Game development begins with destroying Girls' Frontline.

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Chapter Four: Staggering Forward

From here on, we basically enter the main storyline.

Players should have played for at least a dozen hours and be familiar with the various gameplay mechanics on the large map.

At this point, the storyline becomes a new point of interest for players.

Here, players will connect the high-level NPCs they have met before.

Ultimately, it was like assembling a battle team.

Go to all the sects and get everyone involved.

Chapter Five: Facing Death

For the final chapter, Lin Li didn't make many changes; he simply used the outline from the original author, making only minor adjustments.

These five chapters form the core of the entire game.

in short.

The world is on the brink of destruction. Players need to befriend heroes from all walks of life, win over martial arts sects, defeat all the Sword Tomb members, and finally eliminate Xiang Shu.

The main storyline is clear and straightforward.

However, this game is ultimately Eggplant's game, not Spark's game.

Therefore, Xinghuo's copywriting team only created the framework for the main storyline.

In the various side quests, the author still has the freedom to create his own story, and these side quests also serve as a vehicle for fully unraveling the world view.

In other words.

Players can choose not to learn about the main storyline if they don't want to know what happened before.

Besides the storyline, the open-world gameplay of this version of "The Scroll of Taiwu" has also undergone significant changes due to the influence of Linli.

"The main storyline is like the male protagonist in Fallout searching for his child."

"It's a long-term goal, but in the short term, we need to make this world more interesting and immersive for players."

A careful analysis of the reasons why the previous EA version of "The Scroll of Taiwu" became so popular.

One very important point is...

That is the subject matter of "The Scroll of Taiwu".

This is a sandbox-style martial arts game.

The reason sandbox games are so popular is because of their openness and freedom.

The plot is certainly important, but it's not that important.

Players love Sand River because they want to play freely in this world, doing whatever they want, with the rules set by them, without being restricted by traditional storylines or map settings.

However, the official version of "The Scroll of Taiwu" constantly restricts this freedom.

Eggplant attempts to tell a highly subjective game story within the framework of a sandbox mode.

This will naturally cause discomfort due to the change in environment.

After all, in a world like this, if your wife is murdered and your son is kidnapped, you'd probably pick up some trash first.

Your daughter is missing. You can play a couple of rounds of Gwent first.

With your companions surrounded and in imminent danger of dying, you decide to kidnap two village girls first.

SOS signals have arrived from my hometown; the enemy is at the gates. I need to hunt a couple of wild rabbits and boars to increase my strength.

Even if the whole world is after you, you can first go to a nightclub and have some fun, or go to the mountaintop and chat with savages.

You can write a story, or you can immerse players in the story, like in The Witcher 3.

Players can play a game of Gwent anytime, anywhere, without affecting the progression of the story.

However, the problem with the official version of "The Scroll of Taiwu" is that it places too much emphasis on the plot.

As a result, the open-world gameplay was overlooked.

So even though Lin Li provided the plot framework, during the development process, he would still call from time to time to ask about improvements to the gameplay.

In fact, in this timeline, if Lin Li hadn't made a phone call every now and then to ask about the situation...

The phenomenon of prioritizing storyline over gameplay in past lives may still occur.

To make a strange but vivid analogy.

The Scroll of Taiwu is like a carriage, and the driver, Eggplant, always likes to turn right.

Lin Li was forced into a corner and could only keep shouting from behind.

"It's off course! It's off course!"

He would occasionally personally whip the dog a couple of times.

Lin Li really didn't want to do this, but if he didn't, the car would really fall into the ditch.

Chapter 124 This game is so addictive!

Fortunately, after all this trouble...

The Scroll of Taiwu was eventually produced despite the difficulties.

Moreover, the results were quite satisfactory to Lin Li.

"Hey, there's an NPC in this tavern named Bai Xiaosheng..."

"Go over and have a look."

"Hey, would you like to cultivate together with me?"

Old Ju was completely engrossed in "The Scroll of Taiwu." For the past hour or two, he couldn't stop, collecting resources, practicing martial arts, catching crickets, and studying interpersonal relationships.

They tried every means to learn higher-level martial arts and mental techniques.

In the main storyline, he encountered a Xiangshu disaster, in which the entire village was killed by infected Xiangshu, although he also killed the BOSS.

However, this also caught his attention.

Although this attention was quickly overshadowed by other information on the surface.

But whether it's Lao Ju or other players watching the live stream.

