[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!

Ye Chen traveled to a parallel world and found himself a cutting-edge director.

At the same time, the authorities suddenly came to him and asked Ye Chen to shoot a promotional video.

Originally, Ye Chen was going to do it perfunctorily, but at this time he activated the system and obtained master-level directing skills and the complete script of "New Police Story".

So, a ready-made promotional video was created!

Officials: We asked you to shoot a promotional video, and you won the best film of the year?

Medical Association: It's just a public welfare film, how come it broke the box office record?

Anti-Corruption Bureau: We asked you to shoot an anti-corruption education film, and it became a phenomenal TV series?

Space Administration: Director Ye, we just asked you to promote aerospace knowledge, but you made a whole movie "The Wandering Earth" and you are also looking for the Three-Body Civilization.

Senior programmer Zheng Wentong was reborn in 2014 and decided to change his way of life.

He bet on Germany to beat Brazil 7-1 in the World Cup and won 100 million yuan.

He returned to China, founded Slope Capital, and became a capital tycoon—the youngest billionaire in the Internet industry.

His girlfriend is Bai Xiaolu, a rising superstar.

This is a business and entertainment story with a single female lead.

In the parallel world of Blue Star, Huafeng Media failed in investment and was on the verge of bankruptcy. Partners withdrew their capital, artists terminated their contracts, employees resigned, and the chairman had a sudden heart attack and was hospitalized.

At the time of the company's life and death, Lao Jiang found his son Jiang Ge and asked him to take charge of the company's artists.

A song "Chasing Dreams with a Childlike Heart" won the championship of "I Am a Singer"!

A song "Easily Hurt Woman" won the youngest Golden Melody Queen!

A movie "The Ming Dynasty 1566" won two Golden Rooster TV Kings!

A movie "***" created the world's first billion-dollar actress!

When Lao Jiang recovered and returned to the company, he saw that there were kings and queens of songs everywhere, TV Kings and Queens were as numerous as dogs, and movie kings and queens were crowded together. He burst into tears and said, "Son, I asked you to take charge of the company's artists, how come they all became superstars!"

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The new book "Huayu, From Radio Love Songs to Superstars" has been released!

One day, Chu Shun—a shameless guy who would rather take off his pants than hang himself properly—crossed over to a parallel world. There, he acquired a system called the [Film Fund]. What’s it like to make movies without fearing a financial loss or needing investors?

“As a director, I never care about box office returns!”

So, Chu Shun pulled out Kill Bill. But because it was too bloody, it unsurprisingly failed to get the “Dragon Seal” (the film approval mark in China).

Very well. Kill Bill, which made $180 million at the box office on Earth, ended up as an online B-movie in the parallel world...

“I think there are three absurd things in this world.

First, bad people often live better lives than good ones.

Second, when you're in trouble, friends help without hesitation—yet when they're in trouble and ask you for money, you say they're not real friends.

Third, a whole crowd of you are standing here listening to me talk about the art of film.”

—Chu Shun, speaking at the American Film Academy.

Some of the works by "foreign trauma" director Chu Shun include:

Lord of War, The Hunt, Farewell My Concubine, The Legend of 1900, The Intouchables, City of God, Cinema Paradiso, Malèna, Dead Poets Society, and more.

Zhang Yue's eyes have changed.

He can see the detailed information of any physical commodity, as well as the price change curve for the next month.

[Star anise, current price 9.5 yuan/jin, 87.5/jin in five days.]

There are other things such as food, medicinal materials, aquatic products, wine, cars, houses, lithography machines, manned rockets...

So he originally poor and loser life suddenly became full of gold.

Counting a large number of banknotes with his fingers, Zhang Yue smiled:

"With this artifact, I still need to take the exam for the establishment of a public institution!"

Wait, the establishment of a public institution must have money, and it can't be less."

Awakening optimization system, as long as there is any optimization in the entertainment work, you can get huge rewards. Box office, word of mouth, script content, actor performance, and even filming costs...In his previous life, Zhou Mo had been in the entertainment industry for ten years and almost couldn’t even afford to eat. There's nothing wrong with being a miser in this life. Looking at the film pay and cost expenses that easily amount to hundreds of millions in the industry, Zhou Mo felt extremely distressed. Save money!

Assistant: "Director, which one should I choose for the heroine of the new movie?"

Zhou Mo: "Which of the four young actresses is willing to reduce their pay?"

Assistant: "Director, the props this time are very expensive."

Zhou Mo: "Our competitors have some. When they run out, we'll buy them at a low price."

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?’

"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!"