The Godfather of Gaming in Daily Anime

Chapter 48 Game Research Society

After the midterm exam, Muto Yu was packing his schoolbag while humming an impromptu tune.

The exams were held on Wednesday and Thursday, and the results were released on Friday. With the help of Kato Megumi in math and science to find out the gaps and fill them in, I scored around 80 points in both. Thanks to the TOEFL system, I also scored 80 points in Chinese and English without reviewing.

(The system initially provided information including native-level proficiency in eight languages ​​used worldwide. However, since I was in Sakura Empire, I first integrated Japanese. After all, the game needs to support different languages ​​for a global release.)

As for the social studies subject, which she was least confident about, she managed to pass with a score of 70 thanks to the preparation materials provided by Kato Megumi and the state she had regained before the university exam.

"Kato-kun!"

"Eh? What's wrong?"

Kato Megumi, who was packing her schoolbag, raised her head. Although her face was still calm, after spending a long time with her, Muto Yu could read some doubts in her eyes.

"These are the results of this midterm exam. Thanks to your help, I passed all my subjects."

"Isn't it normal for friends to help each other?"

"You may say that, Kato-san, but I can't just accept it so easily, so I want to give you a gift in return."

"Eh? A gift?"

Kato Megumi was stunned for a moment. To be honest, because she had a low sense of existence since childhood, she naturally couldn't make friends. This was the first time she received a gift from a friend.

"I don't know if you will like it, but when I saw this pen, I thought it would suit you very well."

It was not the first time for Yu Muto to give a gift to a girl, but he was still a little nervous, after all, the other party was the saint Hui.

He took the pen case handed to him, hesitated for a while, and asked Muto Yu.

“Can I open it here?”

"of course can."

After obtaining the consent of Muto Yu, Kato Megumi gently opened the pen case, and a slender pen that was completely black and dotted with golden spots came into the girl's eyes.

It's really beautiful, and probably not cheap.

Kato Megumi really wanted to return the pen to the other party, but it really meant too much.

The first gift from a friend in my life, the first gift from a friend of the opposite sex whom I also like.

"Thank you, I like it very much."

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I returned home, turned on the computer, and prepared to send a message to Liangfeng, Qingye and the other two. After hesitating for a moment, I decided to create a group.

Liangfeng: "Eh? What kind of group is this?"

Iijima: "The group leader is Muto, so it should be related to games? @xx (Muto Yu's Line nickname)"

Shinoda: "Wow, there's someone I don't know in the group. Hello, my name is Shinoda Hatsu@xx (Kato Megumi's Line nickname)"

In fact, Suzukaze Aoba and Iijima Yuune also noticed that there was someone in the group they didn’t know, and they were waiting for Muto Yu to come out and introduce him.

However, Shinoda Hatsu rashly tagged Kato Megumi without even thinking about it, which was in line with her carefree personality.

Kato: "Hello everyone, I'm Kato Megumi, and I'm a classmate of Muto-san."

Shinoda: "Kato Megumi, judging by the name, she seems to be a girl?"

Kato: "Yes."

Kato Megumi hesitated for a while. She was not sure whether this stranger whose profile picture looked a bit boyish and whose speaking style was a bit like a boy was a good person.

But since it was Yuu Muto who brought everyone in, he shouldn't be a bad guy, right?

Muto: "You guys are already chatting, why don't you all change your notes?"

Muto: "This chat group is mainly for understanding everyone's feelings, opinions, and suggestions about the Terraria beta."

Muto: "It also serves as a game discussion group. Everyone here is either already a game developer or is currently learning about game development. I think we'll have a lot of common topics in the future."

Muto: "Also, when I make a beta version of a new game, I'll post it directly in the group. If you're interested, you can download it and try it out, then send me the log files."

After Yu Muto finished speaking, Suzukaze Aoba immediately introduced himself, followed by Yuune Iijima.

After learning that except for the group leader Muto Yu, the rest of the people were girls, the atmosphere in the group quickly became harmonious.

Everyone started discussing their experiences playing Terraria, like how some bosses had too much health, how their mechanics were too difficult, or how they were unlucky and couldn't find anything good in treasure chests...