They all sensed that something was wrong with this world and became interested in the concept of Xiangshu. Now, Lao Ju is following the clues forward.

As they followed the clues, Lao Ju remained steadfast in his conviction.

"Let's focus on the main storyline first. I've been stuck on this first chapter for so long, so I definitely need to get to the main storyline first."

However, when he followed the main storyline to a city and saw the all-knowing scholar he could interact with, his idea began to waver.

"This person is clearly not an ordinary person."

Sure enough, I clicked on this character.

After a conversation, a new system was triggered in the game.

This system is called the "Three Talents Ranking".

It was Lin Li who, after reading the book on black box testing, brought Eggplant into the game later on.

How can a martial arts game be complete without Bai Xiaosheng and the Three Talents Ranking?

The so-called "Three Talents List"

It refers to the three lists: Heaven, Earth, and Man.

Opening the list reveals that each list contains 100 people, meaning a total of 300 NPCs appear on this list.

Moreover, not only NPCs appeared, but Lao Ju soon discovered that his own created character also appeared in it.

"Ranked ninety-ninth on the Human Ranking, a true successor of Taiwu, a name that resounds!"

"Holy crap, I actually made the list."

"Wait a minute, why am I on the Talent Ranking? I'm a descendant of Taiwu, after all."

"I don't know what this list means. Is it an introduction to the bosses? Or is it that we can find them and obtain the corresponding cultivation techniques based on this information?"

Old Ju began to study the system carefully. Judging from the classification of the list, the list on this day was obviously the highest-level NPCs in the game.

Mainly the leaders of various sects.

Furthermore, you can see from the descriptions of these NPCs that some of them are random.

There are also some that are clearly special NPCs.

For example, this one.

Right above his famous name.

Ninety-eighth on the list: [Xing Batian]

Name: Xing Batian

Identity: Traitor of the Wudang Sect [Killing this person will increase your favor with the Wudang Sect]

Title: Carefree Swordsman

Condition: Minor injuries

Brief introduction: A traitor of the Wudang Sect, he stole a precious sword from an ancient tomb and then left the sect. His commonly used martial arts are the "Three Talents Sword Formation" and "Five Qi Gathering at the Origin". He is suspected of possessing the Wudang Sect's secret technique "Three Flowers Gathering at the Top".

Commonly used weapon: Ink-tipped sword [Rank 5 - Precious Sword]

Battle Record: On the straight road of Shu, he killed several inner disciples of the Wudang Sect. Outside Chengdu, he launched a night raid on Xiaoyao Fortress, killing Xiaoyaozi, the 133rd ranked man on the original list, wiping out his entire family, and seizing Xiaoyao Fortress, proclaiming himself the Xiaoyao Swordsman...

[Inquire about this person's information]

"inquire about."

After a conversation, Lao Ju spent some money and obtained a piece of information from Bai Xiaosheng.

This person sustained some injuries and was reportedly seen near Danyang a week ago.

"Danyang!!"

"Am I not in Danyang?"

"Interesting! I have to find this person! I must rid the world of this scourge!!"

"No, no, no, I was truly doing this to rid the people of a scourge, and I was absolutely not doing it to obtain the 'Three Flowers Gathering at the Top'."

"Main storyline?"

“Hey, it’s not too late to do it after I get the ‘Three Flowers Gathering at the Top’.”

After saying that, Lao Ju headed straight out of the city. He soon discovered that after inquiring about the information, he could ask about Xing Batian by talking to nearby NPCs.

During this process, Lao Ju carefully examined the system.

They searched everywhere.

Chatting with the live chat while watching.

"Actually, this thing is just a search tool for all the main characters in the game, pretty awesome..."

Old Ju actually understood this point quite well.

This world has only three lists.

It's basically a search tool for the open-world gameplay.

In this version of The Scroll of Taiwu, many of the main storylines have been omitted, so many of Eggplant's whimsical ideas have been incorporated into side quests.

Many stories that happened in this world before are also waiting for players to discover.

In addition, because of the new framework, Eggplant also added some of his previous dreams about martial arts and some memes to the side stories.

Lin Li completely ignored these things.

After all, as long as the main storyline doesn't have any problems, for sandbox games, the more side quests the better.

However, as the side quests become more and more numerous.

The development team also encountered a problem: these side quests are often quite fragmented, and The Scroll of Taiwu is not like Fallout or other sandbox games.