Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 24 The Subtle Chain of Transmission
A few minutes later.

Starry Sky Games Studio, Meeting Room.

"Please sit for a moment, I'll be right there."

Chu Chen called Su Qing over, but didn't immediately talk about anything. Instead, he scribbled in a notebook.

He didn't speak, so Su Qing had no choice but to sit in the chair and wait.

After things quieted down, Su Qing's gaze naturally fell on Chu Chen.

This half year.

It can be fast or slow, depending on how you look at it.

As for Su Qing herself, she felt that her career had really taken off on a super fast track in the past six months.

She is quite different from Song Yueying. Before joining the company, she was not a professional copywriter, but just an online writer.

Moreover, her writing style is somewhat different from that of ordinary online authors.
Since starting university, Su Qing has been trying to write novels, but she has basically been doing it all out of love.

Until one day, she saw someone online say that it's easier to achieve success writing novels on PIX.
PIX is a fan art website, but it's a Japanese website.

Therefore, there are a large number of beautiful and normal images, wallpapers, and pictures, and some well-known artists have emerged, such as Gui Dao.

However, at the same time, there is also a lot of... well, you know, content here, not just pictures, but also novels.

Upon hearing this news, Su Qing took a look with a curious mindset. At first, she blushed, but soon, she decided to give it a try and wrote a novel on this "subtle" website.

It was a story about a male protagonist who spent 200 million to buy the most beautiful girl in his class, and then... well, you know...
Anyway, if you're talking about pure love, then it's definitely not.

After all, the male protagonist initially went there simply for that reason, and there were many such things in the plot.

But if you say it's completely... well, not really. There are actually a lot of normal plot points in it.

Strangely enough, Su Qing, who writes normal stories that hardly get any readers, is thriving on Pixiv and has actually made a lot of money. Readers say her novels are great!

It wasn't until 14, when she heard that someone had been arrested for writing this stuff, that she finally gave up.

After graduation, she joined Xingchen. When she joined, she listed herself as an online writer on her resume, but she didn't dare to admit to any of the things she had written.

Fortunately, Chu Chen didn't investigate after reading her article.

A year has passed in the blink of an eye. To be honest, Su Qing has never really felt like she was working at a game company.

Even after the release of "Final Frontline", the game's popularity has never been widely recognized.

Until recently.

She was surprised to find fan fiction and a lot of fan art for "Final Frontline" on Pixiv, and realized that the game's popularity had grown so much without her noticing!

Well known.

In the gaming world, there have always been two hidden popularity rankings.

One is a movie site, and the other is a picture site.

Why is this called a hidden popularity ranking? Because although these two communities do some... well, they're purely created out of love.

If your game isn't popular, no one will make it, and no one will watch it.

Moreover, the two websites are different. The former reflects the mainstream Western gaming scene, such as the current hot characters like Tifa and Lara. After Overwatch is released in July, a large number of Overwatch characters will appear.

The other image-based site, Pixiv, reflects gaming trends across Asia.

So, seeing the game you're making on a website you're familiar with is a rather unique feeling.

More importantly, Su Qing glanced at it.

On this PIX, most of the images are even normal images, such as the most popular image right now, which is also the number one wallpaper on the hottest list today.

This artwork comes from XMI, one of the most famous artists on Pixiv, who has created countless wallpapers with millions of collections. The artist drew a family portrait of the Star Guardian team against a backdrop of war-torn ruins, with each character depicted in meticulous detail.

Of course, the drawing itself isn't the main point.

The key point is that below this wallpaper, there is also a message from XMI and a screenshot of the game.

"At midnight, we will gather all the stars for a grand slam and dominate the battlefield. Please be aware."

What's even more outrageous is...

There are already thousands of comments under this wallpaper.

Besides praising the artist for creating such beautiful wallpapers, many players also posted screenshots of their successful team compositions and victories.

Some people even started discussing team composition strength and strategies for building a team in the comments section.

When Su Qing saw these contents, her expression was quite subtle.

Don't you guys want to see where we are?!

Talking about these things on such a high-profile website?

What Su Qing found even more absurd was that there were quite a few comments in the comment section that were clearly written for Japanese players.

"To my friends in Japan: Don't worry! Registration is easy! I'll teach you how to play! First, scan this invitation code!!"

As we approached mid-March...

The popularity of "Final Front" is growing.

Many new players have found that the game's referral task is easy to complete by referring only one new player, but there are always friends around who haven't played the game before.

But it's very difficult to collect them all.

Those bastards who started playing the game first have already recruited all the easy-to-recruit people.

Later players, there's no one left to follow!

Then some quick-thinking players suddenly realized, if we can't count on domestic players, what about overseas players?

They've never tried this before, so it's sure to be a sure thing every time.

Coincidentally, there were a lot of Japanese users who came for the wallpaper without knowing the truth, so someone actually guided a few Japanese players in the comments section.

The two sides began "preaching" by exchanging screenshots and using clumsy Google Translate.

"Click here, yes, this is the button! Then enter your phone number, oh no, I forgot to ask for my phone number, what do I do now?"

"??? No, your Japanese phone number works too!?"

Holy crap! It really works? Huh?

After a brief chat, they quickly discovered that the Chinese server registration for "Final Battlefront" could actually be done using a Japanese mobile phone number.

This is something that any game that considers overseas operations during development would do in advance.

After all, if you don't sign contracts with overseas telecom operators in advance, it will be too late if you wait until the game is launched to sign them.

In addition, Chu Chen had planned from the beginning to operate his own overseas servers.

So he took care of it before it went live.

However, players were unaware of this information; they only saw that Japanese mobile phone numbers could indeed be used to register for "Final Battlefront".

This means that the final step of their recruitment plan has been completed!

(End of this chapter)