Seeing everyone speaking enthusiastically in the group, Muto Yu also showed a faint smile on his face, and then at this moment, his cell phone suddenly vibrated.

It’s a private message from Liangfeng Qingye.

Liang Feng: "Junior, do you want to add Ningning to that group?"

Muto: "Let's bring him in too. After all, he's a friend of Sister Liangfeng's and even participated in the game's internal testing. I believe in your vision, Sister Liangfeng."

Muto Yu looked at the message from Suzukaze Aoba, and then gave a reply without hesitation. After all, Sakura Ningning in the original work is also very cute, and she is a real baby-faced giant.

To talk about this matter, we have to go back to the day when Muto Yu sent the test version of the new game to Suzukaze, Aoba and Kato Megumi.

Because the character group had fallen behind a lot in progress, Liangfeng Qingye, who was still frantically catching up on the progress at that time, naturally did not have much time to help Mutou You try out the new game.

After thinking about it, Liangfeng Qingye asked if she could ask someone else to help with the testing, and she guaranteed that the person who would help was a good friend of hers named Ying Ningning, who liked his "Plants vs. Zombies" very much and was considered his fan, and that there would definitely be no problems such as game leaks.

And Muto Yu agreed without hesitation at that time. After all, he had read the original work. Although Sakura Ningning was sometimes reckless and often caused troubles of all sizes, her heart was good.

This decisive reply also made Liangfeng Qingye feel that Muto You trusted her. After all, in her opinion, he didn't know his friend Ying Ningning, so naturally there was no question of trusting her.

With the approval of Muto Yu, Sakura Ningning was also pulled into the Line group called "Game Research Club".

Ying Ningning: "Hello everyone, I'm Ying Ningning, a law student at XX University, and a good friend of Xiaoqing @凉风青叶."

Liangfeng: "Welcome!"

Muto: "Welcome!"

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Everyone welcomed Sakura Ningning's joining.

In the original work, Iijima Yuune and the others had to wait until the summer vacation to meet Sakura Nene when she participated in the test of Eagle Leap's "Elf Story 3". But now, under the influence of Muto Yu, everyone was able to meet her in advance.

Chapter 49: Only Children Make Choices

Ying Ningning: "Is everyone talking about Terraria?"

Sakura Ningning: "This game is really great. It feels like no matter what you want to do, you can do it in this game."

Ying Ningning: "And once you start playing, you lose track of time. Before you know it, a whole day has already flown by."

Ying Ningning: "The only thing I don't like is that I always feel a little lonely when playing alone. Xiaoqing is usually busy with work and can't accompany me online often."

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Soon, Sakura Ningning's message flooded the chat group. The other girls were very polite and did not interrupt each other. Muto Yuya just watched the scene with a smile.

On the other side, Liangfeng Qingye was very anxious. Such an action was too rude, so he quickly sent a private message to Ying Ningning, but she was in the middle of talking and had no intention of stopping to go out and take a look.

Helpless Liang Feng Qingye could only choose to call Ying Ningning, which made her stop talking incessantly.

After a while, Ying Ningning returned to the group. After calming down, she looked at the dozens of messages she had sent in a row, and her face became extremely embarrassed.

Ying Ningning: "Um, sorry, I was too excited just now and got a little carried away."

Liang Feng: "I'm very sorry. Ningning has caused a lot of trouble for everyone. I'm really sorry."

Muto: "It's okay, it's okay. This is a game discussion group. Everyone can speak freely about anything they want to say."

Muto: "And it's obvious that you've really put a lot of thought into this game, and you've even challenged most of the bosses. Thank you so much for helping me test the game so diligently."

Shinoda: "Yeah, I get excited when I come across a game or anime I like, so it's not really a problem."

Everyone was a gentle person, and Sakura Nene's rash behavior was just forgotten. Then, someone suddenly brought up "Magical Girl Moon Sentai", and everyone immediately started a passionate discussion on this topic.

Yuya Muto withdrew his gaze from the chat group, then downloaded the log documents that everyone had uploaded to the group folder, and began to sort out the various error and warning messages, preparing for the final debugging of the game.

I have to mention here that the log documents provided by everyone, the combined amount of Liangfeng Qingye and the other three, is less than one-third of Ying Ningning's log documents.

