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Chapter 19: Dissatisfaction

"Finally, it's done!"

Three weeks. That's how much time it took before he perfected the script-reading AI in the game. He has been trying it on every game mode for hours and even played all of the sub-stories that have been implemented in the game. He has checked everything and found the results satisfactory.

Now,...

Chapter 18: Ignoring the Copycats

Idle Power's popularity has exploded since its official release. There have been more than ten million downloads since then, and hundreds of thousands of people are actively playing the game everyday. Fifty percent of them were even paying customers, with some of them being active donators when they felt unsatisfied at just s...

Chapter 17: Game Mode Suggestions

The next few days were surprisingly peaceful for Mike. The players were busy with the new content on both CGA and Idle Power. They kept praising Mike on the servers and in both the review sections on Woogle Play and the witch.io comment section, and because most of them...

Chapter 16: The Consequences of Popularity

The subdivision Mike lived in had a lot of unclaimed, undeveloped areas. Most of them were filled with four-foot stray grasses and trees, which showed how unattended they were. People would usually mistake them as part of a farmland, which was natural as there were always rice paddies in spots that ran from a few barangays. T...

Chapter 15: CGA Getting Recognized

Mike was a bit curious where these new players emerged. There were at least a hundred new members who joined the CGA server.

'They might have come from Idle Power.'

Thinking like that, he simply shrugged and then returned to what he was doing.

Since the day CGA got into the red, his skills and knowl...

Chapter 14: Cute Girls Academy v0.2.1

Cute Girls Academy v0.2.1 was met with great praise. This version has finally put out what the players had been looking forward to.

Voices!

Every student now has a voice!

Not just that, there is now a language option in the game!

It only has English and Japanese for both subtitles and voices, but it's ...

Chapter 13: Voice Acting

Despite accepting the offer, Catherine wasn't expecting much. Mike was a dropout, and it was impossible for him to get any hidden lessons when he was so busy since he dropped out of school. Learning the Japanese language would take at least two to three years, and Mike only started making his games last year. Even if he had s...

Chapter 12: Securing Voice Actresses

Early in February, the official Castro Games server was taken by surprise because of the new update.

Idle Power now has online features!

There are the leaderboards, friend lists, and then a new feature called "Visit World". According to the guide, "Visit World" is only possible for players with the same game progr...

Chapter 11: Getting Servers

Mike's power had detected a huge increase in the quality of his game. Based on his power, the potential profit he could gain would be in the hundreds of millions of dollars if he just marketed his game right. All of that doesn't matter because, for some unknown reason, he suddenly gained tens of thousands of dollars.

"I...

Chapter 10: Idle Power v1.0

The year had changed. The long break was finally over, and children were busy finishing their last year's homework that they hadn't done throughout their christmas break. Adults returned to the usual, and the bustle of the welcoming of the year gradually calmed down after a few days. On the fifth of January, Mike looked at hi...

Chapter 9: Christmas House Visit

Out of every relative Mike had, he mostly preferred his relatives from his mother's side to his paternal one. The Barrios were scattered around Manila, though the ones he always visited on occasions like this were the Barrio family that was living in Quezon City. So it wasn't a surprise when he visited them first on Christmas...

Chapter 8: Early Development of Cute Girls Academy II

All of their doubts were gone after seeing the new update on CGA. First was the exploration mode. In exploration mode, the gamedev said it would be a way for them to explore the academy grounds and every world that would be introduced in the game later. Its first version was utterly atrocious, and everyone thought the gamedev...

Chapter 7: Early Development of Cute Girls Academy I

After learning about a certain fact about his power, Mike took advantage of it and decided to stop focusing on idle animations for now.

"I have to make a full-body illustration of them first."

As to who he was referring to, they were the submitted characters from the members of his server. There were four submitte...

Chapter 6: Community-Driven Gacha Game

Mike was busy making some optimizations in his game. Why was he making optimizations when he was already thinking of making a new game?

That's because he couldn't start the development of Cute Girls Academy yet!

He was at the first step of his plan, which was warming up to the community of players he had gathered ...

Chapter 5: Problematic Earnings

He hadn't experienced a repeat of that time he got a large donation after several days. After a week, the traffic on the Woogle Play page of his game calmed down. Even with such a carefully crafted game, being incomplete and lacking content doesn't retain them after a long time. The common problem was that, after playing for ...

