Any Novels About Making Games That Drive the Players Crazy? 有没有制作游戏,逼疯玩家的小说
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Just Leave Bad Reviews. Why Bother Playing Games? 给给差评就行了,还玩啥游戏啊!
[Game development + original games + lighthearted comedy + subverting expectations] [Short drama now available] Lu Ming transmigrated to a parallel world and took over a bankrupt game studio. By chance, he bound himself to the [Moral Debt System]. Every time he did something “immoral but legal,” he earned rewards based on its impact. So, to get players cursing and turn that into profit, Lu Ming launched a series of outrageous schemes. With his left hand, he rolled out “Pay to breathe after loggi
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You’re a Game Designer, So Why Are You Filing Reports at the Police Station Every Day? 你个游戏设计师,天天警局备案?
[Extremely Illegal] [Come Get Me] [Not Human] [Livestream Meme Mayhem] [Hilarious] PS: This is a lighthearted, funny story full of livestream antics and memes. After transmigrating to a parallel world, Chu Sheng awakens a god-tier game designer System. He gets streamers and viewers worked up, earns emotional points, and unlocks more games. But Chu Sheng discovers that every game he unlocks is way too illegal! He unlocks Thief Simulator and makes Dai Xiaomei cry. But the robbery is so realistic t
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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
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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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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
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
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Making Black Myth: Wukong, Teaching Players Around the World Chinese! 制作黑神话,全球玩家学中文!
Guo Fan transmigrates into a parallel world where gaming in Huaxia has withered away. When countries around the world use games to tell the stories of their histories and cultures, all the Dragon Kingdom can offer is a farming game. With no other choice, it can only accept the export of foreign games and their histories. Some even go so far as to claim on Blue Star that Huaxia has no culture. In his previous life, Guo Fan was a game developer. In this life, he decides to use games to make the wo
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Gaming Powerhouse: I Never Meant to Debunk the Fake History! 游戏强国:我没想砸锅伪史啊
“Video Game Producer” “Original Game” “No Heroine” “System” “Ladies and gentlemen, we’re honored to be here on the banks of the Songhua River to interview the internationally renowned video game designer, Mr. Feng Qiming!” “He is president of the Shouren Network Division, chief creative designer for the Yaodao game console, CEO of the American company Blizard, honorary director of Shanghai Mihoyo Technology, and one of the founders of the Yiyou studio, jointly led by designers Igarashi and Miyaz
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Making Black Myth from the Start, Bringing Players Around the World to Tears 开局制作黑神话,燃哭全球玩家
Xu Yang transmigrates to a parallel world and discovers that its gaming industry is hopelessly backward. The Dragon Kingdom is a gaming wasteland. It can't compete with Eagle Nation, let alone Cherry Blossom Nation or Stick Nation, and cultural invasion is rampant. As a result, people know only the gods of the West, not the deities of Huaxia. Just then, he binds himself to the God-Tier Game Creation System. As long as he makes a hit game and earns players' emotional points, he can receive reward
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Game Development: The Entire Internet Begs Me to Keep a Low Profile 游戏制作:全网求我低调点
[Game Development + Livestreaming + Lighthearted + System + No Female Lead] [Lin Feng transmigrates to a parallel world and resolves to build a gaming empire of his own. He starts by making Terraria! At first, though, it seems nobody is buying it. “What is this? You dare charge 39 for a pixel game? Where do you get the nerve?” After playing for a while... “Holy crap! This game is so good! How is 39 any different from giving it away for free?” While everyone is still marveling at Terraria’s amazi
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A Cash-Grab Game, but the Big Spender Really Does Pay Up 圈钱游戏,但大哥是真充啊
Lin Mo transmigrates to a parallel world and discovers that the games here have absolutely no creativity! The only payment models are buy-to-play for single-player games or prepaid time cards for online games. Lin Mo immediately feels sorry for the rich players! “How can rich players show off their superiority if there are no pay-to-win games?” The System senses Lin Mo’s fury and gives him the ultimate trump card, the game “Zhengtu,” as a starter gift! Before long, the rich players of this world
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A Bug in the Game? No, It’s a Hidden Feature 游戏有BUG?不!这是隐藏玩法
Xia Yuan, an award-winning game designer from Earth, transmigrates to the parallel Blue Star and takes over Sky Dome Studio, a company on the verge of bankruptcy. To his surprise, he awakens the [Invincible Game Producer System]! He vows to create flawless games and lead the studio to the top! But he soon realizes something is wrong... The games he pours his heart and soul into always seem to have a few minor problems after launch. A pet evolution game that should have worked perfectly turns int
