Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 334 Combo
Ye Gaoxiang is an employee of a college entrance examination consulting company in Shanghai.

In August, their company is currently in a "semi-holiday state."

The so-called "half-holiday" means that the tumultuous college entrance examination has passed and the admission results have been largely finalized.

The remaining work is simply to handle the final stages of supplementary enrollment and prepare promotional materials for the next graduating class. The work is not heavy, but I need to be on duty.

So a lot of time was spent slacking off.

Because I was extremely busy last month, the boss usually won't interfere with slacking off at this time.

This situation will continue until universities start, at which point a group of people will shift from "tricking" high school students into choosing universities to "tricking" university students into taking the postgraduate entrance exam.
all in all.

In August, the company was basically equivalent to a large internet cafe, and for a seasoned gamer like Ye Gaoxiang, the best way to slack off was naturally to play games.

As a veteran player who has been playing since the era of "JX1" and is almost thirty years old, Ye Gaoxiang has a complex feeling towards martial arts MMOs.

This sentiment is somewhat similar to that of Chinese national football team fans.

If you say you like it, then you criticize it every year; but if you say you don't like it, then you play all the new martial arts games that come out.

So when "Floating Dreams and Long Songs" came out, Ye Gaoxiang played it with a try-it-out attitude and felt like he had opened the door to a new world and seen the Chinese national football team enter the World Cup.

Although there are still many problems with "Floating Dreams" in the closed beta, it is quite interesting overall. What surprised Ye Gaoxiang the most was that the game completely concentrated the pay-to-win content into one point, and it was a point that was irrelevant to him.

Compared to the martial arts games where you had to spend tens of thousands of yuan to start a character, the pay-to-win content in "Floating Dreams" made him wonder if the game would actually have something like bound silver coins when it launched.

To verify this, he even played "Final Battlefront".

He'd heard his colleagues talk about "The Final Front" for almost a year, but he'd never been interested, which is actually quite normal.

Just like in high school, he recommended One Piece to a classmate for three years, but the classmate hadn't watched a single episode of the anime by the time he graduated. Interests need a trigger.

"Floating Dreams and Long Songs" was the opportunity that led him to become a fan of Starry Sky.

After removing the pay-to-win elements from the base game, he became quite engrossed in the game's creation of a martial arts "atmosphere".

However, beautiful dreams are always fleeting.

When the message "This technical test has ended. Thank you for your participation" popped up on the screen, Ye Gaoxiang felt as if his soul had been instantly ripped away.

He clicked the mouse subconsciously, but there was no response. He clicked it again, and it was still the same cold, impersonal message box.

Leaning back in his chair, he let out a long sigh, a profound sense of emptiness washing over him.

Turn off the game.

I opened a work document, stared at the dense text, but couldn't understand a single word.

His mind was filled with the clanging and banging sounds of blocking. Even when typing, he instinctively wanted to press the Q key, but his fingers hovered in mid-air before he realized that there were no martial arts techniques to switch to in real life.

"Ugh……"

I was already slacking off at work, and now I have even less motivation to work.

I casually opened the NGA gaming forum.

As expected, the "Floating Dreams and Long Songs" section has gone completely crazy.

The pinned post was a bright red thread titled "Countdown to Server Shutdown of 'Floating Dreams' Demo & Focused Discussion on Withdrawal Reactions," and its replies surpassed 10,000 in just half an hour. "The first minute after shutdown, I miss it; the tenth minute, I really miss it; the thirtieth minute, I feel ants crawling all over me! Starry Sky! You have no heart!!"

"I hereby announce that I have been diagnosed with 'Floating Dream Song PTSD,' which stands for 'Player Totally Wants to play again Syndrome'!"

Seeing the cries of these silly netizens, Ye Gaoxiang's tense nerves relaxed a little, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

As he was refreshing the posts and enjoying various jokes to pass the time during his "withdrawal period," a newly popped-up post title caught his attention.

[Holy crap! The Starry Sky platform has updated! Go check it out! A new game called Floating Dreams!?]

A new game called "Floating Dreams and Long Songs"?
What the heck?! Did Starfall lose all its strength and reopen the server?!

The message that appeared at this moment was basically like offering a cigarette to a smoker who hadn't smoked all day. Ye Gaoxiang, who was still in the process of "withdrawal," couldn't possibly withstand it.

The food delivery had just arrived and I hadn't even opened it yet. I switched out of the forum and reopened the Starry Night Games platform.

As soon as the platform client started, he couldn't wait to click on the game library. Like many others, he currently only had two games in his library.

One is "Floating Dreams," and the other is "The Final Battlefront."

"Isn't it still gray...?"

Although it was still grayed out, when I opened the Starry Sky Games Forum, a pop-up window with a Chinese ink painting style automatically appeared.

The background is the familiar bamboo forest from "Floating Dreams and Long Songs," with the wind rustling through the bamboo leaves.

In the center of the pop-up window, several large, elegant characters caught the eye: "Free download of the derivative game 'Floating Dream Song' for a limited time."

"What is this?"

Ye Gaoxiang clicked on it out of curiosity.

The event's main page offers two options: "Claim Your Jianghu Profile" and "Start the Event Now".

Ye Gaoxiang clicked on the first option, and the page redirected, revealing a scroll painting that slowly unfolded.

【侠客：夜雨高歌】(This is Ye Gaoxiang's game ID)

[Footprints in the Martial World]: You spent 19 hours and 32 minutes in the Floating Dream Martial World. At 2 a.m., you were still in the Martial World. How is your liver?
【Emerging Talent】: The first BOSS you defeated was the 【Black Wind Stronghold Leader】, a clean and swift kill with a single sword strike.

[A worthy opponent]: In 38 sparring matches with 'Master Zhao', you won 0 times and lost 38 times. A gentleman takes revenge even after ten years. Next time you meet, you will surely be able to take his head.

[Martial Arts Master]: Your most frequently used technique is the [Opening and Closing Sword Technique], which is characterized by its wide and sweeping movements, befitting a master.

【Mountain and River Scenery】: You stopped at various locations such as 'Luoxia Peak', 'Tingyu Pavilion', and 'Sword Tomb', leaving 0 screenshots. Every frame is a beautiful scene.

[The Person You're Favorite]: You've had the most conversations with [Fairy Ling Shuang].
Each data point, accompanied by either joking or encouraging text, clearly presents Ye Gaoxiang's gaming experience over the past 48 hours. Although, in the context of a 25-year-old, this is already a somewhat clichéd "player profile."

But in the current context, this data is still somewhat interesting.

Ye Gaoxiang touched his chin and continued sliding it down.

At the end of the scroll, a new section appears.

Seeking out the trail of heroes, rekindling past romances.

(End of this chapter)