Chapter 127: Marriage? I give it for nothing

The whole innocent teenage girls sleeping together in the same room at night because they want to save on heating costs is a bit too Benji for that sort of thing.

But Shen Yu doesn't want to sleep with Li Xiang, she's a bad sleeper, as we saw on our last holiday.

"So my dad and Mum sleep together too? Why can't you sleep together?"

Su Zhifu still couldn't understand that her brother Shen Yu and sister Li Xiang were unanimously opposed to the idea of saving half of the heating bill, which she had so cleverly thought of.

"Can that be the same, can you sleep with your mum and dad?"

"I sleep by myself because I'm not afraid of the cold and I'm very strong."

Shen Yu didn't want to talk to her and carried Puffs home after the hotpot.

Before he came out, Li Xiang was cleaning up the dishes and he remembered that she had mentioned at lunchtime that we were running out of dishwashing gloves, so he bought five pairs to take back with him.

"Back so soon, huh?"

Li Xiang tidies up in the kitchen and with the hot water pipes installed, washing dishes in winter is less of a torture.

It would be nice to have Shen Yu fetch hot water for her every time and then talk in the kitchen together, but I'm afraid I'll tire him out.

"Where do I put my gloves?" Shen Yu gestured by lifting the plastic bag in his hand.

"Eh? Shen Yu, you bought gloves for me!" Li Xiang looked surprised, when we went out together in the afternoon, she also forgot to buy them, but she didn't expect Shen Yu to remember, no, she didn't seem to have told him about the gloves either ......

Anyway, Shen Yu bought her gloves, which she hadn't expected to happen, and girls always like little surprises like that.

"Just stopping by."

Shen Yu put her gloves in the cupboard and wanted to help with some of the work, but she had almost finished cleaning up.

"Is there anything else to do?"

"No, Shen Yu, get busy!"

"Does this bacon need to be hung up to dry?"

"Mmmmmm, to put on a rope and marinate overnight, then dry tomorrow."

"I'll do it."

Shen Yu finally found a job he could do, picking up the pot of cured bacon on the kitchen counter. Five large pieces of pork plus the pot weighed about ten pounds, and she must have struggled to carry it with such little strength.

Without waiting for Li Xiang to stop him, he took the pot of meat to the ground floor and then found a piece of string to put it on, and only after doing so did he finally feel better and could sit in front of the computer without any burden.

This is kind of a new way Shen Yu found to cope, he knows that Li Xiang is very good to him, if he does nothing, it is like suffering her good for nothing, the pressure will grow, the mind will keep thinking about her, until by chance, when he finds that he is also good to her, this pressure will be offset, but inevitably fall into another kind of cycle: Li Xiang is good to him, he is also good to Li Xiang, then Li Xiang is happy and treats him better, and he can only treat her a little better in order to relieve the pressure ...... and end up getting married in situ.

Shen Yu stayed on the ground floor until after 11pm, yawning as she went upstairs to wash up and get ready for bed.

It was customary to turn off the living room light to see if she was asleep, and sure enough, as before, there was light emanating from under the crack of her room door.

Shen Yu is quite curious, the art work was done two days ago and Li Xiang has not opened a new drawing book yet, so what is he doing up so late?

Yesterday morning, Shen Yu tried to ask her about it, and she stammered that she had been reading and revising.

What a lie. If she's really reading and studying, Shen Yu confesses in situ on live TV.

When she didn't want to talk about it, Shen Yu didn't bother to get to the bottom of it. When he passed her door, he coughed as usual and the light in her room was immediately switched off.

......

After a week of testing and platform review process, "Azure-2120" is scheduled to be released on December 15th, the initial version is computer-based, the entire game installation size reaches twelve gigabytes, unlike other romance games, the cg resources only take up less than two gigabytes of space, these memory is almost all occupied by the program, the selling price has also been set, nineteen dollars and nine, in a crowd of romance games, is considered very The price is also set at nineteen dollars and ninety-nine cents, which is a very affordable price for a romance game.

The entire development team, just three people, took two and a half months, with Shen Yu in charge of all the programming including ui and modelling, Li Xiang in charge of the script, original artwork, artwork and so on, and Jiang Ningle giving her a hand.

Shen Yu has no idea how much time and effort he put into developing Xiaomeng One, the core AI interaction program that was copied from Xiaomeng One.

Both Li Xiang and Jiang Ningle have not been paid yet, and they have never mentioned their salaries to him. He owes Li Xiang around 60,000 RMB and Jiang Ningle around 15,000 RMB.

And then he had to make his own money back from this game, right? After all, all his savings were used up, and to follow up with further upgrades, he couldn't ask for money from his dad, so he had to earn it himself.

The platform's cut is 30 percent, and in fact, after all the miscellaneous fees, it's only about half of what you really get.

