Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 199 Silence, Listen, It's the Voice of the Stars
Aside from game streamers, the voice actors' reactions were even more genuine and heartfelt.

After all, they were the first to benefit from the success of FGO. Among them, the most excited was probably Rie Takahashi, a girl who was lucky enough to get a job because her senior was in poor health.

She posted at least seven or eight tweets in one afternoon.

Besides Rie Takahashi, some voice actors who don't usually tweet also posted, and with the boost from the overall popularity, their tweets also got a lot of traffic.

As the popularity of "FGO" continues to rise.

More and more voice actors are starting to enter the industry.

For example, Nobunaga Shimazaki, a fanatical fan of the Moon, posted a screenshot of his fully upgraded Saberlily as soon as he logged on.

The caption reads: "Wow, my salary from Starry Night Games this month just vanished without me even noticing. Is this the magic of Fate?"

The tweet had been posted for less than five minutes when comments and retweets began pouring in.

"You're not alone! Let's eat dirt together next month, even if my salary is gone!"

"Is this the world of the big shots? I'm still struggling to get my hands on a treasure."

"Don't be discouraged, the half-price pool is a beacon of hope! I just got two Lilies in a single 10-pull!"

"Who asked you?!"

This trend intensified, and by evening, if you opened the Japanese internet...

Twitter, YouTube, forums, LINE, and so on.
As if overnight, everyone in Japan who played anime and manga became a moon person, and then this trend began to spread further outwards.

Its first stop in the spread.

It refers to the idol industry in Japan.

"Good day (^O^)! I've started playing that super popular FGO remake too! Saber is so cool, I want to be like her! Does anyone have any tips or strategies to teach me? #FGORemake#"

The tweet was posted by Yuki Kashiwagi of the girl idol group "AKB48".

At this time, although Yuki Hakugi was still very popular within AKB48, she was already 25 years old, and in some ways, she was already considered an "older idol."

I don't usually play games.

Therefore, anyone with a little experience can immediately see that the real intention behind this tweet is not the game itself, but rather to attract male gamers.
Not to mention her Twitter account, which actually requires an operating license to post.
However, whatever the real purpose may be.

As the first person to "take the plunge," she did gain some traffic from this trending topic. Yuki Hakuki already had some popularity, and her fans immediately went wild after she posted this tweet.

"Weather (the girl's nickname) is playing FGO too?! Oh my god!"

"A strategy guide, huh? Leave it to me! I'll write you a 10,000-word beginner's guide right now!"

"Does Yukirin like Saber? Look! These are two Saber Lily pulls from my 10-pull!"

"!? How come you're everywhere I go?!"

The happiness of otaku is that simple.

It's double the joy to have your favorite idol share the same hobbies.

In no time, Yuki Kashiwagi's Twitter feed was flooded with game screenshots and enthusiastic tips, its popularity even surpassing her previous swimsuit photo post.

With the first person in the entertainment industry to capitalize on the surge in popularity, this whole event became more than just the launch of a game; it was like a domino effect.

From this point on, the hot topic that originated from the game "FGO" began to surge outwards at an unprecedented rate.

Furthermore, the hot topics in Japan are slightly different from those in China. There's a very interesting term in Japan.

This term is called "reading the air," or you could call it going with the flow.

In Japanese society, you often see that once something becomes popular, it spreads rapidly at an astonishing speed, eventually becoming something that involves the entire society.

For example, PPAP, the one with the catchphrase "Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen," was incredibly popular when a bunch of Japanese celebrities were imitating it.

This is even more evident and faster among young people.

This afternoon, FGO became a hot topic. If you still haven't heard about it from your friends by the time school ends this afternoon, it means you don't have enough friends.

If by evening you haven't played yet, or haven't planned to play...
Then you'll basically be unable to keep up with the "topic" the next day.
In some ways, the Chinese mobile game Honor of Kings is similar, except that in China, if you say you don't play Honor of Kings in social situations, no one will think there's anything wrong with you. However, in Japan...
It is very likely that this will be accompanied by...

"Huh?? Why aren't you playing? It's really fun."

"Haven't you played yet?"

"You didn't know that? You're so out of touch!"

When things have developed to this point, even if Chu Chen does nothing, the explosive popularity of "FGO" is already unstoppable, until the flames burn through everyone in Japan who can be ignited.

The hype surrounding this event will only die down once all the players have "burned out".

The FGO craze continued into 2020, and in Twitter's list of the most popular games of 2020, the FGO mobile game still ranked second.
In this timeline, this first spark is burning so brightly, could it ignite a Japanese version of "Honor of Kings"? Could it become a bestseller that will still be number one ten years later?

It is also an unknown.

However, regardless of what the future holds, in the present moment, anyone standing amidst this raging fire can feel that "true kingly aura."

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The first day of FGO's launch.

It's exactly midnight in China.

For most people, it's the transition between the old and new day.

The vast majority of the land of China has fallen asleep, and even the most powerful companies in the internet industry have returned home by this time.

A large group of "observers" who had spent most of the day reading FGO news wiped their faces and prepared to go to sleep.

However, on this very night, at midnight...

At the same time, Starry Sky Games' official Weibo, Twitter, and website, as well as its official Weibo and Bilibili accounts, quietly released a poster.

It was a meticulously crafted poster.

Below the poster are a bunch of popular Servants from FGO, such as Saber and Jeanne d'Arc, while at the top of the poster is a line of large, gilded characters.

[Thank you for the support of players worldwide, FGO Remastered]

[Global revenue exceeded 100 million within 11 hours of server launch]

There are no superfluous words, no exaggerated embellishments.

It's just a poster, at most including the bottom of the poster, which says that because global revenue exceeded 100 million, and because the Chinese server, Japanese server, and both servers topped the charts on Apple App Store, Star Tap, and Google Play Japan.

Therefore, Starry Sky Games issued a 10-pull announcement to celebrate.
But its appearance was still like a deep-sea nuclear bomb, detonating suddenly in the quiet of the night, instantly creating a huge wave.

(End of this chapter)