Any Novels About Making Video Games? 有没有游戏制作的小说

1. 101 制 Making a Virtual Spirit Game That Takes the World by Storm! 制作虚拟精灵游戏，火爆全球！ Ha, So Confused哈很迷茫Urban281k WordsCompleted [Game development] [Livestream] [Lighthearted] [Nostalgic] (This is a nostalgic novel. It isn't just about virtual games; later on, it also features the stories of many anime and movies. It's a tribute to childhood, so please don't read if that's not your thing.) Ye Xiao transmigrates to a world with advanced VR technology but a deeply dysfunctional gaming industry. Starting with nothing, he thrives in this world thanks to the precious memories he brought with him. He not only makes a fortune by 1.6kReads7.6Score106Shelves

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   That's all. I'll only look at these few; there aren't any others.

2. 102 真 Real-Life MOBA: I Created League of Legends 真人moba之我创造了英雄联盟 I Sit at the Loli Table我坐萝莉那桌Anime Fanfiction687k WordsCompleted Qin Ming transmigrates to a parallel world where a real-life MOBA game has taken the world by storm. Players can transform into heroes of their own design and compete in fair 5v5 battles. In the game, they can not only climb the ranks and earn essence, but even fuse their heroes' abilities with their own. The only problem is that players in this world have very limited imaginations. So, on his eighteenth birthday, Qin Ming makes a grand gesture. A hero with red wings and a giant sword is born. T 72Reads7.6Score—Shelves
3. 103 说 You Said It Was a Free Game, So Why Are There Top-Up Buttons Everywhere? 说好免费游戏，你满屏充值入口？ Forget-Me-Not Pork Bone Soup忘情排骨汤Urban1.0M WordsCompleted [Game development + livestreaming + comedy + ruthless boss + no female lead + pioneering esports tournaments] Chen Feng discovers that games in the world he transmigrated into have gone completely off track. Every game company is competing to improve graphics, while ignoring the core of a game: diverse gameplay. So Chen Feng fires back with Plants vs. Zombies, promoting it as a completely free game. “Twenty-six years later, and you still dare to put out graphics this bad?” “Wait, this game is ki 21.7kReads6.6Score2.1kShelves
4. 104 我 My AI Girlfriend Is So Realistic, Players Are Spending Like Crazy 我做的电子女友太逼真，玩家氪疯 Little Bai Cries小白哭Urban332k WordsCompleted [One heroine] [System] [Laid off at the worst possible moment] [Making romance games] My name is Lin En. I led my team in working overtime all night to make a beautifully rendered pay-to-win online game. It got rave reviews after launching in the game store, and I thought I’d be promoted and get a raise. Instead, my heartless company laid me off! At the crucial moment, I bonded with the [Indie Game Developer System]! As long as I make games, I can gain all kinds of game-development talents! Over 1.7kReads8.4Score201Shelves
5. 105 在 I Started Copying Games in Another World 在异界开始抄游戏 Still as Cheap as Ever还是贼抠Eastern Fantasy1.6M WordsCompleted [Otherworlders Play Earth Games] [No System, the Protagonist Is Basically the System Himself] [Everyday Life] [Ensemble Cast] [Sort-of Otherworldly Shopkeeping] Illusionists are a faction targeted by the Heavenly Dao. After transmigrating to another world, a genius illusionist has no choice but to grow stronger and make ends meet by creating, or rather copying, games. If only he could make games on Earth... Watching these players obsess over leveling up and fighting monsters, Yao Qian thinks to 8.2kReads8.1Score723Shelves

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   Just these two.

6. 106 别 Don't Kill Me, I'm Just a Game Developer 别砍我，我就是个做游戏的 Yao Daoji Superfan妖刀姬单推人Urban764k WordsCompleted [Game development] When Fang Chen woke up, he received two pieces of news. One was bad news, and the other was also bad news. The bad news was that Fang Chen had transmigrated, and the System hadn’t shown up. The other bad news was that he had sweetly returned to high school. But at least there was one piece of good news: after transmigrating, his mind had become a lot sharper. 553Reads6.7Score—Shelves
7. 107 幕 Behind the Scenes: The Virtual Second World 幕后：虚拟第二世界 Bought a Melon买了个瓜Urban257k WordsOngoing In a parallel world, Wang Nuo obtains a virtual world development System. He can turn any film, TV series, novel, literary classic, and more into a virtual game world, driving players and factions around the globe wild. Using the Second World as his foundation, Wang Nuo controls the world from behind the scenes, creating a virtual world everyone longs to enter. —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   If we're talking about game development, these are definitely established players. Recommendation rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

