System: Master Your Life-Chapter 830 - 204: Sales Exceed 100,000, Game Poised for a Major Breakout
Today, it’s drizzling outside, and the wind is quite strong.
Also, because it’s raining, the temperature is only 10 degrees.
Pretty cold.
Xu Lin can have the meals prepared by Ning Yuhuan as soon as he wakes up in the morning.
The meals are quite hearty: beef stir-fried with chili peppers, beef stir-fried with sour beans, and in large portions.
Ning Yuhuan is quite skilled in cooking, so Xu Lin enjoys the food a lot.
"Honey, my mom sent over some pickled cabbage again."
Ning Yuhuan pointed to the three cola bottles placed at the corner of the wall not far away.
"Help me thank Auntie."
"My mom said if we finish it, we should let her know, and she’ll send more over."
The newly sent pickled cabbage is the kind commonly found in the market, similar to the old crock pickled cabbage.
However, as long as it’s commercially available, it’s mass-produced, and anything mass-produced isn’t necessarily sanitary. After all, accidents happen big time, and it tastes disgusting, with a smell that’s hard to bear when you open the package.
But if it’s homemade by rural families, then you can eat it with no worries.
The pickled cabbage sent by Wu Xiulin is chopped before pickling to fit into the cola bottles.
"Are you going out today?"
Xu Lin asked.
"Are you going out? If not, I’ll stay here. If I’m a bother, I’ll go back to school."
"No bother, just stay here."
Very soon, Xu Lin was full.
Ning Yuhuan was in charge of washing the dishes.
At nine o’clock in the morning, the two returned to the room.
In the room, there’s a three-meter long workstation, and the two each sat on one side.
Xu Lin was working, while Ning Yuhuan was writing her thesis.
Lately, Ning Yuhuan has been working on an SCI paper. If all goes well, she can publish one by the end of the year.
In some universities, some students can publish several papers, even more than ten, during their studies. In such cases, there’s probably someone behind them, or someone with strong backing; otherwise, based on your abilities, isn’t that a joke?
People who genuinely produce a few papers on their own are rare.
Previously, Ning Yuhuan already had two second authorships, co-authored with Professor Huang.
Xu Lin glanced over; this time, Ning Yuhuan is writing on the topic of urban traffic planning and management, which falls in the field of economics, focusing on urban development with a perspective on Jiangdu, an international metropolis with a sufficient sample size.
Actually, if Xu Lin wanted, he could easily provide Ning Yuhuan with a very impressive paper, and if he also added his current Young Master Xu title, the paper’s tier would rise.
However, Xu Lin didn’t do it. Honest girls like Ning Yuhuan evidently wouldn’t take shortcuts.
Xu Lin then opened the backend of the game "Man’s Guide to Reversing Fortune."
How many copies sold?
The game officially launched at four in the morning; now it’s slightly past nine in the morning, about five hours in.
Sales: 4567?
?
How is this sales number so smooth?
And already so many sold in just five hours?
Don’t be fooled by only four thousand copies; it’s just five hours in, as the base grows, word of mouth spreads exponentially.
This game by Xu Lin is similar to a movie interactive game, a real-life game. For instance, a previously popular game called "Oops, I’m Surrounded by Beauties" is of this type.
However, my real-life characters are AI-generated; your real-life game requires actors to film.
Though in terms of game mode, this game is somewhat like GTA5 because it’s a complete story mode, but with AI-generated real-life characters instead of 3D ones.
"Right, let’s check the user age demographics."
Xu Lin opened this data and started to review.
16-24: 1321 people.
24-30: 2125 people.
30-50: 1121 people.
Hmm?
Where are my middle-aged folks?
Note, Xu Lin initially aimed at mid-aged targets from 36-50; however, 16 to 30-year-olds surprisingly represent over 3000?
More young people are playing?
Xu Lin pondered for a moment, quickly coming to a realization.
"I must have fallen into a thinking trap. This game’s genre is absolutely groundbreaking. As for its storyline, it could be disregarded because of my groundbreaking technology, which other games don’t possess."
Each time entering the game, character interactions differ.
It makes you feel like you’re in a parallel universe.
Even if shooting a film wouldn’t be like this. You see "Journey to the West"; there’s no plot with Sun Wukong killing Monk Tang, is there?
Obviously, there isn’t.
But things are different here with Xu Lin.
The first time you start the game, the protagonist goes out, meets a neighbor, and the neighbor says: "Xiao Li, going to work?"
The second time starting the game, doing the same, meeting the same neighbor, if the protagonist holds garbage, the neighbor says: "Xiao Li, going downstairs to throw garbage?"
They seem like real people in reality, as if they’re really your neighbors.
That’s the scariest part.
Have you seen such a game?
Xu Lin downloaded Little Black Box, intending to check things out.
Anyone familiar with Steam games will know about Little Black Box, basically a gaming forum. Little Black Box has over eighty million users, and Steam account bind rates exceed eighty percent, meaning there are over sixty million Steam players here.
Xu Lin plans to use this as a platform for game promotion; nothing is more direct.
So, Xu Lin registered an account.
Nickname: Young Master Lin.
Bio: "Man’s Guide to Reversing Fortune" developer.
Xu Lin simply invaded the backend and created a banner hotspot for himself.
"Do you want to turn things around?"
"Characters and scenes generated by AI, all characters simulate human thought, possess nearly autonomous human personalities, offering true ultra-freedom, allowing you to enter a parallel world."
