158: Pre-order data for Chapter 158, "The Mystery of the Deep Sea"!

After finishing the distribution of star ocean drift.

This weekend, Jiang Yuan finally had a proper full day of rest at home.

Technically a whole day, but really she just slept until she woke up naturally, then curled up on the sofa to flip through a few weekly reports sent by Qin Gong and read through Lin Zhengtao's report on the final version optimization progress of dave the diver again.

Then she went to the supermarket with Lin Xi at noon, coming back with two large bags of ingredients.

Upon entering, she heard Lin Xi confidently announce that she was going to cook a dish she had been learning for a long time.

Although she didn't harbor much hope.

Jiang Yuan still gave positive encouragement to the other's enthusiastic behavior.

She then leaned back on the sofa, opening her laptop to look at company documents while watching Lin Xi's busy figure in the kitchen with a gentle gaze, listening to the clatter of the spatula and her occasional self-muttering.

To her surprise, when the food was finally served, it actually looked quite good.

The Tomato Beef Brisket soup was bright red, the brisket stewed soft and tender, with the sweet and sour taste of the tomatoes infused into the meat and the seasoning just right. The Big Plate Chicken and other dishes were also full of spice and aroma, with rich flavors and soft meat.

Lin Xi sat opposite her with her chin in her hands, her eyes sparkling as she watched Jiang Yuan take the first bite, then impatiently asked how it was.

After receiving Jiang Yuan's response that it was not bad and quite delicious, she immediately squinted her eyes with a smile and happily picked up her chopsticks to taste it together.

During this time, Jiang Yuan's phone lit up occasionally with messages from Spark Games group chats, mixed with a few private messages.

The latest ones were from Qin Gong, saying that Song Siming had prepared the final round of warm-up materials for deep sea mystery.

Additionally, Producer He Shen had proactively written a Development Log of nearly two thousand words titled "How We Designed Sharks in the Game."

After finishing the meal in a pleasant atmosphere with Lin Xi.

Jiang Yuan sat on the sofa, covering her slender legs exposed by her denim shorts with a fluffy blanket, and focused on reading the Development Log Qin Gong had sent.

He Shen wrote with a fair amount of sincerity in the article.

He said that almost all ocean-themed adventure games on the market cannot avoid sharks.

But the approach of most works is to make sharks a pure threat, a fierce boss that rushes to bite you as soon as it sees you.

But he felt that sharks' personalities could be more diverse; not all sharks would necessarily want to eat you the moment they see you!

So they designed a fantasy creature called the "Abyssal Shark" in deep sea mystery, modeled after the extinct Megalodon but larger and more ferocious-looking, resembling a slowly moving underwater fortress from a distance.

When players first encounter the Abyssal Shark, the game doesn't give a combat prompt, but a real-time rendered encounter.

The light from your submersible sweeps through the darkness, first revealing the massive silhouette in the beam, then those small, deep, cold eyes.

And these sharks won't attack immediately; it will swim slowly around you, sensing the signal vibrations you emit, and use these fluctuations to decide how to "handle" you next.

The other log was much shorter, talking about the design process of a bioluminescent jellyfish in the game.

This jellyfish was named "Star Remains," completely transparent with dozens of pinhead-sized light spots embedded inside the bell that flash periodically in the dark.

He mentioned that Star Remains are not solitary but live in small groups; players will encounter clusters of them near hydrothermal vents.

When players are lucky enough to encounter a swarm, these thousands of jellyfish will flash in unison at a certain moment! The radiance produced is enough to illuminate the entire seabed, incredibly magnificent and grand!

Although it only discussed the design concepts and specific appearances of five creatures including these two, it was enough to show players a grand underwater world full of various mythical fantasy creatures.

Magnificent as it may be.

This kind of game is truly unfriendly to players with thalassophobia.

At the very least, Jiang Yuan felt that if she played alone, she probably wouldn't be able to continue!

Jiang Yuan put down her phone, leaned back on the sofa, and thought for a while with her eyes closed. Just as she was about to fall asleep, she snapped out of it, picked up her phone, and replied to Qin Gong, instructing:

"The content of this log is good. Have someone pin this article at the top of the deep sea mystery section."

"Also tell Song Siming that we can continue to increase the warm-up and promotion, using this log and the previous dev diary as supplements, with the final Release PV of deep sea mystery as the main focus! Although the pre-order sales for deep sea mystery are currently good, we can't afford to be optimistic just yet!"

After the message was sent.

Jiang Yuan put away her phone and laptop, went to Lin Xi's livestream room for a while, and then returned to her room in a relaxed mood to continue sleeping.

Having a rare weekend day off, Jiang Yuan, who usually found it hard to have a two-day weekend all year, was naturally more inclined to sleep until she was full.

As time passed unnoticed to November 17th, deep sea mystery, the third game released under the Spark Light Project, officially reached its unlock time.

As usual, when a company game was being released or they needed to rush progress, Jiang Yuan would arrive at the office earlier than usual.

After the elevator doors opened and she entered the company via facial recognition.

There were already people moving in the corridors; not many overall, with only a few scattered workstations lit up, as it was still a bit too early after all.

Not knowing if Qin Gong had stayed downstairs from the company again last night, he actually arrived even earlier than Jiang Yuan.

He was currently hurrying over from the Publishing Department. His hair seemed to have been styled, but a tuft at the back of his head was clearly sticking up. He spoke energetically:

"President Jiang, you're here so early?"

"Yeah, coming to check on things."

Nodding slightly to greet him, Jiang Yuan continued walking toward her office.

Arriving at the office, as expected, she saw Chu Qing's tall figure wearing a snow-white lace shirt and a dark blue skirt suit.

She casually took off her dark gray wool coat and handed it to the gently and brightly smiling Chu Qing, revealing the cream-white thin knit sweater underneath, and sat down to turn on her computer.

While waiting for a moment, she picked up the blueberries Chu Qing had already washed and prepared, eating them happily.

Although there were less than three hours until the unlock.

But after opening the computer, Jiang Yuan saw that the traffic to the deep sea mystery store page had already begun to rise steadily, the pre-load data was ticking up bar by bar, and the most important pre-order data had reached the massive figure of 168,000 after six days of high-scale promotion!