Rosalie knew Mark was very smart, but she never expected him to pull off something so astonishing!
If word got out that he had used a computer to make an entire movie in just a day, I’m afraid the entire Hollywood film industry would experience a massive earthquake.
“Mom, it must be a lot easier for you to memorize the lines and scenes in the script now, right?”
Mark looked at Rosalie and asked.
“Of course!”
Rosalie nodded, bent down, and gave Mark a hard kiss on the cheek.
“Now Mom has basically memorized all the lines, and I even know how to act them out!”
With just a couple more viewings of the movie, she would be confident she could commit the entire script to memory.
More importantly, the script that was originally just text now had vivid imagery in Rosalie’s mind.
Once filming started, she could completely use it as a reference.
After helping Rosalie solve her biggest difficulty, Mark prepared to start developing a game.
With the video generation software, making games would be even easier for him.
“Hmm… Which game should I choose to make?”
Mark fell into thought.
After all, he didn’t have his own gaming company.
Even with the help of the video generation software, making a large-scale game would still be too time-consuming and laborious.
“That’s the one!”
A moment later, Mark made his decision.
The game he chose to make was Stardew Valley, which had swept across the entire internet before his transmigrations.
Stardew Valley was a game independently created by Erik Brown over the course of four and a half years.
The game’s plot was a story where the player received a letter from Grandpa, returned to their hometown to inherit a derelict farm, and then reclaimed the land to run the farm.
The core gameplay of this game consisted of running a farm, fishing, mining, and socializing with the town residents.
Without any publicity or promotion, Stardew Valley immediately became a massive hit across the internet upon launch, with its positive review rate on STEAM consistently staying at 98% year-round.
Mark believed that once he made this game, it would similarly blow up online, earning him his first pot of gold.
“Alice, help me create the graphics. The requirements are as follows…”
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While typing out code, Mark ordered Alice to help him make the game together.
With his current memory, he could remember the background music he heard and the NPC storylines he played through in his past life word for word.
The original game only had 20 town NPCs, which was clearly far too few.
Mark directly increased the number to over 100.
Not only did this include the original NPC storylines, but he also had Alice deduce and add a large number of side quests and hidden plots.
With Alice’s help, Mark spent only a little over half a month finishing Stardew Valley.
“Mom, Aunt Daphne, I’ve made a game. Come over and try it out to see if it’s fun.”
After finishing the game, Mark called out to Rosalie and Daphne, who were sitting in the courtyard drinking tea and chatting.
After Mark turned three, he no longer needed Daphne to be his full-time caretaker, and she had found a job at another clinic.
Whenever she had free time on weekends, Daphne would come over to Mark’s house to visit him.
“Really? Is that the game you’ve been busy making all this time?”
Rosalie asked Mark as she stood up.
She wasn’t particularly interested in games herself, but since it was a game made by her own son, of course she had to check it out.
“Little Mark is truly amazing, being able to make a game at such a young age.”
Daphne praised Mark with a smile.
Rosalie sat in front of the computer and opened the Stardew Valley icon.
As soothing music played, the opening animation began to play on the computer.
The player received a letter from Grandpa, quit their job to return to their hometown, inherited a farm, and then the game officially began.
What initially appeared before their eyes was a derelict farm.
Following the game prompts, the player began clearing away trash and reclaiming the farm.
Mark did not use the pixelated mosaic style of the original game; instead, he made the visuals much more refined and exquisite.
When Rosalie first started playing, she was a bit flustered and often didn’t know where to click.
After familiarizing herself with the controls later on, she gradually became addicted to it.
Farming, foraging, mining, upgrading the house, building coops…
Unconsciously, an hour had passed.
“Mom, it’s time to cook!”
Seeing that it was already 12 o’clock, Mark had to speak up to remind her.
“Oh, oh…”
Hearing this, Rosalie reluctantly stood up and left the computer.
“Um… Mark, can you send me a copy of this game?”
Daphne said to Mark with a bit of embarrassment. This story is hosted at g.com.
She had watched Rosalie play all morning and had been itching to play this game for a long time.
“Sure!”
Mark nodded and ordered Alice, “Alice, send a copy of the Stardew Valley installation package to Aunt Daphne’s email.”
Anyway, he had already registered the copyright for the game and wasn’t worried about it leaking out.
“Okay, Mark.”
Alice’s crisp, silver-bell-like voice rang out.
“Having Alice around is really so convenient!”
Daphne wore a look of envy.
Rosalie had already bragged about Alice in front of her multiple times.
However, what Daphne envied even more was that Rosalie had such a smart and cute son like Mark.
In the past, Daphne had been somewhat skeptical about the matter of Mark being Tony Stark’s son.
But after witnessing the various abilities Mark had displayed, she no longer had the slightest doubt now.
Aside from Tony Stark, no one else could give birth to such a smart child!
Over the next few days, Rosalie became completely addicted to the game.
The first thing she did every morning when she woke up was quickly open Stardew Valley and enter the game to harvest crops.
She also frequently talked on the phone with Daphne, exchanging experiences on farm planting.
Seeing that both of them liked this game so much, Mark knew it was in the bag this time.
He began preparing to make money using this game.
There were no third-party gaming platforms like STEAM yet.
Individual game developers like Mark could only submit their games to download websites, and then go to PC shareware and gaming forums to promote them.
After completing registration and uploading the game, Mark ordered Alice, “Alice, go to major gaming forums and make posts to promote the game Stardew Valley.”
“Okay, Mark.”
Alice immediately began posting and promoting on websites like Usenet, GameSpot, and IGN communities, leaving behind download links for Stardew Valley.
Mark’s payment method was to let players try out the game for free for 30 minutes first, after which they could pay 10 dollars for permanent access.
There was no online payment back then, so Mark could only have them mail a 10-dollar money order through the post office.
Once he received it, he would send the registration code to the other party via email.