True Insight: Games Like Illusions (Game Development Novels) 真知:知游如幻(游戏制作文)
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- 1 EN Game Design: You Call This Very Easy? 游戏设计:就你们填非常简单? Ye Feng transmigrates to a parallel world with a barren gaming scene and gains a game-development System. All he has to do is get players to rate his games “Super Difficult” to improve his game-making skills. Looking at the gaming section, filled with reviews saying “Very Easy,” Ye Feng stands tall and brings the Ninth Art to another world. Getting Over It, Dead Cells, Bloodborne, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice… A series of games burst onto the scene. He wants to see who still dares to call them very 0Votes26.6kRecs762.7kFans
- 2 Reborn in 2008: Anyone Can Develop Games 重生08:游戏开发有手就行 Reborn in 2008, on the first day of senior year Wen Tao discovers he’s pulling an all-nighter at an internet cafe. In that case, he might as well exploit a game bug to earn some startup capital first! 0Votes2.6kRecs15.7kFans
- 3 The Game Has Begun, and This Time There Are Definitely No Bugs 游戏开始了,这次绝对没BUG After transmigrating and awakening a game System, Gu Meng is ready to make his mark and become the god of the gaming world! He'll start with this romance simulator! Rich gameplay, a moving story, and content packed to the brim... Aha, this game is sure to make me famous! What, there's a bug? Why did this pure romance game turn into a raunchy urban harem game when the bug triggered? My reputation! No, I'll make sure to avoid bugs next time! The next game will be a classic martial arts role-playin 0Votes7.6kRecs42.7kFans
- 4 EN Virtual Empire Begins with a Game 虚拟帝国从游戏开始 What's the biggest obstacle standing between a company on the verge of bankruptcy and greatness? “Regulators, obviously! Where do they get so many regulators?” Xu Meng is close to losing it. “What's wrong with dressing female characters sexily? Game characters have the freedom to choose what they wear!” “The war simulator is a safe gaming peripheral. Players breaking bones is purely an accident, and we even include accidental injury insurance.” “The Dream Machine is a game console, an entertainm 2Votes88.6kRecs352.8kFans
- 5 Building a Gaming Empire from Scratch 从零开始缔造游戏帝国 If you had artificial intelligence, what would you use it for? Lin You's answer: making games! Creating virtual worlds! Whether classic games or great films, adapt them all into virtual reality games! Make every game a cornerstone for building a virtual world. But first, he has to set his peers straight and get them off the wrong path. Then he'll take on the gaming industry's biggest name in a proper fight! Also known as: The Number One Producer, The Virtual Empire Begins with Games, My AI 0Votes54kRecs150.2kFans
- 6 To Ascend to Immortality, I Had to Make Games 为了飞升,我只好去做游戏了 I, Fang Cheng, am an immortal. Although I’ve made a lot of hit games, there’s one thing I’ve never been able to figure out. Why are games fun? 0Votes31kRecs144.8kFans
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You Said We Were Going to Compete at Making Games, So How Did You Become the Richest Man? 说好内卷做游戏,你怎么躺成首富
My name is Lu Yu. In my previous life, I was a workaholic who thrived on workplace competition. From the start, I received the “Relax and Win System.” As long as I eat, drink, and have fun with my employees, I can exchange it all for wealth. The more I take it easy, the more money I make. In this life, I'm going to enjoy myself and take it easy to the very end! I'm Liu Mengyuan. In my previous life, I was a good-for-nothing girl. From the start, I received the “Dream Come True Guarantee System.”
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- 8 This Isn't a Bug, It's a Game Feature 这不是BUG,这是游戏特性 After awakening a game developer System, Chen Ba vows to become the godfather of gaming and usher in a new era of video games! But he soon realizes that something is off… Why do the games he makes keep coming with the strangest bugs? How can a perfectly good dating sim let you romance other players, turning it into a social matchmaking app? How can a perfectly good fighting game let you attack your opponent’s graphics card with skills, blacking out their screen to win? When players demand answer 0Votes40.6kRecs230.3kFans
- 9 Stop Reviewing My Game! 别给我的游戏做评测了! [Original Game] [Game Development] Li Buyan, an unemployed former game planner, unexpectedly awakened a System that rewarded him for bad reviews. As long as his game received enough bad reviews, he could get his money back with a bonus. Looking at the game review leaderboard, which was full of "experts," Li Buyan was brimming with confidence. Making a good game is hard. How difficult could making a terrible one be? What he didn't know was that the leaderboard wasn't the only place full of expert 0Votes5.2kRecs53.1kFans
- 10 I Wrote a Bug, but It Became the Core Gameplay 当我写了个BUG却变成核心玩法 Also known as: How a Programmer Used One Bug to Turn a Trash Game into an All-Time Classic Recently, Gu Fan, CEO of Inverse Heaven Games, once again rose to legendary status because of a tiny bug in his new game. As one of the industry’s top designers, Gu Fan’s games all share a striking feature: At first, players think these games are monotonous, boring pieces of trash designed purely to torment them. But once players discover a major bug, the gameplay changes beyond recognition, leaving them u 0Votes93.7kRecs333.6kFans
