[Game Development] [System] [Anti-Trope]

Exclusive Interview

Reporter: “President Mei, your latest game has once again gone explosively viral. Could you share with us the original inspiration behind making this game?”

Mei Caiyi, wearing a pained expression: “You might not believe this, but I actually have a system—every time the company loses money, I personally make a huge profit. So, the whole reason I made this game was to lose money. Same with the last one. And the one before that. All of them.”

Reporter: “Hahaha! President Mei, you’re truly hilarious. I understand now—you’re not in this for the money. You’re just sincerely making heartfelt, high-quality games for the players.”

He really wanted to say: “Understand my ass.”

How was he supposed to know all those games would blow up?

Now they call him things like “visionary,” “marketing genius,” “game development prodigy”—as if they weren’t just slandering him!

“Arbitrary Town”—a construction game with no gameplay, just mindless clicking.

“TombForce”—the protagonist is male, and all the enemies have bizarre, ridiculous designs.

“Cry”—deliberately made to provoke flame wars.

“Conscience-Free Game Platform”—created solely to deter people from registering.

“Escape”—designed to scare players so badly they wouldn’t want to buy it.

…He’s even gone online more than once begging for help: “Willing to pay handsomely for a large-scale, logically sound game idea that’s guaranteed to lose a ton of money!”

Chen Jincheng is reborn in 2018, carrying with him a game called Life Management Simulator, which ends up binding itself to his MCN media company.

Starting from signing the hottest nightclub DJ goddess from his previous life at a bar, he begins receiving rewards from the game and gradually signs more and more internet celebrity goddesses, slowly becoming the godfather of influencers.

Years later, he only wants to say:

“The idea that ‘good girls shouldn’t be let down, and bad girls shouldn’t be wasted’ is the biggest misunderstanding the world has about me!”

He’s just… especially considerate when dealing with beautiful women!

Kejin traveled to an era of chaotic games, where everyone believed in the idea of using money to buy happiness. Game companies were in chaos, and various methods of defrauding and forcing people to gain money were endless. Countless games could even steal money, but still give it back to players. A card drawing simulator was released.

As a fan of games in his previous life, Kejin suddenly felt that the sky was dark. Fortunately, he got the Zero Krypton game production system!

As long as players don't spend money, they can get the ultimate reward of the "Complete Collection of Game Design Plans"!

Not spending money? Isn’t this easy to handle? Give me MengMeng benefits!

Give away 50 consecutive cigarettes during the high summer temperatures! Get 100 draws on the second day after the server is launched! Since the daily active users of this game have reached 50, a set of cool skins originally priced at 999 will be given away! The sister-in-law who planned it has just turned 17 years, 3 months and 7 days old, and hereby distributes 50,000 crystals!

My sincerity has almost filled the players. After all, no one will be interested anymore, right?

Secretary: Mr. Ke, good news! The new game we just launched has already achieved sales of over 100 million on the first day!

Ke Jin: Huh? What kind of good news is this? No, what about the other one? Then the game will give away 100-99 vouchers when the game is launched. Is the sales volume very poor?

The secretary looked at the boss's expectant face in confusion and said: They shouted something about a company with a conscience, or it would go bankrupt if it didn't pay, and so on, so they charged it up. That game has sold 100 million copies worldwide. Congratulations on making 100 million!

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At 3:30 that night, Ke Jin was lying in bed, unable to sleep, and sent a message: Please stop cheating, you are really hurting me...

Player: Got it, Mr. Ke said that life is hard, brothers, please increase your efforts! Charge me!

Liu Qingyun acquired a ‘Loss-Making System.’ As long as he loses money on investments, he gets ten times the return. He just wants to lose money, but every project he invests in somehow becomes wildly successful. Only the world where Liu Qingyun is the one getting hurt has been achieved.

‘I just want to lose some money—why is it so hard?’

Lin Yu travels to a modern world where everyone draws cards, lives and fights with cards.

People here have a chance to draw a card every night.

One-star card [Spider Web], can launch a tough spider web.

The two-star card [Storage] allows people to store everything.

Three-star card [Distorted Steel Arm] makes the arms as hard as iron.

The four-star card [Venue: Forest] can even create a forest.

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But just like in the game, two-star cards have a 1% chance of being shipped, three-star cards have a 0.1% chance of being shipped, not to mention the higher-star cards...