8. 108 神 The God-Tier Game Development Master 神级游戏制作大师 Hood, Who Has Terrible Eyesight眼神很差的胡德酱Sports387k WordsCompleted While searching for investors, Shen Shusheng dies suddenly and transmigrates back fifteen years. But this world is nothing like he imagined. It turns out there are no video games here. “First, I’ll make a Tetris clone and earn a million. Then I’ll unleash a CS-style game on the whole world, and finally I’ll drop a Dota-style blockbuster that takes the world by storm.” And so Shen Shusheng swims freely in the gaming industry, while everyone else can only watch him disappear into the distance. 27Reads6.1Score—Shelves
9. 109 我 I Designed the Seven-Star King Lu Palace and Scared Players Around the World to Tears 我设计七星鲁王宫，吓哭全球玩家 Admiring Mayflies慕蜉蝣509k WordsOngoing Lin Chuan transmigrated into another world and became a developer at an independent game studio. After learning about the games and technology in this world, Lin Chuan was stunned. With technology like this, what kind of awful games are you people playing? Lin Chuan immediately used the memories in his mind to develop The Seven-Star Lu Palace. Towering mountain ranges, the terrifying Seven-Star Coffin, the Blue-Eyed Fox Corpse, the Nine-Headed Serpent Cypress! And secret tales lost to the long r —Reads—Score—Shelves
10. 110 无 In an Empty Apocalypse, I Lead Players on a Rampage! 无人末世，我带着玩家杀疯了！ Bamboo Shoots Braised with Fried Food笋干煲炸Sports1.8M WordsCompleted Game designer Gu Zhe transmigrates to an apocalyptic world overrun by evil races. Undead, demons, dark elves, vampires, insectfolk, serpentfolk, and all manner of other evil races... Humanity in this apocalypse has already been wiped out by the evil races! Gu Zhe, being human himself, is in mortal danger! Fortunately, he brought along the game he designed. Through the game, he can summon players from Blue Star to descend into this world! In this lifeless apocalypse, Gu Zhe joins his players to r 5.2kReads8.8Score447Shelves
11. 111 谁 Who Called This Thing an Indie Game Studio!? 谁把这玩意叫独立游戏工作室！？ Bright Red Moon鲜红月Urban722k WordsCompleted Lin Zhi was on the verge of financial freedom when a System came out of nowhere and broke his back. Well, there was no way he was going back to work. His only option was to make games and reach his goal of living a carefree retirement by the age of thirty-five. When Zhiyue released its first game, nobody thought much of it. One-hit-wonder designers were a dime a dozen. But when they followed it up with Terraria, Subnautica, and Hollow Knight, the indie game scene began sounding the bells for a n 3.4kReads7.0Score275Shelves
12. 112 全 Holo-Game: Becoming the Strongest Designer in the Interstellar World! 全息游戏：成为星际最强设计师！ Xing Yaoyao星杳杳Modern Romance492k WordsCompleted [1v1 + Interstellar + Story-Driven Games] This story has a setting of my own, and features five games with many scenarios, so there will be plenty of supporting-character storylines, too. If you like it, welcome! If you don’t, please be kind~ Li Zhi is a gaming addict who dies suddenly after an all-night gaming session and an emotional outburst. To her surprise, she transmigrates to an interstellar world where everyone plays games. But in this interstellar world with the most advanced technology 693Reads8.9Score100Shelves

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    ❤️The first five books are about creating traditional games after time travel, including both casual games and AAA titles, but overall they mainly focus on adapting existing games. ❤️The last three books are about time travel to the interstellar era and creating games—holographic and virtual reality games that currently only exist in fantasy. Please choose whichever you prefer to watch!

