StarCraft’s Number One Game Designer, Earning Billions Daily

Coming soon: survival, building, and leveling up. Please add Survival: The Safe House Is a School of Magic to your collection!

Blurb:

Yan Xuezhou is a game designer who accidentally transmigrates into a sci-fi mecha novel.

His survival challenge begins from the start: his biological father has just died, and his heartless uncle kicks him out to fend for himself.

Due to the mecha-focused setting of the original novel, getting into game design for the interstellar net is easy. The mainstream games are all competitive, while other genres are either bizarre or poorly made.

Desperate to earn a living, Yan Xuezhou decides to test the waters with a simple little game!

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Recently, a running-and-jumping sports game launches. Interstellar players, who are used to competitive games and have grown tired of them, are immediately intrigued.

The gameplay is simple and suitable for all ages, and the game quickly takes the internet by storm.

A few curious people look into the designer and discover that he's a newcomer. The game design is nothing special, and he poses no threat.

But just as they think this, they watch as the newcomer releases hit after hit:

Single-player casual game Journey: A travel game that lets you explore all of China's beautiful landscapes without leaving home. The scenery is breathtaking and romantic. Wouldn't you like to take a look?

No-save game Climb: Think it's not challenging? It'll get your blood pressure soaring and leave you reeling.

Idol-raising game Shining Star: Take the stage in gorgeous makeup and outfits. Build a top idol from the ground up!

Otherworldly Romance: A different kind of dating sim. Watch a lazy girl evolve into everyone's dream girl.

Shanhai: A farming game where you can head to the mountains to pick mushrooms and dig for bamboo shoots, or go beachcombing and diving.

Midnight Echoes: A folklore-inspired horror game with endless levels. Mom won't have to worry about me sleeping too soundly at night anymore, hehe.

The Family Restaurant: What would a full-dive game be without a food game where you can eat all you want without gaining weight?

Monster Amusement Park: The interstellar world has alien beasts, right? Then why not raise monsters and run an amusement park?

Exiled Planet: Gradually turn a poor, barren wasteland into a prosperous planet. A construction game better suited to the locals.

Twenty-Four Solar Terms: A traditional-style gacha game that personifies the solar terms. The art is beautiful and the settings are incredible. Husbands and wives, I'm drooling!

One game after another comes out, and every single one is a hit.

Competitors grit their teeth: He's a newcomer? Who are you trying to fool?

Players, nervously opening their wallets and guarding their precious resources: ...Give us more! We can take it!

Yan Xuezhou waves a hand: This is nothing!

What about raising an emperor and empress, tower defense, rebuilding after disasters, wilderness survival, ancient martial arts with cold weapons, cultivation fantasy, palace intrigue, and board games? We should make them all!

Later, the Interstellar Alliance presents rising game designer Yan Xuezhou with an award. The first words of the speech are: "The game industry has truly blossomed over the past two years!"

The audience thinks: You bet. Yan Xuezhou alone made it blossom!

Reader's guide:

1. A no-brainer wish-fulfillment story. The logic serves the plot.

2. Original games. Some game concepts are inspired by existing online games, and their sources will be noted.

3. The main focus is the plot. There will be some romance, but not much.

4. In this setting, taste, smell, touch, and the other senses need to be edited one by one with a sensory editor. They're not generated by imagination alone.

5. The interstellar world has excellent games of its own. The protagonist will meet formidable rivals and build a professional team. He won't defeat the entire galaxy single-handedly.

Coming soon: building and leveling up. Survival: The Safe House Is a School of Magic

Blurb:

Jing Ke leaves the exam hall after his college entrance exams. He should be able to enjoy a carefree summer vacation, but the next second, a survival game descends upon the world.

[Welcome, all survivors! Please gather resources, upgrade your safe house, and defend against monster invasions and various natural disasters!]

Fog surrounds him. At the start, he has only a 2-by-2 plot of land and a basic safe house. Monsters appear every night at eight, and he also has to endure all kinds of natural disasters.

Other people's safe houses are wooden cabins, RVs, tree houses, and cellars. Jing Ke's is a cursed school of magic.

Monster strength: UP!

Disaster difficulty: UP!

The rarity and difficulty of gathering upgrade materials: UP, UP, UP!

Worst of all, this awful school gives monthly exams!

Jing Ke kicks away Five Years of Alchemy, Three Years of Magic! Seriously! I just finished the college entrance exams, and now I have to be a student again?!

[Warning! The academy has detected that you have violated school rules! Please correct your behavior, or you will be punished!]

[Penalties:]

[1. Dissect one hundred fire salamanders and successfully extract their fire element.]

[2. Serve as the lead dancer and rehearse the school anniversary show with ten zombies.]

[3. Kiss the statue of the founding headmaster and praise it, once in the morning and once at night.]

Jing Ke: ...

What can he do? He rushes around, picks the book back up, and keeps studying while grumbling.

As the game gets harder and countless players despair, Jing Ke starts to see the appeal.

[Safe House: School of Magic]

[Defense shield: 100W/100W]

[Building: Elemental Magic Tower 4/4 - Automatically attacks intruders, dealing 10W damage per second]

[Building: Magic Farm - Automated, with a high chance of producing magical plants]

[Building: Library - Learn any skill, as long as you can master it]

[Building: Classroom Building - Increases study efficiency by 200%]

[Environment: River, forest - Regularly produces treasure chests and resources]

Jing Ke, who has (barely) earned his diploma with ease: Hah! Survival? A piece of cake!

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Survival Forum:

["Li Tao": Is the top-ranked player even playing the same game as us?]

[Short-Tempered Pepper]: Besides the top-ranked player, has anyone else managed to grow this? It self-destructs the second it sees anyone ugly! The damage is insane!

[Alchemy for Beginners]: Help! I bought this from the top-ranked player. It says if I understand it, I'll learn alchemy. Is that true?

Haha, I got the top-ranked player's homemade [Magic Protection]! It grants immunity to weather-related disasters! This is so overpowered, guys!

All right, now I get it. The top-ranked player's playing on a test server, no explanation needed!

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Blurb posted on October 4, 2022, revised on September 24, 2023, and screenshotted.

Theme: Keep your feet on the ground and work hard to prosper.