Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 308 Celebration
That evening, in the provincial capital of Suzhou and Hangzhou.

The private room at the celebration banquet for the China Digital Games Expo.

Although this was a celebration banquet for a "commercial exhibition," the organizers still invited leaders from Suzhou and Hangzhou.

To celebrate the successful opening day of the game expo and to recognize the great prestige that Starry Games has brought to the province, several provincial leaders in charge of cultural and creative industries and technology were invited to the dinner.

Even Chu Chen's former boss, Wang Jianmin, came.

The atmosphere at the banquet was quite lively. After all, they didn't know who had won between Xingchen and Tencent during the day, but there was no doubt about it.

The game expo that Suzhou and Hangzhou organized this time has really made a name for themselves.

The first day's online live stream attracted over ten million viewers, and major domestic media outlets rushed to report on it. Although the reports mainly focused on Tencent and Starry Sky, the Suzhou-Hangzhou Game Expo, as the stage, was naturally mentioned frequently as well.

Even overseas media outlets reported on this, which greatly exceeded their expectations.

The dinner party lasted a bit too long, but the overall atmosphere was still very good.

Wang Jianmin even spoke with great interest about "his past."

Before leaving, the leaders from Suzhou and Hangzhou reiterated their support for Xingchen. Wang Jianmin even urged Chu Chen to seize the window of opportunity and accelerate the strategic deployment.

It was practically a direct instruction: Xingchen should take advantage of the ministerial reshuffle to quickly produce results.

After seeing off the last leader, Chu Chen let out a long sigh of relief, and the slight intoxication brought on by the alcohol belatedly began to wash over him.

The hustle and bustle of the day and the social engagements of the night left him feeling somewhat exhausted.
To be honest, he prefers making games to dealing with these things.

He shook his somewhat heavy head and walked towards the parking lot. The late summer evening breeze was exceptionally hot and humid, carrying the unique hustle and bustle of the city night, making him feel sticky on his body.

From a distance, Chu Chen saw the company's car slowly driving over.

He opened the heavy car door, and the motion-sensor lights inside the car turned on, instantly filling the entire back seat with soft light.

"Old Wang, go back..."

Chu Chen's words "back to the hotel" were on the tip of his tongue, but he got stuck in his throat.

There was actually someone sitting in the back seat.

Song Yueying was sitting quietly in the car when she heard the noise. She looked up, her gaze shifting from her phone screen to Chu Chen.

It was still hot in Suzhou and Hangzhou in August, but she was dressed lightly.

A light blue silk shirt, the collar slightly open, revealing a small patch of delicate collarbone.

She wore a pure white A-line skirt, and her two long, shapely legs were naturally placed together, their whiteness almost dazzling under the dim yellow light inside the car.

Besides the scents of leather and fragrance, there seemed to be a faint, sweet fragrance emanating from her, which contrasted sharply with the lingering smell of alcohol on Chu Chen.

"Why are you here?"

Chu Chen was stunned for a moment; his brain, numbed by alcohol, reacted a beat slower.

Looking at his slightly bewildered expression, Song Yueying couldn't help but complain.

"So you've forgotten everything?"

"It's not like you said I can't drink, but everyone at the table is a leader, so why don't you just not go up there?"

"what?"

Chu Chen blinked, trying to search his memory, which was still tinged with alcohol. It seemed... there really was something like that. Before going to the banquet, he seemed to have casually told Song Yueying that she didn't need to go along with the socializing and could take care of her own dinner.

"Then you don't need to just wait here. Have you eaten yet?"

Song Yueying was genuinely amused this time.

"How much did you drink?"

She waved her phone in her hand.

"We also attended the victory celebration, although we weren't in the same place as you."

It was only at this point that Chu Chen realized he might actually be a little tipsy.

His mind was working much slower than usual, because when he asked the second question, he had already forgotten his first one, and Song Yueying hadn't actually answered it.

However, he really had no mind to think about anything else at the moment. As the car door slowly closed, the stuffiness and noise from the outside world were completely shut out.

The air conditioning in the car was on full blast. Chu Chen let out a long breath and sank his whole body into the soft seat. The excitement of the press conference during the day and the tension of the dinner party in the evening finally relaxed completely at this moment.

The driver, Lao Wang, glanced in the rearview mirror and silently raised the partition inside the car.

The enclosed interior of the car isolates it from the noise of the outside world and amplifies the senses.

Chu Chen leaned back in his seat, his eyes closed. He could clearly smell the faint, sweet fragrance emanating from Song Yueying, mixed with the luxurious leather in the car and the smell of alcohol on his own body, creating a wonderful and reassuring atmosphere.

~~~
Just as Chu Chen was about to fall asleep.

Jiao Xiaofei, who didn't have to chat with his superiors, returned to his hotel early after attending the celebration banquet. He was lying on his bed, holding a tablet and watching videos with great interest.

This is a video that was uploaded tonight.

In less than an hour after being uploaded, the video had already garnered over 300,000 views.

"Starry Sky Games released the first promotional video for its new title, 'Floating Dream Song,' at the Suzhou-Hangzhou Game Show, which was a resounding success."

"I downloaded the entire video immediately and cut it into frames."

"In the future, I will analyze the PV and the information released by the official team frame by frame to help everyone understand what kind of game this is."

"Alright, let's get started without further ado."

"First of all, this game is a martial arts anime genre, which is a very strange but surprisingly suitable type. Don't be misled by the anime label."

"In my opinion, the anime style of this game is more like a skin. Because it is anime style, you can see that the characters, such as the junior sister and the senior sister, have very beautiful character illustrations. They are sexy where they should be and ethereal where they should be.

"Beneath this two-dimensional surface lies the essence of martial arts."

"This is also what I want to analyze in detail in today's video: three different scenes, which correspond to the three martial arts slices that we most admire."

"Grievances and affections, love and hate, the life of a chivalrous hero."

"The first two are content shown in the PV, while the last one is a hidden video I found after the official website went live. This video shows the protagonist waking up in bed at the inn, eating, chatting, and finally pushing open the door to leave, without any loading screen..."

"Therefore, we can reasonably speculate that the entire game framework is likely to be based on an open world."

"The world map of Floating Dreams is very likely to be a complete, seamless map that players can freely explore."

(End of this chapter)