13. 113 开 Making The Wandering Earth from the Start, Shocking Players Around the World 开局制作流浪地球，震惊全球玩家 The Mortal World尘凡世Urban153k WordsOngoing Yang Lin transmigrates to a world with highly advanced technology but terrible games. He was a game designer at the biggest gaming company in Huaguo. He had hoped to make his mark, but instead, he was fired. After bonding with a Game Development System, he immediately brought out The Wandering Earth. The moment the game launched, the whole world was stunned. “Whoa, installing engines on Earth so it can escape the solar system? What kind of genius came up with that!” “You can actually see Jupiter 4Reads7.3Score—Shelves
14. 114 游 Game Design: I Make Travel Frog from the Start 游戏设计：开局制作旅行青蛙 Rainbow Fish海虹鱼Urban120k WordsCompleted [Game Design + Livestreaming + Everyday Life] Su Bai transmigrates to a parallel world where games are scarce. He decides to develop Travel Frog, and players everywhere start raising frogs. Next, he releases Battle of Balls, and players begin discussing spike tactics and splitting techniques. Then he releases Ski Safari. In the scorching summer heat, players open Ski Safari and hit the slopes together. After that, he releases Pet Pals, and players start competing with their pets. Then he release 97Reads—Score—Shelves
15. 115 谁EN Who Removed the Exit Button from My Xianxia Game? 谁把我仙侠游戏退出键扣了？ Mu Chun沐春Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsOngoing At first, I only wanted to create a fresh account for a holographic xianxia game... I had already selected the highest difficulty, simply to roll a better spiritual root and sell the account. But then... can someone tell me where the exit button is? Where did my enormous game exit button go? 366.2kReads8.5Score41.9kShelves
16. 116 异 A Long Journey in Another World 异界旅途漫漫 The Mountain Moon Knows Not of You山月不知君Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsOngoing [No System + Original Story + Ensemble Cast + No Brain-Dead Characters + Fast-Paced + Pure Romance] I’m dedicated to creating a different kind of world and bringing everyone a fresh new thrill, along with a more realistic experience! The rain fell without letup, day after gloomy day. Beneath the curtain of rain... Travelers from another world, I’d like you to finish this terrible game of chess for me. Anyone can be a chess piece, anyone can be sacrificed. All living beings are players in this ga 5.8kReads—Score334Shelves
17. 117 我 I Create Games in the Interstellar Era to Spread Chinese Civilization 我在星际造游戏传播华夏文明 Lazy Cathead猫头懒懒Sci-Fi & Apocalypse305k WordsOngoing [No Female Lead] [Game Creation] [Chinese Civilization] [Military Academy Mecha] [Livestream] [Imaginative Spin-Off] A thousand years ago, humanity was raised like livestock by advanced civilizations from across the universe, their cells squeezed dry to make evolutionary serum. After centuries in captivity, humanity had forgotten how to speak its mother tongue and could no longer find its home planet. They fed countless lives into the Zerg battlefronts, serving as cannon fodder, and finally won 87.1kReads9.2Score12.5kShelves

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    This book is good, but the author doesn't update it very often [facepalm]

18. 118 让 You Asked Me to Design a Game, So Why Did I Make Delta Force? 让你设计游戏，你开发三角洲？ Shining Radiance辉光闪耀Urban588k WordsOngoing Lin Xiao transmigrates to a parallel world with advanced technology but outdated games and rampant pay-to-win mechanics, where he becomes a struggling game designer! After binding with the Game Producer System, Lin Xiao creates a hardcore shooter centered on the “loot, shoot, and extract” gameplay loop: Delta Force! There are no flashy skills or upgrade points. The graphics are unbelievably realistic, and there isn’t even a top-up pop-up. Most outrageous of all, when you die in this game, you lo 26.5kReads6.0Score2.1kShelves
19. 119 重 Back to 1999: I Build a Gaming Empire 重返1999：我缔造游戏帝国 Born Prey天生的猎物Urban553k WordsOngoing [No heroine] + [Game development] + [Overpowered cheat] + [A little entertainment business] + [A little esports] The rating has just come out and is steadily climbing. Zhang Rui is unexpectedly reborn in 1999. With his experience from making hit games in his previous life and a miraculous laptop, he plans to break into the gaming market at the turn of the millennium, become a gaming tycoon in Huaguo, and ensure its games no longer lag 20 years behind the rest of the world. 18.6kReads7.1Score1.4kShelves
20. 120 第 The Ninth Art? My Indie Game Masterpiece Brings the Whole Internet to Tears 第九艺术？起手独游神作虐哭全网 Colorful Pen Xiao Liu彩笔小六Urban621k WordsOngoing ⚠️ [System Warning]: This work contains an excessive amount of soul-crushing psychological pollution! (Includes Lobotomy Corporation, UT, Hollow Knight, and more, but lesser-known masterpieces like Rain World and Outer Wilds take priority.) (Genshin Impact, Soul Island, Ren, Danganronpa, LOL, Honor of Kings, Valorant, Peacekeeper Elite, NetEase, Tencent, Sheep, Porridge, StarCraft, and more will only appear as villains (?)) ※ Reincarnated into a parallel world, while the industry is still peddli 302Reads6.9Score102Shelves

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    This book is quite good, though a bit padded. It includes detailed explanations of game details, Easter eggs, and deeper meanings. Anyway, if you want to learn about game development and plot, you can check it out. The author will also be updating with various obscure gems later.

