In the blink of an eye, a month has passed.

Thursday, November 28th.

Over the course of a month, the development of Ascension progressed steadily.

Xia Shiqing was very efficient, and worked overtime to produce many concept original paintings in two weeks, Gu Fan handed over these original paintings to Lilith as soon as possible, asked her to take them to Hell, and let the art team of Hell start production.

During this time, the previous games of Reverse Heaven were still continuing to earn income, and Gu Fan took time out of his busy schedule to take care of the financial side and learn about the current financial situation of the company.

Sales of "Helltracks", "Sisyphus" and "Blocks Against Heaven" had previously stagnated, but have recently picked up slightly.

This is obviously because of the mods made by the Liver Emperor for these games, which gave them a second spring.

"The Legend of Destiny Wolong" and "Fire Stealer" ushered in a wave of small peaks, with sales reaching 470,000 and 390,000 respectively!

The first month of sales of "Abandoned City" was 190,000, and the total sales so far are 240,000, but there is still room for continuous improvement in the future.

In addition to this, Reverse Heaven also received all the net income of "Hell Bad Demons" from the Hell Front.

Of course, because the quality of "Hell Bad Demon" is so poor, even if it is very popular, it has not had a significant effect on sales, and so far it has only been more than 70,000. So after deducting the total cost of 630,000, it earned less than 200,000.

But in any case, it's better than nothing.

In this way, in the past four months, these games have brought a total of 59 million net income to the game against heaven!

Compared with the net income of 28 million when "Fire Stealer" was first released, it has made great progress.

Of course, Gu Fan took 5% of his personal income from it for the first time, that is, 2.95 million, and after deducting taxes, his personal savings also came to more than 4.1 million.

Gu Fan couldn't help but sigh, he finally looked like a company boss!

Although this amount of money is still far from buying a house in the imperial capital, it is much better than the state of being poor and white when it first crossed over.

The only pity is that Gu Fan has been busy with work, so he doesn't have much time to enjoy or consume, at most, he just adds some digital products to the villa to toss.

After this replenishment of funds, after deducting the development and operation expenses of "God's Forsaken City", plus the balance in the company's previous accounts, the funds for the development and operation of the game are about 53 million, which is quite sufficient.

And this money is also the confidence for Gu Fan to dare to develop a large-scale action game like "Ascension".

In addition to the company's employees, Gu Fan also contacted some outsourcing companies, directly outsourced some of the more elementary work, and also bought all the templates that could be bought and used in the new engine.

In short, all problems that can be solved with money, try to solve them with money!

If it is another project, it may not work, after all, the level of outsourcing is uneven, and even if it is outsourced, it will take a lot of time to accept, otherwise it is likely that there will be a large number of bugs, and the quality of the game cannot be guaranteed at all.

But the project "Ascension" is different, because these small bugs don't matter.

If there are more lice, it will not itch, and if there are more debts, it will not be worried.

If you don't even outsource, just relying on Gu Fan to write it himself, you really can't get 100 bugs.

After all, after the game is developed, it has to be tested, and some bugs that really affect the game experience are fixed, plus there are few code bugs written by Gu Fan as a top programmer, and it will be embarrassing if you can't make up 100 bugs.

Due to the excessive amount of money on the books, Gu Fan also began to consider that in the future, he could also make some investments appropriately under the condition of ensuring the investment in new games.

With so much cash, you can't always lie on the books all the time, it's a bit of a waste.

But that will have to wait for the official release of "Ascension".

……

Midday.

Gu Fan returned to his villa and prepared to take a nap.

Xia Shiqing followed again and took off her glasses.

Gu Fan immediately understood, and said with a serious expression: "Mr. Xia! Do you have any other instructions? ”

Shamil sat down on the couch: "Long story short, in short, I have reported to Heaven about your situation. Heaven has granted your request and is considering a special allowance for the supernumerary who can include you in Heaven. ”

Gu Fan was a little surprised: "Huh? Supernumeraries? Special perks? Mr. Xia, can you tell us in detail? ”

Shamil explained, "First of all, you mentioned earlier, to increase the positive sentiment of speedrunners. This can be done.

