I! Game Designer! Top Torment King Part 8

Girlfriend: ...

Zhao Qiang took a deep breath!

At this moment, his mindset had already changed.

The way this hammer worked was simply bizarre!

He suddenly felt like he had overestimated himself.

This game wasn't simple!

But his girlfriend was watching!

He had just boasted to her about how skilled he was.

If he gave up now, what would his girlfriend think of him!

No way!

He had to get through this today, no matter what!

Once!

Twice!

Thrice!

Ten times!

Twenty times!

Thirty times!

"First like this, then like this, and then—hmm?"

"Honey, don't rush, take your time..."

"First like this, then like this! And then—hiss!"

"Honey, maybe we should just stop playing..."

"First like this! Then like this! And then—"

"Honey, forget it, forget it, let's just give up..."

"Damn—!!!!!"

"Ahhhhhhh!"

When the protagonist sitting in the cauldron landed on the ground for the 120th time, Zhao Qiang finally broke down!

The keyboard was violently snapped in half, Zhao Qiang's eyes were bloodshot!

"Which bastard made this game! I'm going to kill you, ahhhhhh!!!"

"Honey! Honey, calm down!"

Countless players were experiencing almost the same thing as Zhao Qiang!

They desperately wanted to pull the bastard author of this game out of the screen and beat them up!

Meanwhile, Wu Wei's system's resentment points had accumulated to full!

Ability Upgrade!

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After the first upgrade, Wu Wei understood that the system didn't improve his overall stats each time, but rather a single aspect of his abilities.

For example, this time, the system had improved his game music abilities.

"Music, huh..."

This ability upgrade stumped Wu Wei.

A good game required the integration of various factors, true.

Graphics, controls, story, replayability, and so on.

However, music often played a role in games that wasn't particularly crucial.

How to put it, it was like the icing on the cake.

Good game music could amaze players.

But it couldn't save the quality of the game.

Therefore, this upgrade felt a bit redundant to Wu Wei, who urgently needed to improve the core aspects of his game.

"Emmmm..."

Wu Wei murmured to himself, lost in thought:

"How can music be utilized to its fullest potential?"

Meanwhile, at Ming Ye Game Company headquarters.

Xiang Dahai, the Director of Game Planning, stood in the department's conference room, his expression grim.

The team members below him kept their heads down, silent.

"Speak up!"

Xiang Dahai slammed his hand on the table!

"You were all so confident when making the game, full of grand pronouncements! Why is everyone mute now?!"

After a long pause, a young man with glasses and naturally curly hair timidly raised his hand:

"Director Xiang... this... no one could have predicted that that kind of game would become our competitor..."

The thought of that dull-looking character sitting in a pot, seemingly mocking the entire game market with their expressionless face, weighed heavily on the curly-haired man's mind.

Just a week ago, their department's pixel-art action game, which cost over 800,000 yuan to produce, had directly competed with Getting Over It.

Actually, no one had even thought of the term 'direct competition' at the time!

They!

Ming Ye Game!

They were a proper game company!

With planners, artists, and scriptwriters – everything!

Their competitor should have been products from other game companies of the same caliber!

Not a game from an unknown independent game developer, a small game controlled by just a mouse, like some kind of iron-witted simpleton!

The curly-haired man couldn't understand it.

How could that silly game, Getting Over It, with its anti-gravity ascent, even be classified as an action game?

He didn't understand, and Xiang Dahai understood even less!

How could this trash game completely crush their sales and seize the top spot on the Zhiyou Platform's action game weekly sales chart!

"This month's performance bonus is gone! Salaries halved!"

Xiang Dahai slammed the table again:

"Go back and reflect properly! Why were we outmaneuvered by a game like this!"

Xiang Dahai said furiously.

"Also, go find out who the producer of this game is!"

A chorus of subdued responses filled the conference room.

After a long moment, Xiang Dahai sighed fiercely:

"This failure is a lesson! You all need to engrave it in your hearts!"

"Now, Getting Over It is at the top of the action game sales chart, and we have no chance of challenging it anytime soon."

"Therefore, the company has temporarily adjusted its plans, asking us to immediately plan a different type of game to salvage this loss."

"Do you have any ideas?"

The oppressive atmosphere in the conference room finally eased a little.

Several employees' expressions brightened.