Novels Where the Protagonist Transmigrates to a World Without Games and Becomes a Game Designer 主角穿越到没有游戏的世界自己当游戏设计师的小说
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Game Design: Players Keep Telling Me to Change Careers 游戏设计：玩家都劝我改行
Movie buffs: Your game trailers are good enough to win an Oscar! Hurry up and make a movie! Music fans: Your game theme songs top every chart and keep winning awards! When are you writing a new song? Book fans: The novel based on your game won the Mao Dun Literature Prize! If you don’t update this month, I’m sending you a box of blades! Players: Your game’s architectural design won an iF Design Award! I suggest you change careers. You’d be better at anything than making games! Ye Hao: I real
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- 2 Game Design: My Prankster Ways as a Player-Tormentor Are Exposed 游戏设计：恶搞玩家的我被曝光了 Ye Ling, a game designer and longtime gaming enthusiast, transmigrated to a parallel world. Technology was advanced there, but game design ideas lagged far behind. After seeing the painfully boring games on the market, Ye Ling quietly released Get Over It, for Men Who Can Make It Up 100 Floors. “I died again. What kind of deranged genius came up with this game?” “Ye, you old menace, can’t you design a normal game for once?” “Aaaah...” At the players’ enthusiastic request, Ye Ling quietly bro 1.3kReads8.7Score10014d adds
- 3 Game Designer: I Make Games, Not Charity 游戏设计师：我是做游戏，不是做慈善 This is a slightly distorted parallel world. Technology has advanced so quickly that business and the arts have been unable to keep up. As a result, most industries in this world focus on technology at the expense of content. This is especially true of the gaming industry! There are no computer games or mobile games. Every game is VR! There aren’t even any free games! In this world, games are a luxury only the wealthy can afford. “A VR headset costs hundreds of thousands. Does that mean poor peo 3.3kReads8.5Score19514d adds
- 4 The All-Around Game Designer Who Started by Making Players Cry 从虐哭玩家开始的全能游戏设计师 Zhang Yang transmigrated to a parallel world. Seeing how backward game design was there, he knew it was his moment to make a name for himself! He developed one hit game after another, leaving every game company dumbfounded. Huh? The games aren't fun enough? He made games like “The Strange Adventure” and “Cat Mario,” making tens of millions of players cry in frustration. Huh? You have to pay to play games? He brought over all kinds of online games from his previous life, giving players “free” gam 487Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 5 My Game Really Isn’t Even a Little Bit Difficult 我的游戏真的亿点都不难 Lin Xian unexpectedly transmigrates to a parallel world. He discovers that the gaming standards here are shockingly poor. As a veteran game programmer, he absolutely cannot stand for it. “Rebuilding the glory of gaming is our generation’s duty!” Touhou Project, Eternal Tribulation, Fantasy Westward Journey, Jian Wang 3, Wilderness, CSGO, Genshin Impact, Honkai Academy! Wait! Mobile games have no market here? Lin Xian grins. “Then I’ll show you what a cross-platform, interconnected open-world gam 7kReads8.8Score44714d adds
- 6 The Global Gaming Era: I'm the Mastermind Designer! 全球游戏时代：我是幕后设计师！ [The only one of its kind on the whole site] Su Chen transmigrates to a parallel world. Every child who has turned eighteen has just received a notification from the Game Space! The Game Space, which will overturn everything people know about the world, will go online in one day! At that point, all selected players around the world will enter the mysterious Game Space and begin playing! Winners can earn long lives, superpowers, and magical items! Lose twice, and you die on the spot! Before the g 60Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 7 King of Game Development: Driving Players Crazy from the Start 游戏开发之王：开局逼疯玩家 Gu Shen transmigrates to a parallel world where making premium games is a point of pride! But the games developed in this world are absolutely awful! So he sets out to make games of his own: Human Reboot Simulator, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy… “This game is so addictive. I played all night and still didn’t make it through the tribulation…” “I’ve got a physique rating of 10, and you’re telling me I die of disease at age three?” “Help! I played with this hammer for ages, and all I got was h —Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 8 Becoming a Billionaire Through Game Development 从游戏制作开始成为首富 Lin Ye transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to a Game Development System. The