Gacha Game Featuring Beautiful Girls

Tang Yao didn't have many options right now.

Although there seemed to be many opportunities to make money, considering her current situation, most of them weren't very reliable...

Mainly, she didn't have much confidence to take risks, and limited by her knowledge from her previous life and the deviations of this parallel world, there were too many variables.

She personally felt there weren't many reliable directions. The more conservative option was to draw a serialized manga and become a manga artist, while the more adventurous one was to try her hand at mobile games.

If she were alone, she wouldn't mind being conservative and drawing manga for two years first.

But she wasn't alone. The conservative approach was too slow. Even if she quit her job immediately, got a new employee bonus, and immediately prepared for serialization, doing her best to compress the initial onboarding and preparation work, and get through the subsequent life-or-death first ten chapters, it would probably take until the collected volumes started selling for her to get any substantial money.

And by then, Xun would likely have graduated.

During that time, it was unlikely she could work, and relying solely on savings for the two sisters would probably be tough.

Furthermore, by the time she completed that entire process, the mobile internet would also be starting to explode.

So Tang Yao leaned towards the adventurous path—creating a mobile game before most people even realized what was happening, leveraging first-mover advantage to make a large sum of money as quickly as possible.

This way, all problems would be solved. Regardless of whether she liked it or not, this was the easiest way she could think of to make quick money... She desperately needed money.

In fact, after accepting her identity, Tang Yao had been contemplating possibilities, which was why she had delved into the technological development of this world.

That's why she had valued the year-end bonus so much before; with extra savings, she would have more confidence to take risks.

However, plans couldn't keep up with changes.

She heard about cloud servers from Kang Ming... Such opportunities were rare, because once cloud services truly got on track, renting computing power wouldn't be so simple anymore.

Once cloud services got on track, it would mean that Changli Group, which funded the research and development, would prioritize its own internal departments for iterative use.

And then, if you wanted to rent?

Wait until they had a surplus!

Now that the cloud was set up and still in the testing phase, for some unknown reason, Changli Group, who paid for it, was unwilling to be the guinea pig internally and had to rely on offering external services for testing. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

This meant that if Tang Yao really made a mobile game, she wouldn't have to worry about setting up offline servers. And considering that even Kang Ming's lousy battle platform could rent servers, the price was likely very affordable. With an affordable price and none of the costs associated with offline servers... Were the initial bugs, glitches, or issues of cloud services a problem?

Not a problem at all.

This was also why Tang Yao suddenly talked to Li Xue about her desire to start a business today.

Of course.

Even though she thought it through well, there were still many practical implementation problems.

For example... convincing others that mobile games could make money was quite difficult.

The reason Tang Yao thought this way, and felt that mobile games could make money, was mainly due to her experience in her previous life. But for the natives of this world, it was indeed difficult to suddenly make them accept that mobile games could make a lot of money.

Just like Miss Li in front of her.

After all, true pioneers were a minority, and considering those who failed halfway, the number was even smaller.

In fact, even in Tang Yao's previous life, most people who made money through mobile devices were those with keen senses who followed trends and happened to enter the market during the bonus period.

Although that was also incredibly impressive...

"As expected..."

"As expected what?"

Li Xue looked at Tang Yao, who was lost in thought and then suddenly sighed, and gently grabbed her arm, shaking it.

She was a little worried that Tang Yao was getting stuck in a rut.

After all, she also knew that Tang Yao was really short on money.

But no matter how much she lacked money, she couldn't just come up with an idea out of nowhere.

"Miss Li Xue, I'm fine... But don't you realize?"

Tang Yao took out her phone from her pocket and gently waved it in front of Li Xue. Although her phone wasn't the latest model, apart from the screen-to-body ratio, it looked exactly like a smartphone: "The performance of mobile phones is getting better and better, and it's foreseeable that it will continue to improve. Is it not a bit too extravagant to simply use them for making calls and running social apps?

And most importantly, everyone has a phone. This isn't like a PC. Phones can be taken out anytime, anywhere—on the commute, before bed, during short breaks... If you can provide some applications that allow users to pass this fragmented time, don't you think the potential is enormous?"

"..."

