Chapter 1039: Sense of Substitution
After hearing Shen Xin's suggestion, Ji Yinxuan also began to consider the issue of version.
In May next year, there will be a game exhibition in Huaxia, and "The Gate of the Stone of Destiny" will definitely be exhibited, and even if Magi wins the production rights of "The Gate of the Stone of Destiny", it is a new company after all, and there are very few works that can be obtained, and it is unlikely to be like some large companies - such as Zhenyu, whose name is advertising - to be well-known by players and become the focus, so it is likely to be left out in the cold in the early stage.
Fortunately, the "Gate of Destiny Stone" and the manga have been promoted, so that the game has accumulated a certain amount of popularity, which is considered an advantage. Versions in other languages are trying to expand the game's sales, but games like "Gate of Destiny Stone" also have larger texts, which is not too cheap to translate, and it is more time-consuming.
But if you can really increase sales, the price is obviously worth it.
However, before that, Magi still has to finish the game of "Gate of Destiny Stone".
Xi Muhan has also been very busy in the past month, and after she decided to take apart a comic, she has not been idle.
At the beginning of the creation of a work, there must be an idea, otherwise, it is like water without a source and a tree without roots, when the author creates, he feels that there is no focus, and the reader will feel scattered when reading it.
If it's an everyday work, the story structure is not tight, and the problem won't be too big, but for a cult manga, a loose story is simply a big no-no - in order to compete with other royal manga, the cult manga must always attract readers.
After Xi Muhan decided to extend the plot of the new work according to the first episode, he also put a lot of effort into writing the script.
When it comes to evil comics, a comic that can't be avoided is "DN", but Shen Xin didn't let her watch it, nor did she let her make a reference, so as not to mess up her train of thought, just let her watch some movies or documentaries, at most watch some suspense.
In fact, whether it is "DN", "As God Says", or "The Promised Neverland" with the color of evil comics, there is a clear difference between this kind of comics and detective comics.
For example, like "Jintian One Juvenile Incident Book", its difficulty lies in how to design the modus operandi, if the "secret room murder" is to be used, how to create new ideas, and how to establish the murderer's alibi, these are all important considerations for the creator.
That is to say, the author is "designing" the story, and the most typical case is the "Hexagonal Village Incident", which was very ingenious at that time.
Back to the common evil comics, there are also design bridges, but the difference with detective comics is that the rules or the bridges will be told to the reader in advance. For example, in "DN", from the first episode, the reader knows the existence of DN; Another example is "Gambling Apocalypse", all kinds of game rules, such as "rock, scissors, paper", such as E card games, the rules will be told to readers in advance, so the focus of the comic is not to design the bridge, but to "fight", fighting with the rules, but more about the "wisdom fight" with different people, and more emphasis on logic.
Of course, this situation is not 100%, like "The Gate of the Destiny Stone", the outcome of the event tells you - the death of Shin Yuri - and then the protagonist and the reader go to unravel the whole mystery.
Back to "The Girl Who Traveled Through the Parallel World", the best means is similar to "The Gate of the Stone of Destiny", dismantling the mystery of the whole story, and unlike "The Gate of the Stone of Destiny", the biggest advantage of "The Girl Crossing the Girl" is that it is faster to enter the topic and it is easier to attract readers, and the disadvantage is that it is precisely because of the fast entry into the question that the foreshadowing of the story is not enough, therefore, Xi Muhan wants to add this kind of setting in the follow-up plot.
In addition, in Shen Xin's view, "The Gate of the Stone of Destiny" has one of the biggest differences compared with "Crossing Girl", Rentaro Okabe can travel repeatedly to correct the real and reasonable world line, similar to "Re: Life in a Different World from Zero", "Happy Death Day" and other works, which also advance the event through multiple crossings/retracements, but "Crossing Girl" does not have so many crossings.
To advance the plot, the story must produce contradictions, but on the premise that it cannot be crossed repeatedly, how to create contradictions has become the highlight, which is also what Shen Xin pays the most attention to.
After washing, the two were ready to rest, and before turning off the lights, Shen Xin also brought up this question.
Xi Muhan dried his hair with a hair dryer, turned around and looked at Shen Xin, his face showing smugness, "Of course there is a contradiction." Brother, you know the butterfly effect, right? ”
"Hmm." Shen Xin nodded.
The so-called butterfly effect is that a small thing can lead to a huge chain reaction.
"After the heroine crosses, it has actually had an impact on the parallel world, coupled with the death of her classmate Wang He, a series of events related to Wang He will change, which will conflict with the heroine's memory, and then this conflict will point to Wang He's death, so as to advance the plot."
"The difference between the two worlds?" Shen Xin was stunned for a moment, this is a good starting point, "But there is a problem of substitution, readers don't know what changes Wang He's departure has brought to this world." ”
"I think of it this way, the heroine travels forward for a week or two. Then, through these two weeks, Wang He found contradictions in the difference between existence and non-existence. On the one hand, the heroine finds the reason for Wang He's death, and on the other hand, she finds a way to travel to the previous world. Xi Muhan obviously also took this issue into consideration.
Shen Xin rubbed his chin and frowned, "The pace will be slow in this way, and the sense of substitution may be very poor." ”
"Huh?"
"Didn't you notice? The structure of your story is actually somewhat similar to "The Gate of the Stone of Destiny", and you have to use the previous plot to take over. The difference is that "Crossing Girl" is faster than "Stone Gate", and "Stone Gate" has to be foreshadowed, and the plot is 1/2 of the way through, and it will usher in a divine turn, and because there is a lot of foreshadowing in front, readers will have a sense of substitution when they see the follow-up plot. And because "The Crossing Girl" is too fast, readers don't know what has happened in the past week or two. When you bring up a contradiction, the reader will be at a loss. Shen Xin said with some worry.
Xi Muhan frowned, roughly recalled the entire plot in his mind, and also realized that if he really wanted to advance like this, there would indeed be a problem of substitution.
If you can't make readers resonate, the impact on readers will be greatly reduced.
"What then?" Xi Muhan scratched his head, and suddenly felt a sense of irritability in his heart.
If her goal was just serialization, the current brain hole should be enough, but her goal is obviously more than that.
Shen Xin sighed, if he wanted to find a solution in a short time, it seemed that he would ...... It's not too easy, either.