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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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The Games I Make Drive Everyone Crazy 我制作出来的游戏,世人都玩疯了
Jiang Linfeng transmigrates to a parallel world. Technology is advanced here, but the failure of the Renaissance has left humanity with little imagination. Game content is scarce, and the market is entirely dominated by brainless, pay-to-win, fast-paced free games like Crossfire. Even when someone occasionally comes up with a truly original idea, major publishers and ignorant people alike call it a heretical deviation from the norm. They condemn it without restraint. Ashamed to be associated wit
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Game Development: Players All Want to Kill Me 游戏制作:玩家都想刀了我
Zhao Chen transmigrated to Blue Star, a world with a culture similar to Earth's, and acquired a game-making System. The more emotional reactions players gave him, the more he could upgrade his System and create better games. The gaming industry in the Dragon Kingdom was in a slump? No problem. Zhao Chen started with a game called Knowledge Is Power. Streamer Su Qingwei: “A text-based game? Haha, what's fun about this?” A moment later: “What the hell! It just mocked me for being illiterate?” Zhao
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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
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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
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Make Your Games, Just Stay Away from Our Goddess! 你做你的游戏,离我们女神远点!
[Game development] [One heroine] [Sweet romance] [Showbiz] [Everyday romance] [No angst] In his previous life, Chen An was a detective. He transmigrated to this world with his [Memory Palace], only to discover that he was a total simp here: he’d taken a knife for his ex-girlfriend, only for her to falsely accuse him. With years of experience solving cases, he doesn’t think it’s a big deal. Instead, he starts wondering how to live a quiet life this time around. He’s had enough of a life spent wal
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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
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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
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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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You Said We’d Keep It Small. Why Are You Making Titanfall? 说好的小打小闹,你做泰坦陨落?
Lu Li transmigrates to Blue Star and inherits a game company on the verge of bankruptcy. He plans to carve out a territory with his sheer skill, but the shameless System refuses to play fair! From the start, it assigns an outrageous hidden quest: [Players smash their keyboards: 0/1000] Faced with tempting hidden rewards, Lu Li smiles and pulls out cheap games to torment the three bros: Only If You’re a Man Can You Jump 100 Floors, Hammer Smash, and Dead Cells. That month, keyboard and mouse sale
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I Made the Game Descend into Reality 我让游戏降临现实
[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
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Making an Apocalypse Game from the Start, Shocking the Whole World 开局制作末日游戏,震撼全世界
[Urban Fantasy + Livestreaming + Transmigration + Game Development + Post-Apocalypse + Apocalypse Game + Zombies] “Holy crap, what kind of game is this? Is the resolution seriously 18K?” “Holy crap, did this game's designer obsess over every little detail?” “Holy crap, you can actually stomp these ants until they burst?” “Holy crap…” When I Am Legend VR launched that day, players around the world couldn't stop exclaiming, “Holy crap!” From then on, players everywhere went wild for the “Gaming Ki
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A Math Teacher's Revenge 数学老师的复仇演绎
[Realism] [High-IQ crime] [Masterful mind games] [No female lead] [For readers who love logic] The police in Xikang City received a phone call from someone calling himself Ghost, who claimed he would kill a certain person in three days. More than that, he wanted the police to rush out and protect the target. He intended to carry out the killing under the police's tight security. The police took the threat extremely seriously and made careful preparations. When the three days were up, the result
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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
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Turning the World Upside Down: Playing the Villain from the Start 颠覆全球:开局扮演反派大佬
Shen Yan transmigrates to a parallel world. As soon as he arrives, he falls into a strange dimension. Everyone who falls in here is slaughtered by alien creatures, dying in despair! Luckily, at this moment, Shen Yan obtains the Super Big Shot Role-Playing System. “Ding! Randomly drawing a big shot template. Big Shot Role-Playing Mode activated. The closer you are to the character, the more abilities you can unlock.” Make people believe the character is real, and you’ll earn Subversion Points. Th
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I’m an Entertainment Mogul! It All Starts with Driving Game Streamers Crazy! 我!娱乐大亨!从逼疯游戏主播开始!
