Looking for Novels About Game Design 求游戏设计类小说

1. 1 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 685Reads8.9Score100Shelves

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   Don't be fooled by the ratings. The female protagonist designs a game in interstellar space, not a game that simply replicates reality. It's very novel and interesting. I've watched the third game so far. It combines real-world and game storylines, and it gets more exciting as you progress. Personally, I like the third game the most.

2. 2 游 Game Design: Making a Million Players Rage from the Start 游戏设计：开局气哭百万玩家 Jie Ge Ge Jie杰了个杰Urban1.8M WordsOngoing [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 27.5kReads8.9Score1.9kShelves

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   This one! This one! Of course, I still highly recommend Platinum! The old master is forever a god!

3. 3 游 Game Development: I Founded Mihoyo 游戏制作：我创建了米忽悠 A Risque Person涩涩的人Urban1.9M WordsCompleted [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 18.2kReads9.4Score1.7kShelves

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   These are all okay, but some novels have too many chapters, making them impossible to finish reading.

4. 4 开 Making Sheep a Sheep from the Start, Breaking Players Worldwide 开局制作羊了个羊，全球玩家破防 Stay Disciplined坚持自律Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [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 11.1kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
5. 5 在 Making a Fortune Developing Games in the Interstellar Era 在星际做游戏暴富 Glittering Princess闪光皇女Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted A multiplayer gaming story. The heroine is Qin Yi, and the hero is Xu Anshi. Qin Yi transmigrates to a futuristic interstellar era and is saddled with an F-grade body and five million in debt. A former gaming streamer, she immediately plans to return to her old line of work. But after searching the entire internet, she can't find a single game that even a total weakling can play. What can she do? Make one herself! A household-name puzzle game opens up the market. When people say she only makes g 3.1kReads9.2Score361Shelves
6. 6 我 My Game Really Isn’t Even a Little Bit Difficult 我的游戏真的亿点都不难 Ten Thousand a Day, Ten Thousand a Month, a Million a Year日万月万年百万Urban2.1M WordsCompleted 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 7kReads8.8Score447Shelves
7. 7 制 Taking Over the Gaming World 制霸游戏圈 Supreme Daoist Scripture太上道经Urban1.0M WordsCompleted After unexpectedly obtaining a game development System, Xu Fei, once a mere junior game planner, sets out to dominate the gaming world. This is the story of a game designer’s growth, and a novel about making games. “One day, the games I develop will drive every player in the world wild with obsession!” 160Reads8.5Score108Shelves
8. 8 星 Interstellar Revival: After My Engagement Was Broken Off, I Set the Whole Universe Ablaze 星际复兴：被退婚后我引爆全宇宙 Three Little Drops of Water三点点点水Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [No CP + interstellar + literary plagiarist + System + multiple secret identities + ensemble cast elements + forum-style] She suddenly transmigrates to an interstellar world. Lin Wei is exiled alongside her stepmother, who seized power after a marital betrayal right from the start. Meanwhile, the System bound to her tells her that a cultural rupture will soon bring the interstellar civilization to ruin. On the way into exile, she snatches a raider's assault ship, earning her first fortune in thi 5.4kReads9.1Score653Shelves

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   This is a female-oriented novel with no romantic pairing. The female protagonist works behind the scenes in interstellar space, using multiple aliases to write novels, make games, film movies, and create comedy videos. Recently, she's started writing horror stories, drawing haters and those who hurl insults into the bizarre world she's created.

9. 9 企 Tencent Makes Battlefield? Players Worldwide Beg for Updates 企鹅制作战地？全球玩家哭求更新 I’ll Share Half My Dog Food with You狗粮分你一半Male-Channel Fanfiction322k WordsCompleted [Current Game: Phasmophobia] [+No Harem + Starts Out as the Boss of Penguin Games + Games with Unexpected Twists + The Original World and a Less Developed World Appear Together + A Five-Star Review Gets You the Author's Grateful Bow (The kind of review everyone can see!)] [Warning: This book's author is the most unhinged artist on Tomato Novel. Brace yourself.] [Quick guide: Chapters 1–62 cover Battlefield, 63–89 cover Genshin Impact (if you don't like Genshin Impact, you can skip ahead; read Ba 207Reads8.9Score110Shelves

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   Brother, please take a look at this book, I'm begging you.

10. 10 我 The Games I Make Drive Everyone Crazy 我制作出来的游戏，世人都玩疯了 Half a Step of Seeking半步寻Anime Fanfiction134k WordsOngoing 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 —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    That's all.