Chapter 4: Idle Power v0.3.0

Idle games was a popular game genre within the mobile game industry. It was a type of casual game that any person could play anywhere they wanted. Most game companies also saw the potential profits they could gain from this kind of game because, in this day and age, people's lives revolved more around their phones and compute...

Chapter 3: Early Development of Idle Power II

 He took a two-day break from developing his game and took some time to relax and take care of himself. At his break, he goes to a barber shop for a haircut and chooses a common barber’s cut, and after that he binge-watches an entire anime season that has been on his backlog since a few months ago. After that, he treat...

Chapter 2: Early Development of Idle Power I

A week has passed, and his progress has considerably increased since he uploaded his first game on the internet. This was enough time for him to upload the update on his game.

“Well, I can’t really call it an update…” He sighed.

Version 0.0.1b only got two new options for the [Activity] me...

Chapter 1: Profit Loss = Skill Improvement

The constant clicks on the cheap keyboard resounded in the small room as the guy stared at the screen with intense focus. On his screen were countless strings of code columned neatly into lines with sentences that wouldn't make sense except for robots. Then he stopped, before leaning on the table with relief washing over his ...

Chapter 24: Burning Flesh Mountain

Napalm.

I don't know how to make it actually, nor do I know its exact origin, but I do know that it refers to a chemical mixture that can easily burn, and the fire it makes can stick to the person regardless of what the person does. Even if the person being burned by it pours water on them, rolls around on the ground, o...

Chapter 23: Dream World

All thoughts of experimentation vanished from my mind when I learned about what could be the most useful aspect of my power. The power to go to an alternate dimension with a new additional object inside it. That's the best kind of power I can ask for right now!

It's been two months since then. My only diet since the apo...

Chapter 22: Another Test

I have decided to call these crystals monster cores. It felt thematic just calling them that in my current environment.

Anyway, these monster cores can be used as a mana battery. That is great news. I have been trying to look for a solution to my slow mana recovery. Now with these monster cores, I won't have to worry ab...

Chapter 21: Monster Core

Since the apocalypse occurred, many things have changed. Additional laws have been added in the world, and conventional physics doesn't work the same as before the apocalypse. Billions of people have died, and hundreds of millions more continue to perish due to the great changes this new era has introduced to reality. The con...

Chapter 20: Mysterious Crystals

That took a week. I didn't plan for it to last for a week. At most, after three days of constantly pouring those car fuels on them, I'll be burning them to the ground. I didn't expect these plant monsters to be intelligent enough to understand that they were under attack, and they would be constantly doing a lot of weird thin...

Chapter 19: Burning the Paradise

Sleeping on blankets bundled on top of another as a makeshift futon and a sleeping bag wasn't comfortable. When I woke up, I found myself lying sideways on the cold floor of the office. I don't feel that well-rested when I wake up. I'll have to consider making more copies of these blankets around the floor just to make my sle...

Chapter 18: Resolve

I pedaled my bike straight on the roads. When there were obstacles blocking my path, like abandoned cars or random debris from nowhere, I didn't stop and pedaled harder. My body, along with the bike I'm riding, passed through those obstacles like they were holograms as I continued on my way.

I ran away again...

Am...

Chapter 17: Still Alive

... I'm still alive.

I don't know how, but I'm still alive.

It's so sudden that even the sight of the lashing tentacles in front of me doesn't make me flail around in panic due to the shock of just what happened.

I fell five stories above, and I'm still alive!

How?

I don't know.

I just fell...

Chapter 16: Abrupt End

It's early in the morning, and here I am tying a makeshift rope made from bundled-up strings on the stairs and then attaching bells on them. After doing that, I step back and point my hand before uttering the words of my new technique.

"Rewrite."

The rope, along with the bell, loses its color after I push my inten...

Chapter 15: Confirmation of Alternate Dimension Hopping

In the following days, I spent my time hunting monsters on the floor below and doing scavenge runs on the other rooms within the Faded World. Then, a week has already passed. I've scavenged anything I felt useful in this entire floor, and they were now within my room. With some of my haul, I've used them to improve the fortif...

Chapter 14: Rebuilding

The whole day, I spent fortifying my location by making blockades on the stairs and the hallways leading to my room. I learned from my mistake on my first defense.

Just having blockades in my entrance wouldn't necessarily help me. They would simply stall them. If it would just stall anyway, then I might as well put mult...