Reborn in a parallel world, Qin Ming starts by making games. iwanna, driving game streamers to the brink of madness. Happy Farm, sending the whole country into a frenzy of stealing crops. Plants vs. Zombies, ushering in a new era of tower defense. He even turns all those games everyone looks down on into something special. Doodle Jump, Piano Tiles, 2048... And with a radically reworked version of The Legend of Sword and Fairy, he creates a whole new xianxia culture! TV dramas and games launch si
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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
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Hellish Dungeons for Everyone: From the Start, I Challenge Li Shimin to a Duel! 全民地狱副本,开局对掏李世民!
[Fresh concept + palace intrigue with Empress Ma + a showdown with Li Shimin + a coup against Qin Shi Huang] Qin Xiao transmigrates into a world where a sky screen hangs overhead and dungeons become battlefields. For his university graduation project, he poured his heart into designing a dungeon for the campus belle, his girlfriend. But she took all the credit, claiming it was her own work, then kicked him to the curb without a second thought. Without a dungeon of his own, Qin Xiao couldn't grad
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I Tricked Players Into Thinking Journey to the West Was a Game, and the Whole World Went Wild 骗玩家西游是游戏,全世界玩嗨了
Qin Tian transmigrated into the Journey to the West world, becoming the king of an obscure mountain called Langlang Mountain. According to the script, Tang Sanzang and his disciples would pass through soon, and Sun Wukong would beat him to death with a single blow. Fortunately, he managed to activate the Fourth Calamity System, which let him summon players from Blue Star. To avoid being killed by Sun Wukong, and to survive in a world teeming with demons, he began recruiting players from Blue Sta
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Game Invasion: I Became Emperor Before the Players Transmigrated 游戏入侵:我称帝了玩家才穿越
[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
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Game Development: My Hellish Card Deck Has Driven All the Players Mad 游戏制作:阴间卡组,玩家全疯了
[Updated through the arrival of the Three Egyptian Gods!] Ye Feng transmigrates to Blue Star, where the gaming industry is monotonous and stale, with little innovation, and esports is in decline. That is precisely why anyone who can make a splash now will command an immeasurable share of the attention! The whole world needs an exciting game that can capture the hearts of players. The two biggest gaming companies in the Dragon Kingdom are recruiting talent, ushering in an era of fierce competitio
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Game Descends: I'm the Only One in the World Who Can Play 游戏降临:全球只有我会玩游戏
(The rating was just released) Xiao Fan transmigrates to a world invaded by a game, where people can enter the game and become players once they turn eighteen. Players can create skills based on their own strengths. However, this world has no games, no fantasy cultivation novels, and not even any myths. With such limited imaginations, players create mostly skills involving blades, swords, and fists. Armed with memories of Earth, Xiao Fan takes a different path. Others restore their health by hea
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Three Kingdoms: Recreating an Age of Chaos on Blue Star 三国:我在蓝星复刻乱世
The protagonist, Lin Chen, transmigrates to Blue Star, a world with advanced virtual technology but no historical records. With the help of a System, he sets out to create the ultimate virtual Three Kingdoms game. (This novel draws on a variety of sources, including Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Records of the Three Kingdoms. The story is for entertainment only and does not strictly follow history. This is not historical fiction, but entertainment fiction. Entertainment fiction. Entertainmen
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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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You Told Me to Make a Terrible Game and Lose Money, So Why Did I Become a Tycoon? 让你做烂游戏赔钱,你赚成首富?
Hu Tao, the daughter of the owner of Penguin Games, had just graduated and was getting ready to go home, lie flat, and enjoy the good life. Instead, her family forced five million on her and made her start a business. Determined to lie flat, Hu Tao plans to burn through the five million as quickly as possible and get back to slacking off. She hires Lu Yuan, who was fired from his previous company for "lack of ability." On Lu Yuan's first day at work, the System that was three years late fina
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