gaming industry in this world is only just getting started, and Lin Ye seizes his chance! One groundbreaking game after another takes the world by storm. "Hurry and save Crazy Dave! Use peas to protect his backyard!" "You can get rich by chopping trees! Come on, guys, let's kill the Ender Dragon together!" "Log in and get a Dragon-Slaying Saber for free! If you're a brother, come chop me!" "Give me a Fir 477Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 9 Game Designer: Shocking Rival Studios from the Start 游戏设计师：开局震惊友商 Lu Ming transmigrates to a parallel world and is astonished to discover that it’s full of pay-to-win scams and trash games. So Lu Ming decides to use the high-quality games he makes to give his rival companies a good slap in the face. Bigwig from Goose Factory: Lu Ming doesn’t understand games. I know all about getting players to spend! Bigwig from Pig Factory: Free is best! As games like Temple Run, The Legend of Sword and Fairy, and Black Myth: Wukong roll out, each one launches at its peak. L 48Reads6.6Score214d adds
- 10 The Game Developer: I Got Players Fired Up by Swinging a Sledgehammer 游戏制作师之从抡大锤引爆玩家 [Also known as: Players Have Lost Their Minds. You’re Only Making Proper Games Now?] Game designer Lu Ming transmigrates to a parallel world. He plans to rely on his experience to make some great games. But then he awakens a System that rewards him with emotional points whenever someone plays his games. Lu Ming remembers how some games tormented him before he transmigrated. He decides to let the people of this world have some fun too! And so, games like Getting Over It, Cat Mario, and Human: Fal 55Reads8.1Score814d adds
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Game Design: Making a Million Players Rage from the Start 游戏设计：开局气哭百万玩家
[Game Development + Invincible Power Fantasy + A Top-Tier Gaming Career] [Sheep a Sheep is only there to earn the first pot of gold, and has nothing to do with the later plot] Ling Xiao transmigrates with a System. In a world where the gaming industry is extremely underdeveloped, Ling Xiao wants to make AAA games too, but his starting resources are limited. From the start, he has no choice but to make Sheep a Sheep. The result: a million players have meltdowns, and Lao Lu becomes its number-one
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- 12 I'm a Game Designer! I Made Players Worldwide Cry! 我！游戏设计师！虐哭全球玩家！ Lin Mo transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a game designer. He only wanted to make good games, but then he awakens an Emotion Collection System, and negative emotions can even trigger bonus critical rewards! Heh, what can I say? Let me make this clear first: I'm not a sadist! [Getting Over It]: Teacher Ma pounds his keyboard in fury. "Get out of my computer!" [The Forest]: Zhou Jie screams herself hoarse. "Stop chasing me, aaah..." [Sekiro]: After PDD sees the word "DEATH" a hundred ti 1.8kReads8.0Score15914d adds
- 13 Making Sheep a Sheep from the Start, Breaking Players Worldwide 开局制作羊了个羊，全球玩家破防 [Strongly recommended by the editor + game design + livestreaming + everyday life] [Sheep a Sheep only earns the protagonist his first pot of gold; it has nothing to do with the later plot] Zhao Kai transmigrates to a parallel world and vows to build his own gaming empire. He obtains the “Rage-Inducing Game System.” As long as he frustrates players, he earns rewards. Zhao Kai says, “I just want to make good games. The System is the one forcing me to do this.” His first game is Sheep a Sheep. Pla 11.1kReads9.1Score1.1k14d adds
- 14 I Create Plants Vs. Zombies from the Start, Igniting a Gaming Craze 开局制作植物僵尸，掀起游戏狂潮 [Transmigration]+ [System]+ [Livestream]+ [Lighthearted] [My name is Loren, and I’m a game designer, but I’m also a hardcore ACGN fan. I worked at a certain company, and one day I overworked myself while putting in overtime and passed out. Unfortunately, I fell onto the Hatsune Miku figure I loved to fiddle with, and… my beloved figure pierced my heart.] Just when Loren thought he was dead, he was astonished to discover that he had transmigrated! What’s more, he found that this parallel world, a 142Reads6.7Score—14d adds
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The Most Expensive Game? Of Course It's Free 最贵的游戏？当然是免费的
He unexpectedly transmigrated to a parallel world. As a game designer, Xu Yang discovered that every officially released game in this world came with a price tag. He was stunned. Did this mean his moment had finally arrived? The original owner of this body had studied game design, too. That made Xu Yang even happier, and he immediately started releasing games. When Legend came out, players were amazed that a game could be so thrilling. Then CrossFire launched, and players became even more hooked
