Interstellar Travel: Becoming a Dress-Up Game Designer

Chapter 188

Even so, the prices remain stubbornly high. There are simply too many upper-level people involved; no one has ever seen anything so profitable. Just by making some pretty clothes, one can make a fortune.

Barbie Fashion uses the same model for several events, just changing the colors and elements, and then writing an extremely fantastical storyline.

This is incredibly simple in interstellar space. Previously, it would have required modeling, planning, concept art, programming, scriptwriting, and so on; scripts also have costs. Now, all you need are the script keywords, and the AI ​​handles the rest. Clothing and such can be imagined in the holographic world. The transmigrator isn't the designer, nor the creator of the animation; they've simply seen it. Then, they retrieve their memories. The holographic world automatically captures deep memories; things they might not recall on their own can be remembered with a little stimulation from the AI.

The cost is incomparable to that of making games on Earth. A AAA game on Earth requires at least hundreds of millions of dollars in investment, while here all you need is a time traveler with memories.

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The establishment and destruction of the ancient tea village slightly shook a group of interstellar people, before returning to calm.

At this moment, Tea Fairy's video was uploaded to the world channel.

Players who completed this task seem to have finally unlocked the door to showing off. They've managed to survive the construction phase, the destruction phase, and now they can even survive the task completion phase?

Absolutely not.

"Hehe, look, this is the highest-level prop for this event! Video."

The video shows countless camellias flying into the sky from the valley and the tea plantations on the mountainside, forming tea fairies. It is followed by a scene of the tea fairies flying and spinning around with the player, laughing.

The camellias flashed past the lens with crystal clarity; the pure white blossoms, shimmering with a subtle green hue, were incredibly beautiful, gathering together with tea leaves and fruit. They formed adorable tea fairies in the sky!

Who can resist a mini-guest?

"Ahhh, so cute! What's the reward for this mission? I'm going to find it!"

Currently, the trading board is filled with task chests, and many tasks are readily available with surplus items. Players complete one task and then sell the extras. They're not here to make money; it's simply because casual gamers don't do many tasks to acquire items—one set of items is enough.

The tasks in this event have very long cycles, which is not worthwhile. It would be better to sell the treasure chests.

There were so many treasure chests, and all sorts of quests were available. Players were sweeping through them while exclaiming, "How many gameplay options did the designers come up with? There are so many quests, I can't even keep up!"

Some tasks are very simple, such as planting a tea garden or building a thatched hut in the wild to become a hermit NPC. Then, when you encounter a group of tea merchants, you can sell some of your own high-quality tea. It's very easy, and you can even do several at the same time. These tasks are suitable for accumulating silver, because the tea rewarded by the tasks is quite valuable.

There are also more complex options, such as becoming a bandit, traveling the ancient tea route, or becoming an NPC in a city.

The ancient village quest that Deng Yijun and the others did is still missing; I've searched several times but still haven't found it.

"Seeking the Tea Fairy quest chest, price is flexible."

"Anyone with a Tea Fairy Treasure Chest, please take me with you! I'll pay you, I just need one spot!"

The Tea Fairy quest is gone, but there's a quest in Red Soil Village with three treasure chests. They were all sold by the same person, which is quite rare.

The player named Lulu found four identical quest chests. The quest was to build a village called Red Soil Village and plant large-leaf tea, Yunnan black tea, and Pu'er tea.

The task is limited to 1200 people, which is a lot.

The mission location was rather peculiar; from afar, it appeared entirely red—red mountains, red soil, red sun. It was a barren wasteland, a stark contrast to the dense forests found elsewhere in the rolling mountains.

The 'Lulu Battleship' quickly assembled its team, and everyone began building the village. This village was different from the ancient tea village; there were no requirements for houses, but there were many requirements for building teahouses.

The tea produced is black tea, which is fully fermented, as well as Pu'er tea, which is differentiated by light, medium, and heavy fermentation. Therefore, setting up a teahouse is extremely complicated. Although players don't need to follow the exact standards, it should still look presentable.

Once the village is built, tea planting begins. The tea trees are distributed directly to the players by the system, but not many—only one or two trees per person. These are divided into several tea varieties, all of which are quite good. Players then need to cultivate and divide the trees themselves, gradually expanding the tea garden to the area required by the mission.

The reward for completing the task is a set of jadeite teaware, comparable to a tea fairy. It includes eight teacups, not tiny finger-sized cups, but small bowls, each with a beautiful lid made of high-quality sky-blue jadeite, allowing you to see inside. The teacups themselves are made of jadeite with a soft, smooth, and lustrous sheen, not as translucent as the lids. They are incredibly lustrous and have a beautiful sheen.

A graceful orchid stands to the side, its blossoms slightly more vibrant, demonstrating the extraordinary skill required to utilize the jade's color so skillfully in real life.