She really played the game very comprehensively and seriously, and experienced all the gameplay. The log documents she provided were also of the greatest help to Muto Yu.

Two days were spent debugging various bugs. The list was sorted according to priority, and then each one was fixed and deleted.

For Yuu Muto personally, this is a very enjoyable and stress-relieving process, but for other programmers, it would probably be an extremely headache-inducing process.

But if you think about it, you will understand that Yu Muto is creating income for himself, but programmers only get a fixed salary, and there are people who give them all kinds of advice.

The feelings you have will naturally be completely different depending on the scene you are in.

Various documents related to software testing were archived, and the final promotional post for the finished product "Terraria" was also released.

As always, every platform has a small benefit where you can leave comments under the post and pick ten people to receive game activation codes, but this time there is a new activity to find a way to trigger the game boss.

This activity is only available on YouTube. Reply to the message with the specified prefix. The first discoverer of each boss or major event trigger will be rewarded with two game activation codes. You can choose the activation code of "Plants vs. Zombies" or "IWanna".

Yuya Muto had already informed everyone in the group in advance, asking them not to leak any information about the test version.

Of course, such activities can still only be regarded as small favors, but the frugal Muto Yu is really unwilling to spend real money as a reward, even though his savings are now unknowingly heading towards 200 million yen.

After submitting Terraria to Steam for review, Yu Muto opened the system's game library again. Although the speed of releasing a small-scale game in less than a month is already extremely fast.

But Muto Yu still felt that it was a bit slow. The main reason was that under such circumstances, he had too little free time.

I made a lot of money, but most of my energy and time were put into game production. I couldn't enjoy life, so wouldn't this time travel be in vain?

"Let's set up a small game development studio before the end of this semester."

With this thought in mind, Muto Yu focused his attention on the translucent panel in front of him. He still chose a small-sized game, but changed the price to less than 500,000 yen.

Then, several non-first-person games that were also familiar to him in his previous life came into Muto Yu's sight:

The visual romance novel game "Senren Banka" priced at 160,000 yen;

The action-packed game "The Binding of Isaac" priced at 42,000 yen;

The card-based pigeon game "Slay the Spire" priced at 160,000 yen;

the sandbox base-building game "RimWorld," priced at 226,000 yen;

The top-down action-roguelike game "Hades" priced at 184,000 yen;

the farming simulation game Stardew Valley, priced at 96,000 yen;

The action-packed game "Vampire Survivor" priced at 50,000 yen;

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Many of these games are classics in a certain category. As the future godfather of games, he naturally cannot give up the title of developing these games.

But there were too many games to choose from, and Muto Yuu had difficulty making a choice, and then...

Only children make choices, adults of course choose to have them all!

As Yu Muto made up his mind, the deposit of more than 900,000 yen disappeared from the bank card in an instant, and was replaced by a large number of game development documents.

Then Muto Yu's mind was directly filled with a large amount of information. In the next few days, Muto Yu sorted out the large amount of information in his mind one by one. Even when he was in class, he no longer used the drawing tablet to draw, but was in a daze.

Of course, being in a daze is just an appearance to outsiders. In fact, Yu Muto's brain is always working at a high speed, and he has thoroughly understood the game development documents of the seven games he purchased.

After all, if you want to make a more accurate judgment, you must first understand the specific situation of each game and have a clear idea of ​​the development difficulty of each game before you can select the next game to develop.

Chapter 50 Qingye: One hundred thousand copies?!

Looking back at the three games that have been completed, "IWanna" is an extremely torturous abstract game, but it can be categorized as a horizontal version of the adventure genre.

"Plants vs. Zombies" is an extremely classic tower defense game. Although "Terraria" is a horizontal survival game, the later stages of the game actually focus more on magical adventures.

Looking back at the seven games I just bought, four of them are rogue-like games. Maybe this is God's will?

After repeated consideration, Yu Muto finally decided that the next game to be developed would be the famous "The Binding of Isaac".

In the world of the previous life, Rogue-Like games were actually a niche game at the beginning, and the game that pushed it to the masses and completely changed this situation was "The Binding of Isaac"!