Li Xue frowned slightly upon hearing this, then said, "Are you saying the mobile end will rise? I remember someone told me something similar, that the mobile end would be the future or something, but for games... wouldn't that be too much of a leap? After all, PCs are so big."

Speaking of which.

The older sister type spread her arms, making a "that big" gesture, and then pointed at Tang Yao's phone: "And phones are so small, you can only make small games. Once players have played them once, they won't have the desire to open them again. In this situation, only a minority can make money..."

"Who said we're making small games that can only be opened once?"

Tang Yao smiled: "Can't online games be moved to mobile?"

Li Xue instinctively started to deny: "No, right? The scale of online games..."

Tang Yao patted Li Xue's shoulder, interrupting her: "Then let's create a type of game specifically for mobile phones, for example... a gacha game featuring beautiful girls."

Li Xue blinked, then instinctively asked, "...A game that uses you as the selling point?"

"...No! How could it use me as the selling point."

Tang Yao was taken aback, then her face turned slightly red as she explained: "When I say a game featuring beautiful girls, I mean a game where you collect beautiful girls."

"Collecting beautiful girls... how do you even collect them?"

"That brings us to the dreaded gacha system, and the dreaded Square Enix."

Tang Yao seemed to recall something amusing, shaking her head slightly before briefly explaining the two-dimensional gacha game to Li Xue, which encouraged players through collection rather than the competitive, leaderboard-focused model of online games.

This was a genre she had been considering for a while.

As for why this particular genre...

It was pure coincidence. In her past life, Tang Yao was an artist who drew beautiful girls for trashy gacha games.

Moreover, this genre was relatively low-cost.

"..."

As Tang Yao spoke, Li Xue felt as if a new world had opened up, leaving her stunned.

When Tang Yao finished, Li Xue seemed to understand and immediately retorted, "No way! Isn't that just making players pay purely out of love? Who would spend money on a paper cutout character? I don't think anyone would be optimistic about it..."

"It's really exactly the same."

Hearing Li Xue's words, Tang Yao wasn't surprised, only feeling a sense of emotion.

Back then, when Square Enix launched Million Arthur, the pioneer of these two-dimensional gacha games, nobody was optimistic about it either.

It completely went against the operating logic of online games at the time.

But when the game's revenue figures came out, everyone was shocked.

This then sparked a wave of gacha game popularity.

During that period, so-called mobile game companies sprung up like mushrooms after rain, and all sorts of crudely made mobile games were produced frantically, with everyone wanting a piece of the pie.

However, Tang Yao didn't intend to argue, as accepting new things was indeed difficult.

She also didn't want Li Xue to continue overthinking.

"Mhm, so at this point, we need a popular original work to carry the momentum," Tang Yao said.

Tang Yao didn't dwell on the topic, instead looking at the file bag she had brought, changing the subject. "For example, a captivating manga series..."

Yes.

Her choice of gacha games was also related to her profession as a manga editor.

If she could draw a popular and captivating manga series from her past life, it might help build momentum for the game. Her previous idea was to leverage her connections to have someone else draw it, but perhaps she could draw it herself now, especially since she had already tried it...

This could likely bring a lot of popularity to a gacha game that sold its characters.

As for what to draw... there were plenty of options.

"A captivating manga series..."

To be honest.

Li Xue was already having trouble keeping up with Tang Yao's train of thought. She sighed, looking at Tang Yao's earnest face, and gently grasped her arm, trying to persuade her again, "Are you saying you want manga readers to pay? Tang Yao, it's impossible, it's too risky, too unconventional..."

"I know."

Tang Yao looked at the still-worried Li Xue with some helplessness. "Actually, it's just a plan. For now, I can only think about it because I don't have money or investment. Although I can draw most of the beautiful girls myself, and even the manga, I can draw it all by myself, but without enough money, it's definitely not feasible."

Right.

It sounded great.

But the problem was the startup capital.

Tang Yao looked at the worried older sister type in front of her and said with a half-joking smile, "Honestly, Miss Li, it would be great if you could introduce me to someone from a venture capital fund."

Originally.

Tang Yao was just joking.

But she didn't expect.

After Li Xue heard this, she was silent for a moment before softly saying, "Someone from a venture capital fund... I do actually know one."