21. 121 文 Lord of Entertainment: From the Start, a Blockbuster Hit with The Wandering Earth 文娱之主，开局王炸流浪地球 Write Novels Well好好写小说Urban1.2M WordsCompleted Renowned director, writer, and game developer Chen Ping transmigrates. In this world, the Dragon Kingdom is powerful, and its cultural market is thriving like never before. Yet the market has no products to match the Dragon Kingdom's economic stature. Every year, foreign blockbusters storm the Dragon Kingdom, seizing most of the profits while exporting their cultures to the country. Korean pop worship, Japanese pop worship, hero worship... Foreign ideas keep battering the minds of the Dragon Kin 7.6kReads8.3Score478Shelves

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    It's great! Highly recommended!

22. 122 我 I Just Made a Terrible Game, So What's with This Supreme Myth? 我就做个烂游戏，至高神话什么鬼 Comrade Xiao Zhong小钟同志Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsOngoing Mei Qian transmigrates into a primordial deity. He wants to lie flat and do nothing, but the other gods are watching him like hawks. Luckily, there’s always a way out. The Game Design System activates. He gets a chance to survive, but the missions are absurd. [Train players in hand strength until they gain an Iron Grip: 0/1000] “Just say you want players to smash their desks. What’s an Iron Grip?” With tears in his eyes, Mei Qian pulls out a three-game collection: "I Wanna Be the Guy", "Getting 877Reads—Score102Shelves

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    I highly recommend reading this book. It doesn't just revolve around one game; the protagonist created many well-known games, some you may have played, some you may not. But watching the virtual characters play these games in the book will sometimes remind you of the first time you played them. A seasoned bookworm with 8000 hours of reading experience, I highly recommend it.

23. 123 我 I Created the World 我创造了世界 Fang Yebai方夜白Eastern Fantasy2.2M WordsCompleted Chen Luo found a Primordial Brush that let him create worlds at will. Whatever he wrote with it would become real in another world. He wrote down light, and the world gained a sun. He wrote down life, and the world gained countless species. More amazingly, he could bring players into this world and have them help evolve its species, advancing the world itself. So Chen Luo turned it into a hit online game that took the world by storm! “Second Life, a casual life-simulation game. Ten years in the 14.6kReads8.3Score1.4kShelves

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    These books all meet the requirements, and the fourth one barely qualifies, but they're all quite good.

24. 124 我 I Made the Game Descend into Reality 我让游戏降临现实 No One in the World Will Ever Meet Me Again世人千万再难遇我Sports1.2M WordsCompleted [Behind the Scenes / Players / Gaming / No Female Lead] That day, the epoch-making full-dive VR game Land of Seals burst onto the scene, setting off a gaming craze across the world. Its average number of players online topped three billion at one point! But no one knew that one day in the future, everything in the game would descend upon reality! The Tower of Seals, the Legions of the Old Ones, the Doomsday Church… Only Ye Qiu, a reborn person, knew what was coming. But I don’t care, because… “I 22kReads9.1Score1.9kShelves
25. 125 我 All My Chosen Ones Are Fourth Calamity Players 我的神选者全是第四天灾 Sweet Hot Pot甜口火锅Eastern Fantasy1.7M WordsCompleted Beneath the grand facade of swords and magic lies a world hurtling toward corruption and ruin. After transmigrating to a Western fantasy world for 682 years, Ye Zhi finally got his golden finger: a glowing orb connected to the Blue Star internet! Combined with the divine spark that practically came knocking at his door, it gave birth to a game linking Blue Star with another world. Who says you can’t track someone down through the internet? With nothing more than an exclamation mark and a few gam 28.6kReads8.8Score3.3kShelves
26. 126 在 After Becoming a Professor in the Interstellar World, I’m Trending Every Day 在星际当教授后，我天天爆热搜 Tulu Kaye Tulu K吐露卡耶吐露kModern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Yu Yu, a wealthy woman from the cultivation world, transmigrates into the interstellar era. Losing her billions in family wealth is bad enough, but the System also saddles her with a trillion in debt. For the sake of her life, she puts up with it. Then the System tells her to become a teacher. For an eight-figure salary, with room and board included, she takes the job. She trains several top-tier big shots, and even the king of the beastfolk becomes her student. Yet she is still dirt-poor. Netiz 6.1kReads8.9Score579Shelves

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    🍇The whole world is as fantastical as a game, with the female protagonist creating all sorts of games in a Western fantasy world. Match-3, escape games, and more. It's incredibly diverse. 🍇The remaining books are also game-related.

