I Made a Game Featuring Constellations - Chapter 71



Archive Talk (1)

[The storyteller in the dream smiles brightly, relieved that it ended well.]

“Exactly.”

While I was working on new content to add to the game, our constellation contacted me.

“When I first learned about [theft], and when I realized the presence of lust that was engulfing him, I had no idea what to do.”

With the help of other investors and ‘Wisdom’, we were able to remove all of his sins.

“This makes five.”

Four constellations who overcame their sins and Wisdom, who decided to join us.

After spending a few days with his apostle and lover, resolving the reunion that had accumulated over hundreds of years, he returned to the heavens and came to find me and our party.

To him, who kept expressing his gratitude, we explained the situation we were in and the existence of the abyss, an extra-dimensional entity spreading sins.

Then he declared that he would join our party.

Knowing what he had done in his lifetime, how reassuring it was.

Knowing how organically we cooperated in this incident, the abyss no longer seemed frightening.

…And it hasn’t come since that incident.

“So, I’m planning to add more content to the game.”

Although the role of our investors was the biggest in purifying [theft] in this incident, the fact that we were running a horror event in the game at the time was also significant.

Because of that event, we were able to gather the awareness of everyone across the continent, and based on that collective intelligence, we were able to chip away at the sins.

Therefore, I decided to add as much content as possible in case of any unforeseen events.

Various and extensive content that can be applied to reality at any time.

Recently, I realized I had forgotten an important aspect of game development.

In subculture games, especially character-collecting games, the most crucial element is the charm of the characters.

The appearance and performance of the characters are extremely important factors.

These factors make players want to obtain new characters.

However, the aspect that contributes the most to opening wallets is the charm of the characters.

It’s not for nothing that many game companies spend a lot of money creating character PVs or hosting various offline events.

They need to appeal to the charm of the characters to make more customers become attached to them and spend money.

The strengths of our game include the virtual reality system and the ability to use the lifelike appearances of constellations that are hard to encounter in reality as characters, but the biggest strength is making players feel the charm of these characters.

I hadn’t thought of utilizing that aspect.

[The storyteller in the dream asks if the chat window being created now is also for the charm.]

“Yes, that’s right.”

The feature I’m currently developing is for that charm.

It’s a content where characters send messages to players through chat, called ‘Archive Talk.’

It’s not easy to bring back the main characters of a story that has already ended.

If so, the thrill that was once injected might disappear.

If you don’t meet them again for a while, the characters that once felt charming might start to wither over time.

Just like how love fades when physical distance grows.

So, many game companies usually bring back such characters through events to appeal to their charm, but due to the nature of our game, it’s not easy to hold events where constellations from different stories gather and chat.

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Of course, it’s in the planning stages, but it requires a lot of preparation to make it look plausible without breaking the world view.

That’s why I prepared this content to appeal to the charm of the characters.

In the stories stored in the [Archive], the protagonists of each story, with whom the player has built a connection, send messages.

“I’ve already trained and stored the egos of our investors.”

The characters of the investors, who had appeared as pickup characters, were asked to be inserted into dreams in the form of avatars. They were slightly modified to fit the character concept.

Like the magitech engineer, who was modified to appear as a villain, the various characters appearing in the game have slightly different aspects from the actual people.

Therefore, some degree of modification was necessary when inserting each of them.

They won’t act exactly like their real selves, but they should function well enough as chatbots.

Of course, I have to create the 4-star characters and the permanent 5-star characters myself.

…Do I really have to make these when they don’t even bring in money?

To quickly fill in the characters, I created chimera-like characters by mixing various character traits from past games.

I wonder if I should push these characters, who don’t even show their faces in the main quest and only appear in sub-quests…

‘There will be customers who like these characters, so I have to do it.’

Rather than facing backlash from other players for discriminating based on character popularity, it’s better to just do it all at once.

I guess I’ll have to work a bit harder.

Wait a minute.

