Chapter Sixty-Three: "My Melancholy Game"
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Yin Jian: Are you there?
Li Jianghe: Is there something you need, Mr. Yin?
Yin Jian: Didn’t you promise not to credit me?
Li Jianghe: There’s no credit.
Yin Jian: Then what’s this? [Screenshot]
Li Jianghe: Huh? I thought we agreed not to credit you inside the game. Outside too? That’s my oversight, I’ll go change the copy right away.
“...”
Yin Jian stared at Li Jianghe’s reply, at a loss for words.
He was already socially ruined; what use was changing things now!
Wasn’t this just burying one’s head in the sand?
Yin Jian desperately wanted a clear answer from Li Jianghe, but...
[Deputy Minister of Xiahua’s Ministry of Education]
“...Fine, since you’ve helped boost my daily sales so much, I’ll let this go.”
Yin Jian had made up his mind.
No matter who asked in the future, he would never admit to making games, nor would he take part in any large events.
“Look! That’s my teacher, forced by you all.”
“This is how you pressure me? Truly remarkable.”
“You force me, and I’ll bear your children!”
“Hiss~”
Just imagining the horror of his real identity being exposed made Yin Jian’s spine tingle, as if a thousand wealthy women were scraping glass with joy balls right beside his ears.
This was simply outrageous!
“I can’t take it anymore, I really can’t. The designer’s name must be changed!”
Yin Jian had never thought he’d reach the day where he would do anything to accomplish something.
He immediately opened the game assistant backend, pulled up Stone’s chat window, and prepared to ask how to change his name.
“Hmm?”
But he paused when he saw two unread messages in the chat window.
“Sent yesterday? Strange, how did I miss them?”
He checked the timestamp—it was just after eight in the morning.
He must have just finished pulling an all-nighter to get the game out at that time.
Exhausted, he’d gone straight to sleep.
“No, this isn’t the time to think about that.”
You Force Me: Are you there?
“...”
He stared blankly at the screen for over a minute. Seeing no reply, he sent another message.
You Force Me: Stone?
Ten minutes passed, the chat window as silent as if offline.
You Force Me: Stone, are you there?
...
You Force Me: Master Stone, are you around?
...
You Force Me: Whimper whimper~
...
You Force Me: QAQ
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You Force Me: Boss, I want to change my name, please just reply, okay?
“...”
Yin Jian closed the game backend and opened it again, repeating this dozens of times.
After waiting for more than half an hour and still getting no response, he was numb.
“Come on, man, you’re a guy! Can you stop tormenting people like this?”
Yin Jian felt miserable.
He waited a bit longer, and when there was still no reply, he finally gave up.
“Probably busy and hasn’t seen it.”
“This operator is so easygoing; he’ll definitely help me change my name. He just hasn’t seen the message yet.”
“This ‘You Force Me’ name will soon be history, I’m sure of it.”
“Soon, I’ll be able to step into the sunlight again.”
He kept muttering to himself, but the more he thought, the more anxious he became.
“No, I need to distract myself.”
If he kept overthinking like this, he wouldn’t be able to take it.
He quickly scanned the room for something to do.
The room was tidy—so clean, in fact, there was nothing to mess up.
“...”
Yin Jian withdrew his gaze and looked at the computer.
“Maybe I should make a game?”
“...”
He opened the backend, selected game creation, and...
Every minute, his eyes darted over to the inbox at least ten times.
He simply couldn’t focus.
He had planned to make a story-driven game.
He only had a rough idea in mind.
When it came to actually starting, he didn’t know where to begin.
“How do you even play a story-driven game, anyway?”
After pondering a while with no answers, Yin Jian closed the game assistant backend.
He didn’t even know what to name the game. Clearly, he wasn’t in the right state for game development.
He stared at his desktop in silence for a moment.
Then opened the Qiyou game platform.
He decided to play some story-driven games, hoping for inspiration.
He browsed and shifted his gaze to the bestseller list.
To rank on the Qiyou platform’s bestseller list, with its channels across the universe, was proof enough of the quality of these games.
They were the best textbooks for game development.
Yin Jian opened the list and glanced through.
He found that out of the top ten, nine were story-driven games.
“I remember it wasn’t this exaggerated last time I checked. Looks like the trend for the next two or three years is definitely story games.”
Seeing this, Yin Jian was even more determined to make a story-driven game.
He examined several of the top ten games and then clicked into the eighth-ranked ‘My Depressive Game’.
He had some impression of this one.
He’d seen it when he first joined the Qiyou platform.
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With a price tag of 1404, it stood out even among the bestselling games.
As long as a game completes all recommendations during the new release period, there are no limits on its selling price.
But top-tier games are usually priced around 1000.
Rarely do they go much higher.
If your game’s price is far above similar titles, players feel it’s not worth it, which greatly reduces their desire to buy.
That could cause your game’s revenue to collapse.
For phenomenon-level games, that’s obviously not a good deal, so most people choose to price at a thousand or under.
Yet, this one was priced at 1404 and still made the bestseller list—that alone proved its excellence.
And if you’re going to learn, learn from the best.
Of course, that’s a bit simplistic, but it does have its logic.
Yin Jian clicked into the game and checked the update list.
‘My Depressive Game’ was already at its tenth installment, and buying them all cost 14040.
If he’d seen that price back when he’d just graduated, he wouldn’t even have the right to feel heartache.
But now, it was nothing~
He clicked to purchase everything directly.
That’s the power of wealth!
[You have unlocked all currently updated content for ‘Your Depressive Game’.]
[You have received 140 monthly tickets.]
[Your account level has upgraded: Regular → Junior VIP]
[Your privileges have been enhanced]
[Future game purchases will enjoy a 9.9% discount]
[Qiyou wishes you happy gaming!]
Seeing the 140 monthly tickets, Yin Jian immediately threw them all at ‘Spore Evolution’.
No point letting benefits fall into someone else’s hands.
Having done all this, Yin Jian composed himself.
He opened ‘Your Depressive Game’ with a learning mindset.
Consciousness login.
After a brief darkness,
“Brother... Brother... Find me quickly... Let’s play house together in your favorite clothes, I’ll be...”
A somber folk song suddenly began to play.
[You open your eyes.]
[Last night you had a rather strange dream.]
[You dreamed of living for many years in a technologically advanced world.]
[But, even if those memories felt real, it was only a dream.]
Yin Jian opened his eyes.
A grayish-white ceiling came into view.
At the same time, a deep, emotionless male voice sounded in his ear.
In an instant, the dim room grew even more eerie.
ps: Brothers, this chapter has two hundred extra words, isn’t a monthly ticket deserved?