Set a small target first, sell it for $200,000, that is, sell 10,000 copies and get to about $100,000, settle both their salaries first and then the rest.

The three-digit sales are stone-cold; the four-digit ones are the best most indie games can manage without promotion; the five-digit ones have obvious highlights and innovations that indie games can be proud of; the six-digit and above kind are guaranteed by big studios, with a decent IP or promotion; the seven- or eight-digit ones are in the quasi-phenomenal and phenomenal range, and indie games don't have to think about it Indie games are a no-brainer.

10,000 copies sold! Shen Yu, who simply calculated this figure, was also a bit confused, it was still quite difficult, when he really had to make the game himself, he could appreciate the bitterness of game producers crying on Twitter that 'the game is not selling, save the children'.

The game has all the highlights and innovations of "Azure-2120", but the drawbacks are also obvious - after all, there are only three people working on it, and as a romance game whose main selling point is its beauty, it still looks rather rough.

The domestic romance game is not much, almost all are in the loss of money, there are eating the old bottom, out of the periphery, touch the fish to spend the day, which also has a relationship with the type of game, the user niche, lack of gameplay, lack of social, the core players look at the painting cg, the edge of the players look at the plot, new players look at the rushing rushing, all the way ctrl past the thing.

Most of the fans, including those in 'Luo Yan's Romance Game Development Daily', were just watching the action. If it's just a mechanical interaction with the AI, it's not as good as ctrl all the way through.

Most of the fans who are looking forward to Azure-2120 are almost always attracted to the game by its cg. The characters drawn by Li Xiang are beautiful and well-drawn enough for this group of romance game fans to look forward to.

Of course, there were also some fans who were interested in the core AI interactive process, not many of whom had played romance games before, and they simply came to see the big sinker show off his skills and see what kind of AI the big guy who gets blown away every day on the forums could make.

Shen Yu does not have the extra funds to promote the game, and the game platform will only arrange recommendations based on the sales of the game, so to sell at least 10,000 copies of the game, we will have to rely on the efforts of the fans in 'The Love Game Development Daily of Shen Yu Luo Yan'.

Shen Yu finds Li Xiang really useful and increasingly so.

The day before the game's release, Li Xiang and Shen Yu kicked off their first live stream on the beep site.

She also talked a lot with Shen Yu before the game went live, knowing the fact that she would have to sell at least 10,000 copies to make her money back.

It doesn't matter if she wants to be paid or not, after all Shen Yu's business is her business, she will be married in the future anyway, it doesn't matter.

The account is all managed by her and she updates the videos every day or two. The account now has 180,000 followers and is active on a daily basis, plus she started today's live preview a week ago, and before it even started, the live stream had quite a few wild fans in there chatting on their own.

[Why hasn't it started yet]

[It's not a pigeon, is it?

[All of you Cao Zei are here early]

[I heard that Luo Yan was going to broadcast with Sinking Fish today, so I set my alarm clock and waited for it].

[I thought the game was released tomorrow]

[It's only twenty dollars, I'm ready for it]

[I'm already obsessed with Arya]

[Don't get your hopes up]

Yeah, it's a game for two people.

[Where's my wife]

[Will this broadcast reveal the content of the episode]

[What's the point of playing if you've been spoiled]

[Cao Zei! It's almost time! Are you done?

At 8.50pm, Shen Yu and Li Xiang are both in the studio on the ground floor, where Li Xiang is setting up the camera.

"Is Shen Yu ready?"

Li Xiang was dressed up today, especially for the live broadcast, and Shen Yu was also dressed up and had his hair blown out.

"Hmm."

Shen Yu is quite calm, he has won a lot of awards since he was a kid, so he has to do a lot of public speaking, and when he is on air, he doesn't look too different from his usual face.

"Your hair is sticking up here ......"

Li Xiang adjusted to the camera and trotted towards him, bending down in front of him and reaching out with her small hands to help him run his hair through.

The two were so close together that Shen Yu could smell the sweet scent of the fragrance that pervaded the room, which was very nice.

"Thanks ......" Shen Yu said to her suddenly.

"Shen Yu is too kind!" Li Xiang smoothed his hair and went over to start the broadcast.

Shen Yu didn't have to explain much, but he didn't just mean that he had helped him with his hair, he said that Li Xiang had really helped him throughout the development and release of "Azure-2120".

"Hello~!" She sat on the sofa with Shen Yu, holding the bear she got with her phone bill, and shook her little hand at the camera: "Good evening, everyone! I'm Luo Yan!"

Shen Yu also greeted everyone with a very official smile, "Good evening everyone, I'm Shen Yu."

"Today is our first live broadcast, the operation is still a bit unfamiliar, so I'm very sorry for keeping everyone waiting!"

