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"So, where did you hit?"

"I've already finished the main storyline, and I'm halfway through the mini-game."

"..."

Shinoda Hatsu was silent for a while, then returned to his carefree state.

"Ah, it's just that we can't decide the winner this time. Aoba, why do you look so guilty? It's not a big deal."

"Eh? Chujie doesn't blame me?"

"What's so strange about this? But from now on, you must fulfill your promises!"

As Shinoda Hatsu said this, he gave Suzukaze Aoba a thumbs up. The tolerant and generous smile on his face made the girl, who was originally filled with tension and self-blame, feel a little touched.

"Hehe, now I should be acting like a senior, forgiving the junior with generosity and admonishing him to abide by the agreement."

Shinoda Hatsu was thinking this in her heart, and then Iijima Yuune beside her suddenly said this.

"So, Shinoda-senpai, who keeps his promise, agreed with Muto yesterday to be at his place at nine o'clock. It's already three minutes past nine."

"Eh?"

Shinoda Hatsu was stunned for a moment, then looked at Iijima Yuune and continued.

"In other words, we are now in breach of contract."

"I just told my juniors to keep their promises, but the next second I broke my promises to others. Why do all kinds of things always happen when I think of being a senior?"

Shinoda Hatsu, who was doubting his life, had no time to think about anything else, because it was already past the agreed time, so he naturally had to rush over as soon as possible.

When they arrived at the Muto house, Muto Yu did not blame them for being less than ten minutes late than the agreed time.

At least in Muto Yu's opinion, if a girl is ten minutes late, can that be considered late? That's not good at all.

However, Shinoda Hatsu and the others were quite serious and apologized to Muto Yuu for being late for less than ten minutes.

'So, it turns out that girls in the 2D world are really great. I will never regret joining the 2D world.'

Liangfeng Qingye only had half of the game left, and he finished it all in a short time. Muto You took over the computer, and went directly into the game's installation directory, and opened a special file.

This is a file specific to the debug version, which prints detailed information about all warnings and errors during the game, making it easier for him to debug later.

“Are these all bugs?”

"You can understand it that way."

“So all of this needs to be changed?”

"Not necessarily. Some warnings are fine to leave alone, but others need to be taken seriously and the program modified to avoid causing bigger problems. Errors generally need to be addressed. Unless absolutely necessary, known errors should not be retained."

"A last resort?"

"Well, programming can be quite mysterious sometimes. If I develop it alone, I'll know everything from start to finish, and it'll be easier to fix any errors."

While briefly browsing the contents of the log file, he explained the so-called unavoidable situation to Liangfeng Qingye in a relatively easy-to-understand way.

"If a large team is developing software, sometimes fixing a bug will cause the entire program to crash, but fixing that bug will allow the program to run normally again."

"So it really is metaphysics?"

Hearing Liangfeng Qingye's curious questioning, Muto You also showed an expression of being at a loss whether to laugh or cry on his face.

"Of course not. It just seems very mysterious. In fact, there is a problem with the code. However, due to the limitations of each programmer's ability level, the code they write is also different."

"The kind of situation I just mentioned is not because the better programmers don't want to fix the error, but because sometimes even the best programmers find it difficult to do so, especially with large-scale software."

Of course, although this is a necessary thing, it also poses a security risk. In the past, there were many cases where software crashed due to this problem, resulting in terrible losses.

Chapter 26 Plants vs. Zombies Settlement

After filtering out the warnings and error messages that needed debugging and improvement, Muto Yu returned the computer to Suzukaze Aoba.

Shinoda Hatsu and Iijima Yuune were still a long way from completing the game, and Muto Yuu didn't bother to disturb their thoughts. After the two of them finished the game, the log files they produced would be summarized and that would be about the same.

"Sister Liangfeng has already experienced it completely. Do you have any opinions or suggestions?"

"As for my opinion, I think this game is quite interesting and will definitely be a big hit. It's much better than my junior's first game, 'IWanna'."

His words revealed his fear and dread of "IWanna". It can only be said that the game, which focuses on ultimate torture, has left too deep a psychological shadow on Liangfeng Qingye.

"Don't worry, we won't be making games that deliberately torture people in the future. While we'll have plenty of extremely difficult games, most of them are large-scale games that won't be realized in the short term."

"Huh? If the games were too difficult, would anyone actually buy them?"

"Yes, those who consider themselves high-level players, live broadcasters, and short video content creators... As long as the quality of such games is up to par, they don't have to worry about sales."