27. 127 我 I'm a Horror Game Creator in the Interstellar Era 我在星际当恐游制作人 Xi, Who Doesn't Eat Seafood不吃海鲜的夕Sci-Fi & Apocalypse746k WordsCompleted [No romance, lots of game instances] Naili never needed much sleep in life, and even in death she couldn't find lasting rest, because she transmigrated to the interstellar age. The overdeveloped technology brought with it an incurable condition: emotional numbness. To save the growing number of patients suffering from emotional numbness, the Interstellar Federation strongly encourages the entertainment industry, hoping entertainment can awaken people's emotions across the stars. With Naili's arr 3.5kReads8.3Score393Shelves

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    It's good! Warning: No romance, ongoing.

28. 128 重 Reborn as a Game Developer: I Only Make Original Games 重生做游戏：我只搞原创 Cranes Crying in Unison鹤鹤有鸣Modern Romance497k WordsOngoing (The ratings just opened and will rise later. Female-oriented!) [Male lead with no romance + game development + original games + ensemble slice of life + running a company + game livestreaming + reborn + System + slow-paced] Gu Ming was the despised “dog of a producer” in players’ eyes, and a scapegoat thrown under the bus by his boss. As he lay dying, he looked at the countless pay-to-win schemes he had designed for reskinned games on the screen and suddenly laughed. What the hell, you call thi 66.2kReads9.1Score9.2kShelves

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    It's a female-oriented, fast-paced, and addictive novel.

29. 129 游EN Game Invasion: Addicted to Snatching the Male and Female Leads' Destinies 游戏入侵：抢男女主机缘会上瘾诶 The Cat Isn't Bald猫不秃Sports3.1M WordsCompleted [Game Invasion + No Romance + Leveling + Lone Wolf + Gaming] (Also known as: Game Invasion) After being reborn, the first thing Yu Xunge did was go home and make her younger brother down a bottle of liquor, causing him to miss the first game beta test. In her previous life, she didn't learn until she was dying that he had been scheming against her from the shadows all along. She was merely the villainess in a wish-fulfillment novel about a live-in son-in-law... Every bit of malice she suffered w 988.6kReads9.5Score85.7kShelves

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    Everyone in this book is charismatic; it's not a one-man show, everyone has their own moment to shine. [Laughs]

30. 130 说 You Said It Was a Historical Fantasy Game, So Why Did You Make a Fantasy World? 说好古风游戏，你做玄幻世界？ Leisurely Sheep悠闲绵羊Urban1.5M WordsOngoing [Game Development] + [Pseudo-Fourth Calamity] + [No Romance] + [No Real-World Corporate Warfare or Ridiculous Drama] + [Fantasy Cultivation Game] + [A Worldview That Will Blow Your Mind] Jiang Feng transmigrates to a parallel world just as the Ancient-Style Game Development Competition is being held. Every other studio is making palace-intrigue games, court games, or martial arts games. Only Jiang Feng brings out a world of fantasy cultivation! Players who have never heard of fantasy cultivation 468Reads7.0Score—Shelves

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    I'm a seasoned bookworm. I won't exaggerate, just click in and look at two or three pictures. If you don't like them, it's just my taste, not yours.

31. 131 穿 I Transmigrated to the Stars to Make Horror Games, but Everyone Keeps Asking for My Address 穿越星际做恐游，结果都问我地址 A Devout Believer Who Only Prays Not to Go Bald信女只求不秃头Mystery822k WordsCompleted [Low-key female lead + original games + interstellar + no romance] (Also known as: Conquering the Interstellar World Through Game Dungeons: A Workaholic's Self-Cultivation) (The protagonist is rather reserved and socially anxious, very introverted. Please be warned in advance; don't read if that's not your thing.) In a fit of anger, Jia Xinshui shut off the main power switch at her company, but accidentally electrocuted herself and died, transmigrating straight into the interstellar world five h 1.2kReads6.6Score146Shelves

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    The premise is very interesting; it sets up plot holes early on and fills them in later, making the main storyline very coherent. The game itself is also original. The female lead's social anxiety combined with her later detachment from right and wrong is portrayed very well. The female lead is the first in the cycle, and in the end, she becomes the catalyst for breaking the cycle. Sweet bean! I'll check it out first!

