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Chapter 6: Get This Game Off My PC!

Zoey Parker's heart sank.

Discrepancies?

She'd already labeled Cat Leo as a "participation trophy" game—meant to flop, not fly. Sales couldn't possibly get worse than zero.

Which meant…

Zoey frowned, a bad feeling creeping in. "So…" she said, voice shaky, "how many hundreds of copies sold?"

Hundreds of suckers bought this thing? Her face twisted into a pained grimace.

She braced herself.

On the other end, Chloe Quinn chuckled. "Ms. Parker, what'...

Chapter 5: Wait, Our Game Sold?!

What a wild show!

The rocket pipe blasted off, carrying Cat Leo—and the chat's laughter—into the stratosphere.

"Hahaha, LIFTOFF!"

"Pipe's like, 'Keep flexin', I'll make you fly!'"

"NASA's got nothin' on this!"

"What even is this trap, lol…"

"Youngblood's got moves!"

"Thought of a thousand traps, but a rocket pipe? Nope."

"Boss is pissed, hahaha!"

"This game's unhinged!"

"Pipe eats you? Decent. Pipe launches you? Legendary."

Chapter 4: Who Designs a Game Like This?!

"Mari—oh, Cat Leo."

Yin clicked into the game's details page.

Next to the janky, scribbled cover art, the info read:

Game Name: Cat Leo

Developer: WindyPeak Games

Type: Platformer

Price: $2

"This art style…" Yin stared at the smug, upright-walking cat and cracked up. "What is this garbage? No wonder it's two bucks."

Still, he hit the purchase button, adding Cat Leo to his library.

Chat went wild over the ridiculous cover:

"What e...

Chapter 3: Ready for Launch

More money?

Gus Shepard was floored.

Back in his old life, all he ever heard was "budget's too high" or "rein it in." Never once had a boss begged to jack up the budget!

In theory, this was a win. More cash meant Zoey believed in him.

But…

Gus glanced at his Cat Leo proposal and cringed. Where the hell was he supposed to spend extra money?

The only cost for this game was the dirt-cheap license for the Flash game platform!

"Character models? UI? I dr...

Chapter 2: We Need a Bigger Budget!

Hell yeah!

The quirky, seemingly naive Zoey Parker has her own secret weapon—a system!

Zoey's real name is Zoey Parker, a senior at Seattle Tech University, majoring in Financial Engineering. She's crashing in a slick downtown apartment.

Per school rules, seniors ditch classes to hunt for internships.

This should've been a cakewalk for Zoey. Her family's loaded, running a big-shot investment firm with a slew of businesses under their belt.

All her dad, Big Mike...

Chapter 1: Who Would Play This Kind of Crazy Game?

"...So, this is your pitch? Cat Leo?"

Conference room, WindyPeak Games Inc., 22nd floor, TechTower, Downtown Seattle.

As the lead interviewer for the game director position, Chief of Staff Chloe Quinn stared at the game proposal in her hands, then glanced at the young guy across from her in a faded Spider-Man hoodie.

Her tone dripped with skepticism.

She genuinely couldn't wrap her head around how this mess could be called a "game proposal."

The concept art on th...