Game Design: Are You Any Good, You Noob?

Cai Gou transmigrated to a parallel world where the gaming industry was booming, and obtained a Game Tag System. Unlocking a tag lets him spend emotion points to redeem the corresponding game.

He unlocked the [Hardcore] tag from the start.

Fake hardcore: throw hordes of enemies at players, kill them as soon as they open a door, give enemies full health bars, and put checkpoints far away.

Real hardcore: demand skill, set a high bar, raise players' blood pressure, and make them lose their minds.

To earn emotion points, Cai Gou had no choice but to make the players suffer. The games he made were so hardcore that players were driven to ecstasy and despair.

But when faced with the developers' message, "Can you even do it, you noob?", the players split firmly into two camps.

The extremists thought the games weren't hardcore enough!

The conservatives thought the extremists were too conservative!

Seeing that every player was more stubborn than the last, refusing to admit defeat,

Cai Gou waved his hand grandly. "You can handle [Hardcore], but what if I unlock tags like [Abstract], [Freedom], and [Realism]? So tell me, how are you going to deal with that?"