Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 117 Reaction
Meanwhile, at the Tencent Games press conference.

Tencent's press conference format is quite different from Xingchen's. Xingchen's press conference mainly consists of playing videos, and even when Yan Chuan appears, it is a pre-recorded video.

Tencent is a large and powerful company.

In addition, this live broadcast was spearheaded by the group level and was actually a joint event organized by multiple working groups within Tencent. The budget was ample, and there were many leaders to "invite".

Therefore, the final form presented was a relatively traditional press conference.

A huge stage was set up, and some players were invited to the event. After each game was released, leaders were invited to give speeches on stage.

Xiong Youning from the Mill Studio just gave a passionate speech on stage, explaining the "hardships" and "struggles" of developing "Night Spirit" so thoroughly that he was almost moved to tears.

"How was it, Xiao Li?"

"Was my speech alright? Did I create the right atmosphere?"

Xiong Youning's secretary immediately gave him a thumbs up.

"Perfect! Mr. Xiong, that's spot on!"

Xiong Youning nodded in satisfaction, chatting as he went, but in his mind he was already thinking about taking some screenshots of the heated discussions surrounding "Night Spirit" and posting them on his WeChat Moments with a sentiment of "It wasn't easy."

Will Mr. Ma give it a thumbs up? If Mr. Ma doesn't, Mr. Ren should at least give it a thumbs up.

The "Boss Ren" that Xiong Youning mentioned is Ren Tianyu, the president of Tencent Games. He couldn't wait to swipe open his phone and click on several well-known domestic game news websites.

"Fate/stay night: Infinite Grail! Astral Games has dropped a nuclear bomb!"

"The true Fate series is in China? Heroic spirits make a grand appearance in China! Bai Qi is so handsome that the Japanese live stream crashed!"

"Japanese gamers have gone crazy! FGO has once again entered the top ten best-selling charts! A wave of gacha spending has swept Japan."

"Final Front: Source Tracing Premiere, Demo Downloads Exceed 100,000!!"

"Starry Games officially announced that within ten minutes of the press conference, the number of viewers watching the live stream globally exceeded 20. Were you among them?"

As the news continued to scroll down, Xiong Youning's face quickly turned from rosy-cheeked to ashen.

I flipped through several pages.

I just saw one post: "[Tencent releases new auto-chess game 'Night Spirit,' featuring armed girls battling medieval zombies.]"

"W-what's going on??"

This was completely different from what Xiong Youning had expected. He had anticipated that today would be the day before the 1.1 version update of Final Frontline, and that Night Spirit would be a game similar to Final Frontline.

Regardless of player feedback, it should at least be quite appealing.

In other words, Xiong Youning can accept even the most overwhelming criticism.

After all, within Tencent's vast game portfolio, there are plenty of examples of games that everyone knows were copied, everyone criticizes, but ultimately succeeded.

That's how the player base is. Even if they know it's a copy, there are still a lot of players who will play it and try it out.

So, if you copy well.

In addition to Tencent's own massive user base, a situation arises where something is being criticized while simultaneously becoming popular.

But... Xiong Youning never expected this situation where no one was paying attention. He casually browsed through several websites before confirming that Tencent Games had indeed published the news.

There was just too much news about the Starry Night Games press conference, so much so that the press releases that Tencent bought were not even published. Even the few news articles that were on the front page did not receive any player comments!
Starry Sky Games immediately grabbed all the players' attention with three big pie-in-the-sky gestures.

"Brother Xiong, calm down. You've been talking so much. Have some water first."

Qi Zhihong, the producer of "Night Spirit," carefully handed over a bottle of mineral water.

His expression wasn't good either. Unlike Xiong Youning, who had just learned the news, he had been watching Xingchen's press conference on his phone the whole time.

To be honest, if we don't look at it from Tencent's perspective, but simply from the players' perspective, the Starry Night launch event was absolutely perfect.

If you want a game, you get a game; if you want real gameplay, you get real gameplay; there's even a demo to play!
It is indeed much more appealing than the "leader's" speech on Tencent's side.

"calm?"

Xiong Youning's voice was a little hoarse.

"I'm calm, but what about the publicity? What's the marketing department doing? What's the public relations department doing? Didn't they get any advance warning? Is this the kind of thing Xingchen is going to hold a press conference for?!"

Before today's press conference, almost everyone thought that StarCraft would at most announce the 1.1 version update of "Final Frontline", perhaps adding a few new characters and launching a few new events.

At worst, we can just release some more content about FGO and add a few mini-games.

After all, given StarCraft's current production capacity, it really shouldn't be releasing any major updates. Compared to Tencent's behemoth, this kind of update is nothing more than an ant trying to shake a tree.

But who would have thought that this press conference, which featured new content for Terminal Frontier, was actually about a new game!

There is indeed new information about FGO, but it's a high-definition remaster, and it even comes with a free Fate game!!
"I'm impressed! Where did they get the manpower and technology to create these games?"

As the boss of the Mill Games workgroup.

Xiong Youning is all too aware of the development cycle and investment required for a new game.

Even for a company the size of StarCraft, it takes a long time to produce a game that looks quite well-made.

This means that they may have been secretly working on the project shortly after the release of Final Frontline 1.0, or even earlier.

Moreover, even back then, projects like Final Front: Origins and Infinite Grail would never have released such a demo at this point in time.

"It can't just be a demo made specifically for this press conference."

Xiong Youning thought and thought but still couldn't figure it out. Just then, Zhuang Zhihong from Yaoguang Studio walked in with a livid face and sat down next to him.

"Old Bear, things aren't looking good."

Zhuang Zhihong got straight to the point.

"The press conference at Xingchen... was pretty amazing."

"I saw."

Xiong Youning took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down, but the restlessness in his chest grew wildly like weeds.

"How are you doing there?"

Zhuang Zhihong gave a wry smile.

"What else can we do? I haven't even been on stage yet. The promotion for 'Girls' Agreement' has been released, but it's not generating any buzz. People are either talking about StarCraft's new game or about FGO."

Like Xiong Youning, Zhuang Zhihong genuinely didn't understand how Starry Sky Games had managed to do it.

"Now is not the time to investigate how they did it."

Xiong Youning interrupted the conversation.

"Now we need to consider whether to adjust the original publicity and distribution plan?"

"How to adjust it?"

The most painful thing for the two of them right now is that their game is not finished.

(End of this chapter)