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#451 - Final remarks

It's finished!

When I typed the words 'Completion Thoughts', I was actually a little excited.

Every time I saw completion thoughts before, I would look forward to the day when I finished writing a novel and shared my writing insights with readers.

It's like drinking a Coke and then letting out a long 'burp~'. That moment makes you feel comfortable all over.

It's not about saying something specific, but about that lingering aftertaste.

Let's just ramble on a bit.

Hehe, if you enjoyed reading this book, give it a 1!

The game development theme is actually quite niche.

The reason I chose this theme back then was because there was a previous book, 'Almighty Game Designer', which did quite well, indicating that there was at least a market for it and readers were interested.

Secondly, as a novice, I felt that this type of novel had a simple and clear main storyline, and relatively independent units, so even if one part was poorly written, I could adjust it in time.

Thirdly, a very simple idea: the excellence of an outstanding game, when expressed in words, should also be recognized.

Plus, I also enjoy playing games, so after comprehensive consideration, I chose the game development theme.

For the first book, it doesn't necessarily have to be a huge success, but it shouldn't be too bad, at least enough to give me the confidence to continue in the writing profession. That was the initial expectation.

Of course, I also had some wishful thinking, such as 'Losing Money to Be a Tycoon' had 17,000 first orders, so my first order of 8,000 (crossed out) 1,700 wouldn't be too much, right?

700 in collections, 100 in first orders.

This was the result when it was put on the shelves.

I wasn't too disappointed either. It's normal, after all, it was my first time writing, and there were indeed some areas that weren't handled well.

I updated silently, gradually got recommendations, and the subscriptions also increased.

Things are getting better!

The happiest time of the day was looking at how many subscriptions had increased tonight.

In the process of writing, I also encountered many difficulties.

At first, I thought it would be easier to write with real-world games as a reference.

But after actually writing, I found that it was still different from what I imagined.

To write about a game, you must first have a general understanding of it, right?

Taking notes, sorting out the content, and thinking about which aspects to describe in detail.

For smaller games, the time to understand the whole thing isn't much, but the content of large games is very complex, and you have to look up various materials.

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You may have looked up a lot of information, but only a tiny bit of it can be used in a suitable place.

For example, when writing about 'League of Legends', I had to check which heroes were released each season, because the exchange was for S4, and I couldn't write about the heroes from later seasons ahead of time.

And what were the skills of the heroes in that season like? They are definitely different from the current version.

Although I was an S3 player, it's been so long, I definitely can't remember.

I looked for information to avoid bugs as much as possible.

However, I only wrote a few chapters.

For games I didn't know much about, but were recommended by readers, I also checked out some videos to understand them.

Some I watched, but still didn't use.

Some readers said that what I wrote could be used as a game guide, which is true.

Compared to original content, it saved a bit of conception time, but meticulously recreating a game actually takes more time.

The update speed couldn't keep up, which was one of the most troublesome things in the middle of writing this book.

There were also some other problems.

For example, repetitive routines.

Lottery - Making games - Playing games - Lottery...

Interspersed with some questioning and face-slapping, or cat-stroking.

Infinite loop, this was also to make it easier to avoid writer's block and be able to write smoothly.

Anyway, the focus is on the game!

For the face-slapping parts, I always thought of various different reasons for questioning.

Ideal reader: What reasons will these guys find to provoke next time?

Real reader: Oh no, someone is questioning again, it's too cliché, I can't stand it!

Shrug~

Some things can only be summarized slowly in writing, and it's not a process that can be accomplished overnight.

The core of this book is about games, which was determined at the beginning of writing.

So the presence of the protagonist and some supporting characters became relatively thin in the later stages, which is also a pity.

I hope to write some more vivid characters that can leave a deep impression in the next book.

In addition to the core game, another theme I wanted to express is 'Life is more than just games'.

Or rather, 'Games, and more'.

Luo Shuai, through the game, met a lovely girl, then got married and held a game-style wedding.

This was inspired by seeing news about a Japanese player's wedding at the time.

As a side note, since I planned to write about this theme, I've been following a lot of game information-related UPs, public accounts, and game-related topics I saw in my space, and I've collected them, and I've gained a lot of strange knowledge.

Lin Fan, an ordinary office worker, obtained a promotion in his position through a serious work attitude - not written.

