Chapter 133 – Volume 27 – Sender Unknown (3)
“It’s a mess. What did you line it up like that?”
“Ah, Nia are you here? Sorry. I have a lot to think about this time.”
It was my first time working on a game book, and my head felt like it would explode.
First of all, I thought that the pre-existing poems, which complicatedly weave these options, were really great, starting with the routes being divided according to the options and increasing the difficulty in many ways.
However, even if it wasn’t that, due to the nature of the game book where the trigger value had to depend solely on the choice, it was more difficult to make a choice than a computer game.
For example, in the case of a computer game, there are several options that increase the value of X by 1, and the route of the game can be changed according to the value of X.
However, if you do something like that in a game book, there is a high probability that your immersion will be destroyed, so if you want to do something like that, you have to prepare a lot for it or not use it at all.
As a result, I had to connect the branches of the hectic route by basically moving to a different page for every option, and then moving from that option to an additional option.
And when sharing the same part, you have to make it well so that no matter which side you come from, it won’t be awkward.
If it’s a game, you can walk on the condition that you saw this option and change only part of it.
Because this didn’t work, there were many cases where it was frustrating when configuring.
“Wow, I expected it to be difficult. It will turn…”
“You seem to be working very hard too. Well, your works were famous for their meticulousness from the beginning.”
Most of that is an illusion, and I just used the path that the seniors on the Earth side had paved?
Actually, if you think about it, it was a bit hard for me to use that road to use it here.
Even now, when I think about it, my head exploded trying to use a game book, a concept that has already been created.
“You seem very worried.”
“I think I’ve come through hardships somehow. I don’t know how to get over here.”
First of all, all the most important bad endings were completed, and depending on the choice of the main character, how to diverge to those endings was made.
So now I have to dig an additional route here to find a way to enter the happy ending.
The biggest problem was how to insert that entry method.
“I wish I could skip all endings without fail. No, not all, but at least a few…”
This is a bit heinous, but rather than noticing right after a single ending and aiming for a happy ending.
I wanted to give a sense of failure while making several attempts.
This is something that can only be done now, when the majority of readers have not yet gotten tired of such works.
It’s right to use it right away and use it to increase immersion.
“I’m not sure. So you mean you want to see a lot of things?”
“Yeah, for example, there are some very short comics. I want to entice people to read certain comics by seeing many of them. Instead, don’t look for them until then.”
At first, every time I saw the ending, I gave something like a reward.
I was trying to get the correct answer by combining them all.
I didn’t like it because it seemed to hurt the immersion.
It seems like they’re forcing you to go through it only when you see the ending.
‘I want to do it a little naturally…’
“Then, wouldn’t it be fine to hide some hints?”
“Hint?”
“Well, like where the comic book is. What the comic book looks like.”
Perhaps Nia said this after hearing an example of when I had multiple comic books.
The moment I actually heard the story, I was shocked to hear that it was the perfect solution.
Hiding hints and breaking through the route through them?
‘It’s a bit like an escape room puzzle, right?’
Until now, I kept thinking that I had to let people know which page to go to.
Shouldn’t this part be made into a puzzle, so that the page comes out when the puzzle is solved?
Then, in the part of solving the puzzle, I can create enough feeling of finding the conditions, so I don’t think it will break the mood.
It’s a puzzle, so it looks grandiose.
For example, if a specific page is folded according to certain conditions, the number of pages comes out as the previously drawn parts coincidentally overlap.
I thought that if I thought about it in many ways, I could make a good guy.
‘If you divide the hints into endings and hide them, you don’t have to see all of them, but you can solve them by seeing most of them.’
It is not possible to solve the problem unconditionally by looking at the ending, so you can worry about it while looking at more overlapping endings.
As a result, while solving this puzzle, you will be able to give the feeling of fighting together for the main character’s happy ending.
‘Then, if possible, I’ll try to use that puzzle for letters.’
If the concept of this work is a letter from the future after all.
It would be just right to use the concept of the letter as a puzzle as well.
Since letters appear in all endings, the unity of solving the quiz is also good.