The tea tray below is a lacquerware piece with a red background, black border, and gold-painted orchids, matching the orchids on the teacups. The tea table below is made of Phoebe zhennan wood, carved with green mountains and pavilions. There is an opening on the host side for easy access, and four guest seats are conveniently located on one side of the crescent shape.

A small stove was also embedded in the table, warming a purple clay teapot. Next to it was a matching green jade water jug, filled with a pot of fine spring water, and next to it was a bamboo tea box.

Lin Shuying didn't use jade or other wood for her tea box; instead, she used bamboo. Firstly, jade is prone to dampness and fermentation, affecting the tea's quality. Secondly, the aroma of other woods can easily overpower and ruin the tea's fragrance, making them unsuitable for storing various teas, only specific types. Bamboo, on the other hand, has a flavor that complements all kinds of tea aromas, offering a wonderfully refreshing fragrance, making it excellent for storing tea.

The tea caddy has a lid, which is also carved with orchids. It has been coated with the finest wax, making it not only beautiful to look at but also with an excellent feel. It would blend in perfectly even when placed among a pile of jade and precious stones.

When this set came out, players were green with envy!

“I get angry at the designer every time. I can hardly tell whether I’m angry because her designs are too good and I can’t get them, or because she designs too many props but the event time is so short.”

"I'm so envious, so very envious."

"I strongly request the designer to extend the duration of this event. I haven't even received any of those props yet, sob sob sob."

While this sentiment reflects the feelings of every player, most are rationally unwilling to extend the event time. This is especially true for players who have acquired other quest items!

It's important to understand that items in Qingfengyi have value, unlike other game items which are just data and have no intrinsic value. The rarer the item, the higher its value; aside from monetary issues, the prestige it represents is also significant.

Who wouldn't want to possess a treasure that others don't?

Special status also represents privilege and face. Interstellar people have inherited this love of face very well, as can be seen from the fact that the wealthy deliberately hold ostentatious banquets from time to time.

Lin Qiaoqiao felt this deeply; her schedule now included a bragging rights event almost every day. It was only because she refused invitations from extraterrestrials that she limited it to one event a day; if she did accept, she could have seven or eight a day. Regardless of whether she could attend, the invitations piled up.

Many players began to object to the calls to extend the time, saying, "It's best for Qingfengyi to maintain the original rhythm. What kind of thing is it to arbitrarily extend the time?"

"That's right, there are so many props. Qingfengyi isn't doing charity. Let's choose our favorites and do them as soon as possible. I don't accept the event being extended."

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Various dissenting voices emerged, the world chat was flooded with messages, and those players who hoped for an extension of the time remained silent.

Lin Shuying was busy replicating the costumes and hairpins for this event and didn't have time to look at the players' opinions. Zhang Zhongxia and the others had compiled quite a few, and Lin Shuying said, "As long as it doesn't affect the game's development, let's save the players' opinions that don't contain any major suggestions for now, and I'll look at them when I have time."

Zhang Zhongxia put the document away. "Okay."

Lin Shuying's hands flew across the fabric, the sewing machine clattering. The speed was so fast that the stitches were barely visible; it looked as if only the fabric was moving. Beside her, Liang Ranran and the others watched intently.

After Lin Shuying slowed down, one of the apprentices exclaimed, "Boss, you're so fast!"

If they're that fast, it's either because the stitching slipped, got stuck, the fabric was unevenly stitched, or they accidentally stuck something to their hands.

That's so fast!

Even more outrageous is that Lin Shuying can embroider with a sewing machine. The flowers they embroider will change the flexibility of the fabric in certain areas, or the embroidery will not be clear or even enough. The embroidery produced by Lin Shuying's machine is just like hand embroidery, very flat, with smooth and even stitches. It is hard to tell the difference between machine embroidery and hand embroidery without careful observation.

However, this is a comparison of their skill levels. If Lin Shuying were to embroider one by hand, the comparison would be quite stark.

However, hand embroidery is very slow, taking a month or even several months to complete, so Lin Shuying uses machine embroidery most of the time.

In addition, she is not a professional embroiderer. She only studied with a master of Suzhou embroidery for two months when she was making clothes, and she can't even be considered a beginner.

I've mastered machine embroidery to a high degree, because many things in period costumes really need to be embroidered by hand, especially the independently designed pieces. For commercial items, handcrafting just can't keep up.

Handcrafted items require time to mature and absorb nutrients, which increases costs, since everyone earns money through time. Higher costs inevitably raise the customer's perceived value and reduce sales channels.

It's not that high-end sales channels are bad, but rather that they inevitably require higher costs. After all, people won't spend money just to buy a little handmade embroidery; they also need to consider materials, design, and so on...

Real life isn't so easy. Back in the day, I read essay prompts about people getting rich selling construction waste in America, but once you grow up and enter society, you realize that's just wishful thinking on the part of the privileged. The world doesn't need so many lucky ones. One lucky person on the path to success is already crowded enough; who wants two?