"Supervisor Zhang, are there any game outsourcing jobs?"
At the Wanhai Game Expo, in the backstage area of the factory building, employee passage.
Chen Lin, holding some documents, stopped a company representative who had just come down from a game booth.
"No, go find someone else!"
Supervisor Zhang glanced at him, then impatiently turned and left.
It was the closing ceremony after the game expo had finished, and the previously empty employee passage gradually filled with many people, chatting and laughing as they headed outside.
Chen Lin took a deep breath and continued walking towards several other figures.
But before he could speak, the people approaching him changed their expressions drastically, hastily avoiding him as if he were a plague god, as if getting close to him would bring bad luck.
It wasn't until the sixth company that the representative quickly waved his hand: "Hurry up and leave, we wouldn't dare to cooperate with you."
"Do you know who you've offended? The Wanhai Group!"
"While you're still young, I advise you to change professions quickly, or move to another city to develop, no one here will ever hire you for outsourcing again!"
After speaking, he left the venue without looking back, leaving Chen Lin standing motionless with his documents.
Other company representatives looked at him with pity and also bypassed him, and the once lively backstage passage gradually became deserted.
Another failure.
Chen Lin watched their retreating figures in silence.
He had transmigrated to this parallel world three years ago, becoming a university student majoring in games, and finally managed to graduate after much difficulty.
He had thought he could thrive by relying on his experience from his previous life.
However, by refusing an investment, he had offended the behemoth that was the Wanhai Group, making other companies avoid him like the plague.
Even the few companies he had previously cooperated with had all distanced themselves and stopped interacting with him.
"How realistic…"
Chen Lin put away his documents, sighing inwardly.
When others transmigrate, they either plagiarize poems, movies, songs, or games, and reach the pinnacle of life.
But when he actually transmigrated, he found it wasn't like that at all.
Because the development trajectory of the game industry was different, hardly anyone believed his design proposals would be popular!
Even if he had many excellent proposals, it would be difficult for him to create them alone in a short time, so he could only rely on the power of other companies.
But now.
He had profoundly experienced the stench of this industry.
Wanhai claimed it was an investment, but in reality, it wanted to monopolize the ownership of his game at an extremely low price.
Once accepted, the game would essentially have nothing to do with him.
Chen Lin naturally couldn't agree to such an overbearing demand, which also caused other game companies to keep their distance from him.
They didn't even need Wanhai to speak; they were all eager to draw a clear line with him, fearing being implicated.
Left with no choice.
He could only come and see if he could pick up some leftover work, like game outsourcing, to cover the funding gap first.
"Beep beep."
Just then, his phone in his pocket suddenly rang.
Chen Lin picked it up and saw it was a game company he had previously cooperated with, and quickly swiped his finger to answer.
"Xiao Chen, I'm very sorry, for the character code writing we promised you last time, we've already found a more suitable person to do it, so we won't trouble you, and the remaining balance will be settled with you immediately."
"Change people? Didn't we agree before that I would do it?" Chen Lin frowned, stopping in his tracks.
"…"
The other side was silent for a moment, then finally sighed and said: "I know this is a bit unkind, but we have no choice, Wanhai's scale is not something a newcomer like you can contend with."
"From now on… you should look for another job."
After speaking, the other party directly hung up the phone, and a beeping tone came from his ear.
Chen Lin reacted, then clicked on the number to redial, but it kept indicating a busy line and no answer.
[You have been kicked out of Game Outsourcing Group 2.]
[You have been kicked out of Source Code Exchange Group.]
[Don't contact me anymore, I'm afraid Wanhai will misunderstand…]
Messages popped up one after another; the work exchange groups he had joined earlier also got wind of it and directly kicked him out of the groups.
Some industry peers even blacklisted him, avoiding him like the plague.
This was the influence of the Wanhai Group.
No one was willing to risk offending Wanhai to cooperate with Chen Lin, let alone help him make a game.
Insufficient manpower and funds meant that even with design proposals, it was useless.
Unless he went to another city to find new partners.
But how easy was it to leave a familiar place and develop in a strange city?
Gradually.
Chen Lin clenched his fists, his bones cracking, and a hint of coldness erupted in his eyes.
[Congratulations, you have completed 10 game orders, the Strongest CG System has been activated.]
[Unlock the Cinematic Imaging function, you can consume wealth to produce exclusive promotional CGs for games, first use is free.]
[Phase two of the mission begins, Game Wealth: 0 / 1,000,000]
[Reward: Universal Game Engine]
Huh?
Mission completed?
The sudden sound in his mind made Chen Lin stunned for a moment, then he was pleasantly surprised.
After enduring for so long, the system that had transmigrated with him was finally activated!
It seemed the balance just settled was also counted towards the orders.
He quickly calmed his mind and summoned the system to check its functions.
But the next second, his expression suddenly froze.
"What the heck? Strongest CG System?"
"Shouldn't it be the Strongest Game System?"
This system, to put it plainly, was specifically used to create promotional videos for games; it could perfectly restore game footage through various technologies and shoot epic blockbusters.
Other than that.
There was nothing related to game code, programming, modeling, art, rendering, engine, UI, special effects, or audio; you had to do it yourself.
Pfft!
Chen Lin almost coughed up a mouthful of old blood.
He had finally completed ten game programming orders, only to be given such a broken thing.
Without a game, what was the use of having excellent CG?
With his current resources, he couldn't make those AAA masterpieces from his previous life.
He couldn't possibly shoot a 2D side-scrolling game to look like an epic blockbuster, could he?
"Uh…"
"It seems it's not impossible?"
Chen Lin was stunned.
His gaze couldn't help but fall on the documents in his hand, on the conspicuous four large characters.
braveheart.
As a very popular war-themed work in his previous life, the quality of this game was absolutely beyond doubt.
Although it was only a side-scrolling game, it had a depth of plot no less than other major works, and it was also the limit he could achieve at present.
Wanhai wanted to buy this game from him precisely because they saw the story design, which led to the series of events that followed.
"Small horse, big cart."
"Perhaps I really can give it a try!"
During this time, he had already largely completed the game's framework, only needing final refinement.
Now that the promotional CG problem was solved, it saved him a lot of effort and funds.
Although it would still take a lot of time, finishing it alone was no longer a big problem.
If it weren't for completing orders to activate the system, he wouldn't have chosen to cooperate with those companies and take on outsourcing orders.
Now that it was successfully activated, he no longer needed to stay here and endure those guys' expressions.
Having made up his mind, Chen Lin directly left the game expo.
He grabbed a quick pancake on the street, then rode a shared bicycle back to his residence, opened his computer equipment, and continued making the game.
Thus, he worked tirelessly from dawn till dusk, day in and day out.
Finally, after more than ten days, he completed all the polishing and copied the data to his computer.
"It's finally done."
Looking at the game platform and video website in front of him, Chen Lin was filled with emotion.
It was truly not easy for him to finish this game after spending so much time and effort.
He gently moved the mouse and clicked confirm.
Not long after.
A game titled "braveheart: The Great War (Valiant Hearts: The Great War)" appeared on Steam.
The homepage also included an inconspicuous CG animation and a few simple screenshots.