In the interstellar space, inside a simple and clean welfare housing unit, Jiang Rong lay on a single bed with her eyes tightly closed, merging the memories of two different timelines.
Initially, the memories from both timelines intertwined incessantly within Jiang Rong’s mind, causing confusion.
As time passed, Jiang Rong’s memories were sorted out, and she finally opened her eyes.
“Host, you’re awake.” The game system pounced toward Jiang Rong.
Seeing the game system, Jiang Rong’s expression softened. “System, thank you for bringing me here.”
At this moment, Jiang Rong had two sets of memories in her mind: one from Blue Star ( Lan Xing, referring to Earth) and one from the interstellar world.
Jiang Rong clearly remembered that in Blue Star, her profession was a game producer, and she eventually died from overwork.
At the instant of her sudden death, the game system bound her soul and brought her to a parallel world, into the body of the interstellar Jiang Rong.
Of course, before the two sets of memories merged into one, the game system consulted the interstellar Jiang Rong and obtained her consent, since they were essentially the same person.
“Host, this is a world I specially selected for you. The interstellar you is also a game professional. What do you think?” The game system was worried that Jiang Rong wouldn’t like it.
“I like it very much.” Jiang Rong chuckled. Not every Jiang Rong in the parallel worlds was a game professional. Selecting the interstellar Jiang Rong was indeed thoughtful of the game system.
Besides the same game profession, there was also the two’s family background. The Blue Star Jiang Rong had no relatives, and the interstellar Jiang Rong was also alone.
“That’s good. I was afraid that you would become resistant to games because of dying from overwork, and then there would be no place for me to be useful.” The game system carefully watched Jiang Rong’s expression.
Jiang Rong reached out and hugged the game system. “No, I like games.” Whether it was the Blue Star her or the interstellar her.
“As for you, I can’t keep calling you ‘System.’ How about I give you a name?” Jiang Rong asked the game system.
“Of course, but the name has to be nice.” The game system was expectant.
“How about Jiang Yu (Jiang, her surname, Yu, feather) ? Use my surname.” Jiang Rong said.
“Then from now on, I’ll be called Jiang Yu.” Jiang Yu had no objections.
After naming the system, seeing that Jiang Rong’s expression was okay, Jiang Yu asked Jiang Rong, “When shall we start working?”
“As soon as possible.” Jiang Rong sighed.
The interstellar Jiang Rong was an orphan who had been raised by the Interstellar Federation government since she was a child and helped to complete her studies. The living expenses didn’t need to be repaid, but the tuition did.
Plus, having just graduated, the interstellar Jiang Rong hadn’t found a job yet, and her account didn’t have much savings. The debt plus survival put a lot of pressure on her.
Before merging the Blue Star Jiang Rong’s memories, the interstellar Jiang Rong was looking for a job. Interstellar holographic technology was advanced, and games were a popular industry, so competition among graduates was fierce.
The interstellar Jiang Rong originally planned to work as an assistant to other game producers to gain experience, but her resume sank without a trace, which made the interstellar Jiang Rong feel more and more stressed.
Now that the two sets of memories were merged, Jiang Rong planned to directly become a game producer.
In her memory, some graduates of the interstellar game major directly became game producers.
It’s just that those people basically had family support. Jiang Rong had nothing, so naturally she didn’t dare to take risks.
Jiang Rong now has no shortage of game production experience, the only thing missing is: money.
Jiang Rong looked at Jiang Yu, “How much money is in the account?”
Jiang Yu made a bitter face, “The interstellar you doesn’t have much savings, plus a sum of system initial funds.”
This was the source of all Jiang Rong’s current property. Although added together, it was not much.
Jiang Rong looked at the deposit and pondered for a few seconds, and said, “This money can’t even enter the game production threshold in Blue Star, but in the interstellar space, it can make a small game.”
One is due to the advanced interstellar holographic technology, which reduces the cost of game production.
The second is that the game materials in the game system mall are cheaper than outside, which further reduces the cost of game production.
Not much money, so the range and content of games that Jiang Rong can make are limited.
