"Download count: 5"
Manipulating the mouse to constantly refresh the developer's backend, Chen Ba felt a chill seeing the glaring words on the page.
How could this happen?
He was a man who had awakened the system, a destined son of fate in a novel, God's most beloved child.
But now, the pixel art simulation game he confidently developed had only five downloads since its upload to the Steam Platform.
Among those, one download was contributed by himself, after all, it's a buyout game, he had to personally experience the entire purchase and library process.
As for the other four downloads, they should be users he managed to pull in after shouting in the classmate group for a long time.
[The Hardest Core Game Producer System]
This is the cheat code Chen Ba awakened not long ago, and also the reason why he held great expectations for this game.
Though the system is a bit of an Iron Fool, only displaying the status of the game in development and providing various auxiliary functions, it doesn't allow the dumbed-down operations like other systems, having a cheat is better than not having one.
This game was verified by the system, receiving a completion score as high as 91 points!
Although the pixel art style is indeed outdated, Chen Ba's art skills are his weakness, doing this well was already exceeding expectations.
"Could it be lack of promotion?"
Chen Ba muttered secretly.
Nowadays, the saying "good wine needs no bush" doesn't hold true. No matter how good the game is, if you don't push it to the player community, people won't know!
[Cold Window Study Simulator]
This is the first game Chen Ba developed after awakening the system, spending three and a half months dedicated to its creation, priced at 18 yuan when launched on the Steam Platform.
Since games named "XX Simulator" are quite hot recently, he followed the trend to make a simulation game, hoping to ride a wave of free traffic.
The gameplay is simple.
The player needs to role-play as an ordinary middle school student living in a remote mountainous area, poor family background, working to share farm and household chores while studying hard to stay at the top of the class, eventually getting into their desired high school.
The core gameplay is that daily refreshed chores like herding, cutting pig grass, and picking corn consume the player's stamina, while increasing certain learning motivation.
With insufficient stamina, learning efficiency drops.
Learning Motivation will significantly boost players' speed in gaining subject experience during study, akin to a buff.
Doing no chores and focusing solely on studying doesn't work.
The core gameplay dictates that chores, main, and side missions must be done; otherwise, it triggers a failure ending.
Crazy working doesn't work either; with only one bar of stamina each day, if you don't allocate time for study, your grades can't keep up with game progress...
The completion degree of this game already seems quite good to Chen Ba, he was amazed to even finish a game of this quality independently?
The system is really powerful!
Ultimately, Chen Ba sighed that although cheating is shameful, it's effective, and instinctively compared it with similar games.
He found out that except for the rough graphics and abstract characters, his [Cold Window Study Simulator] completely holds up against those games made by big teams.
Even slightly excel in aspects like plot completeness and game playability.
This quality, the 18 yuan is a steal!
Unable to figure out why the game would be cold, Chen Ba could only assume the promotion wasn't keeping up, and for now, no one discovered this "treasure game."
Once everyone discovers how fun this game is, the download count will surely soar, and he will become a shining star in the game industry, embarking on the pinnacle of life...
Now is imagination time!
From thinking about how to write his signature after the game goes viral, to considering hiring a few bodyguards following fame, Chen Ba pondered for quite a while until a beep sound from the phone brought him back to reality.
"Hey? Ba!"
"Honestly, is this game really made by you?" Wang Kun, Chen Ba's university dorm mate, asked incredulously.
"If not made by me, then by you?" Chen Ba first snapped, then asked, "Did you download and try it? How do you feel?"
"One word, awesome!"
Wang Kun exclaimed on the phone: "How did you suddenly get enlightened to make such an awesome game?"
"I've been playing since downloading, the only feeling is that students from poor families have it tough, the part reading by moonlight while hungry made me tear up."
After praising the game, Wang Kun immediately told Chen Ba that he must enthusiastically recommend such a fun game his bro made in his friend circle.
"But solely relying on us for recommendation maybe won't attract many people, Ba, considered asking those game vloggers to promote it?"
"Yes, but I have no money!"
They are good brothers, Chen Ba didn't hide it: "Do you think I don't want to hire people to promote? The issue is where will I get the money to pay them for advertising?"
After graduating from university, Chen Ba first joined a famous game company writing client-side code, soon resigned and went to another internet e-commerce enterprise, later offended people for speaking too bluntly and got kicked out.
Roaming around for so long, he didn't save much money, as for asking family for money... already graduated, Chen Ba really couldn't bring himself to ask.
Moreover, his parents are not wealthy at all, just ordinary farmers facing the earth and back to the sky.
[Cold Window Study Simulator] is more of Chen Ba's own personal experience than a game.
Reading under the moon, he really did it!
Though it wasn't to save electricity bills or afford candles, it was due to a month-long power outage caused by extreme snow disaster weather.
Wang Kun is similar, both struggling.
Recently graduated Wang Kun, though his family situation is slightly better than Chen Ba's, he isn't some rich second generation, not able to help much.
Yet Wang Kun mentioned having added a Thunderbolt vlogger friend just, perfect that the vlogger also does game videos, they could help recommend Chen Ba's game.
Success or not depends on luck.
Even though Wang Kun said the vlogger only had tens of thousands of fans, they do take commercial orders, the chance of free help exists but is not as high as imagined.
"Try it!"
Wang Kun sincerely believes Chen Ba's game has great potential, so actively suggested: "Even if they don't respond, I'll help you promote in comments of various game videos, bring more players into the game."
"No need, you're acting like a spam bot!" Chen Ba felt exasperated.
Though he cares about game sales as it relates to his income, he doesn't want Wang Kun to help brush praises everywhere, inviting ridicule and mockery from random netizens.
He appreciates his good brother's intentions.
As for the crazily brushing comments unrelated to the video under each video, it's too provocative and unnecessary.
"Relax, this game is so good, it'll surely rise to fame!"
Wang Kun is confident: "Leave the recommendation to vloggers to me, if this one doesn't work, we try another, there'll always be bored vloggers interested..."