11. 11 游 Game Design: Creating Miyoushe from the Start 游戏设计之开局创建米游社 Not Good at All一点都不好Urban217k WordsCompleted Su Yi transmigrated to a parallel world and awakened a Game Design System. He discovered that every game out there focused on player-versus-player combat. There wasn’t a single anime-style game driven by story and text! Su Yi made his decision on the spot: “If nobody else wants this huge market, I’ll take it all for myself!” Rich, unparalleled storytelling. Adorable, captivating character designs. He founded miHoYo from the start. Houkai Gakuen 1 and Houkai Gakuen 2 were released one after anoth 588Reads8.5Score103Shelves
12. 12 游 A Game Designer Starts by Making a Female Streamer Cry 游戏策划从气哭女主播开始 Bie Kuo Shan别阔山Urban486k WordsCompleted 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 1.2kReads8.9Score101Shelves
13. 13 游 Game Designer: I Make Games, Not Charity 游戏设计师：我是做游戏，不是做慈善 Ah Kun阿困Urban1.1M WordsCompleted 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 3.3kReads8.5Score195Shelves
14. 14 混 A Game Designer in Marvel 混在漫威的游戏设计师 Night Wind in the Mortal World夜风红尘Anime Fanfiction159k WordsCompleted He accidentally transmigrates to the Marvel Universe in the year 2000 and gets a game development System! As long as the games he makes meet the requirements, he can obtain an ability or item belonging to the protagonist or another character in the game! What are we waiting for? Let’s get to work! Iron Man: “Argh! You old rogue Edward! The Tree Sentinel is way too overpowered!” Thor: “Waaah, Ranni, my Ranni...” Spider-Man: “Hey! Quicksilver, look! The Flash seems faster than you!” Quicksilver: “ 35Reads—Score—Shelves
15. 15 游 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 Bei Mu北沐Sports709k WordsCompleted 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 1.3kReads8.7Score100Shelves
16. 16 开 I Get a System from the Start and Become a Genius Game Producer 开局获得系统成为游戏天才制作人 Old Wang's Life老王的生涯Sports116k WordsOngoing Su Ming was a top promotion and operations strategist in the gaming division of the Penguin internet empire in his previous life. Disheartened, he unexpectedly found himself reborn in a world with an extremely advanced gaming industry. There, Su Ming happened to acquire the Genius Game Developer System. Determined to reclaim his dream, he vowed to make the most fun, best-selling, and most acclaimed games in the world. Su Ming’s very first game took the internet by storm, and every game he made a 2Reads—Score—Shelves
17. 17 游 Game Designer: Shocking Rival Studios from the Start 游戏设计师：开局震惊友商 Drifting Cat漂流的猫Urban267k WordsCompleted 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 62Reads6.6Score—Shelves
18. 18 神 God-Tier Sign-In: Master Game Designer 神级签到之游戏设计大师 Half a Sandal半只凉鞋Sports997k WordsCompleted He has a god-tier sign-in System. You say there aren't any good games? First, let me feed you a couple of doses of poisonous milk powder, then I'll hand over a Dragon's Legend. Hearthstone golden cards, all free. What? Still not satisfied? Tch, this is only the beginning... 123Reads5.6Score—Shelves
19. 19 我 I Really Am a Law-Abiding Citizen 我真的是守法公民 Wang Xin王信Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.1M WordsCompleted Twelve years ago, star gates descended from the sky and appeared all over the world. People discovered all kinds of worlds beyond the gates. Thanks to the special game items and technology brought back from them, human technology underwent a massive leap forward. On Block 26, Street 78, Chen Bin, dressed in a fitted black trench coat and a vintage gray tweed English cap, held an AK-47 in one hand. He looked seriously at Old Chicken and said in a low voice, “We are law-abiding citizens. We must n 555Reads9.3Score103Shelves

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    The first book is by Brother Xin, I don't need to go into details; the second book has a very good concept and is worth reading.

