Long Qingtian independently developed a 2D single-player survival game called Interstellar Survival.
On its first day online, no one paid it any attention.
Its simple art style and the mechanic where watching ads made you stronger only proved that it was a low-budget game from a tiny studio. No one was willing to play it.
Broke and desperate, Long Qingtian had no choice but to play it herself, watching ads to milk the advertisers for all they were worth.
On the seventh day after the game's launch, Blue Star was unlucky enough to be selected for a survival game.
Of course, that wasn't the point. The point was that Long Qingtian's little passion project had been selected as the main battleground for the survival game. And as the game's creator, she could enter ahead of everyone else.
What had she done to deserve this!
In an instant, the number of players online skyrocketed, and the in-game spending channels opened up. Long Qingtian watched the figures soar in the backend and was overjoyed! Her little baby was making money!
As the game's publisher, she could log into the game early before the survival game officially launched. The price was giving up all the game's profits in exchange for receiving a cut of the transaction fees.
OK! Long Qingtian understood. Transaction fees it was. She still had the in-game lottery.
The lottery system's prize: Mileage Simulator. Your road survival journey doesn't require you to risk your life. You can easily make it through by relying on stats and luck.
[Your roll: 80]
[Congratulations, you traveled 80 kilometers. Along the way, you encountered: three human-faced rats and two night terrors]
[Check successful!]
[You killed all the monsters and obtained the following loot: ...]
The first 30 days after the game's launch.
Her fellow humans watched ad after ad, earning Long Qingtian money.
Long Qingtian logged into the game early and claimed her starter pack. The price of logging in ahead of time was that she could only move around on the starting planet.
The starting planet was a massive supply depot. During the official game, players were given only three days to search it. But with the help of the simulator, Long Qingtian scoured the starting planet clean in 30 days. She collected countless supplies and stored them in the creator's infinite inventory.
When the game officially launched,
while everyone else was spending money to get stronger, she had unlimited funds, all thanks to her transaction fees.
While everyone else entered the game and fought desperately against indescribable creatures along the road for three hundred rounds, she had already rolled her mileage and disguised herself as a shady merchant NPC at the rest stop at the end of the road.
By the end of the survival game, people gradually realized that a mysterious expert had already helped them overcome countless challenges and brought them to the starting point of a new civilization.
No one ever connected this godlike figure with the shady merchant NPC.
Long Qingtian patted her nonexistent conscience. As long as nobody found out!
They were playing a game she had made, after all. Today was another wonderful day of living off her game!
Theme: Give a peach, and receive a plum in return.