"But if you want to increase the positive sentiment value of this type of player, you need to consume a certain amount of positive sentiment value as a price. I can only provide you with a quota of 1 million positive sentiment points, as for how many positive sentiment points you can leverage with them, it depends on your ability.

"You'd better not let me lose money, though."

Gu Fan nodded: "Of course!" Mission completion guaranteed! ”

Shamil continued: "Also, Heaven considers you to be a talent, so it recognizes you as a supernumerary member of Heaven and enjoys special allowances.

"The specific rewards are......

"You can get a 10% commission on positive sentiment."

Gu Fan was stunned for a moment: "Huh? Isn't it money? ”

Chamil's expression was a little embarrassed: "This ...... Maybe you have some misunderstanding of our heaven.

"I know that Hell has some inheritances on earth, and so do we. However, our heavenly properties on earth are mainly charity, and there is not much money on the books, and many times even if they make a profit, they will be spent quickly.

"However, in Heaven, positive sentiment is the real hard currency, far more useful than your earthly currency."

Gu Fan asked, "What exactly can the positive emotional value do?" ”

"In the hands of powerful angels, it is basically equivalent to power itself. But you're just a mortal, and you can't use it in any advanced ways for the time being.

"There are two things you can do with positive emotions at the moment, which is the most basic: happiness and luck.

"You can use these positive emotions to increase the amount of positive emotions that a person or group of people can get on a certain thing, for example, so that a speedrunner can get more positive emotions during a speedrunning game.

Or, you can use these positive sentiments to boost your luck for a certain period of time.

"Of course, as I said before, if you want to make the impossible possible, the positive sentiment value consumed will be astronomical, and it will never be something you can afford.

"But if it's just to increase the probability of some small probability events, it's still completely possible."

Gu Fan was shocked: "So powerful? Then these positive emotions are indeed much more useful than money, after all, they are all things that money can't buy. Mr. Xia, you said this kind of good thing earlier, can I not go to heaven for the soup? ”

Chamil frowned: "Huh? Without this kind of good deed, wouldn't you want to serve heaven? ”

Gu Fan coughed lightly: "That's not it, I've always been righteous!" Even if Heaven doesn't reward me, I will definitely be on the side of justice!

"Actually, it doesn't matter what the positive emotions are, I'm just trying to contribute to heaven.

"But Mr. Xia, if you have such a good thing in the future, you should say it in advance, otherwise it will spread out, and others will think that heaven is all for nothing."

Xia Mier shook his head slightly: "Hey, there is no way, after all, I am a member of the system, I can't make a promise to you directly, otherwise what if I can't fulfill it?" This is a mistake of principle!

"I can only urgently ask my superiors for instructions, and only after approval can I confirm your identity as a supernumerary person and give you permission to use positive emotions."

Gu Fan laughed dryly: "Yes, after all, your heaven is relatively formal and has strict rules, which is understandable." It's just that the next time I ask for instructions, can this process go a little faster? You look at the past month, and "Ascension" is almost a third of the way through. ”

Shamil sighed: "Hey, I've worked hard!

"Anyway, let's do it for now, and I'll come back when your next game is finished."

……

……

Wednesday, January 8th.

"Ascension" is officially developed!

The game is finished, but it's hard to say exactly when it will be released.

Because the hardest part of the game is the testing part.

All the staff of Reverse Heaven are like a great enemy, not only the test team has to take on the test task, but everyone else has to test the game.

And Lilith showed up on time in Gu Fan's villa every night to try out the game.

Later, when Gu Fan was sleeping on the second floor of the villa, he was often woken up by the sound of Lilith angrily knocking on the table downstairs.

At this time, Gu Fan would silently take out his mobile phone and buy her a few more spare keyboards or handles.

(End of chapter)