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Chapter 157: Are You Crazy!?

Chapter 157: Chapter 157: Are You Crazy!?

Vampire Survivor was a wildly popular indie pigeon game from a previous life.

This game wasn’t very heavy, and just from the style of the graphics alone, it was the kind to scare people off at first glance.

It was all mosaics, the characters were mosaics, the items were mosaics, and even the map was a mosaic.

Not only was it a mosaic, but it also had that retro, garbage, cash-grabbing webgame mosaic style.

Yes, the kind you’d find in a Legend game.

Such a style would have undoubtedly been phased out by now.

But man, this game was fun!

The game had launched around the year 2022 in the previous life, and despite the deterring graphics, it burst through sales records.

Just on the Steam Platform, the published sales figures were over six million copies, and the ported versions on other platforms were just as explosively popular.

Not only did it sell well, but it even directly spawned a new category of games similar to Vampire Survivor.

All of this was achieved through the game’s highly addictive gameplay.

Wang Xiaotian and the others clearly didn’t feel any of this addictiveness from the images on Wu Mu’s computer screen, just pain for their eyes.

Initially, they weren’t very convinced that Wu Mu could truly make a sellable game. Now seeing the graphic quality... Please, expecting this horror of a game to make money? Even if they paid people, no one would want it!

Right now, Wang Xiaotian regretted so much, feeling completely duped into wasting his effort. Expecting a feast with this sort of game?

Lu Yao was also downhearted, "I’m doomed to another night of noodles."

Looking down on us, huh?

Well, you can forget about your grand dinner tonight!

Wu Mu chuckled as he looked at them, not bothering to elaborate with words, choosing instead to let the facts speak later.

After briefly introducing his money-making scheme, Wu Mu led everyone out, heading for the area where the Paris Game Show was located.

...

Half an hour later, near the Paris Versailles Gate International Exhibition Hall.

Unlike the less influential game shows of the previous life, the Blue Star Paris Game Show is an event that could rival the Cologne Game Show, a major occasion in the game industry.

Quite a distance from the venue, Wu Mu and his group could already feel the bustle of the exhibition.

People were everywhere, surrounded by those clearly dressed as gamers, and many cosplayers in their unique attires.

The exhibition, like the Cologne Game Show, lasted for five days, and today was the third day, and it was the weekend, the peak time.

So, the tickets for the exhibition had sold out early, and people who came spur-of-the-moment couldn’t even enter the venue.

Wang Xiaotian, who felt tricked, no longer anticipated a grand meal and took delight in misfortune,

"Wu Mu, you can’t even get inside, how do you plan to promote your new game?"

"No need to go in."

Wu Mu waved his hand calmly; he had guessed that the tickets would have sold out, and even if they hadn’t, they didn’t have the money to buy tickets.

He casually walked around the exhibition hall and finally stopped at a shady spot with a lot of foot traffic.

Then, he pulled out a large cardboard sign he had prepared in advance, laid it on the ground, and set up his computer on some steps that were slightly elevated.

Wang Xiaotian, who had been following, clearly didn’t understand what Wu Mu was doing and curiously looked at the content on the cardboard in front of Wu Mu.

The cardboard had both Chinese and English text.

"I am Wu Mu, and I’m preparing to develop an independent game called ’Vampire Survivor.’ Because of funding requirements, I’m starting a crowdfunding (presale), contribute 28 yuan to this project, and you will receive a Steam Platform activation code for the game once it’s completed and launched; if you contribute 58 yuan, in addition to the game itself, you will also receive an additional title of game crowdfunder..."

"The game demo is already complete and can be downloaded for trial play on the Steam Platform store page, or you can try it out on the computer beside..."

"The crowdfunding goal for the game is the first tier at 10,000,000..."

Wang Xiaotian was reading along and hadn’t quite processed when he got to the crowdfunding tier, still busy counting the zeros.

"Ten, hundred... a million, ten million..."

He paused slightly baffled, then turned back to continue counting, "Ten, hundred... ten million..."

Robbed... Robbed less!?

Ten million!?

Wang Xiaotian: "???"

After counting several times to confirm it really was ten million, he looked up in astonishment at Wu Mu.

Everyone watching, including Lin Qingyue and the production crew, had the same expression as Wang Xiaotian.

"Have you gone mad!??"

To think that you could get this much from crowdfunding for a broken board, and it’s even ten million!?

And that’s just the first tier!?

"Do you even know what you’ve written!?"

Lin Qingyue couldn’t help but say, "Are you messing around on purpose?"

Wu Mu said with a slight smile, "Who’s messing around? I’m serious."

"You’re crowdfunding ten million?"

"Yeah."

"And the highest tier is crowdfunded at fifty million?"

"Mm," Wu Mu nodded as if it were a matter of course.

Lin Qingyue: "..."

Were they still dreaming, or was Wu Mu the one lost in a dream?

At this moment, they all had a surreal feeling as if they were trapped in a dream.

What’s this based on, anyway!?

Rely on that game demo that deters at a glance, rely on setting up a sign outside the game show, rely on this crowdfunding method with no guarantees at all?

You expect players to pay you ten million in hard cash?

And that’s only the first tier?

Even Lin Qingyue felt that this matter was a bit too preposterous.

Compared to Wang Xiaotian and the others, she originally had a bit more faith in Wu Mu.

But in her heart, she only thought Wu Mu would somehow sneak into the venue to then convince other game representatives to give him a shoutout and crowdfund tens or hundreds of thousands...

But who would have thought that Wu Mu would set up a stall outside the venue, not to mention aim to crowdfund an exaggerated figure of ten million.

Honestly, this seems like something that a person with a normal IQ wouldn’t do...

The scene fell silent for a moment.

They were silent, but Wu Mu remained completely unperturbed.

Hmm, ordinarily, this kind of thing indeed wouldn’t be possible. It’s irrelevant to game quality now; it doesn’t matter if it’s Vampire Survivor, even if he brought out "GTA 6," it simply couldn’t be done.

After all, who would trust someone who "sets up a stall" outside a venue like this?

Such an unprofessional image would set a bad first impression, let alone get people to contribute money.

But who said he didn’t have an edge?

Reliant solely on the game might not be enough, but what if you add in the system?

Wu Mu took out his phone, opened Weibo, and quickly typed out a new status update.

Wu Mu Evolved: "Just saying, I’m preparing to create a game, and crowdfunding starts now. The specific page link is here... Mmm, I’m personally endorsing this game."

After posting the update, Wu Mu saw a new game title appear on his personal performance list.

He took out the five Performance Cards he’d saved up during this time and chose to use them on the new project.

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ps: The second Chapter from yesterday... I’ll continue to write the remaining two Chapters.

Sigh, sorry for always failing to keep my promises.