[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game":3,"chapter-game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-13":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Game Development: Starting from a 2D Game",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2271074,4435,"Chapter 13: Chapter Thirteen: What Is Yuan Shen? Is It Popular?","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-13",13,"\u003Cp>With two additional helpers, the website’s construction speed naturally increased significantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the end of the day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although not fully completed, the main framework and most of the content had been successfully finished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What remained were just minor details and trivial optimizations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if Qin Xiaoyu couldn’t personally oversee things in the coming days and left everything to Cai Qiu and Chen Wei, they’d surely finish before the game’s launch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nine o’clock at night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaoyu put down his work, stretched, and said, “Cai Qiu, Chen Wei! Let’s grab some late-night snacks and head home early—finish the rest tomorrow!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s only nine—going to bed already? Isn’t that a bit early?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cai Qiu and Chen Wei looked puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since joining Qin Xiaoyu in starting this venture, they’d never left the studio before eleven at night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, that’s standard across the internet industry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes fixing a bug or pushing out code meant pulling all-nighters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’re making games, not being consumed by them!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaoyu rose from his desk and added, “From now on, our studio will have a rule: no overtime unless there’s an emergency.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cai Qiu: “...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Wei: “???”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two exchanged glances, their minds flooded with questions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What kind of bizarre rule is this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slacking off before even succeeding?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Cai Qiu and Chen Wei had experienced Qin Xiaoyu’s reincarnation, they’d understand why he set this rule.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he hadn’t stayed up all night designing new characters that night,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaoyu wouldn’t have died of overwork and been reborn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After dying once and luckily reincarnating, a person couldn’t keep getting lucky forever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next time he collapsed, he might truly be gone for good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“People need time for themselves outside work—come on, I’ll treat you to snacks!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his past life, Qin Xiaoyu realized he’d spent his first twenty years studying and his later years entirely consumed by work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that he’d been reborn, he intended to live a completely different life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d make the game, yes—but he’d also truly experience life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cai Qiu and Chen Wei watched Qin Xiaoyu’s back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they felt something was off about this big brother, but they couldn’t quite say what.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But soon,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they stopped caring about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They tidied up their desks, locked the studio door, and followed him out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After leaving the studio,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the three went to a nearby barbecue stall they often visited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The owner was a middle-aged man in his forties with curly whiskers who claimed he came from the northern grasslands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone who knew him knew he was a local through and through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All that attire was just to fool naive customers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing familiar faces, the owner greeted them warmly: “Hey, haven’t seen you in a while—same as usual tonight?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Same as always!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaoyu nodded, then sat down with Cai Qiu and Chen Wei at an empty table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The boss probably hired shills—why are there so many people out for late snacks at the end of March?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cai Qiu scanned the crowd and chatted with Qin Xiaoyu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regarding their conversation,\u003C\u002Fp>",506,"2026-06-19T22:23:19.067Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","242afb8d51bf0690e6fcc421b90c0ebe53ac1d8d8c9bd98d513de14ddc5291a9","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-14","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-12",89,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fgame-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-cover.jpg"]