It fits the mood in many ways.
“Thank you! Wow, I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. This is the solution.”
“Uh, uh…”
I said that as I hugged Nia, and she accepted it with her shy expression.
In the meantime, I was already getting a feeling of how the puzzle would be composed.
I decided to get that part sorted out and go outside for a bit to see if it was possible.
『In a world where erotic comics are legal』
“OK.”
I stretched out while looking at the completed manuscript and piled up materials.
Although the puzzles added more work to the book.
The last time I went out to find out, I was able to process that much enough in the book.
The unit price wasn’t particularly extravagant, so it seemed like there wouldn’t be a problem if we just checked the process part carefully.
As for the puzzle, I made it possible to naturally enter the awakening route while keeping the concept of a letter as much as possible.
Although it is vicious that all but one of the awakening routes have bad endings.
Basically, because of the character change of the main character of the awakening route, a guy that can be enjoyed quite happily came out.
If you find a happy ending at the end, a powerful sense of relief and happiness will come.
“Huh, and honestly, I liked how it was able to complement the loop system.”
In fact, the most important part was to complement this loop system in the existing game book I know.
This is because collecting endings and using them is a very important content in Miyeonsi.
However, the problem was that it was difficult to feel the sense just by seeing several endings in the game book.
If this is a game, it’s treated as if you’ve already seen the ending.
Most of them are exhibited as collectibles.
Wanting to implement that in a game book was my initial thought.
I put a lot of thought into finding a way to do that.
“Oh, is this a sample?”
“Yes. Would you like to check?”
So, to find a way to do that, I found a wizard who used to make cervical tattoo stickers.
After talking with the wizard, I was able to make a sticker that peels off neatly on a rather special paper.
Instead, it has the disadvantage of losing adhesive power quickly after being removed even once, but it didn’t matter.
“Because when you look at the ending, you take off the sticker with the corresponding ending number.”
Then, the ending collectibles drawn under the sticker are revealed.
In this way, you can look at the ending collection part at the back and not spoil the ending.
There are other endings besides the endings you have seen, so it can also serve as a driving force for readers not to give up on the loop.
In this part, it’s a really plausible design.
Maybe it’s a game book, but I think it’s a good atmosphere to see the real miyeonsi.
Honestly, this quality is good enough to give me confidence after a long time.
“Wow, that sounds incredibly complicated.”
“Still, I’m glad the production costs are somehow right.”
“It was a bit of a struggle because I had to change the process for that letter part, but… Actually, it can’t be helped?
Honestly, I think it’s fortunate that this was possible thanks to my name value.
Maybe if I didn’t have a name value, I would have had to add a price because of the additional process for special printing of some pages.
But with that, mass production is possible without a huge price difference, so I avoided that part.
‘Actually, it’s already a big hit and I’m going to make a lot of money. I can just give up the profit even if I just add the price.’
Today, for some reason, I feel grateful for the success I have achieved so far.
No, come to think of it, the cost is added because of the ending collection element attached at the end of the book.
In fact, even if the price is okay now, isn’t there almost no profit?
“Will it be?”
“Um, well, but Master told me to do that.”
“You’re the kind of person who doesn’t care about that.”
To be honest, if I made money, I think it would help tremendously to build a computer.
However, rather than making money by raising the price of the work, I thought it would be better to just make money from goods.
It suited my personality better to make the work itself cheap and show it to as many people as possible.
“Wow, but it’s really thick.”
After almost an entire day of talking and testing this and that, the first sample finally came out.
Even though I tried so hard to reduce the content, it was almost the same thickness as the witch academy.
To be honest, there’s a lot of pressure.
“Well, I still have to finish a little more. Maybe the second half isn’t perfect.”
“I will. But I think the work itself came out well.”
It was sturdy, and for a thick one, it was easy to spread out and see where you wanted.
Just in case, I checked for problems by actually solving puzzles or collecting endings by removing stickers.
There was no problem at all.
“We can go like this.”
And the result of checking the sample with a little modified deadline for a while.
I nodded and completely finished the work on this piece.
All that was left was to wait for the response after release.