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- 16 Gaming Tycoon: The Rise of an Empire 游戏大亨：帝国崛起 [Transmigration + System + Infinite Games + Everyday Life] “Minesweeper, Gomoku, Snake… That’s it?” Wang Hao looked at the barren game market in this other world and burst out laughing. There were no epic battlefields like Warcraft, no dark aesthetic like Diablo, and even Solitaire had become a high-difficulty masterpiece! Faced with a gaming industry half a century behind Earth’s, Wang Hao activates the Game Development System. Using Earth as his game library, he floods this blue ocean market w 244Reads6.4Score—14d adds
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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
[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
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- 18 The Cultivation Game I Played Became Real 我玩的修仙小游戏成真了 [Fourth Calamity / Game Raising Sim / Delusional Misunderstandings / Unhinged Genius Power Fantasy / Big Dog-Girl Protagonist / Everyone Loves Her, No Romance] Lu Fuyou accidentally downloaded a pixel-art single-player MMO called A Thought Away from Heaven. The game combines cultivation, farming, romance, dress-up, and more, with an incredible degree of freedom. The NPCs' reactions and voice acting are so lifelike that you can fully immerse yourself in a cultivation simulator! Ever since she got 2.6kReads9.0Score31114d adds
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Game Development: The Scheming Designer Makes the Whole Internet Cry 游戏制作：腹黑设计师，虐哭全网
[The protagonist is in an unconventional state of mind. If you have a low tolerance, please don't open this.] [Livestream] + [Transmigration] + [torture-focused] + [emotional gut punches] + [no heroine or just one heroine] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lu Li discovers that the supposed creator of “Soulslike” games, Hidetaka Miyazaki, doesn't exist. “Torture-focused” games have virtually no share of the global market. Already a schemer by nature, Lu Li also awakens the deeply twisted
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- 20 Game Development: I Founded Mihoyo 游戏制作：我创建了米忽悠 [Transmigration] + [One or no heroine] + [No System] + [Golden finger] + [Livestream] + [Lighthearted] Xu Shuo transmigrates to a parallel world, only to discover that games there are mainly played on PCs. There are no consoles, handhelds, or mobile games beyond a few puzzle and card games. As the major companies begin turning their attention to mobile gaming, Xu Shuo immediately decides to found MiHoYo! While everyone else is feeling their way across the river, Xu Shuo is already swimming frees 18.2kReads9.4Score1.7k14d adds
- 21 Developing Silent Hill, Scaring Players Around the World to Tears 开发恐怖寂静岭，吓哭全球玩家 Chen Mu transmigrates to a world where the game industry is woefully underdeveloped, but VR technology is highly advanced. His life is at its lowest point: a traitor on the team stole and sold the game he developed with his friends to Penguin, then used it to become Penguin's chief game designer! The traitor even calls to gloat, putting on a fake show of inviting the protagonist to work for him! Luckily, his System awakens. Chen Mu gives this world a real shock by developing Silent Hill PT! His 19Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 22 A Game Designer Starts by Making a Female Streamer Cry 游戏策划从气哭女主播开始 Zhou Tianyi transmigrates to a parallel world and is bound to a game development System. He must lead the world's gaming industry forward within ten years. However, this world's tech tree has gone off track. A technology called the Dream Network has emerged, letting people play games as if they were really there. Because of this technology, the gaming industry has fallen into a rut, focusing solely on graphics at the expense of gameplay. So, drawing on his extensive gaming experience from his pr 1.2kReads8.9Score10114d adds
- 23 Game Development: This Heartbreaker Hits Hard, Just Bear With It 游戏制作：这刀子很大，你忍一下 [Original Game + Ultimate Twists + Subverting Expectations + Wits and Nerve] “Look! Our company’s game has hit number one on the sales chart!” A new employee exclaimed excitedly. “Are you new here? This has happened who knows how many times already! With President Xu at the helm, the only thing we need to wonder about is when we’re not number one.” A veteran employee glanced at him and replied coolly. Meanwhile, Xu Zi’an, standing nearby, was on the verge of tears. “I’ve worked so hard to 819Reads5.8Score10114d adds
