Why Can’t I Make Games

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by MarineTL — Chapter 11: Crazy Game Promotion (Part 2) "Hey, brother, if you're interested, give this money-making game a try. It's great for some extra pocket money. I already made ten yuan yesterday! When you've got nothing to do, just think of it as earning some spare change." "What's that? A money-making game?" "Yeah, it's this game called Desert Bicycle. You just click in, spend five yuan to download it, and then you get paid for every quest you complete. Look at my phone account, all this money was…
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by MarineTL — Chapter 22: What's Wrong With This Person? "If the person who cleared the game registered as a boy... we use a beautiful woman's profile picture!" "If it's a girl, we use a handsome guy's profile picture..." "Opposites attract, and there's a reason for that. In fact, for shut-ins, the lethality of a beauty or a hunk is quite significant. It makes communication much easier..." "The internet is virtual, and we should take advantage of that virtuality to create convenience for ourselves..." "Ge…
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by MarineTL — Chapter 1: Life Like Wild Grass June 12, 2005. Yanjing. A bustling, noisy job fair. Zhang Yang munched on crispy noodles1, crouching in a neglected corner like a lowly nobody. He squinted at the various recruitment booths nearby. Even though it was already lunchtime, the campus recruitment fair was still teeming with people. His gaze fixed on three game companies. "Dadi Network2," "Shengteng Network3," and "Mumaen Network4"! Massive crowds swarmed these three booths. Everyone was…
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by MarineTL — Chapter 12: Crazy Game Promotion (Part 3) The evening of June 20th. Night began to fall. Li Zongnan, the owner of the cybercafe, took a drag from his Sijiu1 cigarette, his eyes fixed on the screen showing that Desert Bicycle had finished downloading. A game that makes money? What kind of game was this, exactly? Was it some kind of scam? He had lived more than half his life and seen all sorts of things, but he had never heard of a game where you could actually earn money! Still,…
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by MarineTL — Chapter 23: New Game "You're lying again! You don't have a classmate like that at all!" Zhang Yang stared at the reply on the Q-Dog screen. He sat in front of the computer for a long, long time, still unable to figure out what had gone wrong with his side of the chat. And... The most important thing was that he was the one giving out the prize! That was twenty thousand yuan in cash! These days - and even if it weren't now, even in 2021 - plenty of people would be salivating over twenty…
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by MarineTL — Chapter 2: Shameless "Life, for all of us, happens only once..." "Have you ever felt lost, unable to find your direction?" "Are you full of expectations for the future, harboring grand ambitions?" "Is the heat deep within your heart burning like a flame, hoping to leave your own brilliant mark on this industry, to become a creator, a participant?" "Nikolai Ostrovsky1 once wrote in his book: A man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no…
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by MarineTL — Chapter 13: Sweeping and Cheats! June 21st. Monday. Some things are like a virus. You never know when they will break out, but once they do, they spread with a sudden, frantic intensity. Inside the various internet cafes of Yanjing. A money-making game called Desert Bicycle suddenly appeared out of nowhere. And as soon as it launched, it became an instant hit! As long as you completed tasks in this game, you could earn money. The entry cost was only five yuan, but the rewards were…
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by MarineTL — Chapter 24: New Game, Beat the Grass Mud Horse1! "We are ordinary people." "We encounter many things in reality that we are powerless to change, yet we are forced to endure." "Many of these things are truly disgusting..." "You're dying to clench your fists, dying to beat them into a pulp and then spit on them..." "For instance, the parents of certain bratty kids, the sanctimonious 'Holy Mothers' in TV dramas, or that balding boss..." "But in the end, we can only bottle it up. We have no…
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