When I write a bug it becomes the core gameplay

Gu Fan opened the game editor on his computer and started looking for a suitable game template.

The game development technology in this world is very advanced. There are many useful professional tools for game development and testing, which can greatly shorten the development time and reduce development costs of various games.

As for art and music resources, they are provided directly by Hell.

According to Lilith, there are many talented people in hell, including many excellent painters, architects and musicians. For ordinary game companies, the original painting, modeling or soundtrack is simply a dimensionality reduction blow.

With "design" and "art" completely controlled by the devil, Gu Fan had almost no room for small tricks!

The only things that can be called "loopholes" are two points.

First, as a hell demon, Lilith can only appear within the 12 hours from 6 pm to 6 am, and cannot come to the human world for the other 12 hours.

Second, Lilith emphasized that once the game is released, no modifications can be made.

This is because the devil's method of using games to collect players' negative emotions is actually a contract, and the game content is considered part of the contract.

Although demons often play crazy word games and leave many pitfalls when signing a contract, they have an iron rule that once a contract is signed, it cannot be modified.

Therefore, if the game is modified or removed from the shelves, the contract will be invalid and the devil will no longer be able to gain negative emotions from the players.

Even if the game is changed or re-released later, it will be useless. An expired contract cannot be restored.

But with only these two loopholes, what can Gu Fan do?

Can he transform a rubbish game into a high-quality game without even noticing it under Lilith's nose, without being noticed afterwards?

Can he make "Reverse Heaven" become the most valuable game company in the world when Lilith only wants to harvest the negative emotions of players and does not allow him to interfere in the design?

Gu Fan fell into deep thought.

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In the next month, everything progressed steadily according to Lilith's plan.

Gu Fan successfully completed the development of "Hell Tracks" and spent another three days conducting simple tests using the testing tool "AI-debug" that comes with the official editor.

Normally, even if the game production technology in this world is more advanced, it would be safer to test the game for at least a week before releasing it.

But Lilith obviously doesn't care if the game has bugs.

After all, the game "Hell Tracks" is used to collect players' negative emotions, and encountering bugs is also a type of negative emotions.

If it weren't for the official platform that required the game to have no major bugs before it could be released online, Lilith wouldn't even want to leave these three days of testing time.

After submitting for review, Gu Fan also followed Lilith's request and uploaded some information about the game, such as promotional pictures, slogans, etc.

These contents will be displayed on the details page of the game platform.

The game's promotional pictures are easy to create, just take a few screenshots of the actual scenes in the game.

As for the slogan, it was written by Lilith herself: "Hell Tracks" will subvert your perception and bring you an unprecedented FPS game experience!

This slogan seems a bit headline-grabbing, but to the cunning devil, this level of lies is not even deception.

If the player is beaten by the mobs in the first level, you can say whether it is subversive or not! Let’s just say it’s an unprecedented experience!

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this slogan!

In short, the game successfully passed the review of the official platform.

The game will be officially released at 8pm on Saturday!

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"The show is ready to begin!"

In the rental house, Lilith was lying on the beanbag, holding potato chips in her left hand and Coke in her right hand, looking expectantly at the projected screen in front of her.

The rent in the imperial capital is very expensive. The monthly rent for Gu Fan's simple one-bedroom apartment reaches 5,000 yuan.

Although Gu Fan is now the president of Nitian Game Company, Lilith will pay him on time in accordance with the contract, but the monthly basic salary is only 8,000 yuan.

Whether this game can make money or not will directly determine whether Gu Fan will live a prosperous life or live frugally in the next few months.

There is not much furniture in the one-bedroom apartment, just a beanbag and a projector in the living room. Now that Lily occupied this position without any courtesy, Gu Fan could only silently move a small bench and sit next to it.

On the projection screen is currently the most popular live broadcast platform "My Neighbor Totoro Live".

Gu Fan pressed the remote control and found the live broadcast room of the first brother in the game area, "Lecturer Xiao Ding".

Lecturer Xiao Ding, whose full name is Ding Qiang.

His appearance was very unsophisticated. His hair was shaved into a round shape every few months. At this time, his hair looked a little uneven as it grew. He had an unkempt beard. According to him, he shaved every day and it just grew too fast, but the audience didn't believe a word of it.

