Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 239 Leisure
Song Yueying's tone sounded normal, but her next sentence revealed her true thoughts.

"No wonder you've been going to the animation studio so much these past few days."

Chu Chen glanced at Song Yueying, and because she was so easy to understand, he directly made a sarcastic remark.

"I'm talking to you about serious business."

Over the course of more than a year, his relationship with Song Yueying gradually warmed up. Although it wasn't anything dramatic, romantic love between a man and a woman doesn't usually involve such dramatic events.

After suffering a blow in his previous life, Chu Chen was basically devastated. During that time, the only people he still had some contact with were Song Yueying and Su Qing.

However, Chu Chen never managed to escape the shadow of his past life.

So he has always been alone.

In this timeline, he has feelings for Song Yueying, and he doesn't have any ill feelings towards her.

In addition to work-related matters, their relationship gradually became more familiar, which is actually a very normal thing.

Just like how people gain weight if they eat too much.
Chu Chen's teasing remark was intended to steer the conversation back to the Starry Sky Wallpaper Contest, but though he meant no harm, the listener took it to heart.

His teasing made Song Yueying blush slightly.

There are actually quite a few people in Starry Sky Games who like Chu Chen, so this is not surprising.

However, although they all like it, everyone's reasons for liking it are different.

A witty personality, wealth, good looks...
Among these "charming points," what attracted Song Yueying the most about Chu Chen was actually his career, not that Song Yueying herself had any grand ambitions.

She simply likes men who are "successful in their careers".

Just like Xue Baochai in *Dream of the Red Chamber* advising Jia Baoyu to strive for success, even in private, Song Yueying and Chu Chen mostly discussed things like the plans for the Starry Night Game.
"I'm talking about serious business. At the animation studio, Ms. Mai Ishihara has submitted an application to stay on as a full-time employee."

"Oh? She wants to stay in China? When did she decide that?"

Chu Chen was somewhat surprised.

Currently, Star Animation Studios has two locations: one in Japan and one in China.

The Japanese studio is managed by Shiokawa, and the main force is IMS, which Chu Chen previously acquired. After spending three months in China, they returned to Japan. Subsequently, Shiokawa acquired another Japanese animation studio that was on the verge of bankruptcy.

Their main job is to create animations for FGO.

They're not just making cutscenes for the game; they're also planning to produce a full-fledged anime series.

After all, the game's cutscenes have already depicted the core plot. Just add some everyday scenes, and it's ready to cash in—no, I mean, to give players a completely new experience.
Why not?
Regardless of how Chinese viewers react, Japanese viewers will definitely buy the DVDs as long as an anime is released.
Don't ask why, the answer is Chu Chen's trust in the Japanese Moon Chef.

Aside from the Japanese studio, the only other studio left is Xingchen Huaxia Animation Studio. Compared to the prolific Japanese studio, Xingchen Huaxia Animation Studio is currently in a more "dire" situation.

The main reason is that after IMS withdrew, the main force of Huaxia Animation Studio became a large "ragtag army" gathered from various animation outsourcing companies in China.

In fact, these "ragtag" workers are not in any problem with their work ability.

However, each outsourced animation company has its own habits, processes, and rules. Even with the most traditional hand-drawn animation, different animation companies have very different production methods.

It's not just the drawing resolution; even the paper used by different companies and different animation studios varies. Some use A4 paper, while others use B4 paper.

The reason there are so many specifications is that after the hand-drawn sketch is completed, it needs to be scanned and entered into the database. Different scanning machines also have their own specifications.

Most of the 2D animation studios in China are outsourced to the Japanese system, so their internal operations are also quite chaotic. This resulted in Starry Sky Animation Studio being able to only meet the basic animation production needs of "Final Battlefront" for a long time.

There's simply no capacity left to do anything else.

During that period, Mai Ishihara, who was the actual person in charge of Huaxia Animation Studio at the beginning, actually stayed in Huaxia most of the time. She would only go back to Japan when she was not busy, and she would come back when she was making a new version of the animation.

Chu Chen had considered persuading her to stay in China long-term, but this was essentially a matter of personal "family affairs" for the employee.

Having served as a drudge for ten years in his previous life, Chu Chen disliked companies that lacked a sense of boundaries, so he did not express any opinion on the matter.

Until this month, it seems that Mai Ishihara has finally made up her mind to stay in China long-term.

This is certainly a good thing for Chu Chen.

"That's great, it makes communication much easier."

Song Yueying nodded, then hesitated for a moment before deciding to continue the conversation along this line.

"Well, there's been some gossip going around in the company lately."

"The fact that Ms. Ishihara didn't decide to stay because she wasn't here for a romantic relationship, and she doesn't have any other relatives or friends here, might be because..."

Song Yueying often chatted with Chu Chen about gossip in private, so Chu Chen didn't think much of it and casually asked.

"What could it be?"

"Maybe... he wants to pursue you."

Chu Chen almost spat out the mouthful of coffee he had just taken a sip of. He coughed violently a few times, his face full of disbelief.

"Cough cough. What the heck? Chasing me? What's going on here?"

Seeing Chu Chen's reaction, Song Yueying's lips unconsciously curved upwards into a slight smile, but she quickly suppressed it.

"I don't know either, it's all just speculation. But you and Ms. Ishihara have been communicating quite a lot lately."

She deliberately added a subtle emphasis to the words "quite a lot".

Chu Chen was stunned for a moment.

Do you want to know if this is true or not?

That must be true. After all, Chu Chen has been very focused on the anniversary version of "Final Front" recently, and "Final Front: Origins" is also about to be released.

Furthermore, after the establishment of Xingchen Huaxia Animation Studio, Chu Chen usually communicated directly with Mai Ishihara, who would then relay the information down the chain of command.

This was something Chu Chen did intentionally.

As a "manager," Mai Ishihara is not a very assertive person, so she needs Chu Chen's "authority," or rather, she needs to be under Chu Chen's protection in order to manage the animation studio.

However, this matter naturally has gossip value in the eyes of others, after all, Mai Ishihara is a beautiful and gentle woman.

Because of work, I often went to Chu Chen's studio, and occasionally I would make cookies and share them with everyone.

A girl with such a personality deciding to stay in China naturally sparks much speculation.

(End of this chapter)