20. 20 规 Rule Horror: You Want Me, Zhang San, to Follow the Rules? 规则怪谈：要求我张三遵守规则？ The Luo in Luo Xiu罗修的罗Mystery3.1M WordsCompleted [Horror + eerie + hilarious + satisfying + national fortune = a serious novel] The Supreme Rules descend, selecting multiple people at random from each country to become Ascenders and take part in the Ascension Exam! Those who perform well earn high scores and even extra rewards. They can improve their own abilities and bring unexpected ascension to their country. But fail the exam, and death may be waiting for you, along with endless torment. Even your country may be beset by supernatural event 6.8kReads9.0Score821Shelves
21. 21 游 Game Development: Players All Want to Kill Me 游戏制作：玩家都想刀了我 Soaring to the Clouds青云直上Urban441k WordsOngoing 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 2.7kReads8.9Score123Shelves

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    The first book was pretty good. I haven't read the second, third, or fourth book.

22. 22 游 Game Design: Players Keep Telling Me to Change Careers 游戏设计：玩家都劝我改行 Life's Riffraff生活混混Urban275k WordsOngoing 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 23Reads6.7Score—Shelves
23. 23 游 Gaming Tycoon: The Rise of an Empire 游戏大亨：帝国崛起 Cat-Cooked Fish猫烧鱼Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [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—Shelves

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    The game is set in a parallel, fictional world, starting with mobile games and expanding to all platforms, perfecting the gaming industry and venturing into multiple technological fields.

24. 24 我EN PUBG: Fragment Collector 我在绝地求生捡碎片 Half a Pot of Sake清酒半壶Anime Fanfiction5.8M WordsCompleted Jiang Siming suddenly realized that the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds he played wasn't like everyone else's! He could find fragments of all kinds of colors in the game. Once combined, they turned into incredible treasures: skills, attributes, talents, money, antiques, even elixirs and cultivation techniques! By constantly picking up fragments in the game, Jiang Siming turned his life around and made a fortune! “Time to run from the blue zone, Jiang Siming!” “Oh, wait. I'm going to pick something 6.5kReads9.0Score740Shelves

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    I don't have many books, so please bear with me. The first one is..., The second one is a later creation, and the third and fourth are also game-related, but not the kind...

25. 25 神 Deity: Recruiting Earth Players from the Start 神祇：开局招募地球玩家 Bleating Sheep羊吱吱Sports961k WordsCompleted Su Xiao transmigrates into the age of gods and awakens the Main God System. Other people's followers are merfolk, wraiths, elves, and other creatures... His followers, however, are the Fourth Calamity, players summoned from another world. They can kill monsters to provide their Main God with faith. And so... While other Main Gods are still false gods, Su Xiao has already become a true god. By the time others become true gods, Su Xiao has reached the rank of Supreme God. Even more terrifying, Su 1.1kReads8.6Score115Shelves
26. 26 全 The Global Gaming Era: From the Start, I Got a Cheat System 全球游戏时代：开局获得作弊系统 Blue Thread, Water Heart蓝缕水心Anime Fanfiction875k WordsCompleted [The only one on the entire site!] Su Ze transmigrates to a world where playing games can make you rise above everyone else. As long as you beat your opponents, you can get anything you want! And with a game modifier built right in, he's already ahead of everyone else before the game even begins! Minecraft: While everyone else is still mining wood, Su Ze has already built a castle out of diamond blocks! PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds: While everyone else is using a Kar98k to camp in the shadows, 481Reads7.9Score100Shelves
27. 27 网 Online Gaming: I Have Infinite Gold 网游之我有无限金币 Can Also Be亦可作为Sports27k WordsOngoing The protagonist unexpectedly gets unlimited gold in an online game. What will happen next? (゜ロ゜) (The author is exhausted from studying... so updates will be irregular.)... —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I just wanted to recommend the book I wrote; I hope everyone will read it.

28. 28 游 Gaming Empire: Starting with an Inherited Gaming Platform 游戏帝国：从继承游戏平台开始 Tomato Version of the Milky Way Hanging Over the Wilds星河垂野番茄版Urban315k WordsCompleted 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 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    You can take a look.

29. 29 开 Making Titanfall from the Start: Players Worldwide Lose Their Minds 开局制作泰坦陨落，全球玩家破防 Canned Cola1罐装可乐1Urban582k WordsOngoing [Game Design + Livestreaming + Everyday Life] Game designer Gu Yang transmigrates to a world with advanced technology but a stagnant, underdeveloped gaming industry. His predecessor had planned to make a fortune in business, investing heavily in the development of a new-generation motion-sensing pod. But a major corporation shut him out, and now he is on the verge of losing everything. Fortunately, the System awakens at the crucial moment! By collecting players' joy, anger, sorrow, and fear, he —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It's quite good, but the author's writing is weak and lacks depth.

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