Making Horror Games in the Interstellar Age

Lin Jiu transmigrates into the future and receives a bonus: the Fear Collection System. The original owner of her body was an orphan who had only recently come of age and was burdened with thirty-five years’ worth of student loans, totaling a mere 780,000 credits. Her major was Landscape Machinery and Greening Maintenance. Lin Jiu: …Never heard of it. What machinery? What maintenance? After struggling through a month of work, Lin Jiu returns at night to a government-issued twenty-square-meter apartment on the thirty-seventh floor. The room contains nothing more than a bed, a wardrobe, a desk, and a bathroom. Drinking a sticky discounted nutrient solution that tastes like medicine—snatched up for just 3 star coins—she finally receives her monthly salary of 2,130 star coins at eleven o’clock that night. The government immediately deducts 2,000 star coins to repay her student loan. Faced with despair, Lin Jiu realizes that being an uneducated wage worker offers no future. Gritting her teeth, she stares at her gradually dimming system panel and suspects that she simply hasn’t collected enough fear. In the end, she decides to become a horror game developer. And she succeeds. With the help of her system, which allows her to strengthen her mental power through stat allocation, and possessing absolutely no fear of working herself to death, Lin Jiu embarks on her grand horror game enterprise, eventually becoming the nightmare looming over every horror game creator of her era. From an independent developer to a studio founder, and later the head of a world-renowned horror game company, she expands into horror films, multimedia franchises, and even horror-themed planetary amusement parks. Years later, historians look back on this age as one overflowing with geniuses and dazzling inspiration. Countless creators brought their masterpieces in pursuit of the Platinum Hall of Fame, only to discover that they had been born into the same era as its greatest masterpiece: