My name is Yabo. I am the game planner for the 1000 Princes series, the founder of Eider Game Studio, and a prince of the Duck Kingdom.
My country, the Duck Kingdom, is an emerging nation that rose after World War III. The game industry has long been one of our pillar industries; even the state gifts presented to foreign leaders are often games made in our own country. But for a long time, the Duck Kingdom's best-known games have been filled with war, horror, and extreme violence. Over time, those cultural labels began shaping how the outside world saw our country. On top of that, the name “Duck” is often used for crude jokes. Many men from the Duck Kingdom, trying to prove that they are “not ducks,” become angry and get into fights when mocked or provoked. As this went on, the most common outside impression of Duck Kingdom men became one of toughness, irritability, and violence.
Later, a violent incident occurred in connection with extreme provocation surrounding a war game. A female employee was killed by someone imitating a method from the game. That woman was none other than my own younger sister, who worked at my game studio. I have always felt that if I had not focused only on making hard-hitting, provocative, conflict-filled games, and if I had listened seriously to what she wanted to create much earlier, many things might have turned out differently.
What my sister truly wanted to make was an otome game. While traveling in the Fang Kingdom, she once met a cafeteria owner who had “1,000 husbands.” That encounter gave her an idea for a game: to let female players experience the feeling of being cherished, protected, and deeply loved by many people. She never got the chance to complete that dream, so I decided to carry it on for her.
Today, the Duck Kingdom is also going through the most serious national-image crisis since its founding. The outside world sees the country as extremely unfriendly toward women, while the duck-meat industry has been caught in a controversy over “fast-grown ducks.” The number of people coming to the Duck Kingdom for tourism, study, and work has continued to decline. In response, the Duck Kingdom's royal family, government, and Duck Meat Association jointly funded our otome game as a national-brand project, and I formed Eider Game Studio in my role as a prince of the Duck Kingdom. Through a romantic and sweet game, and by openly sharing how our studio works, we hope to show the world another side of Duck Kingdom men: friendly, considerate, and tolerant, as well as another side of the Duck Kingdom in the international community: positive, open, and friendly.
And that is how the 1000 Princes series came to be.
It is both the final wish I am fulfilling for my sister and part of the positive national image we hope to rebuild for the Duck Kingdom—one that brings to mind not fear and violence, but gentleness, respect, protection, and love.
Image note: The Eider Studio team consists of five male developers—Yabo (planning and operations), Yachi (game writing), Yagu (art), Yaxiong (code), and Yaze (music)—as well as you, our newly hired employee. Yachi is absent from the meeting in the image because he went to interview Prince Lingtian of the Fang Kingdom that day. We will create many romance otome games featuring princes from other countries, showing the Duck Kingdom's commitment to good relations with its neighbors and to valuing international friendship.
Our Eider Game Studio decided to invite one female employee to join our five male members. If we truly want to make games for female players, the studio cannot forever consist only of men imagining on women's behalf what women want.
But extremists have already issued a public threat: if any woman participates in this project, they will continue their plan to kill. The Duck Kingdom has therefore raised its security level. We place no harsh restrictions on the new female employee. There is only one real question you must face—are you willing to accept this risk and join us?
In my timeline, you eventually joined our game studio. You became a new employee with no prior experience, learned game development alongside us, and worked with us on the 1000 Princes otome-game series—because you were the only person who applied.
You had previously been responsible for an online digital magazine at a women's magazine company. Later, the company shut down and your family was left with debt, so you truly needed this job. But you also knew that no other woman dared to apply. You were the only one who came. You were afraid, yet you still walked through our doors.
You are careful, attentive, focused, and responsible. I truly enjoy the time I spend working with you.
To me, the fact that you were willing to come here despite the risk to your life already says a great deal. You also have experience editing a women's magazine, so you know what female users care about, what they dislike, and how to shape emotion, story, and aesthetics into content that female players can genuinely embrace.
I do not want you to come here to bear danger for us. We will all protect your personal safety. I want you here because this project needs someone who genuinely stands on the side of female players. If we truly want to change the Duck Kingdom's image, slogans alone will not be enough. We have to make a game in which women genuinely feel respected, understood, and treated with tenderness.
Now, please click 1000 Princes: ChouChou Condo and come to our game studio so we can continue developing the game together!
Note: All princes are AI-generated and are not real people. All story content is fictional and not real.