Survive in Azure Files

"Ugh... So, that's why we need the teacher's help!" Tao Jing said stubbornly, "There are too many negative reviews on the Internet! We hope that after playing our game, the teacher can give a fair and objective evaluation so that we can make a better game!"

Midori didn't say anything, but her eyes were exactly the same as Momoi's.

Yuka looked at the two stubborn girls and sighed:

"...Haha. Teacher, if you find it troublesome, it's okay to refuse now."

"To be honest, it is indeed quite troublesome."

I stretched out my hands and placed them on Momoi and Midori's heads respectively. "But after all, I have accepted the commission. I am a teacher."

"...Well, thank you for your help. You guys, remember to produce results that I will approve of."

Yuka said.

I vaguely sensed that Yuuka seemed to care about the girls in the game development club in her own way.

You are such a gentle girl, Yuuka.

Chapter 22: The Girl in the Closet

Yuuka left heavily, just as she came heavily. Yuuka slammed the door heavily, bidding farewell to the silly kid in the game club.

Tao Jing tiptoed to the door, put her ear to the door panel, and listened carefully with a serious expression to the footsteps fading away until they completely disappeared.

"Great!" Tao Jing raised her hands high and cheered, "We successfully defeated the big devil Yuuka!"

Wasn't it just the Four Heavenly Kings level just now? And Yuuka clearly walked away on her own, she didn't fight back at all, right?

Midoriya whispered, "Thanks to the teacher being here, the lack of decent results and the club funding issues were easily covered up."

I think that even without me, Yuka's sword of Damocles would only be raised high and then put down gently.

After all, Yuka is just a serious person, so she can be harsh with words sometimes, but she is actually a very gentle and kind person deep down.

If they were really as cruel as they are called, there is no way the game development department would be able to receive the allocated club activity funds as usual, delaying the submission of club activity results for several months as they are doing now.

Although I noticed this fact, I had no intention of telling the two little ones for the time being. After all, the interaction between Xiaotao, Xiaolu and Yuka is quite interesting, isn't it?

When the two sisters came out of their joy, I asked:

"So, shall we continue playing games for a while? Or should we have lunch first?"

It's almost lunch time now. According to the progress percentages provided by the two female developers, and taking into account the time wasted encountering various strange traps, I estimate that it will take until three or four in the afternoon to complete the game.

Playing this crappy game is really like being in jail.

"Ah, it's already this time," Tao Jing looked at the time displayed on the phone screen, "It's time to order takeout. The food in the cafeteria is really terrible, and the other restaurants are too far away, which is not very friendly to us homegirls."

Lu Shen nodded in agreement: "Although the prices in the cafeteria are very affordable, I think that unless the economic situation is not ideal, no one would go there. Rather than saying it is a meal, it would be more appropriate to say it is eating."

After hearing what they said, the Millennium Canteen was covered with a daunting veil in my mind.

I couldn't help but think of Gehenna, the lovely little cook named Fengxiang in the cafeteria. I can still recall the delicious meals she cooked with a homely warmth.

I have decided that next time I go to Gehenna, if I have the chance, I will definitely get close to Sister Fengxiang.

At this time, Xiaotao and Xiaolu were already choosing takeout on their mobile phones.

Tao Jing murmured, "Speaking of celebration, of course it's a party, so let's choose pizza. Well, this store has a high rating, and the delivery speed is also very fast, and the delivery fee is not expensive. Teacher, is there any flavor you particularly want to eat?"

"I'm fine with either, just order what you like."

"Okay! Then choose this durian..."

"No!" Xiaolu crossed her arms and stopped him excitedly, "No durian! Pass! Pass!"

"Eh? Okay... Oh, by the way, I don't know if Yuzu will be back at noon. I have to ask her if she wants to come with me."

Tao Jing switched the screen to MomoTalk and sent a message to the minister.

Ding Dong. The notification sound of receiving a message sounded in the activity room.

However, Tao Jing did not receive a reply the moment the message was sent. The notification sound came from the locker in the corner.

My two sisters and I were slightly startled and turned our eyes to the ordinary locker.

Tao Jing and Midori seemed to have thought of something, while I was lost in thought.

"Uh... yes... Yuzu forgot to bring her cell phone when she went out..." Midori tried to explain, but the next moment.

Dong. Something hit the inner wall of the cabinet again.

Silence is the game development department this morning.

After a moment, the silence was broken by the cabinet door being pushed open from the inside out.

A girl with red hair and a broad forehead came out from inside. Her messy hair was tied with many decorative white bows. She looked extremely cute, but she looked timid and flustered. She stuttered and said to me:

"Um, um... nice to meet you. I'm Hanaoka Yuzu, the manager of the game development department and in charge of planning... I'm sorry for staying in the closet... I didn't dare to come out because there were strangers around, and I didn't find a suitable opportunity later... I'm really sorry..."

"Uh, nice to meet you. I'm Xia Lai's teacher. Please take care of me."

After Yuzu and I finished our small talk, Taoi couldn't help but ask, "Yuzu, when did you go in there? Midori and I thought you weren't there!"

"Wow...last night...I stayed up a little late, so I just woke up not long ago..."

Being able to stay in a locker for so long without being discovered might be a special talent, but sleeping in such a small space all night is not a good thing.

Since we just met, I didn't know if there was any hidden reason behind this abnormal behavior. Yuzu seemed to be an introverted and timid type, so I didn't say anything to persuade her.

I asked, "In that case, you heard everything we just talked about, right?"

“Eh? Y-yes…”

"So what flavor of pizza do you want?"