32. 132 主 The Art Director and Her Incompatible Producer 主美小姐和她的不对付制作人 Blank Flower Garden空白花庭Modern Romance418k WordsCompleted [Lighthearted everyday life] + [One heroine] + [No System] + [Sweet romance] + [Everyone plays matchmaker] Ever since leaving the orphanage, Xia Feng had decided to give up on romance and devote everything he’d learned to his favorite genre: horror. He set out to make his own horror game, even if it meant giving up his chance at graduate school. With no woman on his mind, his coding skills would be divine. But everything changed when he saw those paintings at the university activity center durin 128Reads8.5Score—Shelves

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    It's so good, incredibly good! Although half of this book is essentially a romance, its descriptions of game development are truly exquisite, unlike most of Tomato's game development novels. I find it more realistic. The protagonist always seems to have a benefactor helping him when he encounters difficulties, giving you the feeling of unlocking new heroes as you level up. As someone who wants to make games, I really love it. But the author said it might end at 300,000 words, so I'm hoping this recommendation can save it, sob sob sob, I want to catch up before it ends! [Crying] I still want to watch the protagonist become a game development master step by step, sob sob sob!

33. 133 霍EN Hogwarts: Hit with the Avada Kedavra on Day One 霍格沃茨，开局就被啃大瓜 Have Some Warm Water喝点白开水Anime Fanfiction1.5M WordsCompleted [One heroine] [Coming-of-age] [No System] [Slice of life] Su Er, who had transmigrated for no apparent reason, had barely opened his eyes when a beam of emerald light came flying straight at him. He thought he was done for, but then realized he was alive again. Not only that, Hermione was his neighbor and childhood friend. And so the story began. 15.3kReads9.3Score1.6kShelves

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    I just randomly picked a book; I wrote one myself. (See my homepage.)

34. 134 东 Tokyo, 1991: A New Era of Game Development 东京1991游戏制作新时代 Saionji Kōchō西园寺公长Urban1.1M WordsCompleted New book: Revisit the Eighties: The Rise of Technology. Currently serialized. This time, it covers the entire IT field, with the story set in China. Feel free to add it to your bookshelf, request updates, and leave comments. Another serialized work, the crime-investigation mystery Tokyo Women Detectives’ Casebook, has already reached 600,000 words. Dive in without worry. Transmigrate to Akihabara, Tokyo, in the autumn of 1991. Start with pixel-art PC games and climb the tech tree on the path t 2.7kReads8.4Score255Shelves

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    I recommend two books; they're quite well-written, you can give them a try. [Learned something new]

35. 135 开 From the Start, I Had an A-Rank Forbidden Item, and Players Worked for Me 开局A级禁物，玩家给我打工 1 Lazy Dog11只懒狗1Eastern Fantasy1.4M WordsOngoing [Western Fantasy] [Sequences] [Forbidden Items] [Game Interface] [Sequence List in the Reader Forum] Lin Qi transmigrated into a game and became the illegitimate son of a noble. To grow stronger in this world, he began roaming around the game’s protagonist and “stealing his spotlight.” But after the game’s official launch, things went a little off course… Elena: “We’re the best partners.” Marina: “If you can’t pay me back, you could always repay me with yourself~” Viola: “Everything I have 52.5kReads8.4Score8.5kShelves

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    It's a decent book.

36. 136 开 Legend of Heroes from the Start: A Lottery for the Han Dynasty's Seductive Demon Physique 开局英杰传，抽奖大汉魅魔体质 Sausage Bully香肠恶霸Urban839k WordsOngoing [Game development + some entertainment industry content + tech cultivation + multiple heroines] Xu Rang is reborn on Blue Star with a System. As long as he makes games, he can obtain anything from them. Develop a fantasy cultivation game and gain secret cultivation techniques. Develop a sci-fi game and acquire cutting-edge technology. When immortal arts and technology come together, Xu Rang calls it science! The “science” in “science,” and the “learning” in “metaphysics”! Beyond science lies cyb 202Reads7.4Score—Shelves

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    Play games and win prizes, cyberpunk cultivation.

37. 137 星EN Honkai: Star Rail - I Developed the Star Rail Mobile Game at the Company 星穹铁道：我在公司开发星铁手游 Good Evening晚好呀Anime Fanfiction2.4M WordsOngoing [No Female Lead + No Romance + Game Development + Protagonist as a Behind-the-Scenes Errand Boy] Lin Guang transmigrates to the world of Honkai: Star Rail. He obtains a god-tier mobile game development System and successfully creates the Honkai: Star Rail mobile game! When Kafka, a Stellaron Hunter with a bounty of 10.899 billion, appears on the limited banner, everyone is stunned! "Whoa, guys, my wallet is spending money on its own!" "There's no way I'm skipping this one!" When Imbibitor Lunae 56.3kReads9.1Score1.4kShelves

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    The protagonist is blessed with incredible luck, starting by creating the renowned miHoYo. With his unique understanding of games and cutting-edge creativity, he unleashes a gaming storm in the city. The classic game characters he creates evoke both love and hate from players, and every plot development is heart-wrenching, to the point that the entire internet is begging him to stop "killing" players. Follow in the protagonist's footsteps, witness the rise of a gaming empire, and experience this uniquely exciting urban legend! 😜

