Looking for a Story Where the Protagonist Transmigrates to an Era When Video Games Are Underdeveloped and Develops Games Like Sekiro 求主角穿越到游戏很不发达的时代，研发游戏只狼等
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I Founded Mihoyo from the Start, and the Whole Internet Begs Me to Stop Breaking Their Hearts 开局创建米忽悠，全网求我别刀了
[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
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Don't Panic, It's Just Silent Hill. There's Still Outlast Ahead 别慌，寂静岭而已，后面还有逃生
Lin Zi'ang transmigrated to Blue Star and discovered a world where virtual reality technology was highly advanced and the gaming industry was booming. But compared to other games, horror games were few and far between, a niche within a niche. Their average production quality was also far below what he’d known in his previous life, with most of them relying on nothing but shoddy jump scares. As luck would have it, he’d brought along a horror game development System, packed with horror games from
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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 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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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
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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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I Thought This Was a Casual Game, So What’s With the Paper Bride? 说好的休闲游戏，纸嫁衣什么鬼？
[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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Senior Sister, Drop the Act. You're the Tight-Lipped One in the Whole Sect 师姐别装了，整个宗门数你嘴严
[Cultivation + ensemble cast + stronger woman/ weaker man + 1v1 + sweet romance] [Max-level reborn Nether Ancestor Soul Master × arrogant, cheeky young master of the Fox Clan] Everyone knows that the eldest direct disciple accepted by the master of Dragon Transformation Peak in the Lingxiao Sect is a peerless genius of this age, with terrifying talent. She is also respectful toward her master and devoted to her fellow disciples. Every disciple in the Lingxiao Sect admires her wholeheartedly and
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Sekiro: Reincarnated as Genichiro Ashina 只狼：转生成为苇名弦一郎
[Game Fan Fiction] [Two Male Leads: Genichiro and Wolf] [No Female Lead] [No System, but with Status Panels] [Plot-Focused] [Fights] College students Wei Ming and Luo Xiu transmigrated to the world of Sekiro by chance, taking over the bodies of Ashina Genichiro and Wolf. These two friends in the real world are sworn enemies in Sekiro. What fate awaits them? Will their arrival change the fate of Ashina? Let's wait and see... This novel reimagines the events and characters of the Sekiro game, offe
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Game Development: The Entire Internet Is Begging Me to Survive! 游戏制作，全网求我活下去！
[Game Development] [Self-Rescue] [Maximum Emotional Impact] Qin Xuan is reborn in a parallel world and told he has only a little over ten days to live?! Fortunately, the System arrives late but right on time, awakening the Game Development Master System! [Ding! Host successfully bound to the System! Make games and earn players' emotional points to extend your lifespan!] What? The games from the Dragon Kingdom are being crushed by foreign games? Qin Xuan immediately pulls out Plants vs. Zombies,
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God-Tier Sign-In: Master Game Designer 神级签到之游戏设计大师
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...
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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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Game Development: I Conquered the Anime World 游戏制作：我制霸了二次元
Chu Ge was reborn in a parallel world called Blue Star. He obtained a game-making System containing all the games from another world, and it could even help him create games of his own. With the System’s help, Chu Ge gradually built his own gaming empire.
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Making Titanfall from the Start: Players Worldwide Lose Their Minds 开局制作泰坦陨落，全球玩家破防
[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
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Urban: I'm a Top-Tier Game Developer 都市，我，顶级游戏制作人
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
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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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Game Designer: DNF Takes the Internet by Storm from the Start 游戏设计师：开局DNF火爆全网
[Starting with the Level 60 update + nostalgic flashbacks + behind-the-scenes player + immersive VR game + bringing over classic games starting with DNF + growing into a gaming-industry giant] After transmigrating to another world, Lin Qi has barely woken up when he runs into a nasty situation: Goose Factory has sent his ex-girlfriend to acquire his game. Given Lin Qi's personality, he would normally sell the company and the game together. After all, who wouldn't want to take the millions and li
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Elden Ring: From the Start, I Take the Tarnished's Place 艾尔登法环：开局顶替褪色者
[No System, growth-focused, decisive and ruthless, absolutely no saintly behavior, slaughters his way through the Lands Between (while being chased)] How can a shut-in who was run over by a truck and transmigrated survive in the Lands Between? He thought his gaming experience would let him dominate the place, only to find that even the map of the Lands Between had changed beyond recognition. Most of what he knew was useless now. What was he supposed to do? And when the game's NPCs appeared befor
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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
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Game Descends: Only I Can Mark the World’s Rules 游戏降临：只有我能标记世界规则
When the world turned into a game, Lu Chen returned from the ruins of a city he had spent ten years defending, to before the career selection. In his previous life, he chose the strongest warrior, only to perish along with the entire city. This time, he gave up direct combat power and claimed the neglected Landmark Master class. While others upgraded their skills, he could see safe zones, routes, and dungeon boundaries. While others followed guides to clear stages, he faced a version 2.1 that ha
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In This High-Tech Age, the Gaming World Somehow Depends on Me 高科技发达的时代游戏圈竟靠我
[Game Designer Protagonist] [No Female Lead] In his previous life, Qin Xiao was an author who wrote ten thousand characters a day, until he finally died of overwork beside his computer. In the blink of an eye, he found himself in the body of a handsome programmer, lying in a shabby room with nothing but a junk computer in front of him. Luckily, heaven rewards those who write ten thousand characters a day: Qin Xiao also received the essential transmigrator's “Game Design System.” He soon discove
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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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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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