Chapter 4: The city's No. 1 is actually...
Two days later.
Chen Ba, who had little savings left, tried to submit his resume several times, hoping to find a job to temporarily transition.
But unfortunately, his career was in a dark period, and the resumes he sent out were like the love letters he sent out in high school, falling into the sea without any response.
“Money is hard to earn, shit is hard to eat!”
After taking a bite of the plump white steamed bun, Chen Ba seemed to feel that it had no taste in his mouth, so he dipped it in some of the old lady’s hot sauce.
This is his lunch.
He calls himself an independent game producer, but in fact he is half unemployed. He currently has a serious lack of income sources. If he is not frugal, he may not even be able to pay the rent.
Yesterday Wang Kun told him that the UP host in the game area has agreed to make a video for [Hanchuang Kushu Simulator].
"Brother, you're going to be famous!"
Wang Kun was very excited, and seemed to think that with the promotion of such a UP master in the gaming area, the game produced by Chen Ba would soon become popular.
But Chen Ba didn't think so.
He is just a gaming video blogger with 170,000 followers. Even if his videos are really a little popular, it would probably be difficult to convert them into game sales.
This is especially true for games like "Study Simulator", which you will find boring if you play it yourself after watching others play it once.
"I'll be thankful if I can sell a hundred copies! My goal is not high, but if the total sales exceed a thousand, I'll treat you to a feast..."
Chen Ba, who pays attention to the game sales every day, knows very well that the current sales of the game are only seven copies in total.
That’s right!
In the past two days, only two "real" gamers have been added.
There are a few more comments.
The originally empty comment section suddenly had two positive reviews, and looking at the length of the game, they were both core players who had experienced the game for more than 10 hours.
One of the users was named "唱跳Rap". Chen Ba knew without guessing that it was Wang Kun. The positive review he wrote was of no reference value.
Another player who gave the game a full score and a positive recommendation was nicknamed "Qian Duoduo", which happened to be the same name as the game zone UP host mentioned by Wang Kun.
Chen Ba has been keeping an eye on him.
Ever since Wang Kun helped recommend the "Study Hard Simulator" to this UP host, he would check out the latest updates of this UP host every day.
After waiting for two days, there was no movement.
"I hope I won't be rejected..."
Chen Ba muttered to himself, didn't we agree to make a video for [Han Chuang Ku Du Simulator]? How come it hasn't been released for two days? Just as he was wondering if this UP host had played the game and felt that there was no need to make a video specifically for it, a push message suddenly popped up in the notification bar of his phone.
"The UP host @钱多多 you follow has released a new video, come to Pili Pili to check it out!"
Eh? Speak of the devil! After finishing the steamed bun in no time and gulping down a mouthful of fat house happy water, Chen Ba quickly opened the Pili Pili app on his phone to see if the video was what he thought it was.
[After three years of hard work, I finally got into the high school of my dreams. Dad, I have made it! ]
Wow? You're quite good at coming up with titles! When Chen Ba saw this title, he didn't realize the seriousness of the problem. He just thought that this UP host was quite interesting and could come up with such a "heart-stirring" video title.
As the saying goes, a good title will inevitably attract a lot of views.
Putting aside other things, based on the title of this video, Chen Ba feels that the number of views will not be less than 200,000. If the cover is changed a little more magically, 500,000 or even 1 million is not impossible.
It's a perfect grasp of the audience!
…
"Hello everyone, I'm Qian Duoduo! Today we are going to play a super super super super realistic pixel style simulation game - Hard Study Simulator!"
At the beginning of the video, Qian Duoduo's highly recognizable voice came from the speakers.
He skillfully named the character "Qian Duoduo", then entered the game, explaining the content of the game to the audience while playing.
"Although the graphics of this game are abstract and crude, the core is actually quite positive. It should be considered an inspirational game."
"At the beginning of the game, we will play the role of a first-year junior high school student from a poor family with a weak body..."
After the video was edited, the progress of the game was delayed very quickly. As a game producer, Chen Ba was well aware that some irrelevant content had been cut out by the UP host.
But this is normal.