- 11 Game Design: Are You Any Good, You Noob? 游戏设计:行不行啊,菜狗 Cai Gou transmigrates to a parallel world where the gaming industry is booming and obtains a Game Keyword System. Unlock a keyword, and he can spend emotion points to redeem the corresponding game. From the start, he unlocks the [Hardcore] keyword: Fake hardcore: swarms of enemies, enemies bursting through doors, maxed-out health bars, and distant respawn points. Real hardcore: demanding controls, a steep learning curve, rising blood pressure, and a complete mental breakdown. To earn emotion poi 0Votes8.2kRecs98.5kFans
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I Only Wanted Players to Save Money, Yet They Whaled Me into a Fortune 只想让玩家省钱的我却被氪成首富
Ke Jin transmigrated to an era when the gaming industry was in chaos. Everyone believed that paying money was the way to have fun. Game companies ran wild, churning out one predatory monetization scheme after another. Some games could practically rob you outright, yet still made players use gacha simulators. As a gaming enthusiast in his previous life, Ke Jin felt like the world had gone dark. Luckily, he obtained the Zero-Spending Game Development System! As long as players didn’t spend money,
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- 13 EN I Was Told to Make Bad Games, So What's This Titanfall Nonsense? 说好制作烂游戏,泰坦陨落什么鬼 New book: You Were Told to Cultivate Immortality, So How Did You Become the Ancestor of Gaming? Now available! [I’m Shen Miaomiao, and from the start, I’m forced to take over a game company.] Luckily, the Rebate System awakens just in time. Whenever the company loses money, the System reimburses me tenfold! So this young chairwoman’s goal is to run the company into the ground and achieve financial freedom! [I’m Gu Sheng, and from the start, I transmigrate into the body of a game designer.] Lucki 8Votes190kRecs1.4MFans
- 14 The Life Role-Playing Game 人生扮演游戏 “As a top-tier game designer, I am skilled at gathering material from real life through role-playing. “Before making a game, I seriously play the role first. Even if the target is a blade of grass, a tree, or a stone, I immerse myself wholeheartedly and complete the role without compromise. “And recently, I have been making a game and film centered on explorers.” Facing the interview camera, Lu Zhixing, hailed as the god of game design in the VR era, spoke with complete seriousness. The host was 0Votes77.8kRecs147.2kFans
- 15 The Underworld Game Designer Starts by Crashing Phones 阴间游戏设计师从卡爆手机开始 Armed with the Underworld Game System, Lin Da arrives in a parallel world where the gaming industry is far behind. As long as he can make players feel miserable, he can earn huge profits and build a gaming empire! Underworld games? That’s easy! From the most boring game ever, Tree Simulator, to the merciless Happy Wheels. From Dark Souls, which puts players through the wringer, to a MOBA where everyone but me is a dead weight. Phones smashed, keyboards hurled, screens pounded, and players brawli 0Votes2.6kRecs31.7kFans
- 16 This Online Game Planner Really Does Have a Problem 这个网游策划果然有问题 A trashy turn-based online game that hadn’t been updated in six months, had a development budget seven times that of its contemporaries, yet brought in only a tenth of their revenue. A trash game everyone had given up on, right before its servers were about to shut down... released a new version. Lead designer Lin Yao. From then on, she made a name for herself in one battle. “She has the most tricks, the wildest ideas, and a knack for crushing the competition. We don’t understand what she’s doi 7Votes196.5kRecs350.9kFans
- 17 All My Players Are Method Actors 我的玩家都是演技派 The Notes of the Returner suddenly appeared on every top news and social media site around the world, heralding a groundbreaking virtual reality game. Game title: Dark Sands Genre: Eastern fantasy historical setting, with Soulslike difficulty and roguelike elements. Requirements for beta testers: A level head, quick reflexes, nerves of steel, some knowledge of history, and excellent physical fitness. Most importantly: Outstanding acting skills, preferably at an award-winning level! Special rewar 0Votes123.2kRecs331.2kFans
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The All-Around Game Designer 全能游戏设计师
Game designer Chen Mo transmigrates to a parallel world where the technology tree took a wrong turn, and uses one god-tier game after another to turn the gaming industry upside down. "With the game design philosophy of this era, if I don't wipe the floor with the entire gaming industry, then all that exposure to domestic free-to-play games will have been wasted.", Chen Mo VIP group: 157856787 (a screenshot showing you bought all chapters is required to join)
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- 19 The End of Virtuality 虚拟尽头 As a game tester and overworked wage slave, Chen She dreams of becoming a company president, admired by employees and supported by senior executives, free to make whatever games he likes. He also wants to be handsome, have an eight-pack, and possess great artistic talent. After discovering that he has transmigrated, he finds that all these goals have already been achieved. “My life has no challenges left, does it?” Chen She thinks that, having been handed the script of a plagiarist, his life has 0Votes182.1kRecs238.6kFans
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Rebooting the Gaming Era 重启游戏时代
Transmigrated into a world where a machine intelligence crisis has erupted and the entertainment industry has completely declined, he starts from the very bottom and rebuilds a vast gaming empire.
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Video Game Development Designer 游戏开发设计师
A game designer’s life A story about making games In the end It’s great to make games (This is just a story about making games, nothing more. [Serious face!])
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