Do I really need to do this part myself?

Just in time, a competent experienced employee has joined.

* * *

The imperial palace located at the highest point of the capital

In the deepest and most secretive room

“This is quite amusing.”

The leader of the empire was enjoying a virtual reality game implemented through a terminal.

At first, it was just out of curiosity, as Raizeol had secretly siphoned off money to play this game.

To find out what kind of game could have captivated such a brilliant person.

Having run the empire from the top for decades, he was confident he wouldn’t succumb to any temptation.

Even if this game had a mental contamination effect, the [authority] passed down from previous emperors would protect his mind.

So it was just a game he started with a light heart…

“How do I get more sage stones?”

Before he knew it, he was looking up ways to spend money to draw characters.

He had lightly charged about 1000 draws, and the banner he started drawing from was not the current pickup character, [The Girl in Love, Bersia].

It was the regular banner next to it.

He had charged the currency to draw a 4-star character from that banner.

Since the 4-star character he wanted wasn’t on the main banner’s pickup, it was an unavoidable decision.

“Hmm…”

Before drawing, he checked the draw rates next to the banner window.

1% for 5-star, 9% for 4-star.

The rest were 90% junk.

There were a total of 10 4-star characters, so the probability of getting the character he wanted was 0.9%.

The expected value was about 111 draws.

He had enough magic bullets.

“…Victory.”

The character he barely managed to pull in the last 10 draws.

He used up all the sage stones he had charged, but he succeeded.

Even after surpassing 111 draws and watching his sage stones dwindle, the character did not appear, and his heart grew increasingly anxious, but he succeeded in the end.

He finally summoned the character he had pulled.

A giant figure so large it could turn an average adult man into a child.

Dense, solid muscles that seemed to leave no room for even a single spear to penetrate.

He buried his face in the pectoral muscles of the warrior woman, overflowing with health and beauty.

After enjoying the hard embrace for a while, he opened the chat function provided in the game, [Archive Talk].

Then he sent a message to the character named [Amazoness Queen Rohanmaji].

“I succeeded in pulling your character.”

Ding

A reply arrived immediately.

– Hey, hey! Was it a sufficient ordealヾ(@°▽°@)ノ?

The emperor smiled faintly and replied.

“It was an ordeal that almost broke my spirit. But the ordeal that does not kill me only makes me stronger. I endured it with perseverance.”

– That’s it! Perseverance! With perseverance, there’s nothing you can’t achieve!

Her voice, which he had fallen in love with at first sight in the sub-story, seemed to resound loudly.

Long ago, before he became an emperor, he had encountered muscular warrior women while on a diplomatic visit to another country.

He, who was merely an adolescent at the time, was immediately captivated.

The result of relentless effort, those bulging muscles, devoid of any femininity.

Muscles of a woman, which require more than twice the effort of a man to build the same amount of muscle as a man.

How beautiful is the fruit of that sweat.

Through that firmness, one can see how much effort they have put in, and the Emperor could not help but be immediately captivated.

However, after ascending to the throne, he could not meet just any woman.

A woman without even a little bit of refinement could not enter the imperial palace, let alone a foreign female warrior from a distant empire.

For a while, he immersed himself in the affairs of the empire and forgot his distorted s*xual preferences.

It was in this game that he met a woman who matched his taste.

“I want to meet you.”

– “I want to see you too ⊙_ʘ! I want to quickly teach you my newly developed special triceps routine｡°(°¯᷄◠¯᷅°)°｡.”

At this moment, he could shake off all the burdens he had been carrying as the pinnacle of the empire.

“I will train my muscles until the day we meet again.”

– “That’s a very good attitude. ദ്ദി⑉¯ ꇴ ¯⑉ ) On the day we meet again, I will check your effort and perseverance, so do not neglect your training!”

“Of course.”

Once a master swordsman, he had reached a mature stage, but had put down the path of the sword due to overwhelming work.

A late passion led him back to the training ground.