You said you would make games by yourself, but how did you become the richest man by doing nothing?

At precisely 6:00 AM, the game was approved and released by Youyi Workshop.

Lu Yu and Liu Mengyuan still met up at the cat cafe.

On the game cover, the plump and adorable hamster John grinned foolishly, baring his teeth, surrounded by a group of charming catgirls in various cute poses.

Although the cover revealed a hint of amateurism, the stylized catgirls were still eye-catching.

The game was priced at 5 yuan.

However, from the game's release until the evening, the sales volume remained at 0.

In this world, the game industry was also highly competitive, with a massive number of new games being released every day. Unless someone deliberately searched for the game's name, it was impossible to locate it in the game library.

Liu Mengyuan comforted Lu Yu:

"It's okay. Within 12 hours of a game being approved and listed, the Youyi platform will definitely have the first round of trial recommendations."

Youyi platform's game recommendation system uses a tiered promotion mechanism.

All approved games are placed in the first round of trial recommendations. For example, 'Catgirl Paradise Adventure' would be placed in the secondary channel sub-interface of the [Action Games] category, and displayed on a rotating basis with other games from the same period.

Although it's just a small corner, it still provides some exposure.

Afterward, the platform comprehensively calculates factors such as sales, playtime, and user ratings to select excellent games and promote them to the next round.

For new games from Youyi Workshop, the best recommendation spot is [Youyi Rising Star], which has very high exposure on the homepage.

Of course, recommendation spots with even better placement, such as [Master's Fun], [Golden Hall], and [Game of the Year], are basically out of reach for new producers and are reserved for works from industry heavyweights and celebrity producers.

At 6 PM, Lu Yu finally found his game in the corner of the rotating recommendation list.

Almost simultaneously, the system screen popped up with settlement information:

[This round's cycle is about to be settled. The current Leisure Points are 58.5, being converted...]

[5850 yuan has been credited to your personal account.]

[Congratulations on completing the extra cycle task: Release your first game. Reward: One random surprise effect draw]

The system screen displayed a prize wheel, spinning wildly before stopping at a certain position:

[Bumper Harvest Lv1] Effect: In the next 7 days, for every copy of a game sold by Peach Blossom Spring Company, the system will provide an additional 5 yuan of operating funds, credited to the company account.

[Currently, Peach Blossom Spring Company's operating funds are 7500 yuan]

[The next settlement cycle is: 45 days later]

[Extra Task: Before the cycle settlement, release a second game produced by Peach Blossom Spring Company, and the game must be a multiplayer online type, genre unrestricted.]

[Task Reward: Random surprise effect]

Seeing the settlement data, Lu Yu felt delighted.

Under his earnest slacking, the income from Leisure Points had reached a new high!

He silently calculated the development costs of Catgirl Paradise:

Expenses for eating, drinking, and having fun: 1500 yuan; Purchasing outsourcing and components: 1000 yuan; Liu Mengyuan's half-month salary: 2000 yuan.

After the game is listed, it is expected to return 2000 yuan.

Moreover, with the reputation of the first game, strive to recover 4000 yuan from the second game, and then you can continuously develop similar games.

Just aim to break even by slacking off, maintain the operation of this small two-person company, and infinitely cycle.

In this way, he could safely focus his energy on researching how to more professionally slack off and earn Leisure Points like crazy, wouldn't that be wonderful!

That's right!

In the future, if I earn too many Leisure Points, can I transfer money to the company account to give back and maintain the binding of the golden finger?

As soon as he had this thought, the system screen lit up:

[Warm reminder: The company's operating account's income can only come from business operations and does not accept the host's private funds injection.]

Lu Yu shook his head with regret.

Seeing the Cat's Tea bill on the table, he had another idea.

Can I use my own money to pay the bill? This is equivalent to indirectly reducing the company's financial expenditure.

[Warm reminder: According to the company's philosophy set by the host, on working days, employees' eating, drinking, and having fun are activities related to game development. Therefore, all expenses must go through the company account, and the host's private funds reimbursement is not accepted.]

Damn, the one who drew the line was myself.

But it doesn't matter, it's not a big problem.

Lu Yu looked at the newly arrived personal account, still feeling wonderful.

On the other side, Liu Mengyuan was also staring blankly at the newly refreshed Yuanmeng Mall.

