System: Master Your Life

Chapter 871 217: Game Settings (Career)

Xu Lin wants to create a xianxia-themed game, but it's not based on the traditional xianxia system.

The so-called traditional xianxia system involves things like the Golden Core, Nascent Soul, overcoming tribulations and ascending.

Xu Lin thinks it's not very interesting.

However, Xu Lin will include all the necessary elements.

Furthermore, the main focus of the game is its playability.

The Golden Core and Nascent Soul are just matters of setting.

The various miscellaneous settings are not important; they are secondary.

Moreover, as Xu Lin's game has visuals, this makes it more impactful to people than textual descriptions.

In textual descriptions, like novels, to be engaging and captivating, the author must have quite an impressive writing style.

But visuals don't require that, just like a Hollywood special effects blockbuster, where the plot may not be great or even terrible; if the special effects are good, many audiences can still accept it.

Some films make it even simpler, like if a certain female actor shows her legs, audiences might feel that even if the film is mediocre, the actor's legs and figure make the ticket price barely worth it.

This is the natural advantage that visuals possess.

Xu Lin opens the computer.

The hotel's computer is an Apple computer, an all-in-one model, and it costs just over ten thousand.

Despite seeming expensive, in reality, if used for office work, it can only handle light tasks.

For high-demand office tasks, you need strong performance, and this ten-thousand-plus computer is just garbage.

"Forget it, I'll make do."

Xu Lin downloads the Moon God System from his personal cloud and installs it on this computer.

His current Moon God System doesn't have its exclusive formal carrier yet.

For example, the Apple computer system has Apple computers, while the Windows system is on many brands, and even Apple can have a Windows virtual machine installed.

Xu Lin can only borrow others; he can seamlessly integrate with Harmony, Windows, and Apple.

In short, he will make do for now.

Later, when he succeeds, naturally someone will develop what he desires.

For instance, a brand of computer might have factory settings letting you choose between two systems—one being the Moon God System and the other Windows—or even exclusively equipped with the Moon God System as the only system.

Xu Lin believes this day will come, and not too far in the future.

He is quite optimistic.

After installing the Moon God System, Xu Lin installs the game-making software.

The software name is straightforward: Moon God Game Terminal.

This game terminal integrates codes like universal genesis and creation, directly usable.

In the input box, Xu Lin types: I want to create a cultivation game, where this world consists of multiple worlds; at the story's start, the world is round and flat, with time concepts no different from Earth, yet the sun and moon revolve around the heavens, eternally creating day-night alternation and the cycle of seasons... National setup references the Spring and Autumn Period, with hundreds of small states on earth, and countless sect forces outside the states, not differing in rank; major sects can enslave nations, and great powers can slaughter sects freely.

Thus, strength reigns supreme,

Input: cultivation system, including path to enlightenment through killing, national fortune, sanctified flesh...

The cultivation process is not important, but the destination is the same.

In novels, this approach can't be fully written due to too much variety; an author's mind can't conceive so much.

But Xu Lin can.

And this is a game.

Furthermore, he possesses the most cutting-edge technology.

World and cultivation system took Xu Lin over an hour to finalize, though it's only a preliminary setup and won't be that simple.

What about the story?

Oh, it's a single-player game.

With a vast story framework, players need to engage with the narrative.

Moreover, player choices will differ; storylines will vary, similar to those MMORPG games on the market.

But those market games only vary early on in faction choices or profession selection, giving slight story differences before unifying later.

Xu Lin is different; he can operate many complete main storylines and numerous complex side stories, including various protagonists and supporting characters' storylines.

So Xu Lin treats it like a multi-character novel, aiming to create several characters within.

How many characters specifically?

He doesn't know; he'll take each step as it comes.

Story: Initially, you join a certain faction, be it a sect or dynasty, and at the time, you hear of an event that shook countless worlds: humanity's strongest, Young Master Xu, replaces the human emperor in an epic battle at the Celestial Palace, challenging the powers above, defeating the Celestial Emperor. In the war between men and gods, humanity once again triumphs over Divine Spirits after a million years, exciting the world, making Young Master Xu your ultimate idol and lifelong pursuit. You dream to reach Young Master Xu's position...

In one hour, Xu Lin wrote over ten thousand words of the story outline.

"Xu Lin, when will I appear?" Yu Xinyan asked curiously.

"I haven't appeared yet myself. I need to flesh out the world and storyline before bringing you in. It's a bit complex because appearing too early, with some settings yet to be refined, would make the story seem shallow and character ungrounded. My setting is that, for now, you're living in others' folklore, not appearing too early."