Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 132 Did you succeed?
Chu Chen entered the interview room at 10 a.m.

The gossip started circulating in the studio at 10:01 AM.

"I heard that President Chen was interviewed by a major newspaper?"

“Absolutely. I saw it with my own eyes. A very elegant lady entered the conference room, and Brother Chen even went to greet her personally.”

Which media outlet?

"I think it's from CCTV's website?"

"CCTV.com?!"

"CCTV interviewed our CEO Chen?!"

"Holy crap! Really? CCTV?!"

"Is this even a lie? Didn't you see that photographer come into the office to film a video just now?"

"Wow, this is going to be on the national news!"

"Holy crap, it's really going to be on CCTV!"

"It's not just about appearing on CCTV. Let me tell you, my second great-uncle's third niece works in a ministry. Interviews of this level usually have special significance. Maybe Mr. Chen will be promoted as a role model for young entrepreneurs!"

"real or fake??"

"Of course it's true!!!"

The employees became more and more excited as the story spread, and the more outrageous their claims became.

When Chu Chen returned after the interview, he could clearly sense that everyone in the office was acting strangely. The way everyone looked at him was a mixture of awe and admiration.
Chu Chen was too embarrassed to ask.

Fortunately, he still has his own sweet little cotton-padded jacket, no... I mean, the public opinion detector Song Yueying.

"Oh? You mean that? It's nothing, it's just that everyone's saying you're going to be on the evening news..."

"Why would you appear on CCTV News? It's CCTV.com, not CCTV News."

"is it?"

"No...no way, you believed that too, didn't you?"

"Haha, no, not at all."

Song Yueying felt a little guilty.

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same moment
Flash explosion, CEO's office.

"What do you mean by saying our publicity campaign has stopped?"

Huang Yu's mind went blank, as if he had been hit hard on the head with a club, and his vision even went black.

"Brother Gang, what do you mean by that? Our publicity campaign... why did it stop?"

Just a few days ago, Huang Yu was standing under the dazzling spotlight at Tencent's press conference, full of vigor and talking about the future of "Gun Girls," recounting his personal journey.

He was still thanking Tencent for its promotion on stage, and the flashes and applause from the audience still seemed to echo in his ears.

Wan Wanggang glanced at him expressionlessly, the cigarette between his fingers emitting wisps of smoke, his tone as calm as if he were discussing the weather.

"That's literally what it means."

"From this moment forward, Tencent Games will immediately cancel all promotional and distribution support for 'Gun Girls'."

"Cancel everything?!"

"No... Brother Gang, this is too sudden! Didn't we say that we'd be heavily promoting the Gun Girls auto chess game after the press conference??"

Wan Wanggang lightly flicked the ash from his cigarette.

"Wasn't it pushed away?"

"Only two days?!"

How many more days do you need?

"No, Brother Gang, you know that Starry Sky Games has been holding press conferences and launching new versions these past few days, so the promotional effect has been very poor. I've already reported this to you..."

For GunGirls, the better the performance of its competitor, Final Frontline, the worse their performance will be.

The heavily planned auto chess strategy, initially intended as a powerful weapon, failed to demonstrate any advantage under the continuous barrage of surprises from StarCraft Games. But...
"Even if our data is a bit worse, we haven't lost money! We were still profitable last month and this month, weren't we? Why would we just cut everything off? Brother Gang, is there some misunderstanding?"

Wan Wanggang's lips twitched slightly, as if he were smiling, but it also seemed like he wasn't.

When it comes to Tencent Games, they're really generous with traffic; they practically want to pour all the traffic from every channel into you.

But once it's discovered that traffic can't be generated, it can be cut in half at any time.

Even though many projects don't actually lose money, for Tencent, if you don't make a lot of money, it's a waste of operational resources. Countless companies that received investment from Tencent in the past died this way.

He simply didn't want to say these things, nor did he bother to say them to Huang Yu.

From the moment he first met Huang Yu, he understood what kind of person Huang Yu was. Although he invested in Huang Yu from a business perspective, from a personal perspective...

His assessment of Huang Yu was that he was someone who mistook "luck" for ability.

"Do you think Tencent is a charity? Supporting a bunch of projects that only eat and don't produce any results?"

These words were like a bucket of ice water poured over Huang Yu's head, instantly sobering him up considerably. But he was still unwilling to give up, and asked as if grasping at the last straw.

"Well, didn't we agree on a joint promotion plan before? A plan involving Tencent internally?"

“No more.”

Wan Wanggang abruptly interrupted him.

"All publicity and promotion have been stopped."

"From now on, Tencent can continue to maintain the operation of the servers. As for publicity and distribution, you'll have to figure that out yourselves."

"Of course, if you want to take back the operating rights completely and run it independently, that's fine too, we have no objection."

Huang Yu was dumbfounded.

Given the current state of "Gun Girls," without Tencent... it's truly doomed!!

"No, Brother Gang! Can we have one more chance? Just one more time! Tencent probably doesn't have any games they're in a rush to release right now, right? Give 'Gun Girls' another push, and maybe, just maybe, it'll take off!"

To be fair, Huang Yu is quite quick-witted.

Although Tencent announced several new games at its press conference, these new games do need time to launch, so in theory, Tencent Games should not be under much pressure to promote itself during this period.

Upon hearing this, Wan Wanggang sighed.

"Who told you Tencent doesn't have any publicity or promotion tasks?"

What should we promote?

"Starry Sky Wallpaper"

"..."

Huang Yu's expression froze.

It took him a full three seconds to react.
"W-what the heck?! Starry sky... wallpaper?!"

"Brother Gang, are you kidding me?! At this time, instead of promoting our game, you're promoting star wallpapers?!?!"

Wan Wanggang let out a heavy sigh.

His tone revealed undisguised exhaustion and impatience.

He really didn't want to stay here because he had already suffered a lot in Tencent's investment department over investing in "Gun Girls." After dealing with Huang Yu, he still had a lot to do.

"Huang Yu, Huang Yu, why can't you understand?"

"Tencent has always only believed in successful people and is only willing to invest resources in successful people, or... people who are about to succeed."

"Do you know what Starry Wallpaper's current valuation is? Do you know what your company's internal valuation is within Tencent?"

"Why else?"

"Because Chu Chen is among the stars."

As soon as Wan Wang finished speaking, he stopped looking at Huang Yu and walked straight out of the office, leaving Huang Yu standing there dumbfounded, his mind blank.

(End of this chapter)