Future Plans

With Undertale achieving both critical and commercial success, the keyword META had also drawn the attention of countless game designers across the industry.

If it came down to the story alone, Undertale was indeed excellent, but it absolutely could not have reached its current level of success and acclaim.

But when paired with the META element, everyone who played it was left with only one feeling: shock.

Not only designers within the Indie Game Circle, but also some mid- to senior-level game designers and designers focused on VR games had begun paying attention to Undertale.

After all, from a certain perspective, it had taught every game designer a lesson.

It showed everyone exactly what a META element was and how such an element should be woven into a game.

However, compared to the attention it had received from so many designers in the game industry,

Chen Xu was quite relaxed at the moment.

Undertale's success had truly been a double harvest.

He had gained both fame and fortune.

In the office, Chen Xu held a bottle of Want Want Milk as he looked at the system UI that only he could see.

This isn't much! Although it gave more points than Magic Mirror did, it's only enough for two ten-pulls.

After deducting the remainder, Chen Xu had only accumulated 2.1 million points, enough for exactly twenty-one draws.

Compared with Magic Mirror, Undertale had indeed provided quite a few more points, but not that many.

Chen Xu had also figured out the reason.

Only emotions felt by players who had purchased and personally played the game counted.

Simply put, they had to spend money and experience strong emotional fluctuations before it could be counted as points.

If they merely watched it, then no matter how shocked they were, it would not count.

Other than encountering the META element for the first time, most of Undertale's most shocking moments actually came from the Genocide Route.

But very few players were truly willing to play the Genocide Route. Especially after all kinds of video guides appeared, many players could not bear to play it themselves and instead chose to experience it through videos.

So, the large number of points he had accumulated so far mainly came from players' initial shock.

As he pondered this, he began drawing.

He only had 2.1 million points in total, so Chen Xu did not bother with ten-pulls.

After all, there was no guarantee of an SSR in ten-pulls, nor was there any ten-pull discount.

He went with single pulls across the board. As the saying went, miracles came from single pulls, and they also carried a sense of ritual.

There was just one thing—could this golden light be changed?

As he watched the golden light flash before him, Chen Xu felt no ripples in his heart.

When the light faded, it revealed an ordinary skill book that increased story by one point.

The brightest golden light giving the most ordinary item—well played!

With a sigh, Chen Xu clicked through all of them at once.

After twenty-one consecutive draws, Chen Xu felt like he might not have washed his hands before pulling cards.

Other than two Memory Capsules, everything else was an ordinary skill book. There was not even a single rare one.

As for the types, art, music, story, level design, and numerical design—none of them were missing.

After taking a sip of milk and lamenting his Unlucky Player status, Chen Xu used all the skill books and then closed the system.

He opened the official game engine backend on his computer, logged into the Modu Game Department section, and checked his permissions.

Compared to the previous 1024, the resources Chen Xu could now use had been raised to 2048, nearly doubling.

Clearly, although he had not received notification of a title promotion, the Game Department had noticed Undertale and raised his designer rank.

"As for what comes next, I need to think about the follow-up games." Leaning back in his chair, Chen Xu fell into a dilemma.

AAA games?

Chen Xu immediately ruled that out.

Because it was not realistic.

Whether it was resources, manpower, funding, or Chen Xu's current abilities, developing AAA games would still be quite difficult.

After all, low-budget games relied on creative gameplay and story presentation, while AAA games tested overall execution even more.

So, Chen Xu still decided that his next direction would focus on games made on a smaller scale and budget.

During that time, he would build up the foundation of his team and get Nebula Games operating properly as soon as possible.

After all, the only people in the entire company working on game development were Yang Xin, Ruan Ningxue, and himself.

Now that they had money, it was naturally time to hire people.

He would also take the opportunity to accumulate more points and improve his own abilities.

As for pay-to-win games, Chen Xu had no such plans for the time being.

They could easily have a huge negative impact on both his and Nebula Games' reputation.

And Undertale's tremendous success had proven one thing: the market in this Parallel World was completely different from the one in his previous life.

Buy-to-play games could still turn a profit, so under such circumstances, Chen Xu naturally intended to pursue a premium-quality route.

In the meeting room, Chen Xu looked at everyone seated before him and briefly went over the results brought by Undertale and the Magic Mirror DLC.

At the same time, he confirmed the company's primary development direction for the future: expanding the team and its departments.

There were also various related rules and regulations. And as the boss, Chen Xu inevitably served everyone two pots of chicken soup as well.

He had to admit, drawing a big pie and serving chicken soup yourself felt completely different from having your boss stuff that pie and chicken soup into your mouth.

At that moment, Chen Xu understood why so many people in his previous life liked drawing big pies and feeding people chicken soup.

It really did feel pretty great.

After finishing the matters concerning administration and human resources, Yang Xin and Ruan Ningxue remained in the meeting room to discuss the games themselves.

"So, are we going to release a sequel to Undertale next?" Yang Xin's face was filled with anticipation for the future.

This was the game industry she had always dreamed of!

Ruan Ningxue beside her was equally excited.

When she had first joined, it was partly because of the relationship between Chen Xu and Yang Xin, and partly because making games felt pretty good. She had also felt that there was some potential here.

But now?

It was not merely promising—it had enormous potential!

Especially after seeing people on certain websites drawing fan works based on Undertale and Magic Mirror, she felt an even stranger emotion.

After all, these were all projects she had participated in. In the past, she had always been the one drawing, but now she could see others drawing them.

Hearing Yang Xin's question, Chen Xu smiled and nodded. "There will definitely be a new project, but it won't be a sequel to Undertale, nor will it be a META-type game."

Not a sequel to Undertale, and not even a META-type game?

Yang Xin and Ruan Ningxue were both stunned.