[XINT]

The next day...

The system's sound suddenly entered Chen Yize's mind and frightened him in the early morning.

[The host can now receive the reward <Players' memories> (x1) from the system.]

[Does the host want to receive the reward?]

Hearing the system mention those terrible <gummy bears> again, Chen Yize suddenly became awake.

He wished he didn't have anything to do with those <gummy bears> again.

"Can I not receive it?"

[...]

[Ding! The host has decided to receive the reward, and the host obtains <Players' memories> (x1).]

"..."

Now, it was Chen Yize's turn to be speechless.

The system still chose to reward him even if he didn't want it.

Does he still have a choice?

However, Chen Yize still chose to confirm by himself whether he had already obtained the reward.

[Host: Chen Yize]

[Attributes:

Programming: 11 (D-level)

Screenwriting: 6 (D-level)

Art: 1 (D-level)

Music: 1 (D-level)

Numerical values: 0 (F-level)]

[Special abilities: <Translation lv1>]

[Items: <Players' memories> (x1)]

[Credits: 30,127]

Looking at his status again, Chen Yize found that many changes had occurred.

The first thing that changed was some of his attributes, such as programming and screenwriting attributes.

His programming attribute was 9 in the past, and now it was 11.

And his screenwriting attribute also changed from 4 to 6.

"System, what is going on? Have I ever done something to change these attributes?"

Chen Yize asked, and the system also immediately answered.

[The system has detected that the host has developed a game. And some of the host's attributes increased significantly during that period.]

Chen Yize thought for a while before he realized what had happened.

The system also calculated his attributes based on himself.

As long as his skills improved while he was doing something, these attributes would increase naturally.

Like when he was developing [Choice of Robots], he also gained more experience, which helped him improve his programming and screenwriting skills.

And the second thing that changed was the credits.

According to the system, it would be the one who calculated how many credits he had earned.

So, Chen Yize didn't care much about this. When the time came, he would draw a lottery. That's it.

His ability, <Translation lv1>, and his reward, that terrible <gummy bear>, were all there.

Chen Yize checked it and found that there was no problem.

And since there was nothing else to do, Chen Yize prepared to go to the company.

-----

The Xinyi company's building...

Chen Yize entered the company as usual.

Li Xinyi had already sat behind the front desk. It seemed like she had been waiting for him, and her face looked very solemn.

"We have a problem," Li Xinyi said.

Then, Li Xinyi gave Chen Yize a paper, which was quite similar to those business reports.

The report Li Xinyi handed him showed that since this morning, many novel-reading platforms had included a program to help authors write interactive novels for them.

Because they just needed to include this kind of program into their platforms. So, they didn't need to do much and could implement it soon.

Chen Yize read the report for a while before putting it down.

"What do you think?" Li Xinyi asked.

Chen Yize thought for a while before answering.

"It is indeed a problem, and we should try to think about what to do. It's the worst if we do nothing."

Li Xinyi nodded and continued to ask.

"Yeah, so what do you want to do?"

Because of this question, Chen Yize closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

"I have an idea, but we must implement it as soon as possible."

After a while, Chen Yize gave Li Xinyi such an answer before rushing to the second floor.

And Li Xinyi was also startled before deciding to follow behind Chen Yize.

"What is your idea to compete with them?" Li Xinyi asked while following.

"We may compete with them, but not in a direct way," Chen Yize answered.

"What do you mean?" Li Xinyi asked, not understood.

"We only need to attract another group of people to participate and make this competition even more fierce," Chen Yize still replied while smiling mysteriously.

Not bothering to explain more, Chen Yize immediately started the computer when he reached the second floor.

When he had just released [Choice of Robots], he had also decided to develop both mobile phone and website versions together.

And while he and Zhou Wei were still developing them, he had also thought about another thing.

He thought about the platform that Choice of Games LLC had also developed in his previous life, whether the mobile phone app called [Choice of Games] or the website called [choiceofgames.com].

However, in his previous life, only those authors, who were qualified, could release their works there.

He once thought about developing them too, but he immediately rejected this idea after giving it a little thought.

After all, this required their company to have enough employees to review writing samples sent by people every day.

And his original purpose for developing [Choice of Robots] in the first place was to let others learn and develop games for him to play.

So, the more people developed this kind of game, the better.

If he chose to develop a platform, he would allow everyone to participate freely and produce more games for him.

However, developing the platform for authors to release their works now would only lose to those popular platforms.

After all, those platforms were the ones that had more users in the first place, and some of them even had millions of daily active users.

So, those authors would release their works on their company's platform only if they were fools.

He couldn't help but blame himself for why he didn't develop the platform first before deciding to transform [Choice of Robots] into two other versions.

Only in this way could they have the advantage of being the first to appear.

Chen Yize realized people were not stupid and would not leave their company to develop peacefully.