Jiang Rong didn’t rashly start, but first used Guangnao (light brain, a futuristic computer) to do market research for the game.
The more research Jiang Rong did, the more dignified her expression became.
It’s not that the interstellar game is more lively than imagined, in fact, it is the opposite.
I thought that with the advanced interstellar holographic technology, the game industry would be flourishing, but I didn’t want the development of interstellar games to be very deformed.
According to Jiang Rong’s summary, the current games on the interstellar market are roughly divided into three categories: 1. Violence; 2. Eroticism; 3. Horror.
The explosive content of its games, 99% of which will not pass the game review of Blue Star.
But in the interstellar space, it has become a popular game in a grand manner.
This kind of “deformity” could not be discovered by Jiang Rong before the memory was merged, because the environment she grew up in was like this, and this is the interstellar people’s perception of games.
It was not until the memory fusion was completed and the game types of the two time and space were compared that Jiang Rong realized that something was wrong.
“Where is the problem?” Jiang Rong wondered.
Soon, Jiang Rong found the answer in the interstellar memory.
It turned out that a war broke out in the interstellar space more than ten years ago, and the original owner became an orphan at that time.
Now the war is over, and the interstellar space has also announced peace on the surface.
It’s just that peace doesn’t seem to have spread to the game industry, and the games in the game industry are still dominated by violence and fighting.
After figuring out the reason, Jiang Rong took a deep breath, made up her mind, and said to Jiang Yu: “I plan to make casual games.”
Jiang Yu was surprised and hesitated, “…Interstellar may not have the soil for the development of casual games.”
“I know, but I also know better that casual games are what I am good at, at least I have the experience of making casual games.” Jiang Rong sorted out her advantages.
Interstellar games, but her real shortcoming.
No matter how rich the experience of making games in Blue Star is, she has never made large-scale games. In this regard, she has no experience like Interstellar Jiang Rong.
“Also, our current funds are only enough to make small games, and they are simple games like Lianliankan and Happy elimination.”
Jiang Rong also found the same advantages of casual games: saving money.
“Then host, are you going to make Lianliankan or Happy elimination?” Jiang Yu asked Jiang Rong.
Jiang Rong pondered, “Happy elimination, except for some levels, most of the rest have no time limit.”
“Lianliankan is different, basically there is a time limit.”
“From the perspective of a producer, games without time limits have a wider audience than games with time limits.”
Don’t forget, they still don’t know whether the interstellar space can develop the market for casual games, and the scope of game players is naturally as wide as possible.
After selecting the game type, Jiang Rong asked Jiang Yu to open the game mall, and the game materials were divided into catalogs such as art and copywriting, which was convenient for searching.
Then there are the number of materials, which can be described as massive. If there is no favorite, Jiang Rong can also customize it through the game system, which is very considerate.
Holding the few savings in her hand, Jiang Rong looked through the game mall very cautiously.
“The most important thing about Happy elimination is the character image. It can’t be too naive or too complicated. It’s best to have enough recognition and attract players’ attention in the first time.” Jiang Rong said and closed her eyes.
On Blue Star, Happy elimination games are rampant, but even if there are many of them, there are still several Happy elimination that are classics in the minds of the public.
“As for the overall style, cartoon cute system is very suitable.”
This is also the classic style of match-three games on Blue Star (Earth).
However, in the interstellar era, this style is not the most common, but it is extremely rare.
“Then there’s the number of match-three characters, five to eight is best. Too many will make players dizzy, and too few will reduce the player’s gaming experience.”
“Okay, let’s set it to seven characters. It goes well with the colors of the rainbow.” As Jiang Rong spoke, the game plan gradually became clear.
According to the setting requirements, Jiang Rong began to look for suitable images.
After finding them, Jiang Rong compared the suitable image materials in pairs, eliminating them one by one.
Until the end, the winning champions were a group of watery, transparent, and bouncy slimes.
The slimes were not neat circles, but rather shaped like water droplets or QQ candies. Jiang Rong poked them, and they immediately deformed softly, scattering like water before regrouping.
Jiang Rong played for a while and began to adjust the colors of the slimes. The colors couldn’t be too strong; they had to be able to reflect various colors while retaining the slimes’ unique transparent texture.
“Level one form complete. Next is level two form.”
In addition to the basic three-in-a-row match-three, there are also four-in-a-row, five-in-a-row, not to mention collisions and explosions of different forms.
Jiang Rong added more materials to the slimes, striving to give each of them unique characteristics.
After an unknown amount of time, Jiang Rong blinked her sore eyes, “The images are complete. Next are the levels and difficulty.”
Levels don’t require much technical content. The gameplay of match-three is repetition after repetition. As long as the basic tone of the levels is set, the content of the later levels can be generated randomly.
“As for the difficulty, it can’t be too simple, or players will quickly lose interest in the challenge.” Jiang Rong’s expression became serious.
Jiang Rong was well aware that if the difficulty of the match-three game was too low, it might quickly attract players, but if players kept clearing levels, they would find it boring and abandon the game.
Therefore, Jiang Rong increased the difficulty.
With the levels and difficulty adjusted, only the last step remained: music.
Although match-three games don’t have a plot, the music can’t be careless, because hearing is very important to players. Music can even influence players’ game emotions in a certain sense.
The background music Jiang Rong selected for the match-three game was a soothing and healing light music that could relax people unconsciously without making them sleepy.
The game sound effects were lively and cheerful, with crisp and soft sounds, which matched the slime images very well.
Just as Jiang Rong was making the game, Jiang Yu wasn’t idle either. Seeing that Jiang Rong was about to finish, Jiang Yu said, “There’s a game platform hosting an event, and you completely meet the requirements for participation.”
“What platform, event, and requirements?” Jiang Rong asked casually.
“The game platform is called [December]. It holds a monthly competition every month and selects a champion from it.”
“The participation requirement is limited to newcomers who have graduated within one year. This platform is also recognized as a novice platform in the gaming industry,” Jiang Yu said.
Jiang Rong’s graduation time hadn’t exceeded one year, so she was within the scope of participation and naturally signed up.
After signing up, Jiang Rong finished making the game and immediately uploaded it to the December platform.
Then, without paying attention to the game data, Jiang Rong couldn’t hold on any longer, yawned, and fell into a deep sleep.
Outside, the night was deep.
On the December platform, game streamer Bai Yang withdrew from a game review with a somewhat dejected spirit.
Seeing Bai Yang’s pale face, fans felt sorry for her.
[The game quality of novice creators is uneven, Bai Yang has worked really hard.]
[It’s okay to encounter a good game, but it’s too miserable to encounter a trash game. Thank you, streamer, for helping us avoid the pitfalls.]
Bai Yang is a streamer on the December platform who specializes in reviewing monthly competition games. Fans can watch her live broadcast to avoid poor-quality and uninteresting games.
This is indeed convenient for the audience in the live broadcast room, but it is not very friendly to the streamer Bai Yang herself.
“I’ll take a break first, and then continue reviewing games.” Saying that, Bai Yang drank a bag of nutrient solution to quickly calm her mind.
[Why don’t you just call it a day? The streamer has been reviewing games for a day, and her spirit and physical strength are almost exhausted. Let’s continue tomorrow.]
The fan who posted the comment couldn’t help but yawn. After a day of live broadcasting, it wasn’t just the streamer who was tired, but them too.
“There’s still some time. I’ll review one more game and then go offline.” Bai Yang looked at the time and felt that getting off work was just around the corner.
[Mainly, after reviewing for a day, there are basically no playable games. It’s really a waste of the streamer’s and our time.]
[According to the December platform’s competition practice, the later the time, the better the game quality.]
Bai Yang didn’t respond to this. She was a small streamer. The earlier she reviewed the games, the more money she could earn. Later on, with her strength, she wouldn’t even get a sip of soup.
Patting her cheeks and perking up, Bai Yang refreshed the game interface.
Then, an unfamiliar game icon came into Bai Yang’s eyes.