What Muto Yu was talking about were soul-like games. These 3A masterpieces, which are famous for their high difficulty, are naturally works that he will not miss in the future.

Just as he said, as long as the quality of the game is good, there will be people who will challenge it no matter how difficult it is, and the extremely high difficulty will also make players think about comparison.

I have reached the second round, and you haven't even completed the first round. In terms of gaming strength, it is obvious who is stronger and who is weaker.

"Then... good luck to you, junior."

Suzukaze Aoba hesitated for a while, but still chose to encourage Muto Yu, even though she herself had developed PTSD due to the word "super difficult" mentioned by the other party because of the game "IWanna".

Because Iijima Yuune and the others came at nine in the morning, by noon, the two of them had just finished the main storyline and had basically not touched the mini-game part.

Although Muto Yu had the idea of ​​keeping the three of them at home for lunch, he gave up the idea after thinking about it carefully.

If it was just Suzukaze Aoba, it might be possible, but with Shinoda Hatsu and Iijima Yuune, two strangers who I don't chat with much on Line and have only met three times offline including today, it seems a bit inappropriate.

Or maybe the relationship isn't that close yet.

Then Suzukaze Aoba took Iijima Yuune and Shinoda Hatsu to her house for lunch, and they agreed to come together again in the afternoon.

Speaking of which, it was the first time that Iijima Yuune and Iijima Aoba had dinner at Suzukaze Aoba's house.

..............................

The test of the mini-game part in the afternoon also went smoothly. Against the backdrop of the setting sun, Muto Yu and Suzukaze Aoba sent Iijima Yuune and the other girl to the tram station, watched them get on the tram, and then went back.

When he returned home, he was the only one left alone in the room, but Muto Yu did not feel sad at all, and he had no time or energy to be sentimental about anything.

Because next, he will refer to the various warning and error log information generated during the three people's trial play to perform the final debugging of "Plants vs. Zombies".

After doing all this, Muto Yu immediately uploaded the game to the Steam platform and sold it for 420 yen.

Once the review is completed, he can put the game directly on the shelves. The review process takes a few hours at the fastest and two or three days at the slowest. There is no problem in releasing the game on time on Wednesday.

And this process was much faster than Muto Yu had expected.

The next day, which was Monday, after returning home from school, Yu Muto suddenly opened the backend of Steam. At this moment, the status of "Plants vs. Zombies" that he had uploaded just yesterday had changed to approved.

However, after thinking about it, Muto Yu decided to launch the sale on time, without delaying or sneaking ahead with the release.

Time flies and it is Wednesday. As previously advertised on various social platforms, "Plants vs. Zombies" officially opened purchase and download channels at 8 o'clock on Wednesday morning.

During the lunch break at noon, Yu Muto accessed the backend of the Steam web version through his mobile browser and saw the sales situation from the release to the present four hours.

In just less than half a day, the sales of "Plants vs. Zombies" exceeded 30,000 copies, although the purchasing users were mainly concentrated in the Sakura Empire.

However, Yu Muto is quite confident in this game. The sales of the previous "Plants vs. Zombies" exceeded 30 million copies, and in this world with stronger copyright protection, the final sales may even increase.

Of course, the 30 million copies in the previous life were accumulated over many years, and it is impossible to get so much money in a short time, but with it, there is no need to worry about funding issues when developing various small-scale games in the future.

The future living consumption level can be slightly raised. After all, isn’t the purpose of making money to make your life more comfortable?

But the most important thing is...

"Ding! Plants vs. Zombies has been released, settlement in progress..."

"Ding! Settlement completed, the final settlement points reward for "Plants vs. Zombies" is eight points!"

"Ding! As the host's second game, I'm giving you an extra incentive reward—Home Cooking Level 1!"

After looking at the extra rewards, Muto Yu focused his attention on the points reward. Compared with the last "IWanna", the points he got this time increased by three points.

What needs to be mentioned here is that the formula for calculating points has hundreds of variables, and the game's publicity and promotion efforts, actual development costs, future sales, players' deep-seated satisfaction, etc. are all small variables among them.

After the settlement of "IWanna", Yu Muto also carefully studied the point calculation formula in the system manual, and finally concluded that it was better to proceed with normal development naturally.

There is no rush, and it is quite difficult for these small-scale games to significantly increase the number of points in the final settlement. On the contrary, those large-scale 3A masterpieces can obtain considerable additional points even if their ratings are only slightly improved.

Getting back to the topic, eight points is already a considerable asset for Yu Muto now, and he can't wait to add points to himself.