[Pancake Master]: Good feel, the pancakes made will be closer to a perfect circle conforming to pi.

[Keen Vision]: In fairground stalls such as balloon shooting and ring toss, you can naturally locate the position of prizes.

[Cat's Lover]: Natural increase in attraction to cats.

……

The prices are all 200 proficiency points.

But, what a pit for her! What kind of weird talents are these!

What she was worried about still happened: eating, drinking, and having fun on the pedestrian street led her to practice a lot of strange proficiencies, seriously affecting the mall's refresh categories.

She picked and chose among a pile of goods, and finally saw:

[Q Version Hand-painted]: When drawing Q version image illustrations, innate design sense increases.

Fortunately, in the past two weeks, she found some extra work for herself and finally refreshed something usable.

Paying 200 proficiency points to purchase, the account only has 10 points left.

There aren't enough proficiency points. She can't be corroded by Lu Yu's sugar-coated bullets anymore and must work harder!

After dinner, Lu Yu and Liu Mengyuan chose to continue staying at the cat cafe to observe sales data.

The most ⊥ new ⊥ small ⊥ say ⊥ at ⊥ six ⊥ 9 ⊥⊥ book ⊥⊥ bar ⊥⊥ first ⊥ release!

The last time Liu Mengyuan was so nervous and excited was when she participated in a competition at Youyan Club.

There were a full 12 games competing in the same period, and the game was only exposed once every 36 seconds, each time for 3 seconds.

Suddenly, on Lu Yu's computer, the platform popped up a notification sound, indicating the first copy of the game had been sold.

He smiled faintly: "Did you buy it?"

"Yes... yes, I bought a copy of my own game to support it, what's wrong?"

Unexpectedly being seen through so quickly, Liu Mengyuan turned her head away proudly.

Not only did she buy it, but she also left a comment in the review section—

User ID: Little Yuanyuan

Comment content: The game is super fun! The catgirls are very cute, and the story is very touching, but I can't spoil it, welcome everyone to download and play ヾ(@^▽^@)ノ.

After 10 minutes, someone replied: Evaluating 5 minutes after purchase, too fake, can your company hire more professional water armies?

Liu Mengyuan wasn't annoyed and still replied seriously: I'm not a water army, I'm the game's artist. I'm not lying to you, this game is really cute and healing, the catgirls are really cute, and the hamster is also cute!

1 minute later, a reply was received: Really? You've made me a little tempted. Well... anyway, it's just the price of a bucket of instant noodles, I'll buy it. If it's not fun, I'll treat it as charity.

Cumulative sales: 2

Liu Mengyuan excitedly took the computer to show Lu Yu, then held her small head, anticipating the player's feedback.

One hour... two hours...

She refreshed the comment section almost every minute, feeling extremely uneasy.

The comment section was still calm.

Her eyes, which had finally brightened, dimmed again.

When it was 9 PM, Lu Yu yawned and started packing up the computer.

Any later and he would be deducted Leisure Points.

He wasn't particularly concerned about sales and reviews now, after all, it was only just recommended, and delays were normal.

Anyway, selling 400 copies would be considered a success!

"Miss Liu, I'll take you back to the dormitory building."

Liu Mengyuan pouted, looking at the game review section with reluctance.

The only player who bought the game never appeared again.

Could they have already died from poisoning? Is it really that bad?

"Oh right, aren't you a runaway who's out of money? I'll give you an advance of 4000 yuan for this month's salary."

"Yay!"

Hearing about the money, Liu Mengyuan immediately smiled. She was worried about how to spend the rest of this month.

Lu Yu sighed. Good heavens, the daughter of a Fortune 500 company is so happy to hear about getting paid. Sure enough, the threshold for happiness changes with the environment.

After the two closed their computers and left.

The review section of Catgirl Paradise suddenly had a new message.

On the Youyi platform, where games are as numerous as stars, it was inconspicuous, yet long enough:

"Holy crap,楼主, I'm back, it's really fun! I swear, I've never played anything so interesting. John is so cute, the catgirls are also so cute, the ending made me cry! Why is such a good game ignored! I want to play the sequel, I want it now! (Creeping in the shadows) (Screaming) (Twisting) (Splitting) (Murmuring darkly) (Groaning eerily) (Creeping in the shadows) (Screaming) (Twisting) (Splitting) (Murmuring darkly) (Groaning eerily)......"