World Bubble Battle Royale! (Seeking double Monthly Passes at the start of the month!)

For every individual and company involved in game development—even the entire game development industry—this was a day that would determine their fate.

Game developers who received widespread acclaim in the Creativity Competition could earn enough in a single round to last them a lifetime.

If enough people and teams made money, allowing large numbers of companies to survive and keeping employees from losing their jobs, it would be a major boon for the entire industry.

If—if this competition generated more revenue for the industry than traditional publishing methods did in an entire year, and Boss Xu was willing to keep holding it year after year—

Then the entire game development industry would rise from its coffin in an instant, perhaps even becoming a golden industry far greater than it had ever been before!

—After all, game development used to take years, and publishing a game required additional spending on promotion and adapting it to different platforms.

Whether in time, effort, or financial cost, none of it was insignificant.

But in the Virtual World, things were completely different!

With the Genesis Engine provided by Xu Meng, development speed was practically like flying on a plane.

Though this time was a special case, with developers around the world desperately crunching overtime to compress the schedule into four months, making plenty of compromises along the way.

Even without risking their lives like this, a team could relax and develop at a leisurely vacation pace, and a year would still be more than enough.

There was no need to overthink promotion either—an event hosted by Boss Xu drew the attention of hundreds of millions of users worldwide. That was the best promotional platform possible!

As long as this Creativity Competition achieved tremendous success, and as long as Boss Xu was willing to support it,