Interstellar Travel: Becoming a Dress-Up Game Designer

Chapter 27

After reading the letter, the player immediately thought of the golden bird from earlier.

"My great mecha commander-in-chief! The designer has finally come to her senses! The bird effect on the envelope she designed this time is actually something you can pick up!"

"Go, go, go! First, plant the birdseed. When my birds come, I'll put all eight kinds of birdseed in front of them. They can plant whichever they like."

"I'm going to buy a makeup box first; I'm really interested in this."

"Makeup, huh? Qingfengyi mentioned makeup in her latest video."

"Is it going to be a bunch of spray paint?"

"Huh? That's quite possible. Several spray clothing companies have said they've already partnered with Qingfengyi and will be selling spray kits designed by Qingfengyi?"

"It's spray paint; they're using spray paint in the video."

"What I lack isn't spray paint, it's the hands to spray out the clothes in the game!!"

"Hurry up and buy the makeup box! My mecha general is so beautiful! Pictures, pictures."

The first picture shows a lavishly styled treasure box, from which opulent cosmetic cases are neatly arranged on a table. Most exquisitely, the rouge and foundation are adorned with peony reliefs—breathtakingly beautiful.

The second picture is of the Silver Phoenix Box. The orchid-colored porcelain box inside looks elegant, and the cosmetics inside are made of phoenix reliefs! Each one is either flying, perching, or spreading its wings and stretching its waist. The graceful curve of its neck and the feather carvings that depict fine hairs are works of art.

Both sets of boxes are breathtakingly exquisite, as if the innate sense of elegance and splendor within us has erupted.

Suddenly, a lot of people flooded into the shop.

The players looked at each other, unsure whether or not to greet each other.

What's the designer up to? Why are there so many people in the store all of a sudden?

I'm so socially awkward!

The players instinctively raised their hands to cover their faces and quietly searched for the treasure box in the larger shop.

They didn't even provide a map, bad review.

Male players are fine; the sleeves of most of the men's outfits are quite large. Many female players prefer sleeveless cheongsams, and for the sake of convenience when planting flowers, they didn't bring their clasps. They suddenly burst into the shop. Seeing five thousand players densely packed together, filling the shop to capacity, was quite a shock.

Like a little rabbit entering a wolf's den.

There's nowhere to hide.

"Waaaaah, I suddenly think spraying clothes is the best!"

"Hey, don't be afraid. Call a few friends and go in hand in hand. You'll have plenty of courage."

Then, a spectacular scene unfolded.

People formed groups and linked arms to enter the mall.

Players were having a great time, imagining the grand spectacle of a mob boss parading through the streets in a chaotic brawl.

But the designer wouldn't play along!

We agreed to enter the elevator from the same place, but when we arrived at the store, we couldn't find our friend!

"Aaaaaah! Help!"

Lucky players can actually meet up with a large group of friends, walking hand in hand towards them, while single players tremble in fear and silently click the "go home" button.

If you're going to apologize, can't you at least hide from it?

"Aaaaaah, designer, come out and let's have a one-on-one fight!"

"I'm being played to death, help!"

"Someone tell me why the area you enter in the store is random. Is there any logic to this? Designer, come out and explain!"

"Designer, I'll give you one minute to explain."

"No, I don't want explanations, I just want you to remove the setting that randomly enters the shop area, please!"

"Designer, do you even have any friends? Have you ever considered the possibility of us breaking up with our best friends? Waaaaah~"

"Everything was fine before, I could make plans to go shopping with my friends, but now, it's all messed up, we can't even meet up anymore."

"Brothers and sisters, don't worry, if you don't see it, just try again a few more times and you'll see it."

"real or fake?"

"Seriously, I stood still and waited for my friend. After about ten minutes, all six of us were together."

After this information came out, many people started refreshing their friends list.

Other games are about grinding for equipment, but Qingfengyi is about grinding for friends. Ugh!

One particularly unlucky streamer spent a full half hour on his live stream sending virtual gifts to his friends!

I have two friends, but we couldn't even connect on social media.

My friend snapped, "You can play by yourself. We're not meant to be."

Then the other two friends went to play together.

The comments section is hilarious! Is it really possible for someone to be this unlucky?

"Don't be so sure, statistically speaking, it's normal not to get a spot in half an hour. You have to understand, there are a whopping 580 million players in Qingfengyi right now. If each server has 5,000 players, there are 110,000 servers in total. It'll be a nightmare."

"No way, go and curse them on the official account!"

There are quite a few unlucky players. This streamer just happened to be broadcasting it. The rest are millions of unlucky people who didn't show up and are waiting anxiously for their friends to send them virtual gifts.