- 24 Game Producer: I Drove the Players Crazy 游戏制作人：玩家被我逼疯了 [Gaming + Livestreaming + Urban Daily Life] Su Ming transmigrates to Blue Star, a world with highly advanced technology where games are a necessity of life. It has every kind of game imaginable, except horror games. And so, carrying memories from his previous life, Su Ming arrives with horror games in tow. His former world’s horror titles, including Siren, Resident Evil, and Silent Hill, make their debut one after another. Amid a chorus of complaints from players, Su Ming’s legendary career as a —Reads—Score—14d adds
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I Created Rule-Based Horror Games and Scared Players Worldwide Out of Their Wits 我开发规则怪谈，吓尿全球玩家
After transmigrating to a parallel world, Li Yi unexpectedly activates the Supernatural Tales Sharing System. “Share rule-based supernatural tales with the whole world as games. I level up when players work, when they explore, and even when they get scared to tears?” In that moment, Li Yi instantly becomes a game maker for the entire world. Mom’s note, the zoo visitor rules, Mount Daluo. A world made entirely of rule-based supernatural tales gradually unfolds before all the players. Eerie horror
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Game Design: I'm Here to Torture the Players! 游戏设计：我！虐疯玩家！
After transmigrating to a parallel world, Zhao Rong discovers that its game industry is far behind. After obtaining the System, he releases a hammer-swinging game from the start. Cute streamer: “This is way too easy! It’s just a little game to help you unwind.” Then, after dozens of attempts, the cute streamer loses it, smashes her mouse, and cries: “Zhao, you shameless old bastard! Try acting like a decent human being for once!!”
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- 27 Making Minecraft from the Start! And You Call This a Game? 开局制作我的世界！你管这叫游戏 Ye Tian is reborn and transmigrates into a parallel world where game design is incredibly backward. Huaxia’s game development lags decades behind other countries, and foreign companies dominate the market. Domestic game studios are unable to shoulder the burden, left to watch helplessly as hundreds of millions of players flock to foreign games, creating a vicious cycle. Ye Tian: “I’m going to make the best games in the world.” Netizens: “Haha, even dogs in Huaxia won’t play its games. Go wash up 32Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The Gaming Age: Starting with the Creation of Minecraft 游戏时代：从制作我的世界开始 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 478Reads8.7Score10714d adds
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Reborn in 1999: Building a Gaming Empire from the Start 重生1999：开局打造游戏帝国
The moment he opens his eyes, Li Tianran is back in Hong Kong in 1999. Instead of the dream start every reborn person hopes for, he gets the worst hand imaginable: A bootlegger father who has skipped town, a dilapidated tin shack on the outskirts of Sham Shui Po, five roaring diesel generators, an ancient disc-production line, and… a mountain of loan-shark debt that could get him killed. His only hope of turning things around is the Game Developer System that came with him when he was reborn. D
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I Created the World 我创造了世界
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
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Gaming Empire: Starting with an Inherited Gaming Platform 游戏帝国：从继承游戏平台开始
After transmigrating into a parallel world, Shen Che becomes the owner of a gaming platform and binds himself to a Game Development System. When major publishers join forces to pressure him, he turns the tables with Plants vs. Zombies and Angry Birds. Just when everyone thinks he has reached his limit, Terraria sparks a sandbox gaming craze. Then Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen launches, driving players around the world wild: this is what a real game looks like! Plants vs. Zombies, Angry Birds, Te
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I'm a Game Designer, and I Can Reach Max Level in Minutes! 我！游戏设计师，分分钟满级！
The apocalypse arrives, and humanity’s fate is decided by a game? Luckily, I’m one of its designers. I know every hidden quest and rare item inside and out. Can you trigger a hidden quest by bowing to a statue? Can you get legendary gear by shaving a spider demon’s legs? Can you unlock a mysterious dungeon by raising your junior sister’s affinity? Leveling up in this game is a piece of cake.
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