Gamer Superstar - Chapter 44

44 – How Much Each Skill Level Improves
The next day was Saturday, so I woke up, did my normal workout routine, and went home to watch my MeTube channel.

Monetized views: 501,698 = $473

[Numb – 253,863 views] +24,678 views

[In The End – 193,998 views] +32,428 views

[The Lazy Song – 139,623 views] +121,756 views

[18,677 subscribers] + 6,321 subs

Spokify music plays: 20,087 = $80

The growth in songs and subscribers was amazing! Especially after I calculated the channel’s monetized views according to the channel’s CPM, and I was shocked.

Because The Lazy Song had an interesting music video, the video’s retention increased, which increased the video’s revenue per mille, which increased the average I earned per thousand views on the channel from the original $0.70 to $0.80 today.

“Yesterday was officially my first day making over $100 on MeTube!” I said excitedly as I looked at the stats.

I knew that this number could go down if the songs stopped getting so many views, but the opposite could also happen, my daily views could go up and my income could increase even more.

After my conversation with Selena yesterday, we decided what equipment to buy for my small studio.

There were four main pieces of equipment, the first was an acoustic guitar of a good brand, an electric guitar of a good brand, a keyboard of a good brand, and finally an audio card so that I could record the audio from the instruments directly into the computer without having to use a microphone.

The quality would be much better that way.

Even if I had a very good microphone, it didn’t mean that the recording quality of the microphone was perfect.

Sure, I could buy this equipment for a total of $1,000, but if I could afford the best quality, even if I had to buy it piece by piece, why not?

It’s not like I’m in a hurry to have a professional studio in my basement anytime soon.

Since I had some free time today, I took the time to help my mother clean out the basement, and soon it was usable.

It wasn’t the most luxurious or comfortable place, but I was confident that I could improve it bit by bit.

The first priority was to get an air conditioner, as it was very stuffy down there.

But in the meantime, I could bring my computer down here and not have to bother Ethan when I wanted to record a song or practice an instrument.

The atmosphere was very comfortable and cozy. More than I thought it would be, so that’s good.

My computer worked fine, I was able to run the internet cable all the way down here, the wifi worked fine too, so I didn’t have any problems.

While I was surfing the net to test the connection, I remembered that I had decided to make a game as a hobby.

Now that I finally had some free hours in the day, and today was a Saturday where I didn’t have to go to school, I decided to think more about how to make this game.

As far as I could tell, there was no music game that was really successful.

There was no Guitar Hero, no Beat Saber, Osu, Geometric Dash, none of those existed in this world.

So I thought I’d use an idea I liked from my previous world, but with the level it was, I knew I couldn’t do it in a short time.

I wanted to make a mix of these main games in a music game hub.

Just like Fortnite had done in my previous world with the Fortnite Festival, I wanted to do something similar in this world.

Of course, there could be other game modes like Osu, which is a clicker, Geometric Dash, or even Taiko, which was very popular in Japan.

But of course, that kind of planning was something for when I had probably gotten my programming skills up to over 40 points.

Right now, I was far from that, so I could start where it was easiest.

Just the simplest game mechanics, like the Guitar Hero mode and Osu!, which only required setting up a way for the music notes, the timing of the clicks, the points the player would earn, the multipliers, and an option for players to make their own songs.

I think training in Osu! might even help me increase my skill stats! I thought in surprise.

So, using my programming skills, I began to develop the foundation of the game.

[Programming Skill Lv17:

Effect: Deepens understanding of programming, accelerating learning by 17% and allowing for more effective adaptation to new languages and concepts by 17%. It also improves retention of algorithms and practical application during software development. Gain a tangible advantage by absorbing the essential fundamentals of programming and improving your practical skills].

What was once a 1% advantage in learning and applying programming was now a 17% advantage!

With a clear idea in my head of what I wanted to do, development of the game began.

When I got to a part of something I didn’t know, I had to stop and study and learn it in order to continue.

With this division between learning and practicing, my rate of improvement in this skill was very high.

In just a few hours, the skill went up two levels.

[Programming Skill Lv 17 -> 19]

With each level that the skill went up, I felt that it was easier to learn and practice what I had learned.

During this time, I went upstairs to help my mom make lunch and gained another point in my Cooking skill.

[Cooking Lv 15 -> 16].

At this point, my cooking skills were getting really good.

Of course, it wasn’t as good as my mother’s, who had been cooking for over 20 years, but I could already call myself a decent cook.

Those 16 levels were like an ordinary person practicing for a little over two years, which was a considerable amount of experience.

When I went back to the basement to program, I finally managed to gain another point in my skill, finally reaching Lvl 20.

[Programming Skill Lv 19 -> 20]

I was surprised at how quickly I improved.

When I was training during the week, even if it was just for a few hours a day, it didn’t go up as fast.

But I realized why. I wasn’t training efficiently.

I could get points in cooking by reading books about cooking, but if I never put it into practice, my rate of improvement would be very slow.

Now that I was practicing and putting it into practice to make a game to the best of my ability, the skill took off.

And when I reached 20 points in the skill, it was as if the doors of programming had opened in my mind and everything became much easier.

I was always amazed at how increasing the points from one ten to another made such a difference.

From what I understood from looking at each skill level, the points had different weights.

From level 1 to level 9, it was as if a skill level was equivalent to one month of training, so a skill at level 9 was as if I had trained for 9 months.

But when the skill went up to level 10, the skill would directly gain 3 months and complete 1 year of training.

From level 11 to level 19, it was as if the skill gained 2 months of training for each level.

So at level 19, I would have 1 year (Lv 10) and 18 months (Lv 9) of training, for a total of 2 years and 6 months. But when the skill went up to level 20, it increased by 6 months at a time, giving me the experience of 3 years of training.

So even though I’d only started learning to program a few weeks ago, it really felt like I was an experienced programmer with more than 3 years of practice.

And it got even more shocking when the skills reached Lv 30.

For example, my digital illustration skill was at Lv 32.

From Lv 21 to Lv 29, it increased by the equivalent of 3 months of experience per level, so at Lv 29 it increased by 27 months on top of the 36 months it already had from the previous months, bringing my total experience to 5 years and 3 months at Lv 29, but when the skill reached Lv 30, it immediately increased by 9 months of experience, giving me 6 years of training!

And over the next few levels, it went up by 4 months per level, so by the time the skill was at level 32, I had 6 years and 8 months of practice, which increased my digital illustration skills to the extreme.

That’s why it was so easy for me to create the animation for the music video of The Lazy Song.

Even though I had practiced before, each skill level taught me so much that my rate of improvement was very high.

When I learned to calculate these practice times for each skill, it gave me a new perspective on how much I knew in each area.

And now that the programming skill was at Lv 20, my mind was full of new knowledge and new applications, which greatly accelerated the development of my game.