Zhang Zhongxia took over Lin Qiaoqiao's job of monitoring the game. After seeing the negative reviews under the studio's post, he quickly went to check the comments under the game platform account. Goodness, the criticism was even fiercer.

He rushed to report to Lin Shuying, who was busy making clothes. Everyone needed a nice, formal outfit. The previous three sets were too worn out and needed replacing. In Lin Shuying's opinion, the most pleasing sight was when her employees were dressed beautifully, walking with a fragrant breeze, swaying like flowers—that's the style of a high-fashion brand studio.

Besides, surely no boss would dislike someone whose friends are dressed up nicely!

One look and you'll feel happy all day.

"Boss, how do we solve the problem of players not being able to get together? It's causing quite a stir."

Lin Shuying was bewildered. Wouldn't it be better to just go somewhere together?

"I gonna go see."

When she came to the game design and thought about this problem, after checking, she found that it was a bug caused by the random drop area program. So she added a program to make it easier for players with friend relationships to enter the same area, and also added a team function, which would guarantee that players who teamed up would enter the same area.

The maximum number of people in a team is five.

Then, two additional free gifts were added: a men's jade thumb ring and a Guanyin jade pendant, and a women's jadeite thumb-sized cabochon silver ring and a laughing Buddha. The ring has a silver setting with a hollowed-out base and floral trim, making it look elegant rather than tacky.

good looking.

This update was rushed; there were no envelope effects. Instead, a letter and fireworks explode right in front of the player, no matter where they are.

There's a little surprise in there—a negative player review, hehe.

Lin Shuying left the design section and went to browse the holographic world. She planned to buy some things to decorate the house in the holographic world and then check it out in the game in half an hour.

At this moment, the refresh point at the shop entrance is packed with people. Each one is craning their necks like flamingos, trying to spot their friend.

Nowadays, everyone is used to wearing the hairstyles and makeup of Qingfengyi, otherwise a basket of boiled eggs would definitely be dazzling under the lights.

At this moment, a countdown timer suddenly popped up in front of all players in the game:

[A surprise update is coming soon, please be careful when receiving it, dear~]

【3, 2, 1】

'Snap! Boom! Blah blah blah~'

A blinding white light flashed before their eyes, and colorful fireworks exploded. The players felt a slight stinging sensation, and their vision went blind for a moment.

A beautiful female voice rang out:

[Dear players, the issue of friends not being able to shop together has been resolved. This update includes a reading function for emails, and envelopes are now automatically placed in players' mailboxes. As compensation, currently, each male player will receive a jade thumb ring and a Guanyin jade pendant. Female players will receive a glass-type ice-egg silver ring and a Laughing Buddha jade pendant. Please accept this! Also, we hope all players will leave positive reviews!]

The beautiful woman's voice was playful and cute. Just when everyone thought she had finished reading, she suddenly blurted out another sentence:

[Designers work very hard to create games, so I'll throw a tantrum if you don't give me a good review!]

Forehead........

After the player's eyes adjusted to the mirror, they saw themselves with a face covered in black soot, covered in dirt, and dressed in tattered clothes, and their mind went blank.

"Aaaaaah, designer! You're inhuman! You owe me back my beautiful clothes!"

"Aaaaaah, my teeth! Designer, come out and challenge me to a duel!"

"Report this game! This game is maliciously attacking people! Report it!"

"How could the designer bear to let such a fantastical voice utter such cold words?"

Many players logged out of the game and went to the game platform to report Qingfengyi for maliciously harming players.

The person in charge of game platform review was also indignant; he was one of the players who had just been bombed!

Furious, I flipped through the game's design rules. Qingfengyi's actions were absolutely malicious and meant to harm the players!

Casual games are not allowed to include scenes of injury; otherwise, the game will be shut down and a fine will be imposed.

Scenes of injury, attack, and combat can only appear in combat games. Because these games are categorized as fighting or combat games, gaming platforms implement pain protection mechanisms. Casual gaming platforms do not have such mechanisms; adding more features increases management costs, and platforms naturally prefer to minimize these costs.

He preserved the evidence of the injury in the game "Qingfengyi". Although the pain level was reduced by the designers this time, it is undeniable that the injury was indeed caused!

Much of this evidence was provided by the players themselves, and when he compared it all together, he was overwhelmed by the final classification.

I was utterly incredulous. Qingfengyi is actually a fighting game?!

Can someone tell him when dress-up and flower-planting games turned into fighting games?

Since it's a combat game, why is the pain level so low?

The person in charge was filled with confusion and bewilderment, feeling as if the world had become a fantasy.

