Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 133 Welcoming Distinguished Guests
Meanwhile, Bilibili

CEO's Office

Chen Ruizheng sat with his hands crossed on the table, looking very seriously at a video on his computer screen, adopting the posture of Commander Ding.

If we look at it from a third-person perspective.

That serious expression means he must be thinking about something important.
However, if you stand behind Chen Rui, you can see that the video he is watching is neither a business lecture nor a business analysis.

Instead, it showed a sweet-looking Japanese girl streaming herself playing a game.

In the bottom left corner is a place resembling a studio, where a girl is sitting on a sofa holding a controller, while the rest of the screen displays the game screen.

Judging from the border of the live stream screen, this was a live stream event organized by StarCraft Games to celebrate the release of the 1.1 version of Final Frontline.

The event mainly involves inviting some voice actors to try out the game. For example, the voice actress currently trying out the game is Ayana Taketatsu, who voices AR15 in the Japanese version.

Chen Rui was naturally very familiar with that voice.

After all, this girl is the voice actress who voices the female lead, Kirino Kousaka, in "Oreimo".

Similar to the previous live streams organized by Starry Sky, this series of voice actor demo events is also quite eye-catching, the first being "global live stream".

Starry Night Games placed four comment sections on the left side of the live stream, displaying comments from Japan, China, Europe and America, and other regions.

In Japan, the danmaku (bullet comment) pool is connected to Nico Nico Douga; in China, it's Bilibili; and in other regions, it's YouTube.
Furthermore, Starry Sky Games hired a dedicated translator to delay the live stream by 3 minutes, allowing players from other regions who do not understand Japanese to read the subtitles.

In fact, from the core logic of the program, these four comment pools from around the world are not very useful.

Due to the delay, players' time cannot be directly synchronized with the guests', because the guests actually see the comments posted by the players three minutes earlier.

There is also a certain delay between the bullet comments, and with four windows appearing at the same time, the rapidly scrolling bullet comments in other languages ​​are like encrypted information, making them basically incomprehensible.

But Chu Chen still used the system because it could indeed create a strong sense of "global coexistence".

Why did Huawei's overseas sales in the past actually boost its brand value?
Why does BYD's success overseas boost its brand recognition in China?

Why do so many gamers enjoy watching overseas bloggers play Chinese-made games?

Chu Chen didn't fully understand it either, but that didn't stop him from using this emotion. This seemingly gimmicky thing was essentially a way of making this clear and intuitive.

Even though more than 90% of the audience actually can't understand what people from other countries are saying.

However, this did not prevent a large number of Japanese players from shouting out the moment they saw it.

"Wow~~~ Awesome!!"

That doesn't stop domestic players from shouting it out.

"Holy crap, that's amazing! People from so many countries are watching?"

In addition, Starry Games does not completely ignore this feature; its "live streaming" feature also has its own unique twists and turns.

Every 5 minutes, the staff will randomly select a comment to ask the guest a question or give an instruction, and the guest must continue playing the game without stopping.

Multitasking, answering questions.

If you answer incorrectly, you will be punished, and this "punishment" is determined by player votes in the chat. Of course, due to the asynchronous nature of the comments...

Host: "From Singapore, how do you pronounce this ID? Ah Lin? Anyway, this audience member... gave us this instruction."

"Can you play a game and then say to the camera, 'Hmph, it's none of your business, you pervert!'"

As soon as he finished speaking, the screen behind him was covered with various "WWW", "grass", "6666" and a large number of soybean-shaped emojis.

It's safe to say that global gamers are incredibly adaptable. Not long after the live stream started, they were already using emojis to express their emotions.

Watching players around the world use similar memes is quite an interesting experience.

Ayana Taketatsu's reaction was also quite impressive.

First, she complained, "I'm playing a game, why am I reciting lines while facing the camera?!"

Despite her initial complaint, the girl quickly turned her gaze to the camera. At that moment, the entire screen switched, with the game view appearing in a small window and Ayana Taketatsu switching to a large window.

The girl's entire aura changed the next second.

She slightly turned her head, her gaze lowered diagonally, her cheeks puffed out, her brows furrowed, striking a textbook pose of haughtiness. A soft "Hmph" escaped her nose, carrying seven parts disdain and three parts coquettishness, "My affairs are none of your business... you pervert!"

As soon as the performance ended, the girl instantly broke down, deflated like a punctured balloon, and collapsed onto the sofa, clutching her flushed cheeks.

"No, no, this is too embarrassing!"

However, viewers who regularly watch live streams know that the more the streamer reacts this way, the more excited the players become.

This extreme contrast between cuteness and innocence directly ignited the global barrage of comments.

"awsl!!!"

"It's Kirino! It's Kirino himself!"

"かわいいいいい!"

"What did she say? LMAO but it sounds cute."

For gamers, watching this live stream is definitely a treat, but for Chen Rui, watching it evoked mixed feelings.

"This popularity is amazing."

Chen Rui casually refreshed the page and opened the Bilibili backend. The data showed that this video was currently the most popular video in the Bilibili live stream.

The number of people participating in the online simultaneous connection has exceeded 10.

This number is quite staggering for a voice actor spin-off program.

Turn off the live stream and return to the Bilibili homepage.

You don't even need to search for it; the videos recommended by Bilibili's gaming section are pushed to you based on the algorithm.

Based on Chen Rui's previous searches, aside from news about the FGO remake, almost everything in the images was related to Final Frontier.
"You succeeded again, Xingchen!"

Before Chen Rui could finish his subtly wistful remark, there was a knock on his office door, followed by his assistant pushing the door open and entering.

"President Chen! Chu Chen has arrived!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Rui paused in his actions.

"Where are we?"

"We'll be downstairs in ten minutes."

Chen Rui, who was hurriedly packing his clothes and preparing to leave, stopped in his tracks upon hearing this.

"Then why are you in such a panic?"

"No..." the assistant said, sounding a little aggrieved. "You specifically instructed me this morning to keep an eye on the other side's movements and to let you know ten minutes in advance so you could go down and greet them in person."

"..."

Chen Rui was speechless; that was indeed what he had said.

He cleared his throat, about to explain, but just as he opened his mouth, Chen Rui suddenly realized that he had actually felt nervous when he heard Chu Chen's name.

是 的
As the chairman of a company valued at $17 billion
I actually got nervous...
However, his nervousness was understandable, because he was about to discuss with Chu Chen the specific details of their collaboration on the Chinese version of FGO.

This is not the first time the two companies have talked.

Back in June of this year, when StarCraft acquired the FGO copyright, the two sides had already discussed it, but no agreement was reached.

Every time Chen Rui thinks about this, he wants to slap himself twice.

"We really shouldn't have dragged this out until now..."

Chen Rui muttered to himself, "If we had talked seriously back then, we wouldn't be in such a passive position today."
"Mr. Chen? What did you say?" The assistant didn't hear clearly.

"It's nothing." Chen Rui took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing all his chaotic emotions, straightened the hem of his suit jacket, and put on his signature smile again.

"Let's go, let's go greet our distinguished guests."

　Here's a brief preview: to avoid slowing down the pace, I won't go into detail about the negotiations with Bilibili; I'll just state the results directly.

　　In the following chapters, you'll see how Starry Sky Tap was first revealed, what Sea Cat encountered on his Starry Sky journey, and whether the mini-games will shine!
　　Please see the next episode! (*^▽^*)
　　
　
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