38. 138 游 The Gaming Age: Starting with the Creation of Minecraft 游戏时代：从制作我的世界开始 LingkongZYL凌空ZYLUrban158k WordsOngoing Yu Shuo transmigrates to a parallel world. He discovers that the gaming scene in this world's Dragon Kingdom is still stuck in the era of Legend, making it a laughingstock around the globe. Watching the game developers run amok, Yu Shuo smiles faintly. Foreigners, get ready to experience the terror of cultural export! And so, after three months of work, his first game... Minecraft! Officially launches! Ding Shi: So this is what a sandbox game is supposed to be?! Ma Teng: I'll give you another te 471Reads8.7Score107Shelves

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    These are all high-quality novels about game development. I highly recommend the first, fourth, fifth, and sixth books. Check them out if you're interested! [Eating popcorn][Eating popcorn][Eating popcorn]

39. 139 谁 Who Told Him to Make Horror Games? He's Going to Scare People to Death! 谁让他做恐怖游戏的，要吓死人啊 Qi Qi Qi Qi柒七柒七Urban251k WordsCompleted Su Ge transmigrates to a parallel world. He binds an All-Purpose Game Development System. He needs SAN points to use the System's lottery. What kind of games could earn him those? Obviously, horror games. So Su Chen throws himself wholeheartedly into this niche market. With the System's missions to help him, he develops one game after another, scaring players out of their wits. Players cry out in alarm: “Who told him to make horror games? He's going to scare us to death!” 94Reads—Score—Shelves
40. 140 手 Your Mobile Game Isn’t Making Money? You Just Don’t Know How to Make Games! 手游不赚钱？是你不会做游戏！ Pork Lover爱吃的猪Urban545k WordsOngoing Lin Mo transmigrated to a parallel world with an advanced gaming industry, only to discover that nobody had made mobile games at all. Watching everyone use their phones as nothing more than barcode scanners, Lin Mo smiled. “It’s time to show you just how much money mobile games can make.” 19Reads5.1Score—Shelves

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    I think this is alright. [I'm full]

41. 141 这 This Game Has More Bugs Than I Do 这个游戏Bug比我多 Faint as Clouds and Mist渺若云烟Eastern Fantasy840k WordsOngoing [Transmigration + Game + BUGs + No Romance + NPC Commentary + Lighthearted + Satisfying Read + Wild Ideas + Mastermind Behind the Scenes] Jiang Xiaobai, a game tester who died from overwork under a 996 schedule, was reborn inside the game she had tested for three years, Nine Provinces and Mountains. She planned to rely on a walkthrough to become a god, only to discover that this lousy game was still in its 0.8 beta test, with no story content and bugs everywhere. She became the only beta tester, 10Reads—Score—Shelves
42. 142 游 Game Development: The More Players Curse Me, the Happier I Get! 游戏制作：玩家越骂，我越爽！ Food Book美食书Urban129k WordsOngoing Qi Bai transmigrated to a parallel world and awakened the Game Emotion System. As long as he could make people react emotionally, he could earn Emotion Points and use them to get games from the store. Plants vs. Zombies, Minecraft, Delta Force, Black Myth: Wukong, Elden Ring, Fall Guys, Goose Goose Duck, the Grand Theft Auto series, and a host of other games all arrived in this world. And so, a game designer who made everyone laugh as they played was born. “You're a game designer, but you're liv 150Reads—Score—Shelves

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    All are high-quality games

43. 143 重 Reborn: I Turned a Magic Crown into Artificial Intelligence 重生：我把魔法冠冕改成人工智能 Qi Yanbai祈言白Urban493k WordsOngoing [Urban Entrepreneurship + Magic Cheat] Shen Yue, a full-stack engineer from 2024, unexpectedly traveled back to the summer of 2000 with a magical crown. On the eve of the internet boom, he didn’t choose to memorize spells. Instead, applying a programmer’s logic, he forcefully rewrote the magical crown into an artificial intelligence called “Tianshu.” A hell-mode start? He scavenges at a scrapyard, uses magic to repair hardware, then sells it for dozens of times what he paid! Rivals resort to 2.3kReads8.9Score130Shelves

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    Of all the books I've read, only these two are somewhat interesting. Both start in internet cafes, but their focuses differ. Although both deal with games, the first book emphasizes company development, while the second focuses more on daily life.

