Chapter 7 (1/2)

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Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

Translated by Coldtaco

Edited by Aelryinth

His first attempt resulted in a score of 0. This was the first time Qiu Hengyang had encountered a situation like this.

After the bird died, a Game Over overlay appeared, along with Qiu Hengyang’s current and best scores… both of which were zero. Underneath that was the leaderboard, displaying — where his current rank was supposed to be. It was likely that his score was too low to be entered into the leaderboards.

Other than that, Qiu Hengyang had noticed the upper fourth of the screen was blank, and had the words Ad Space written on it.

Qiu Hengyang nodded: these words had changed his opinion of designer number Seven.

Qiu Hengyang was the founder of hengyou.com, and had been actively researching video games. Therefore, he valued the commercial model and value of games.

Many entry-level video game designers who have not been in the industry have the quirk of not considering the commercial model of their game during design.

In reality, a designer should think of the best commercial model for their game from the beginning.

As for casual games like this, they could consider between making it a paid app or serving advertisements. Different ways of profit could greatly affect the performance of their game on the market.

This designer had left a space for ads, showing that they knew the importance of commercial value, much better than designers who spend their time on insignificant problems…

Tapping the screen again restarted the game.

This time Qiu Hengyang prepared himself, tapping on the screen non-stop. However, the flight path of the stupid bird was too hard to control. Qiu Hengyang managed to clear two pipes before crashing head first into the third one.

“Freaking damn it!” Qiu Hengyang was not willing to give up, so he went for another attempt.

After five minutes, Qiu Hengyang had already restarted dozens of times.

As expected, it was easy to die in this game. Even if they put all their concentration in the game, it was possible for them to die within a few seconds.

Furthermore, after dying, another tap would restart the game. There wasn’t any need to consider if they wanted to, before they knew it they had played many rounds.

Qiu Hengyang’s best score was 12, a score that he had achieved by giving his all.

After trying a dozen more times, he finally managed to push the score up to 14, feeling like he was unable to think straight.

Qiu Hengyang noticed that after that attempt his ranking on the leaderboards had moved up to sixth at the end screen.

He tapped on the ranking and out came a leaderboard, sorted by highest to lowest score.

Of course, the names on the leaderboard were all in the format of ‘GuestXXXXX’. Chen Mo couldn’t have everyone create an account, as it would adversely affect the gaming experience.

However, the players were allowed to change their names freely on the leaderboard.

Qiu Hengyang scrolled down and was shocked to find out the leaderboard had five hundred and forty-three people on it!

-Five hundred players out of seven hundred in the audience? No way! How is that possible?-

Qiu Hengyang thought that the majority wouldn’t find a game like this interesting. The number of people interested in a simple tapping game like this had exceeded his expectations.

Qiu Hengyang couldn’t help feeling satisfied, ranking sixth out of five hundred or so people. This was a result to be proud of!

Qiu Hengyang tapped on his account name and changed it to his real name.

But before that, he scrolled down the leaderboards again, noticing that it was constantly shuffling. It looked like it was updated quite frequently, possibly every five to ten seconds.

After seeing the shuffling of the leaderboard, Qiu Hengyang couldn’t help but feel that the game was quite lively.

Scrolling upwards shocked him, it revealed the first place player with a score of forty-seven!

-Holy shit!-