Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 211 Victory or Loss
For Chu Chen, "The Final Survival Guide" was a trial to "expand his circle".

This is StarTap's attempt to shift resources to the PC platform in order to cope with the future impact of Steam.

If successful, StarCraft will be able to reach a wider player base.

For such a project, the choice of engine becomes very subtle.

Its R&D costs and development time cannot be too high, because China is currently unable to accept a 3A game with an expensive price tag, and Chu Chen does not think that Starry Sky is capable of developing a 3A game at present.

Although he is not short of money
But apart from having plenty of money, Xingchen lacks everything else.

Secondly, it doesn't need to be too large. Finally, it doesn't need to have the ultimate combat performance, but it does need a world that can contain vastness, solitude, and full of detail.

The Unity team's demo was excellent. Although it was still pixel-style, it exceeded Chu Chen's expectations.

"very nice."

Chu Chen finally spoke, looking at Xiong Rui.

"The completion rate is very high, thank you for your hard work."

With his boss's approval, Xiong Rui's smile widened even more.

However, Fuller remained expressionless, merely nodding to Guan Lei beside him. It was time to give these greenhorns a taste of the veteran's expertise.
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Time flies, and six months later.

2017 October.

Shanghai, YiYi Interactive Entertainment Game Studio.

"Changed again! Changed again! This is the eighth time this month! Are you colorblind?! Isn't this pink enough?! What more pink do you want?!"

Frustrated, Chen Yanxin threw the digital pen in her hand onto the drawing board.

It made a crisp, clear impact sound.

As an artist at a company that specializes in creating pay-to-win mobile games, Chen Yanxin's daily work involves battling wits with the game designers.

In a normal company, the art director is responsible for art direction, but in her shabby company, the boss, in order to save money, had the planner "concurrently" take on that role.

However, some job positions were created in order to...

It is because of the blood and tears of countless predecessors that those who come after them have been shown that this position is necessary.

A company's art director is not just a manager of the art department, but also a standard output point, even if Chen Yanxin's art department only has three people.
There isn't a single person with a consistent style.

Everyone felt awkward working together, and to make matters worse, that "idiot" planner could never clearly articulate her requirements, and she always had to draw them out before she could point out that they were wrong.

This naturally makes the work more frustrating.

"Ugh……"

Although frustrated, what can a recent college graduate do to make a living?
He sighed deeply and silently recited a few lines of the Heart Sutra to calm his anger.

Chen Yanxin decided to slack off.

Although she could handle the new requirements the planner had just raised in just three to five minutes, she didn't plan to do it right away.

Otherwise, if she makes any changes, that idiot planner will definitely think she's not putting in the effort, and might not even look at it before saying it's no good. It's better to spend an hour or two digging out the previous version, making a few minor changes, and then hand it in.
The thought of slacking off made Chen Yanxin feel a little better.

Looking around, everyone in the office was working "seriously," with the sound of keyboards clicking all around, but who knows how many people were actually chatting on QQ or browsing Taobao.

Chen Yanxin skillfully took her phone out of the drawer and unlocked the screen.

The wallpaper is of the Type 95 from her favorite anime, "The Final Front".

"My wife, born in 95, is still the most pleasing to the eye."

She muttered to herself as she clicked on the icon for "Final Front".

She's been playing this game for over half a year; she's a rare example of someone who purely plays the story.

She doesn't play PVP, and her PVE progress is just enough to keep up with the main storyline, but she never misses a single episode of the main storyline.

It's a pity that Final Frontline just had a major update last month, and she doesn't play PVP or PVE. Fortunately, besides those things, Final Frontline has also updated a lot of casual gameplay recently.

With the implementation of the large dormitory system and the gradual implementation of personal stories for popular androids, even casual players like her can have a lot of fun.

After skillfully finishing with the logistics, Chen Yanxin found POPSA, dragged her to the massage room, changed her into the interactive skin she had just bought, and, under the guise of a "massage," massaged POPSA's little feet. Chen Yanxin's mood improved considerably.

Indeed, although Chen Yanxin has a pure and lovely face, deep down she harbors a restless "lustful heart".

Perhaps it was because she didn't choose the right "teaching materials" when she was learning to draw, and she also secretly read a lot of "teaching materials" during her adolescence. By the time Chen Yanxin realized what had happened...

She's become a "female pervert" who, at comic conventions, wants to touch other cosplayers wearing stockings whenever she sees them.

Of course, this "abnormality" does not mean that she has a problem with her sexual orientation.

In fact, aside from anime female characters and beautiful cosplayers, she has absolutely no interest in ordinary women.

Therefore, in Chen Yanxin's view, although there has been controversy on the Internet about which version of "Final Front" is the "god among gods", in her eyes, the 1.5 version launched in March this year is the undisputed god among gods.

It's not because of the main storyline, but because the "large dormitory" system implemented in this version update is just too "fun".

In the previous Final Frontline Homestead system, everyone's dormitory was a standard room. Although it could be placed, there was absolutely no interaction with it.

However, this will happen after the "large dormitory" system is implemented.

A dormitory renovation system has been added to the game.

Players can adjust the layout of all dormitory rooms, just like playing a simulation management game.

At the same time, resources can be used to upgrade various rooms, such as cafes, entertainment rooms, game rooms, etc., and different rooms can provide different resource output bonuses.

Most importantly, once these rooms are built, the humanoid characters will trigger various cute interactive animations and even interactive storylines depending on the style of the room.

For example, when Chen Yanxin dragged Bobosha to the massage room, the massage scene was triggered.

Of course, this plot requires a relatively high level of affection to succeed.

Other similar options include "board game" rooms where you can play cards or darts with human-shaped figures; in short, it's a collection of small games.

These past few days, Chen Yanxin, who doesn't play much PvE, has been farming materials in PvE to build the hot spring bathhouse.
However, it's fine to "collect resources" and do daily tasks during work hours, but grinding PVE is a bit excessive.

So I did my daily tasks.

Chen Yanxin quit the game.

I had just exited the app and was about to turn off my phone to change the drawing when a notification popped up on my phone – a push notification from "Star Tap".

[The developer you follow, "Starry Night Games," has released a new game. Check it out!]

Since she only glanced at it, Chen Yanxin subconsciously turned the screen off.

Then, after the brain realizes what it has just seen.

"Huh!? A new work?"

Then the screen suddenly lit up again.

"Is it another mini-game?"

Muttering to herself, Chen Yanxin casually clicked on the notification, and the page redirected to a game introduction page.

What comes into view is a promotional image with a very unique style.

Beneath the gray sky lay layers upon layers of city ruins, resembling the skeletons of a colossal beast.

Two siblings, dressed in thick winter clothes, were looking up at the unimaginably huge ruins of a building.

The overall tone of the scene is cold and desolate, conveying an indescribable sense of loneliness and bleakness, but the two small figures bring a faint warmth to this lifeless world.

Below the promotional image, as is customary with Startap.

It displays the game's name, the studio, and a description.

The End-of-the-World Survival Guide: Chapter One

Studio: Starry Oasis Studio

Brief Introduction: The first car powered by Xingchen's independently developed engine
(End of this chapter)