44. 144 制 Making Chinese-Style Games and Conquering the World 制作国风游戏，征服全世界 Yu Mumu雨木木Sports310k WordsOngoing After being reborn, Ye Qing found himself in a parallel world. As a game developer, he was going to show everyone what cultural outreach really meant. Sister Zhou: “Can a human being really pull off a move like that?” Ye Qing: “I'll record a tutorial for everyone when I have some free time.” 3Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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    This new book is quite good.

45. 145 重 Reborn in ’99: Rising Through Games After Starting with an Unfulfilled Dream 重生99：开局意难平做游戏崛起 Author Shan Yu Qing Feng作者山语清风Urban235k WordsOngoing [No System] + [Period] + [Game Development] + [One Heroine] If you could live your life over again, what would you do? After drifting through life for decades, Lin Xingyu suddenly found himself reborn in 1999, the year that had always haunted him. He chose to make up for every regret and save the girl, Shen Qingyue. “Wait for me!” This time, he'll seize the moment, develop great games, and live his second life without regrets! Who says games are electronic trash? Do Chinese players really have t 1Reads—Score—Shelves
46. 146 制 I Made Lobotomy Corporation and Became a Global Sensation 制作脑叶公司的我火遍全球 Wen Lu问露Urban500k WordsOngoing [No hiatus!!!][No heroine][System][Livestream] In a world with a backward gaming industry, Wang Yu, a transmigrator, put countless players at home and abroad through the wringer with Lobotomy Corporation, proving through his actions that domestic games aren’t all about pay-to-win cash grabs and endless grinding. Countless players around the world went wild over his games. From Lobotomy Corporation to To the Moon. From Honor of Kings to Goose Goose Duck. From Sanguosha to Sekiro. With a flick of 363Reads7.6Score101Shelves
47. 147 游 Game Development: The System Makes Me Torture Players from the Start 游戏制作：开局系统让我虐哭玩家 Wang Daming王大明Urban230k WordsOngoing [Game design, System, technology, Where Winds Meet, game plagiarist, livestreaming, daily life, no romance, industry disruption, power fantasy, passionate, growth, anti-trope] Burdened with a million yuan in debt, on the verge of bankruptcy, and with only one adorable girl as his art assistant, Gu Changsheng transmigrates to Blue Star and binds himself to the [Emotion Harvesting System]. He vows to upend this game industry greenhouse that puts “happiness above all else”! Starting from a shabby l 6Reads5.8Score—Shelves

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    I don't know if you've seen it.

48. 148 1 1937: My Players Are the Fourth Calamity! 1937：我的玩家是第四天灾！ Eastern Painting, Dust and Brocade东画尘锦Urban1.3M WordsOngoing [Fourth-dimensional disaster + ensemble cast + resistance against Japan + nation-building + detailed] Xu Yanqing transmigrated to 1937. Just as he was preparing to join the forces and defend his country, he suddenly discovered he could summon people from the future Earth to this time period. In the enemy's eyes: “Nan-ni? Why are the enemies back again?” “They're a bunch of devils, completely unafraid of death!” “Who are they? If they're so well educated, why are they fighting on the front l 68.6kReads9.1Score6.1kShelves

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    ① The War of Resistance Against Japan involved sacrifices and camaraderie, with a separate family genealogy. ② The protagonist is reborn in another world after logging into the game. ③ A world without history recreates five thousand years of history.

49. 149 游 Game Invasion: I Became Emperor Before the Players Transmigrated 游戏入侵：我称帝了玩家才穿越 Xiao Chu Still Hasn't Slept潇楚还没睡Eastern Fantasy3.9M WordsOngoing [Transmigrating ahead of time + political scheming + dynastic power struggles + succubus + worlds merging] This book is also known as [I, the Empress's Fiancé, the Strongest Villain Behind the Scenes]. After waking up, Xia Chen finds himself logged into the mysterious game from his previous life ahead of schedule, starting out as the legitimate son of the Marquis of Zhendong. What? I have a younger brother named Xia Hao, who seems to have a mysterious bone inside him? It looks just like the lege 459.8kReads9.1Score46.7kShelves
50. 150 做 Getting Stronger by Making Games? Plants Vs. Zombies Releases from the Start 做游戏变强？开局发布植物大战僵 Bright Starry River燦星河Urban256k WordsOngoing [Game creation + racial conquest] On a planet called Blue Star, everyone can enter the game space at the age of eighteen and create their very first game. They can then publish it through the game space. The game coins earned from selling it are what game creators use to level up. With memories of his past life and help from the System, Ye Xing published Plants vs. Zombies right from the start! What? You're tired of playing it? He'll just make a creative workshop and bring over all kinds of fan- 113Reads5.9Score123Shelves

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    This one is pretty good.

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