He could see from the fact that some people wanted to step on them and climb higher.

At first, he thought he would feel happy when these people wanted to develop games for him to play.

However, he found that he didn't feel happy when this happened.

He hoped people could develop games for him, but not in this way.

As it turned out, he also had another kind of hope. He hoped that others could be more creative when developing games.

While thinking about these things, Chen Yize's eyes turned serious.

So, here comes the problem.

What should they do then?

Chen Yize once heard that when competing with other competitors in business, you must first know your [conditions].

[Conditions] are something they have and others don't and can be used to their advantage.

Xinyi company now had only a few things to use.

1) They had [Choice of Robots], which Chen Yize had developed before, and people recognized as the first interactive novel to appear.

2) They had around 10,000 fans who fell in love with interactive novels or [Choice of Robots].

3) Many people also had some inspiration from [Choice of Robots] and wanted to implement it to succeed.

The third one might not look like their advantage, but when he thought carefully, it was.

At least, he thought these people should currently pay close attention to their company.

These people would certainly notice when he did something that might affect them or something that might change their plans.

For example, something that he was about to do.

He would release his game engine to the public for free while letting some of them change their minds and use it.

Oh, wrong. This engine should instead be called Xinyi company's game engine.

As for the official name, Chen Yize had already thought about it.

This engine would be called [Xinyi Interactive Novel Tool] in the future, or [XINT] for short.

When Chen Yize developed [Choice of Robots], he also designed this engine that could help anyone developing a similar game or a text-based, multiple-choice game.

In most cases, [Game engines] were designed to be a tool to help game developers develop games in Chen Yize's previous life.

Of course, Chen Yize would let others download [XINT] for free, but they needed to pay rent to get permission to use some features.

So the first thing Chen Yize added were many kinds of new features.

For example, users could add pictures between the text on some pages and also some sound effects.

Because someone complained before that there were no graphics, and no sound effects in [Choice of Robots], so Chen Yize decided to let these people have a chance to develop an interactive novel by themselves.

The users could also change the background, the text size, the font, or the overall design to their heart's contents.

If some people had an idea, they could even turn [XINT] into a visual novel game development tool by turning every page background into several pictures.

Of course, as mentioned before, people still needed to pay if they wanted to use these features.

Chen Yize believed that those platforms couldn't think of adding these things at all because they and everyone else still regarded [Choice of Robots] as a novel, not a game.

The second thing Chen Yize added was nothing else but their Xinyi company's logo that would appear whenever someone opened any product developed by using [XINT].

Currently, the Xinyi company's logo was still the words [Xinyi] written in red color with an artistic style, something like the [Coca-Cola] logo in Chen Yize's previous life.

And Chen Yize also allowed no one to remove [About Xinyi company] from the credits.

After all, it's not too much to help them promote their company after using [XINT], right?

Chen Yize also believed that once he released [XINT] to the public, it would attract some groups of people to use it.

The first group of people was undoubtedly their company's fans or ordinary people interested in writing an interactive novel of their own.

Of course, not everyone would choose to use [XINT] to write, but most of those who knew a little about [Choice of Robots] would.

After all, their company still had a title that everyone had subconsciously acknowledged.

[The FIRST company that released the FIRST interactive novel.]

People would always have a recognition for the first while the second one, comparable to the first, had not yet appeared.

And those authors couldn't release interactive novels, chapter by chapter, every day like when they released ordinary ones on those platforms.

So, they would use this advantage to attract as many ordinary people as possible before those authors released some great works comparable to [Choice of Robots].

These ordinary people would use [XINT] and write some shorter interactive novels.

In this way, when these ordinary people released their works first, more people would be attracted and come to use [XINT] too.

And among this first group of people who used [XINT], some great authors might appear.

They would be his and the company's representatives to compete with those great authors from other platforms when they both released their first work.

There might not be too many, but he had already added many new features. So, they could have some advantages over those authors.

And when [XINT] became popular enough, it would also attract the second group of people to come and use it, those independent professional authors.

While some authors signed a contract with the novel-reading platforms they preferred, some still chose not to sign with any of them.

Whatever their reasons were, Chen Yize didn't care. As long as [XINT] showed them great potential, these authors would naturally come and use it.

Why didn't Chen Yize develop their company's platform and release it together with [XINT]?

Don't be kidding. Once Chen Yize did it, those app stores would surely turn against them.

In the eyes of the public, Xinyi company's products could only be apps, not a platform where people could release their interactive novels.

Also, interactive novels now were regarded by those app stores as a new kind of app, just like [Choice of Robots].

So, developing a platform to let others release some interactive novels similar to those app stores was no different from declaring war on them.

The Xinyi company still didn't have enough strength to ignore all of these app stores yet.

And he only wanted to make this competition even more fierce and fight to the end. That's it.