After all, if it is not edited, how many hours will this video take based on the length of time it takes to complete the entire game? "...Okay, the first semester is over, and we are entering the winter vacation with the fourth place in the whole grade."
"In order to improve our grades as much as possible, we need to catch up on our lagging English learning during the winter break."
"I recommend that you do the same as I did. First, go cut grass for pigs to accumulate motivation for learning, and then do the side quests to get the buffs..."
As the video progresses, many game plots are presented to the audience, such as the most classic reading under the moon, father-son conversation, etc.
Since the video was uploaded not long ago, there are not many comments.
But among these few comments, most viewers, like Qian Xin, were impressed by the game protagonist's tenacious and great character.
"Come on, big brother herding cattle!"
"He really studied very hard. No matter it was windy or rainy outside, he always held a book and read it. I seemed to see my past self."
"Everyone in this village is so vicious..."
"It's too vicious, but gossiping and making sarcastic remarks are real. I've experienced this before."
The video is still playing.
Following Qian Duoduo's explanation, the audience saw a protagonist who always remained optimistic no matter what difficulties he encountered.
This also made everyone deeply moved.
Knowledge changes destiny!
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
After seeing the protagonist in the game working so hard to get into his dream high school, the audience in front of the screen suddenly had a deeper understanding of this sentence.
"732 points, third in the city!"
As a string of "We are the champions" and a string of flower emoticons floated across the screen, this video seemed to have come to an end.
Chen Ba thought so too.
The 25-minute video has almost completely presented the audience with the more critical plots and core gameplay content of the game.
If nothing unexpected happens, this video should end here.
But Chen Ba found that the progress bar of the video was still so long. Could it be that he guessed wrong, and there was still something that was not finished in the game? "... Seeing Qian Duoduo get into his dream high school, I think you are also happy and proud of his achievements like me."
“Studying hard is easy to say, but if you don’t experience it yourself, you will never understand the hardship involved.”
"I think Qian Duoduo deserves a better ending! So I choose to delete this save and start over..."
Ah? Are you not satisfied with being third in the city? After seeing Qian Duoduo delete the saved file and start a new one, Chen Ba in front of the screen was stunned.
What is this for? Being third in the city is already a relatively good result among the many endings in the game.
As for the first place in the city...
It's not impossible, but it's too difficult! You have to grasp every event buff in the game and not make any mistakes to achieve the first place in the city.
There’s no need!
As the producer of the game, Chen Ba knows better than anyone how difficult it is to achieve a perfect ending. It can be said that the purpose of the perfect ending is just to help bored players gain game achievements.
It's just a video, there's no need to spend so much time to get a perfect ending, right? "After my keen observation, I found a bug in the game, that is, there is a conflict between the cattle-herding event and the school-going event."
"That is, during school hours, if you are in the state of herding cattle, a bug will be triggered, blocking the school event that should have been executed, and the herding cattle event will continue in an infinite loop."
"And most importantly, learning motivation can be accumulated, infinitely! Learning motivation can improve the efficiency of acquiring subject experience, so the question is..."
“If I herd cattle for three years in a row and only start studying the day before the exam, what will happen?”
ah?!
This time Chen Ba was really shocked.
Watching the video, Qian Duoduo controlled the character to exploit this loophole, and herded cattle infinitely. He herded cattle for three whole years, and herded cattle every day except sleeping, until his physical strength was completely drained...
What does it mean to have a cow that has been released for three years? This means that the value of the superimposed "learning motivation" has reached an extremely terrifying seven-digit number.
The seven-digit learning motivation directly created a miracle.
The protagonist of the game, Qian Duoduo, has been a herder for three years and has not been to school for a single day. He studied intensively the day before the high school entrance examination and scored 748 points, the best score in the city.
"???"
"Give me back my feelings!"
"It's so funny, how could there be such an outrageous bug..."
"Compared to the outrageousness of this bug, I think the UP is even more outrageous, it can actually trigger this bug!"
“Is he really a genius?”
The barrage of comments was also filled with a series of question marks and shocked expressions. After all, even Chen Ba was confused by this incredible bug, not to mention the audience in front of the screen.
This... this is also possible?
(End of this chapter)