"Muto-san, I bought one too!"

Suddenly, a light voice came from beside him. Without turning around, Muto Yu knew it was Kato Megumi's voice.

Chapter 27 Inviting Kato Megumi

Looking at Yu Muto who had been sitting in his seat and staring at his mobile phone screen in a daze after class, Kato Megumi hesitated for a moment and walked over with some curiosity.

After all, she has become accustomed to having lunch with Muto Yu. The communication time at noon every day is one of the few times that Kato Megumi can talk to others.

After walking over, Kato Megumi saw the real-time sales of "Plants vs. Zombies" on the backend of the Steam website displayed on Muto Yu's mobile phone screen.

Blinking her eyes, Kato Megumi thought for a while, took out her mobile phone, and clicked on the mobile version of the Steam store. She added "Plants vs. Zombies" directly to the shopping cart and paid.

After doing all this, Kato Megumi spoke to Muto Yu. When the other party turned around, she gently shook the screen of her mobile phone, which was stuck on the interface of thanking you for the purchase.

"Thank you for your support, Kato-san."

Only then did Yuu Muto come back to his senses from the translucent personal panel that only he could see. He casually refreshed the background data and saw that the game's sales had moved forward a little towards 40,000.

Muto Yu nodded with satisfaction, then put his phone back in his pocket, took out his lunch box from his schoolbag, and as usual, moved his chair to Kato Megumi's side.

"The new game must be selling very well, right? The smile on Muto-san's face is beyond words."

"That's really good. There's a chance we can break 50,000 sales today. We might even make tens of millions of yen today."

"Tens of millions?!"

Listening to Muto Yu's words, Kato Hui, who had always been calm and composed and was nicknamed "Saint Hui", slowly widened her eyes and looked at him with an expression of disbelief.

Kato Megumi had already understood that Muto Yu was different from high school students like her, at least when it came to making games, he was an absolute genius.

But after hearing what Muto Yu said about his daily income reaching tens of millions of yen (after tax), Kato Megumi realized that even though she had evaluated him as highly as possible, she still underestimated his talent.

At this moment, Kato Megumi inevitably had some inferiority complex in her heart. Even though she had not yet started working, she had heard from her father that the economy had been in recession recently, and her father, who used to have a monthly salary of 500,000 yen, now had his monthly salary reduced to 400,000 yen.

Ten million yen would require his father to work for twenty-five months without eating or drinking, but for Muto Yu, it is just one day's income.

"What's wrong? Are you shocked by this number?"

"Indeed, Muto-san is truly amazing. Compared to you, I feel so ordinary."

Kato Megumi naturally felt envious, but she and Muto Yu were friends after all, so she only felt envious and had no jealousy or hatred.

"Kato-san, do you want to play games with me?"

Yu Muto suddenly spoke up. He had had this idea for a while. According to the system's user manual with over a million words, he could buy the development documents in the game library and directly let other teams carry out the development.

As long as Yu Muto has control over the team during this process and his investment in the game accounts for 70% or more, system settlement can be carried out after the game is completed and released.

Although doing so will lower some of the evaluation and reduce the final points obtained, it saves time and energy.

After all, there are now thousands of games in the game library, and during this period, Muto Yu also discovered that this game library is not static, but is updated in real time.

As time goes by, in the world of his previous life, the highly acclaimed or high-quality games released after he traveled through time will also appear in the system's game library.

On the other hand, if you want to develop various 3A masterpieces, a team is indispensable. If you develop a game of tens or even hundreds of GB by yourself, it will really take ten years to sharpen a sword.

Yuuko Muto doesn't have the patience to work hard for ten years. If he had that much time, he could build a qualified team. Maybe their skills would all reach Level 10, and their attributes would exceed 100.

"Eh? Me?"

"Yes, it's you."

Seeing Kato Megumi, who usually remained calm, showing an expression of surprise and hesitation on her face, Muto Yu felt an inexplicable sense of accomplishment.

"But... I'm just an ordinary high school girl with average grades. Making games... I can't do it."

If Muto Yu was just an ordinary person and the games he made were not very successful, Kato Megumi might still play around with him for a while because they were friends.

But there are no ifs in this world. Kato Megumi was surprised at first at Muto Yu's invitation, but soon this surprise turned into loss and despair.

In terms of talent, they are from completely different worlds. Kato Megumi knows that she is just an ordinary high school girl. Even if she accepts the other party's invitation, she will only be holding the other party back.

"Kato-san, if you don't even try, how can you know if you have talent in that area?"

"This……"