Therefore, the unlucky people in this world pray every night, praying for good luck to come.

Lin Yu was not panicked at all, because his card draw was guaranteed!

A cumulative total of ten draws will definitely yield three stars, and a cumulative total of one hundred draws will definitely yield four stars...

And tonight is his thousandth card draw!

"Please, I'm begging you all, stop letting me make money!"

"Get away, you damned bills!"

In the eyes of the public, Pei Qiankun was a titan of the entertainment industry, an investment genius, and the perfect boss—but he was utterly miserable.

Ever since he acquired the Wealth Compensation System, he'd been desperately trying to spend money and rack up losses, racking his brains to find losing investments.

But money seemed to have developed a life of its own—the more he spent, the more he had, the more he spent, the more it grew.

Even his employees, who were originally slackers, suddenly acted like they were on performance-enhancing drugs, working like crazy to earn him more and more.

Now staring at the business empire he accidentally built with his own hands, Pei Qiankun was on the verge of tears.

"I really just wanted to lose money!"

[Game development + unbeatable power fantasy + premium game industry storyline]

[“Sheep A Sheep” only earns the first pot of gold and is unrelated to the later plot]

Ling Xiao transmigrated with a system. In this world where the game industry is extremely underdeveloped, Ling Xiao dreams of creating AAA masterpieces—but with limited initial resources, he’s forced to start by developing Sheep A Sheep. The result? Millions of players break down, and Mr. Lu becomes his biggest hater: “I’m begging the developer to act like a human being!”

From that moment on, Ling Xiao begins his path to becoming a legend in the gaming world, with every game he releases becoming a hit.

Pixel games are outdated? Terraria and Minecraft take the world by storm!

Japan dominates the anime-style game scene? Onmyoji and Genshin Impact conquer Akihabara!

Chinese-style games are trash? Black Myth: Wukong slaps the foreigners in the face!

Western 3D is superior? Red Dead Redemption and Titanfall redefine AAA standards!

Korea...? Sorry, Korea has no culture of its own…

This is the story of building a gaming empire from Sheep A Sheep, step by step.

[No gaming experience needed to enjoy ~ Focuses on premium game design + career progression]

After being reborn, Liu Wei unexpectedly gains the "Slacker System."

As long as he continues to slack off, he’ll achieve success.

But the result...

“President Liu, our game is a massive hit!”

“Brother Wei, our supermarket has expanded into a nationwide chain!”

“Hello, President Liu? Great news—the new movie just won an award!”

“President Liu, your all-in-one entertainment empire is progressing steadily...”

“…”

Liu Wei stands on the balcony, staring blankly:

"How did it turn out like this? I just wanted to slack off!"

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A counter-trope story.

When his life was in dire straits, Lin Yang obtained a daily intelligence system, which would push several pieces of intelligence related to him in various aspects every day.

This information allowed Lin Yang to seize the initiative, avoid danger, seize benefits, and foil conspiracies...

Not only that, the system can also be upgraded to provide weekly intelligence, monthly intelligence, annual intelligence...

[Daily intelligence: The lottery shop at the entrance of the community scratched out the first prize of the Lucky Ten Times lottery, with a prize of 400,000 yuan. Go to the lottery shop in advance to buy all the Lucky Ten Times lottery tickets to grab the first prize. ]

[Daily Intelligence: Joy City’s anniversary event, spend 688 or more to win an electric car, the grand prize card is stuck on the upper left corner of the box, go there before 9pm to grab the grand prize. ]

[Daily Intelligence: At Binjiang Vegetable Market, there is a Melo Pearl inside the last coconut snail in Xiaoqiang's vegetable delivery tank. If you buy this coconut snail, you can get a Melo Pearl worth over a million.]

[Daily Intelligence: Chen Qingqing, 24 years old, native of Xingcheng, graduated from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics with a major in finance, 1.68 meters tall, 98 kilograms in weight, blood type B, measurements... Home address: Runhe Binjiang Bay, phone number: 176...]

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【Weekly Intelligence: ……】

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【Monthly Information: ……】

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【Annual information: ……】

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God of Web Novels,’ ‘King of Romance,’ ‘Father of New Wuxia’... and so on—these are all just misunderstandings the world has about me. I’m just a porter!" Song Ci sighed helplessly.

In this life, he only wanted to be a salted fish and enjoy life.

He never expected that he'd end up walking further and further down the path of a literary giant.