Are There Any Truly Masterpiece-Level Game Development Novels? 有没有真正的游戏制作神作
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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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Reborn as a Game Developer: I Only Make Original Games 重生做游戏：我只搞原创
(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
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Spending Money Doesn't Work? I'll Get Them Through the Long March With My Life 氪金没用？我用命带他们走完长征
“Guys, whatever you do, don’t trust that designer named Luo An! He’s a fraud!” Kuang Ge, a top streamer with tens of millions of followers, is bawling in his livestream like a three-hundred-pound toddler, clutching his VR headset and refusing to let go. “He said it was a relaxing travel game, but from the start he dumped me on a snowy mountain in forty-below temperatures!” “He said there’d be no pay-to-win or in-app purchases, but I had to risk my life just to get a cold, hard black bun!” “He sa
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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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Who Told Him to Make Games?! 谁让他做游戏的！
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
10.3kReads8.7Score952Shelves
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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
5.6kReads8.8Score338Shelves
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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
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I'm a Gaming Godfather, So Dating an Award-Winning Actress Is Normal, Right? 我游戏教父，跟影后恋爱很正常吧
[Game Development] [One Female Lead] [Sweet Romance] [Showbiz] Chi Wen: “Our game this time does have some horror elements, but…” Players: “Not buying it! We’re never touching one of your horror games again!” Chi Wen: “Oh? But you can farm and build things in it.” Players: “Okay, sold.” With a System, Chi Wen unexpectedly becomes the project manager of a hollowed-out game company. Taking advantage of the opportunity, he uses the System to rise to the throne of the King of Chinese Gaming. Along t
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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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Making Games in Space to Spread Blue Star Culture, and Going Viral 我在星际做游戏弘扬蓝星文化爆火
[Interstellar setting + game development + female game designer protagonist + no romance] Hua You was recognized as the greatest game designer in the world in the 23rd century. Then one day, she transmigrated. After arriving in the interstellar age, Hua You wondered: What’s fun about a world full of battle games? Let’s bring our classics into games and give the people of the stars a little shock! A card-battling game based on fairy tales, trying on outfits in Dream of the Red Chamber, building a
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After Graduating from Kassel, I Switched to Tomb Raiding 卡塞尔毕业后，我改行去盗墓了
[Main story complete, bonus chapters in progress...] [No romance, focused on family bonds. This is my first time writing a novel, and I’m not sure how well I’ll do. I’m a new author, so I’d really appreciate your support!] They both transmigrated, but the moment Lu Mingli arrived, his body had shrunk and he was locked in an iron cage from the start. He nearly got roasted into dried dragon meat. The only one who could sympathize was the Zhang family’s young master, who was locked up with him. Bu
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Transformed into a Pink Fairy, I Will Make All the Players Cry with My Blade 变身粉色妖精，我刀哭所有玩家
[Love and Justice + Pink-Haired Characters Turn Dark + Players Regret It] When she woke up, she discovered she had transmigrated! And not only had she transmigrated into a game world, she had become Taoyao, the female antagonist in the story! What awaited her was not only getting crushed by the protagonist’s party, but also becoming a permanent weekly boss for players to farm breakthrough materials from? Luckily, she awakened a Popularity System! As long as she raked in popularity, she could inf
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Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼
[The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac
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All the Players Say I’m a Cyber Ghost Girl? 玩家都说我是赛博女鬼？
Transformation into a woman + unconventional gal game development + ghost heroine “Mr. Game Developer, if you became a character in the yuri game you made, what would you do to boost sales and keep players coming back?” “...Use the promise of romance with a beautiful girl to lure players in, then delete her exit button, use my permissions to uncover her real identity, and finally threaten her into staying with me forever, ” “No, no, no! That would scare the players to death! Let me ask something
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My Childhood Friends Are All Game Bosses 我的青梅竟都是游戏BOSS
[Game world + fake villain + myriad races + battles + multiple heroines] “Come on, I'm the young master of the Night City family of gene-modified mutants. Can you stop always making me live off a woman?” In this game world, countless races stand side by side. Genetic evolution, flourishing martial arts, technology-based cultivation, magic, and supernatural abilities all collide, while city-states wage constant wars over territory. Ye Ge is reborn into the family of magic-mutated humans in the
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Wait, How Did My AI Girlfriend Cultivate into a Sword Immortal? 不是，我电子女友咋修成剑仙了
[Signed for publication, read with confidence] [One heroine] [Fresh premise] [Virtual girlfriend raising + pay-to-power-up] My name is Chen Huai'an. I have cancer, and I'm about to die. Lately, I've gotten hooked on a game where you raise a virtual girlfriend. I spend money to buy her cultivation techniques and magical treasures. Even though my wallet is empty, I couldn't be happier. I always thought it was just a game, until one day my virtual girlfriend gave me a pill. The next second, the pil
211.9kReads9.3Score69.8kShelves
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Ten Days to the End 十日终焉
2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat
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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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I'm the Creative Director of a Horror Fairy-Tale Game 我在恐怖童话游戏里当设计总监
[Live Streaming + Horror + Terror + Fairy Tales + Infinite-Flow] This story could also be called: How I Built a New Underworld in a Horror World, Led Ordinary, Bottom-Rung Ghosts to Escape Capitalist Exploitation, Founded a New Netherworld, Joined Forces with the State and Cooperated with Monsters, and Became a New-Era Young Entrepreneur. What made it all possible? A mastery of emotions, an understanding of love, a grasp of policy, and compassion for ghosts and monsters at the bottom of society.
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