Anyway, I remember which chapter it was, the boss called in the group at night, and others were unwilling to pretend to be asleep, but he took the initiative to make a report and send it up.

With this attitude, promotion is a matter of time.

Gu Cheng, a League of Legends player with a typical protagonist name and a typical protagonist background, reached the peak of his life through the game - not written.

Thinking about it, after all, many people have written League of Legends novels, and writing one in this novel may indeed be a bit boring.

But seriously, popular games get more subscriptions!

Even if the content is written relatively poorly.

From the perspective of results, always writing about popular games, games that everyone is familiar with, the results are definitely much higher than now.

Daga, kodo waru!

I'm not writing purely for results.

I hope to introduce you to some interesting and fun games. Those who have seen it can recall the beauty of playing, and those who haven't seen it will want to play it.

Wuwuwu, it's just really miserable, when writing 'Ruined Capital Story', the additional subscriptions just kept going down.

It doesn't matter.

Li Ziming of Class 3, Grade 2, your mother...

Li Ziming initially liked Xiao Hong, but later became friends with Xiao Guo, and didn't feel much about Xiao Hong anymore.

Don't have puppy love, help each other in learning with Xiao Guo, brothers who feel positive energy type out positive energy!

In fact, there were some other ideas later, such as when 'Pokémon GO' came out, everyone went to the streets to find elves to catch.

When Li Ziming was catching elves, he found a dropped wallet, and then waited in place for the owner to return, waiting and waiting, and waited for the owner to return.

The owner was extremely grateful, and Li Ziming said smartly: Don't thank me, I'm just an ordinary Pokémon player!

But in the end, the owner still sent the banner to the school, so that the小伙伴s applauded him in admiration.

Regarding Li Ziming, I want to give him some more childish but positive energy stories.

Playing games is not a bad thing.

Li Jun, a policeman who likes detective novels.

The inspiration for his story came from watching a police station documentary on Bilibili.

At the fireworks festival, there were too many people, and some children were separated from their parents.

They were taken to the police station, there were no parents, and the children were a little uneasy, so the police uncle took out Long Yuan's mobile game for him to play, and the children were immediately happy and forgot that they were lost.

Through games, people's relationships become more harmonious.

—I didn't write about a suitable game to arrange this plot.

Wang Zi, from a student, began to move towards work.

And slowly moving towards maturity.

Learned two cooking skills in the game, and went to the kitchen to give his mother a Mother's Day surprise.

Although my mother didn't eat it, the love has arrived.

Actually, I wanted to write about Long Yuan sending a GG on Mother's Day.

I remember seeing a Mother's Day game GG on taptap before, my memory is a bit vague, it seems like what is your time used for?

You can play games for a long time, but you are very impatient when you call your mother - because you are in the game. Hang up the phone in a few seconds.

I searched for countless keywords and looked for a long time, but I couldn't find that GG, and I sent a private message to taptap to ask, and they said that they had not sent such a video.

It may be a public welfare video of a specific game that was confused.

So you must carefully record when collecting materials!

Otherwise, relying on memory, this embarrassing situation is likely to occur.

Tian Dou, a writer.

From a little newbie author full of longing, to struggling to make a living, to getting a little better, and finally selling the copyright of the novel, so that he can eat and drink without worry and concentrate on creation.

I want to too!

The game provides her with inspiration and the belief to persevere.

I saw a question on Zhihu last time, what is the significance of games for personal progress?

Hehe.

By the way, some people asked during the May Day holiday, is it because of this recent incident that you stopped writing?

It's really not.

The main reason is that I feel that there is not much room for improvement in the results.

The previous limited-time free recommendation, plus the two days of free preheating, increased the collection by 8500 in total.

This data is relatively eye-catching among the works with the same limited-time free offer, and even among all the works with limited-time free offers.

The collection before the limited-time free offer was 13,000, and the average order was 1,300, and the collection-order ratio was 10:1.

I thought the average order would increase by 5 or 600, right?

But it only increased by less than 100.

It's hard~

With so many collections increased, this book should still have some merits.

For example, the writing is okay, or some plots are written okay.

But maybe it's not 'that' exciting, and it's not worth continuing to subscribe after getting it for free.

Then I can only improve in the next book.

Regarding this recent incident that has been raging.

For me, it's actually like a student at the bottom of the class.

News came out that Tsinghua's admission score will be raised by 100 points.

I can't even pass vocational high school, do I have the mind to consider these things!