Qingfengyi is actually a combat game! It's actually a combat game...

Are players fighting against the designers?

This isn't really Lin Shuying's fault. When she designed the game, she simply removed all the existing items and rebuilt it from the original game. In other words, the basic settings remained the same; only the content, titles, descriptions, and icons changed. She glanced at the categories and didn't even notice them.

Haha, it's a habit from a past life.

In an era where apps hold apps hostage, all terms and conditions are lengthy and convoluted, with tiny fonts and huge documents reduced to two- or three-word buttons: Agree or Disagree.

Who didn't just blindly click "agree"?

They don't even read the online novel contracts the authors sign; they just agree to them...

As for the pain issue, Lin Shuying was hit on the foot by an in-game object while playing the game, and it hurt terribly. Being afraid of pain, she felt that pain shouldn't exist and tried to avoid it altogether.

This update intentionally added a tiny bit of pain, isn't that a coincidence?

The person in charge, looking completely bewildered, released the investigation results, stating that Qingfengyi is a fighting game that can involve scenes of injury.

I immediately contacted Qingfengyi and asked them to change the settings. A casual game shouldn't be categorized like this. If designers categorize games haphazardly like this, all casual games will be transferred to the fighting game category, wouldn't that be a scam?

Zhang Zhongxia informed Lin Shuying of the game platform's notification requirements. Lin Shuying hadn't expected such a rule. She immediately clutched her chest, relieved for a moment; she knew she shouldn't have acted recklessly.

Lin Shuying's principle in life is to roam freely within the rules and never explore outside of them.

After thinking for a moment, she said, "Qingfengyi is not a casual game, so your reply is fine."

Zhang Zhongxia: "But our game is currently a casual game."

Lin Shuying laughed and said, "What's happening now doesn't mean it will happen in the future. Let's just reply like this. Don't pay too much attention to the game channel. Just edit and release more videos. We've accumulated more and more videos."

Looking up, Xia Chunqi was diligently filming, each frame a stunningly beautiful scene that she couldn't bear to edit.

"Ok."

Players were outraged by the game platform's announcement, feeling that Qingfengyi was a scam game and that there was no fighting content at all.

No sooner had I had this idea than some mischievous players came out and proved it right.

The first was Deng Yijun, a wealthy man who bribed over 6,000 people to monopolize a section of the Wutongshu district. His livestream became incredibly popular, attracting as many as 80 million viewers.

Deng Yijun: "This area is my territory. Anyone who joins my team will receive 30 Star Coins per day and will be given bird food at my leisure. Once I've taken down all the birds, the rest will be yours. If you disagree or refuse to join, I'll just kill you and send you back to town."

He showed all players for the first time that Qingfengyi actually has a resurrection and return-to-base function, just like in the Star Wars game!

The respawn point is the original 10-square-meter player's hut.

The villains aren't the Zerg, but rather competing players...

"Streamer, don't go too far! This game belongs to everyone, why should you buy it out!"

"Exactly! It's not like you designed it. Just because you have money doesn't mean you're all that!"

Deng Yijun gave a wicked smile and splashed oil on the audience, "Money can buy you anything. Don't worry, with so many districts, if you don't want to join my ranks, you can go somewhere else."

He feels nauseous here, but there's another place where he feels better.

That's the area where Sister Xunmei is, and she's in charge of the crowd. Most of the players are female, and the main activity here is taking photos—all sorts of photos.

Sister Xunmei adjusted the camera angle, wearing her original green dress, with some sycamore leaves scattered on her body and a handful of wisteria petals in her hand, taking various photos with a flirtatious look in her eyes.

She stood up, and a player quickly went up to her, saying, "Streamer, can I use your pose?"

Sister Xunmei said nonchalantly, "Use it, it's up to you."

The player she had hired gave her the collected bird food, saying, "Ten bags this time."

Sister Xunmei laughed and said, "Fine, let's go get the money."

A bag of bird food costs 3 Star Coins, real money.

Rich people play games in such a heartless way.

Distribute ten bags of bird food to your subordinates, who are all family employees and more reliable than the player.

"Remember, when the birds appear, scatter the food on my head. Find a good angle so I don't get covered in dirt."

"Okay, boss."

She found a good position, looked up at the starry sky.

Over there, several subordinates brought out birdseed, and immediately many birds appeared. They scattered the birdseed into the sky, and birds of various colors took to the air with a whoosh, looking as if they had been attracted by Sister Xunmei, a truly magnificent sight.

She opened the bird food she was holding in her hand, and a long-tailed yellow pheasant landed on her wrist and began to eat.