However, Xiaoding used to be a professional player in FPS games. His reaction speed and game operations are basically online. He is also an innate talent for live broadcasting. Every live broadcast can always produce a lot of shocking program effects, so in My Neighbor Totoro The live broadcast undoubtedly won the throne of the first brother in the game area.

At this time, he had just started broadcasting. He faced the camera and shouted: "Brothers, it's time for dinner again, brothers!"

As soon as this statement came out, the barrage audience knew that this guy was on point again.

As an anchor, Ding Qiang has never refused anyone who comes to have a meal. No matter what kind of game he is asked to promote, he will accept it all.

Of course, sometimes he will be a bit "picky". After playing for a while, he can't play anymore, so he will find an excuse to run away.

But most of the time, he can still endure the torture of these garbage games and play them for as long as Party A requires.

And his audience is also very tolerant of him having a meal. Although they may not actually play, at least they are still very supportive of the scene. They are not like some anchor fans who get angry when they see the anchor having a meal. Crazy insults to the brand.

It is precisely for this reason that Professor Ding has become the first choice for some junk game companies to promote games.

Gu Fan already knew that the game that Professor Ding wanted to play today was "Hell Tracks".

Apparently, this is part of Lilith's game promotion plan.

Lilith's promotion plan is quite simple and crude, with a total of about 2 million promotion funds, of which 400,000 is used for the host, Lecturer Ding, who quoted 400,000 for a two-hour live broadcast; and the other 1.6 million is used to buy the official platform Exposure on other platforms.

Although the recommended positions of these platforms are different, the purchase cost in the industry at this time is about 3 yuan/person.

In other words, this 1.6 million yuan of funding can buy about 530,000 "live people" for the game "Hell Tracks", that is, the number of people who not only saw the game promotion, but actually downloaded and tried to play it.

The price for this purchase amount is quite cheap for Gu Fan.

Of course, it’s hard to say how many of these people can actually spend money to buy games.

Soon, Professor Ding in the live broadcast room officially entered the game "Hell Tracks".

Seeing the game screen, Professor Ding's eyes lit up.

"Hey! Brothers, isn't this game pretty good! Look at the volcano, the demon, and the gate. The art resources are very accurate!

"Is it high quality and big production? I didn't lie to you, did I?

"With 18 yuan, you can't buy it at a loss or be fooled. You can also try it for two hours before paying. It's not a good deal at all. I like to tell the truth."

Because of Lecturer Ding’s non-vegetarian character, he had to promote many junk games with rough graphics before.

This time the advertisement was placed by a small manufacturer. Lecturer Ding didn’t have high hopes at first, but he didn’t expect that the graphics of the game gave him some surprises.

The price of "Hell Tracks" is 18 yuan, which is the lowest among games of the same level and quality.

In fact, Lilith doesn't care at all about the price of the game. If it weren't for the official platform's mandatory requirements, she would even want the game to be completely free.

In order to deceive players as much as possible, she adopted a very outrageous charging strategy: any player can try it for free for 2 hours, and they need to pay if they want to continue playing.

Lilith is very confident. Let alone 2 hours, most players will be asked to quit if they can't last even five minutes.

What she wants is a one-shot deal, and she will use the first few minutes to harvest negative emotions frantically and persuade the players to quit.

If these hundreds of thousands of players can collectively provide a large wave of negative emotions after entering, then for Lilith, the plan will be achieved perfectly.

"Okay, brothers, let's not waste any more nonsense and get started."

Instructor Ding moved the mouse to "Single Player Mode" to officially start the game.

After a brief black screen, Professor Ding found that he was already at the birth point of the first level.

This seems to be an overpass or viaduct in the city, very wide.

There are craters or signs of damage everywhere on the bridge. Cars, buses, RVs, trucks, concrete mixer trucks and other different types of vehicles were parked in various directions. Some were riddled with bullet holes, some were just wrecks, and some were burning.

Looking up into the distance, you can vaguely see fire and hurricanes, as well as a huge gate to hell standing between heaven and earth.

Clearly, that's the direction he's headed.

A line of writing appeared in the upper left corner of the field of vision: "The only goal: to reseal the Gate of Hell." 』