Shen Yu finally knew what it meant to be real, as he stared at the pop-ups for days, but none of them wanted to see him, including his fans on the forum, who had now all turned to Li Xiang's side.

Li Xiang waved her hand, "I'm not your wife! Don't call me that!"

After she said that, she bumped Shen Yu with her shoulder again, and by some miracle, when Shen Yu saw so many people shouting at her wife, he was indignant, so he sat a little closer to Li Xiang, saw her bump him, and then he bumped her back, and the two of them bumped back and forth in front of the camera.

The pop-ups floated over another large string of lemons.

In fact, tonight's live stream is simply to chat to you about the game's arrival on the shelves and to answer some of the fans' questions about the game.

The whole atmosphere of the broadcast was still quite relaxed and the real number of people watching the broadcast was estimated at 5,000 to 6,000, and a lot of small gifts were received.

Towards the end, Shen Yu also told the crowd, "I hope you'll come and support the demo, you won't be disappointed."

The response from fans has been tepid.

Li Xiang threw his arms around Shen Yu and rubbed against him, like a couple in distress, and said to the Cao Zei's in front of the camera with a pitying mouth.

"We're running out of money to eat, as you can see, we're eating dried radish every day, we're even using our wedding money to make this game, we're really putting our heart and soul into it! So please, please, please, please support us! I beg you!"

When she spilled the beans, the fans immediately exploded.

An overwhelming barrage of pop-ups floated by -

[No more I can't!

[Broken defense is broken]

[Is there no money left for the wedding? This is too pathetic!

[Finally, you admit it! I already knew you two were spreading your love under the guise of making a game!

[Buy! Must buy! I'll take ten!

We can't starve our Luo Yan even if we're starving the sinking fish!

[Wait, I'm going to call for a rush now!

[Let's get Azure on the new game list!

Shen Yu was baffled by the overwhelming response. It's obvious that she's taking advantage of the opportunity to mooch off her again!

But Shen Yu still reacted, he stiffened for a moment, but did not push Li Xiang away, instead, he also gently wrapped his arm around her shoulders and said to everyone with a bitter face, "She has suffered a lot following me ...... if we can make money this time ...... we'll get married ......"

Li Xiang's heart was pounding as she snuggled up next to Shen Yu, lifted her face to look at him and then hugged him! In the eyes of the viewers on the other side of the camera, this is a love so deep that it can't be faked!

[Master Crying]

[Is this love and bread]

[This is a gift from me to you both]

[Please marry in situ immediately!

[Don't miss out on such a nice girl, asshole!

This mediocre live stream finally sparked the enthusiasm of the fans in the last few minutes near the end. We don't know how the game is, but we have been following the daily routine of Sinking Fish and Luo Yan for two months, and we are still willing to support this game made by the two of them together.

......

The game hit the shelves at odd hours that night, and many loyal fans kept watch, clicking to buy it the first time it hit the shelves.

Likewise, because the topic is quite hot, some game trial and review bloggers are the first to download it and try it out, pushing it if it's fun and trolling it if it's not.

It's just the right time of night and loneliness inside, wouldn't it be nice to open the game and have a love affair with a secondary girl.

Shen Yu and Li Xiang have not slept either, and together they are in front of their computer screens watching the back-end data.

Within an hour, the number of people who had purchased the download had exceeded one thousand five.

This is still the data at zero, and it will definitely continue to rise in the morning. These are basically fans who have come to support the game, and it's late now. At this rate of increase, Shen Yu estimates that the number of purchases will exceed 5,000 within 24 hours, but we will have to rely on the game itself for the rest of the game.

The game's comments section has also been filled with comments from players.

[Gift in place].

[The game is too big for my computer's memory, but I bought it for the sake of Luo Yan's happiness].

[Gift in place +99]

Reviews based on the content of the game are not available yet, fans are here for the gift money.

There are two storylines in Azure-2120, and it's up to the player and the AI to decide where to go with them, so it's unlikely that anyone will be able to run through the storyline that quickly.

"Aren't you going to bed yet." Shen Yu looked at Li Xiang beside him.

Li Xiang's face was flushed with excitement, it was after 1am and she wasn't even a little sleepy.

"I'm not sleepy! We've received a lot of gifts eh!"

She reads the comments, one by one, and is even happy to see her and Shen Yu's wedding wishes.

You don't even have a boyfriend yet and you're already receiving gifts... these are so fantastic, no girlie manga would draw them that way!

Watching her eyes darting around the screen, Shen Yu carefully muttered.

"You can't take it seriously. ...... You were the one who messed up first."

"You, you didn't even propose! I definitely can't marry you!"

Li Xiang was so ashamed, how can someone want to get a wife without proposing, it wasn't written on her face that she was giving it for free.