please their virtual wives!"
"For example, in order to make the pay cycle look more tense and pressure, we can greatly increase the frequency and amount of pay. Each item must not only be divided into ordinary and rare levels, but also be forced to be replaced by new products in a short period of time, so as to force the otaku to repeat the purchase!"
"Oh, by the way, we can also add a random guessing mechanism to the game! For example, every once in a while, the virtual wife will shoot a pay request to the player, requiring an amount ranging from 1 cent to 100,000 yuan, entirely determined by the system temporarily. And if the player guesses the wrong price range, he will be fined more! You see, isn't this like a direct strike to those young people who recharge crazily?"
Mo Xiaoxuan kept talking, and the production staff present began to record his every idea on paper enthusiastically. Soon, one unbelievable idea after another gradually took shape under their pens like bamboo shoots after a rain.
"That's right! You all think hard about whether you can add some other gameplay with more ' money-making' potential for this dead fat otaku!" Lu Yu said, suddenly picked up a thick marker from the table, and walked forward to gesture a huge money symbol on the whiteboard.
"We want to completely regard this game as a pure ' recharging simulator', and use the ruthless power of reality to wake up those sleeping young otaku! Let them see their sadness and helplessness in the bottomless abyss of pay, so as to trigger reflection on the current consumption craze!"
"So, when you consider the gameplay and design of the game, you must also completely throw the aesthetic taste and bottom line behind! What we want to do is a thorough, full of novelty and exaggeration components of the 'Super Consumption Simulator'!"
Wan Xiaotong's words seemed to open the gate of the spirit for everyone present. With his flow, the production team under the stage was gradually completely driven by this wave of ironic and exaggerated design craze. They began to scribble frantically on the table, and from time to time they would open their mouths to propose some strange ideas.
Soon, the entire conference room was immersed in a carnival ocean of inspiration.
After reading the exaggerated, outrageous, and unbelievable game design ideas sorted out by the production team, Lu Yu immediately showed a look of excited. He squinted his eyes, raised a smug smile on his face, and slightly upturned the corners of his mouth, seeming quite satisfied with the team's "carried" performance this time.
Deep down, Lu Yu was secretly pleased. Yes, the game "Recharge Simulation: Lying Flat Life" itself is certainly mediocre and boring, but precisely because of this, it gave them an excellent opportunity to infinitely exaggerate those distorted consumption crazes in social reality and create an unprecedented ironic work.
He turned around and looked around the conference room, and saw that everyone's face was full of excitement and inspiration. Some were scribbling on draft paper, some were quickly typing on the keyboard, and some were calculating data models, focusing on their work. Lu Yu saw it in his eyes, and his heart was filled with gratified and affirmation of the team.
At this moment, a figure suddenly flashed into his sight. He saw a middle-aged man coming quickly, holding the design documents they had just compiled in his hand. Seeing the man's familiar dress, Lu Yu realized that he was Zhang Haibo, the company's senior operations director.
"Mr. Lu, I said you really gave us a big news this time!" Zhang Haibo walked straight to Lu Yu, and a force of furious came over him. "You can take a look at what's written on it? This is simply blatantly hyping up the novelty and satire of society, right?"
"Absurd!" Zhang Haibo opened the document and pointed to a certain line with his hand. "Look at what is written on it? 'Let the otaku have all the game data frozen due to a one-time pay error, and must pay to unlock it'? It's simply deliberately tricking players to pay!"
"And here!" His hand turned and landed on another line of design ideas. "'Set up an infinite number of branches for the main storyline, and each branch needs to be pay separately to unlock and view'? This is too nakedly rude extorting the players, right?"
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Zhang Haibo shook his head again and again, his expression gradually becoming ferocious: "Even if it is to create public opinion and trigger reflection, we still have to take into account the gameplay and operation, right? This kind of design that completely throws the rights and interests of players behind is probably absolutely not feasible!"
Hearing this, Lu Yu couldn't help but sneer. He took a step forward, took the document from Zhang Haibo's hand without hesitation, and slammed it on the table next to him.
"Not feasible? Hmph, Director Zhang, you are afraid that you have forgotten the original intention of our game?" Lu Yu looked solemn, his eyes full of firmness. "We don't want to make a huge profit by it, but want to use it to satirize and alert the young people who are now immersed in the mire of online game consumption."
"Therefore, no matter how melodramatic and unreasonable the pay design is, or how novelty and nonsensical the game experience is, we should give enough ' exaggeration' room. In this way, when those young people spend a lot of money to buy it, they will encounter such a ' inhumane' experience, which will trigger inner shock and reflection."
Lu Yu paused and added: "Let go and do it, even at the cost of being scolded by streaming media bloggers and netizens, I will not hesitate! In order to wake up this generation, we should spend this ' ruthless' capital!"
After saying that, he strode to the door of the conference room, suddenly exerted a force and pulled the door open. He saw that dozens of employees in the company had been attracted by the loud noise, with surprised and suspicious expressions on their faces.
Seeing this, Lu Yu took a deep breath and suddenly raised his voice, telling everyone in a deafening voice:
"Brothers and sisters! Please allow me to tell you about the original design intention of our new work 'Recharge Simulation: Lying Flat Life'!"
"We all know what a sad sight it is for young people today to indulge in the game world. They are obsessed with the anime culture all day long, foolishly recharging and consuming for their virtual wives, completely indulging in a world that has lost reality. And our new work is to use an extreme way to fiercely break their 'dream lover'!"
"Therefore, the game will set up various absurd and unreasonable pay gameplay! Just like a bottomless abyss, it will always swallow the players' endless money and youth! When they tirelessly pay and consume for the virtual wife they love in their hearts, but in the end they can only lead to one tragic ending after another, their hearts will be strongly shocked!"
"That's right! We want to use this thorough and ruthless way to fiercely punish those young people who allow themselves to wantonly indulge in the virtual world! Let them wake up from the beginning and re-examine their lives! Even if we are scolded by the whole network for this, I will not hesitate!"
Lu Yu's words were like a sharp spur, turned into a strong spiritual torrent, and quickly impacted the hearts of every employee present.
For a second or two, the venue was silent, everyone stunned by these bold words. But immediately afterward, someone couldn't help but burst into applause, and this applause was quickly followed by more people, spreading into a wave!
"President Lu is right! Let's teach those young people a lesson!"
"That's right, we need to give them a rude awakening! To make them suddenly wake up!"
"Haha, I can't wait to see the embarrassed looks on those online fools when they're struck by lightning!"
In this way, under Lu Yu's powerful call, the employees who were originally full of doubts seemed to be completely ignited with fighting spirit! The entire company instantly ignited a crazy passion to create satirical works and spit venom for social justice.