Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 207 Starry Sky First Engine Martial Arts Tournament

Although most Japanese game companies don't care about technological upgrades.

After joining Starry Sky and communicating extensively with Chu Chen, Ishii Akira's fighting spirit was also ignited. He really wanted to use the 2D-HD engine described by Chu Chen to make a game and prove himself.

To make a game, you need to create a full version of the 2D-HD engine.

Anyone who has ever built with blocks knows that once you have a completely new idea, you'll find yourself increasingly dissatisfied with what you've built before.
If you're going to make a full 2D-HD version, why base it on Unity 4.6?
Therefore, in early October, Ishii Akira proposed the idea of ​​"rebuilding" the HD-2D engine in his report to Chu Chen.

Chu Chen's original purpose in acquiring Ishii Akira was to stockpile HD-2D technology, so he naturally had no objection to it.

So, under the guise of a visit and study tour, Ishii Akira led his core team to China and engaged in "friendly exchanges" with the engine teams within the two aforementioned star systems.

If we don't communicate, then so be it.

As soon as we started communicating, "problems" arose.

"Studios within large companies are essentially competitors."

This statement applies not only to Tencent but also to StarCenter. It's no exaggeration to say that StarCenter, which has expanded rapidly in the past six months, has already "taken too big a step and ended up tearing its own balls."

The reason Chu Chen is still able to manage things, and why Xingchen doesn't seem to have run into trouble yet, and why everything is still "thriving," is because...

It's entirely because Chu Chen can lead everyone from one victory to another.

Just like all founding emperors, when everyone believed that the future of Xingchen would be better and that they could realize their greater life value and achieve success on the great ship of Xingchen.

This will naturally create a centripetal force, which will automatically resolve many problems and give Chu Chen time to gradually adjust the internal management.

However, the existence of centripetal force does not mean that there is no competition within the stars.

Even in school, where there are no conflicts of interest between classes, there are still comparisons and competitions. Not to mention, the Starry Sky Studios all operate on a revenue-sharing model.

While everyone's ultimate goal is to make good games, who wouldn't want their studio to have more manpower and more funding?
This is actually not so bad for several game studios, as they can help each other and have good relationships.

However, the situation is quite different for Starry Unity Engine Studio and Starry Reality Engine Studio. The saying "rivals in the same trade are enemies" is absolutely true.

The matter of Akira Ishii's team upgrading the engine.

From the perspective of Starry Sky Unity Engine Studio, this is a "family matter".

Ever since Ishii Akira's team joined StarCraft, they've had their eyes on this lucrative opportunity. After all, Ishii Akira is a game producer, and this was after the release of the FGO remake.

Ishii Akira's team will definitely be launching a new project, and then he'll "go" to make games.

Therefore, the existing Starry Sky Unity Engine Studio can naturally absorb HD-2D technology, establish a branch in Japan, and further expand.

To this end, Xiong Rui, the head of Xingchen Unity, has even done some psychological preparation for his subordinates, saying that they might have to go to Japan.

We need to be involved in the entire process of rebuilding HD-2D technology to prepare for the subsequent expansion of the Unity studio.

But on the other side.

For StarReality Engine Studio.

This matter involving Ishii Akira is also a great opportunity for them. Since they have poached Reality's lead programmer and several key creators, Guan Lei and Jiao Xiaofei have been making plans.

Could you please change the name of Star Reality Engine Studio to Star Engine Studio?

What does that mean? Well, simply put, they want to build Reality into a multi-functional game engine from the ground up, making it the main engine for StarCraft games.

Just like the Messiah Engine developed by NetEase, they hope to create a game engine that belongs to the stars.

In the future, it may even extend to other game developers within the Star Alliance.

Of course, there are selfish motives involved.

Once the positioning of the Starry Sky game engine is confirmed, the game engine studio will naturally receive more resources, whether it's Guan Lei or Jiao Xiaofei who use this engine.

Their project development naturally went more smoothly.

So they hoped to persuade Akira Ishii that since he was going to upgrade anyway, he might as well use the Reality engine. Although he would have to learn it all over again, they had completely mastered the engine.

Moreover, the developers of the Reality engine are in the company. If you want to make major modifications, what could be more convenient than contacting them?
But... it's hard to say if you say it's entirely driven by personal motives.

Because this is essentially a technical dispute driven by Starry Sky Studios, competition between studios is normal before Chu Chen makes a final decision.

Moreover, both sides knew that the final decision was none of their business.

The key is Chu Chen's opinion.

"So..." Chu Chen's lips twitched.

"You've turned a debate over technological approaches into a martial arts tournament?"

"It's almost what it means!"

"Arguing with just PPTs and documents is pointless. Programmers' issues need to be resolved with code and demos! Let's put them to the test!"

This is what happened in Chu Chen's office in early October.

On the left is Xiong Rui, "Chu Chen's last disciple," the former lead programmer of "Final Frontline," and now the "master" of Xingchen Unity Studio, one of the three Xiongs of Xingchen!
On the right is Ulier Fuller, an American who just turned forty this year and has been working in the industry for eighteen years, saying, "I was writing code before you even started working!" He is the former programming director of Reality and now an "elder" at Star Reality Studio!
Chu Chen looked at the two leaders who belonged to different technical camps.

He really wanted to say that with Xingchen's current financial resources, it was fully capable of supporting research and development in both directions, and that was actually his own plan.

While gradually modifying the mature Unity to master 2D games, they also continuously invested in Reality to accumulate development experience for large-scale 3D games like StarCraft.

but.
At that time, the atmosphere in the office made Chu Chen a little hesitant to speak. The two groups of people standing together had a heroic feeling of "competing in martial arts to make friends".

Only Ishii Akira stood in the center, looking utterly helpless. Heaven help him, he really was just there to observe!
Actually, it stands to reason.

Considering labor costs and the waste of resources, Chu Chen should stop this "spirited" behavior.

However, on the other hand, Chu Chen didn't actually have a very intuitive understanding of the current level of the Starry Sky game engine, and after FGO was launched, Starry Sky was in a relatively "idle" period.

So they simply brought out a project that was already in the works.

Let both sides give it a try.

The two sides agreed to a two-week period, with Ishii Akira as the client, to see whose final demo was better.

Now, the half-month period has arrived.

Chu Chen was also very much looking forward to seeing what this demo would be like to play! Which engine would come out on top?
(End of this chapter)