Chapter 87: Chapter 86: We Can Milk Jingchuan Xiaoyu!

Gu Yu woke up at eight in the morning.

By the time he got out of bed, Boss Pu and the others had already left.

But there was still a steaming breakfast on the table, indicating they hadn't been gone for long.

He quickly got out of bed and freshened up, munching on baozi while checking for any Feixin messages from last night that he hadn't replied to.

Sure enough, Mr. Chen Tian had sent him a message at midnight.

Chen Tian, "The game Life Simulator developed by your Ideal Paradise has been launched on the Shengda Game Platform. Download the Shengda Game app and you'll find your game on the Today's New Releases page."

Chen Tian, "I'll see how the feedback goes on my end, and if the download numbers look good, I'll help you get even better exposure later."

Chen Tian, "Sigh, you guys didn't come to play golf, there were a lot of beauties here today, wow!"

[Photo: Chen Tian wearing sunglasses, sitting in a golf cart, surrounded by cool beauties.jpg]

Gu Yu tugged at the corner of his mouth as he looked at the photo, Old Mr. Chen was truly unabashed in his lechery!

But it was precisely because of Old Mr. Chen's straightforward personality that there were no communication barriers between them.

After a moment's thought, Gu Yu replied briefly,

"Thank you so much! You're truly vigorous in your old age, I wish you a fun time playing golf today. /smirk"

After sending the message, Gu Yu was about to put down his phone when Old Mr. Chen replied instantaneously.

"Haha, playing with both big and small balls, of course I'm having fun! [Video (close-up of big balls.mp4)]"

Gu Yu opened the video, but in less than two seconds, he hurriedly closed it.

Damn exciting!

He hadn't expected Old Mr. Chen to be so open to fun!

With nothing more to say, he casually sent back a "thumbs up" emoji, then Gu Yu returned to the home screen of his phone and opened the app store to search for Shengda Game.

His phone was still an old model with 4G network and 4GB of RAM, so both download and installation speeds were slow.

An 80MB app took two minutes to download and another minute to install.

"It's time to change phones…"

Gu Yu thought to himself, then he opened the Shengda Game app.

He didn't expect the opening ad to still be for that dubious dating app...

Shocked for two seconds and before he could close the ad, Boss Pu and the two others walked in, laughing and talking.

They immediately saw the ad on his phone screen.

Boss Pu took a step forward and snatched Gu Yu's phone.

"Nice one, Laosi! You're not so innocent anymore, sneaking around in the dorm playing with these unhealthy dating apps! Tsk tsk, let me see, within thirty meters you can meet up..."

Yu Shutong and Qin Shan approached as they heard Boss Pu and crowded around.

Qin Shan even gave Gu Yu a mischievous smile, elbowing his shoulder, "Hey, Laosi, do you want me to share some apps with you? The one you're using is too low-level, they're basically all scams~"

Yu Shutong also wore a mischievous smile, "Laosan is truly the little prince of searching for videos, seems like a resource tycoon indeed~"

Qin Shan, "That's right, you guys want it? I'll send it in the dorm group."

"..."

Gu Yu looked at the three of them, who were all grinning mischievously, and pulled his phone out of Boss Pu's hand with a speechless expression on his face.

He tapped the x in the top right corner, the startup ad disappeared, and the proper app interface appeared.

"Damn? That's pretty fancy! Your app even has a 'social death' prevention disguise feature? It can switch to game marketplace mode when someone spots you?"

Seeing the indecent screen vanish, Qin Shan was surprised.

It was his first time feeling out of the loop, were apps made this user-friendly now?

"Can you share this with me? I need to expand my resource library?"

"Share what! When have you ever seen me play with those indecent apps?"

Gu Yu rolled his eyes fiercely, turning his phone's screen upright to show the three.

"This is the Shengda Game app, Old Mr. Chen said our game has already launched on the Shengda Game Platform! I just downloaded it to take a look."

Seeing the front-page recommendation of the hot-blood Legends mobile game, the three suddenly understood what was happening, and their mischievous smiles instantly disappeared. Then they soberly said:

"Cough, I knew Laosi wouldn't play sordid apps behind our backs!"

