When Chen Mo, a mobile game designer who spends a lot of money, traveled to 2077 with a "Krypton Guide" in his mind, he found that the game industry in this world was deeply mired in mechas - all players were mechanically repeating the boring cycle of "charging money to strengthen mechas" and "drawing cards to unlock gun barrels".
"Warframe 11" in the holographic projection is still boasting "99 new particle effects", but Chen Mo typed the first line of code on the worn-out 2D engine. When "Plant Guard" came out with its smiling sunflowers and brain-gnawing zombies, the entire gaming circle laughed at this "prehistoric quality".
Until tens of millions of players stayed up all night to protect the virtual flowers, until competitors were plagiarizing like crazy but failed to turn out to be anti-dogs, Chen Mo slowly lit a cigarette and said: "Do you know where you lost? You can only pile up data, but I understand human nature."
From casual puzzles to MOBA competitions, from stand-alone masterpieces to open worlds, this "game devil" from the old era is using each masterpiece to knock the entire parallel world game industry to the ground repeatedly. And the power behind that mysterious text message is his real opponent...