I! Game Designer! Ultimate Tormentor Section 2

Just as he finished, the door creaked open.

Roommate Zhang Zhiyuan was back from class.

Curiously leaning over behind Wu Wei, Zhang Zhiyuan asked in confusion:

"What's up, Old Wu? Didn't see you in class all day."

"Did the teacher call roll?"

"Call my ass. When have you ever seen the teacher call roll?"

"So see? Going or not, no matter,"

As he spoke, Wu Wei placed an iron pipe on the far left of the map, near the finish line, that led straight back to the starting point. He turned to Zhang Zhiyuan with a sly, mischievous grin:

"Might as well make something fun."

Fun?

Zhang Zhiyuan had no idea what Wu Wei meant.

From the looks of it, he seemed to be tinkering with a game.

Zhang Zhiyuan knew his buddy well.

He always liked messing around with weird games.

But unfortunately, because his games were all too boring, he'd never succeeded—not even selling more than ten copies on any game platform.

Probably this was his latest project.

"What did you cook up this time?"

"Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy."

Wu Wei stretched, leaning back in his chair.

"Wow—oh—"

Zhang Zhiyuan let out an exaggerated gasp:

"What a ridiculously lazy name!"

"Thanks."

"Did I fucking compliment you?!"

Zhang Zhiyuan was stunned:

"Can you pick an auspicious day and grow some shame for once? We'd have something to celebrate."

Wu Wei laughed heartily:

"The fortune teller said I'm missing the 'shame' element in my five elements, so that day's never coming. Don't wait."

"So what the hell is this thing?"

"Like the name says,"

Wu Wei spread his hands:

"A game where you swing a hammer to climb higher and higher."

"And the objective?"

"To launch yourself out of Earth, break free from gravity, go up to the sky and bump shoulders with the sun."

Zhang Zhiyuan fell silent.

What a refreshingly original objective.

"Can you stop generating garbage for Zhiyou's cloud storage servers?"

"Hey!"

Hearing that, Wu Wei took offense:

"Bro, this is a top-tier torture... I mean, willpower-testing game. Absolutely badass."

As he spoke, Wu Wei sat back down, named the game "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy," and added a line of description beneath it:

A top-tier psychological game for battling inner demons (Note: The computer is yours, so please take care of your computer and peripherals.)

"I think this game's gonna end up on Boss's crappy game review segment tonight."

Zhang Zhiyuan said without a shred of hope.

Just as he was about to publish the game, Wu Wei heard this and paused his mouse.

"What crappy game review?"

"You don't know?"

Zhang Zhiyuan said:

"Haven't you been watching Ah Yin's streams lately? Boss started a new game review segment at eight-thirty every night for the past couple of days."

"Mainly I browse newly released games on Zhiyou and do test plays."

"Because a lot of them are crappy shovelware made by authors like you, so the stream gets great reactions."

Wu Wei's face darkened.

"Say what you want, but don't make it personal."

So what if he'd made a dozen or so shoddy texture-mash games? That didn't warrant a personal attack.

"No, seriously, this thing of yours—tsk,"

Zhang Zhiyuan stared at the bald little figure sitting in a vat that Wu Wei had just made, looking like he wanted to say something but held back:

"Take a look at the character you designed. Is that something a carbon-based lifeform could even come up with?"

Wu Wei looked at the little guy in the vat and grinned:

"Don't you think he's kinda cute?"

Seeing the sly glint in Wu Wei's eyes, Zhang Zhiyuan's face filled with worry:

"How long has this been going on? What did the doctor say?"

8:20 PM!

Shark Live Platform!

Through years of dedicated streaming and his witty Tianjin-accented humor, Ah Yin had firmly secured his spot as the top streamer in the Console Zone!

"Thanks to 'Is This Monkey Selling?' for a Big Flying Gift! Appreciate it."

"Thanks to Swift Accelerator for a Rocket! Generous boss."

Just finishing his sponsored segment, Ah Yin clasped his hands and thanked a string of gifts:

"Alright, the promotion part ends here. Overall, this game has solid art style and music. The link's below the screen. If you're interested, feel free to download and give it a try."

The screen flooded with bullet comments—

'So fun, I already charged a hundred million!'

'Eat it up! Eat it up!'

'Do something useful!'

'Is that monkey for sale?'

'Review time! Review time! Let's go!'

'Start today's review! Can't wait!'

'If you open Zhiyou right now, I'll download the promoted game on ten phones instantly!'

'Go go go! Boss, go!'

As the first person reminded Ah Yin to start today's entertainment segment, the bullet comments surged in unison.

The moment countless viewers had been waiting for—the crappy game review segment—was about to begin!

Ah Yin had pulled off this new segment brilliantly.

Because so many hilariously terrible new games made for amazing content.

After just a few days, this segment had even surpassed the viewership of his regular streams!

Seeing the audience's cheers in the comments, Ah Yin smiled:

"Alright, alright, what's with you guys? Let's see what good games we've got today."

With that, Ah Yin opened the Zhiyou user client.