"Exactly, I'm going to download it too and take a look!"

"Our game is bound to be a hit!"

Gu Yu curled his lip, embarrassed by how quickly these three guys could change their attitudes.

He had long since figured out the habits of the trio!

While they busied themselves downloading the app, he went straight to the platform's secondary recommendation page—Today's New Releases.

There were twelve games in total, each one a piece of trashy template game.

Life Restart Simulator was at the bottom, right next to a game called "Simulating Billionaire."

Lately, there had been a lot of ads for this kind of game, all starting with a beggar getting knocked over by a rich beauty, who then compensates the beggar with a large sum of money.

The player chooses whether to open a milk tea shop or a bar, and then different choices lead to different game endings.

Gu Yu carelessly clicked to view the display pictures and guide, and basically understood the gameplay of "Simulating Billionaire."

Although he thought it was pretty dumb, it actually had quite a number of players.

Furthermore, since the user base of the Shengda Game Platform tends to skew older with little gaming experience, this type of game still had a certain novel appeal to them.

It had only been online for nine hours and already had over three thousand downloads.

He glanced at the name of the game developer—Sword Barrier Network.

He paused for a moment, thinking the name of the developer felt like an auspicious reversal of Bi Jian's name? S~eaʀᴄh the novёlF~ire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

"It must be a coincidence, right...?"

He muttered to himself, then exited the details page and entered his own game.

The black and white minimalist icon was designed by a seller on Taowu for a hundred yuan, based on a simple sketch he had done himself.

He was quite satisfied with the icon.

After all, it was a casual game mainly targeted at a younger audience who were clearly more receptive to minimalist designs.

Then he glanced at the brief description: Tired of a monotonous and difficult life? Restart your life now!

This was the final draft Qin Shan had come up with after pondering for a whole night.

He thought the description didn't need to be too long; it was best if one or two sentences could clearly introduce the core of the game.

As for the gameplay, it should be left to the players to explore on their own.

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It just so happened to echo the route of a minimalist style.

The nine display pictures of the game were obviously not what they had uploaded; they must have been made by the operators at Shengda Network themselves, and they looked very professional.

Together with the version number, release date, and other detailed information, the game was officially considered launched.

Gu Yu looked at the download count—723 times, not even half as much as "Simulating Billionaire" which he had just seen.

Although he felt a bit disappointed to be outdone by others, this was within his expectations.

After all, the traffic on the Shengda Game Platform itself wasn't very high, plus the target audience for Life Restart Simulator didn't quite fit with that of Shengda Game's.

It was natural for there to be a situation of "not acclimating well to the environment."

If it were promoted on younger platforms like Dou Ying, the effect would undoubtedly be much better.

"Big brother, second brother, third brother, I think we can't just rely on Old Mr. Chen's help; we should also do some promotion for the game ourselves!"

Gu Yu pondered for a while, then looked up at the three older brothers.

The three of them exchanged glances and nodded simultaneously—they shared the same opinion.

Even without Gu Yu's keen insight, they had also more or less understood part of the reason why Life Restart Simulator did not quite suit the Shengda Game Platform.

"How about we spend some money on promotion?"

"For the current popular channels, like Dou Ying, Weibo, Qiandu Tie Ba... which one should we choose?"

"Dou Ying is definitely the most expensive since it's considered the current top traffic platform. If we choose Dou Ying, we have to be prepared to bleed a lot!"

Gu Yu, Boss Pu, and Yu Laoer expressed their opinions; promotion was definitely necessary, it just depended on how much cost they were willing to incur!

While everyone was discussing non-stop, Qin Shan, who had been silent, suddenly let out a sly laugh.

"Who says we need to spend money? We could just ask Jingchuan Xiaoyu, right?"

"Ask Jingchuan Xiaoyu?"

The three of them looked puzzled.

"Laosi, do you still remember when Jingchuan Xiaoyu added you? Now we can take advantage of this fat sheep and shear his wool~"

Qin Shan shook his mobile phone, looking like he had everything under control.