Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 119 Why Tencent is a Paper Tiger
After returning home and watching the replay of the Starry Night Games press conference, he originally planned to work through the night to create an in-depth analysis of "Final Front: Origins".

But before he even started writing the copy, a quick search revealed that several top game content creators had already thoroughly analyzed every nook and cranny of the demo.

One of them, known as "Veteran Gamer," has already surpassed one million video views, with thousands of comments still being posted.

The reason this video has so many views is because the Bilibili content creator discovered a hidden level in the demo.

This hidden level is located during the transition between the second and third scenes. There is a piece of wood in the background that cannot be destroyed with either the M4 or the Mosin-Nagant rifle.

But PPK can.

Xia Anbo also discovered this hidden level, since the opening animation showed PPK breaking through the wood.

So when he saw this background, he realized there might be a problem.

So they broke the wood and entered the hidden level.

The hidden level is a separate scene containing a modified android, which acts as a mini-boss.

It was precisely because he discovered this BOSS that he thought of making a video. Unfortunately, this hidden level wasn't actually that "hidden"—the first batch of content creators also discovered it.

"The path of tracing the source is blocked."

Xia Anbo sighed, and, unwilling to give up, searched for "Fate/Grand Order" and "Infinite Grail" again.

The result was even worse.

Although there aren't many FGO players in China, FATE has a lot of fans!

Several bloggers from the anime community, as well as a few bloggers specializing in FATE-related content, have teamed up for a dream collaboration this time.

Although the FGO remake has not been fully released, the Japanese version of FGO has already implemented some character illustrations after the press conference.

Moreover, this time FGO is going against the grain, updating not only some 5-star Servants but also some low-star Servant illustrations.

While retaining the original concept, all the character illustrations have been unified to a certain extent, but they are completely different in the details.

As a result, a large number of videos showcasing the new character art in the Japanese version of the game have garnered tens of thousands of views.

In addition, some people dug into the past of the development team of "Fate/stay night: Infinite Grail". Many content creators directly talked about Meteor Butterfly Sword from Infinite Grail, and then talked about the new characters shown in the dynamic wallpaper.

Besides these, there were also experts who talked about everything from the details of the Japanese server's character art updates to the background setting of "Infinite Grail," and then, based on information found on the official website, they cited a wide range of sources and talked nonsense all the way through.

Xia Anbo was so impressed he wanted to kneel down and shout "Boss, you're awesome!"

As for the reactions of Japanese gamers watching the press conference, that's already "outdated." The most viewed videos on Bilibili now are those of Western gamers watching the live stream.
"Even that cat... someone actually wrote a 10,000-word analysis based on the physical rendering of the cat's fur and the smoothness of its motion capture."

"Are you even human?!"

"Do we have to go this far?"

Xia Anbo felt like a gold prospector who was a step too late. By the time he arrived at the scene, not only was there no gold, but even the dirt had been blown away.

Not to mention the games that have already appeared at the press conference, even the martial arts girl who only has a GIF right now has been analyzed dozens of times.

"Martial arts anime? Fantasy anime? Why didn't this mysterious masterpiece make it to the Starry Sky Games press conference?"

can only say.

This reflects the current popularity of StarCraft games.

Any little thing could attract the attention of the players, and many players who felt they weren't satisfied after watching the press conference were frantically asking for similar videos.

This is essentially the same logic as when Black Myth was released in the previous life, and a lot of players watched the trailer and then went to post "others watched the trailer".

They were all venting their excited emotions.

After all, gamers are probably the group least able to resist the allure of "novelty".

This was indeed a potential opportunity to gain traffic, but unfortunately, the window of opportunity was very short, and given that he was just a small-time blogger, he probably wouldn't be able to capitalize on this surge in popularity. Just as he was feeling disheartened and preparing to make himself a bowl of instant noodles to soothe his wounded soul...

His fingers unconsciously swiped across the screen, and a news headline in an inconspicuous corner, submerged in the flood of Starry Night Games information, suddenly jumped into his field of vision.

"Tencent press conference..."

Xia Anbo narrowed his eyes, and a flash of inspiration struck him.

Yes, didn't Tencent also hold a press conference yesterday?

Like most gamers, he wasn't particularly interested in the content of Tencent's press conference, and he hadn't even read the press conference article.
"and many more!"

Xia Anbo sat up abruptly, his eyes lighting up.

He wasn't going to write about Tencent's press conference; even a dog wouldn't read that stuff. He just thought of another angle.

I quickly opened Tencent Video, found the live replay of the Tencent press conference, and sure enough, the popularity score clearly showed "150 million".

Xia Anbo chuckled softly, with a hint of understanding in his voice.

"150 million 'views', haha."

As a seasoned internet user, he knows all too well what these platforms' "popularity ratings" are.

That number isn't the actual number of viewers; it's a composite of interactive data such as bullet comments, gifts, and shares, multiplied by some mystical coefficient.

For example, a live stream on Huya might show a popularity score of 10, but the actual number of viewers online might only be a few hundred to a few thousand. Tencent Video is similar.

"Dividing the popularity score by 500 gives you a rough estimate of the actual number of participants."

"With 150 million views, only about 300,000 real viewers actually watched it. Considering the margin of error, it's at most 400,000."

For a giant like Tencent, this figure can only be described as "dismal".

Immediately afterwards, he skillfully set up a VPN, switched to YouTube, searched for the European and American broadcasts and Japanese broadcasts of the Starry Night Games press conference, and then switched to Nico Nico Douga.

The combined viewership of just the major broadcast channels easily surpassed 500,000.

These 500,000 players are mainly Japanese, including not only fans of Final Frontline but also a large number of FGO fans, as can be seen from the comments below the video.

only..
Most of these comments have been screenshotted, sliced, and reposted back to China.

It doesn't make sense anymore.

Of course, that wasn't what Xia Anbo was after.

"Over there, the number of viewers in the Japanese market alone, plus YouTube in Europe and America, far surpasses Tencent's domestic stronghold."

Xia Anbo became more and more excited as he calculated.

"Add to that the number of viewers on Bilibili and the Starry Night Games event page in China, wow, the contrast is just too obvious!"

This is what it means to achieve enlightenment in a single thought.

Others either rave about how amazing StarCraft's new games are, or they criticize them, saying that StarCraft Games could never make these games and that it's all just empty promises.

Anyway, some people praise it, and some criticize it.

He managed to capture all the traffic, both positive and negative, but even so, Xia Anbo still found a breakthrough.

Xia Anbo slapped his thigh, his dejected expression vanishing, replaced by the excitement of a hunter discovering his prey.

The title is... 'Why Tencent is a paper tiger!'

(End of this chapter)