After setting up the adventure mode, Chen Mo continue to devote his energy on the other mini-games such as puzzle mode, and survival mode.
With the experience he acc.u.mulated from adventure modes, these other modes were relatively easy and it is mostly manual work. Chen Mo doesn"t have to work as hard as before, he played while working and it took him less than a week to complete the other modes.
Features such as Zen Garden, Almanac, Achievements, and Stores were simpler and was completed in three days.
In the end, Chen Mo spent another three days testing the whole adventure mode. He looked at the other patterns and found no unknown bugs and also modified several details.
At this point, Chen Mo basically work day and night, spending more than a month and finally the main part of 《Plants vs Zombies》 was completed.
In his previous world, 《Plants vs Zombies》 was made by a designer, an artist, a musician, and a programmer for three years. However, the vast majority of the time was spent constantly changing the design and optimizing the user experience, they constantly polished it in order to make such a quality game.
For Chen Mo, he doesn"t need to write codes, nor does he need to do too many numerical adjustment, much less inspiration and design modification, he just completely copied the game. It also took him a month to completely copy it, which is enough to show that game development is not as simple as most people think.
However, he wasn"t yet done.
Now the game is basically complete, but the art resources were all free alternative resources on the editor. The style is inconsistent, many models and concept arts were not in appropriate size. It looks like a mountain of garbage, it"s no exaggeration to describe it as tragic.
Moreover, the whole game doesn"t have any music or sound effects, and there is no tension at all when playing, and the sense of hitting while in battle is almost zero.
Chen Mo"s next plan is to upgrade the quality of art and music to the level of his previous life.
Fortunately, he took note of the images of those plants and zombies, there are sketches on the computer and the next thing to do is to complete the work. However, this process is a pain in the a.s.s, Chen Mo must not only hand-draw the whole process, but he also need to adjust their own movements.
More than forty plants, twenty zombies, and each plant and zombie have their own movements, which isn"t a small amount.
Fortunately, the concept arts of these plants and zombies were relatively simple, especially the appearance of many zombies can be reused, so the work isn"t too much.
Chen Mo"s current level of concept art isn"t high, but after all, the style of the game is relatively cartoon-ish, and the lines and color schemes aren"t too complicated, so Chen Mo can still manage it.
Of course, Chen Mo can also spend money to find someone to draw, but Chen Mo has to explain his needs in detail with the other artist and not to mention the fact that Chen Mo isn"t necessarily satisfied with the work, so he thought about it and grit his teeth and went to draw it himself.
Chen Mo on average can complete a concept art of a plant and a zombie in a day, and together with the interface, loading screen and other resources, it took Chen Mo nearly a month and a half to complete all the art resources.
Then there is music and sound effects.
After Chen Mo ate the skill books, his skill on music and sound effects is now at 10 points, it is certainly impossible to make them out from scratch, but it isn"t too difficult to restore the cla.s.sic BGM.
The BGM of 《Plants vs Zombies》 is also a cla.s.sic, Chen Mo can still vividly remember many of its melodies, although he can"t 100% restore them, but he can at least make it somewhat similar.
However, Chen Mo is not very clear about some of the less popular gameplay and system BGM.
Novice Tutorial, Preparation Interface, Cla.s.sic Scene, Night Scene, BOSS Battle Scene, Zen Garden… These cla.s.sic BGM, Chen Mo can basically recall them and he is able to synthesized several of the BGMs according to the melody of his previous life, and basically make something similar.
Chen Mo had to find some free resources from casual games in the editor for the less important BGM. He"s looking for something similar in style, so it won"t be too inconsistent.
As for the sound effects, Chen Mo can only find them in the editor. Fortunately, there are a lot of sound effects in the editor, as long as he can take the trouble in searching, he can always find similar sound effects.
The music + sound effects took Chen Mo another two weeks, until he was finally satisfied.
Chen Mo tested it by playing it repeatedly for more than a week, and finally adjusting some places that he felt uncomfortable, this game has officially completed its development that had lasted more than three months.
Chen Mo packaged the game that have been tested and the final installation package size is 127MB, which is slightly larger than the one in his previous life, but it doesn"t matter. This resource is already very small for the game industry in the parallel world.
Chen Mo has prepared two installation packages for this game, it can be downloaded and installed on both the PC platform and mobile phone. The account data can also interchange and has a simple ranking function.
The last step was about what account the player will use to log in.
Chen Mo basically didn"t think too much about it. And he directly chose to use the official account of his company, namely "Thunder Game Account".
In fact, Chen Mo has other options, he can let users connect using social platform accounts, or use the account of Emperor Game platform.
Emperor Interactive Entertainment is the largest channel provider and developer in China, and most of the players have Emperor Game platform accounts.
Moreover, the Emperor Interactive Entertainment also allowed other games to login with their own platform accounts and many game designers are tired of inconvenience and just directly use Emperor Game platform accounts.
If he choose to use Emperor Game platform account for log in, then it is very convenient for the players and Chen Mo"s game can get more users.
Many players are too lazy to re-register accounts, verifying their mobile phones and ID cards, and even this step can result in a loss of players.
However, Chen Mo decided to use "Thunder Game Account", even if he sacrificed some users.
The reason is very simple, whether it is a.s.sociated with social platform account or using Emperor Game platform account, Chen Mo will be subjected to people, even if Emperor Game platform does not earn a penny, it is still a loss for Chen Mo.
These player data are a valuable a.s.sets, after Chen Mo developed a lot of games, he would sooner or later will have to go to war with these monopolistic channels, he would rather not develop relations.h.i.+p with them than thoroughly ruining each other while things are half done.
The game was completed and for the time being he can"t place it on the app store.
Because Chen Mo was not sure about the players in the parallel world, whether their taste is the same as the one in his previous world, if there is a difference, then the game will still need to make some adjustments.
Chen Mo installed《Plants vs Zombies》on the computer and mobile phone in the experience shop, ready to look at the reactions of players, and then decide the strategy on how to promote the game.