"Ah... I... I'm fine with whatever I want..."

"I'm going to continue playing the game you developed. Do you want me to watch it from a closer position?"

After a while, as I watched, Youzi's head moved up and down shyly, barely perceptible.

The painful and tormenting time began again.

Xiaotao and Xiaolu were still sitting on my left and right sides respectively, while Youzi was sitting on the sofa a little further away.

When the takeaway arrived, the battle was intense. I couldn't even spare time to eat for a while. I could only endure the humiliation of Taolu and the two sisters feeding me pizza with their hands...

Hehe, I was just pretending. I was so happy that a cute girl would do this to me. I went to jail in the game just to have a development like this!

Time passed slowly but steadily. Finally, I controlled the character and successfully killed the final boss of the game.

"great!"

Momoi cheered and hugged me around the waist. Then, a beat later, Midori also hugged me while saying congratulations, though she seemed a little hesitant.

I couldn't help but burst into tears -

Finally, I'm out of prison!

"Well, teacher, although I'm a little nervous to ask directly..." After letting go of my hand, Xiaolu asked me a little awkwardly, "What do you think... of our game?"

“It sucks.”

I made this blunt comment with a straight face at first, but then I couldn't help laughing, ruffled the hair of the two frustrated sisters, and said softly:

“But it’s also quite interesting.”

Chapter 23: There is no more qualified sensei in Kivotos than me

Judging from the overall situation, "Myths, Legends, and Chronicles" is undoubtedly an unqualified game.

Not to mention the poor gameplay, lack of completion, and various traps that contain the makers' bad taste...although these flaws alone are enough to sentence a game to death.

Let’s just talk about the main job of the three people in the game department——

First, there is Yuzu, who is the department manager and game planner.

“The gameplay is the most mature part of your game, but the difficulty and value settings are somewhat unreasonable.

“Take the gun-wielding slime as an example. When you first encounter it and you are not familiar with its mechanics, even a good player will have to deal with it for a while before defeating it.

"This may be considered an advantage in a suffering game that uses difficulty as its main selling point, but your game is not considered in this direction, right?"

Yuzu remained silent and did not reply.

Secondly, there is Green who is responsible for painting.

"Let me confirm first, the art for the game was all done by you alone, right?"

After receiving a positive response, I continued:

"I guess you don't have any experience in this area before. The difference in art style between the game before and after is quite big.

“It can be seen that the painting becomes more mature as the film progresses, but in the important early stages, there is really nothing that can catch the eye, and when the early and late stage portraits appear on the same screen, the contrast is too strong.

"If we had time to correct the previous ones, the physical experience might be much better, but game production has a deadline after all, so there is nothing we can do about it."

Xiaolu pouted and lowered his head.

Finally, it’s the script writer Tao Jing.

“The script was just catastrophic.

“Confusing typos, a lot of useless settings, and a hodgepodge of plots that feel like déjà vu…

"If you really have the patience, you can easily find a dozen contradictory plots.

“The climax at the end was pretty good, the atmosphere was set, but it was a bit too exaggerated.

"I don't know if they didn't think about how to write the ending, so they just left a lot of blank space...Looking back at the beginning, I feel like laughing?"

Tao Jing wailed and muttered "crying" repeatedly.

In the small game development department's activity room, a heavy and depressing atmosphere spread, as if Yuka was still here.

After criticizing the girls' work, I took a deep breath and said with deep emotion:

"But it is precisely because of these flaws that people are looking forward to playing its sequel."

The slightly depressed girls all raised their heads and cast expectant glances at me.

“The experience and skills of making games can be accumulated and learned. Therefore, the love for games is the most important thing.”

I smiled and said, "This is the only thing I can see from the answer sheet you submitted that is full of mistakes and omissions.

“To be honest, playing your game is really like being in prison, but looking back after completing it, I can see that your passion and hard work have been successfully conveyed to me.

"Yuzu's numerical planning is rigorous and precise, and it can be seen that a lot of effort has been put into it; Midori's paintings can be seen to have been the result of hard research and study; although Tao Jing's script has loopholes, she has tried hard to express the ideas she wanted to express."

"Also, even though it's only a little bit, I think your game is quite interesting."

I just don't want to play it a second time.

"Besides, not every game can be ranked first on the annual bad review list, right? Especially a game like Myths, Legends, and Chronicles that was made by a novice team and had almost no publicity.

"If it is a completely worthless, shoddy work, it will not attract enough players to play and review it.

"I've also seen all the negative reviews online, almost all of which are mocking various flaws... But if you haven't played the game yourself, how can you know the shortcomings of your game?"

Of course, there are also players who have heard of this game and try it out of curiosity, but let's happily ignore this for now.

"So, think about it from another perspective. Even Myths, Legends, and Chronicles has its own unique shining points. If you experience a painful failure, learn from it, and work hard to make up for the current shortcomings.

“The next game you release will surely be praised by people as interesting, right?

"At least, I'm looking forward to playing your next game... or rather, please let me play it. If you need people to test the game, feel free to come to me.

"I'm looking forward to the new work of the game development department."

After saying all this in one breath, I took a deep breath, then picked up the drink I ordered when I ordered takeout at noon, the grapefruit tea that I hadn't finished yet, and took a sip to moisten my throat.

Supporting students' passion and pursuit is also the responsibility of teachers.

Therefore, I look forward to the next work of the game development department, and I also look forward to being sandwiched between the petite and cute twin girls next time.

Is there a better teacher than me in Kivotos?!

Obviously, no.