Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 360 The Expanding Stars
"That must be him. I heard the animation studio moved to the third floor?"

As they chatted, the conversation naturally turned to the recent big "internal" news at Starry Sky, as the number of employees at Starry Sky continued to grow.

Xingchen's office area is also constantly expanding.

For most companies, they would probably be looking for a new location by now.

However, even though Xingchen's staff has been expanding in the past year or two, some game companies from the Star Project have also moved in at Yufeng Industrial Park.

However, the entire Yufeng Industrial Park still has enough space to accommodate Xingchen's continued expansion.

The reason why Yufeng's leadership can face Xingchen's development so calmly is, to some extent, thanks to the "mass construction wave" that followed 08.

During that period, the large-scale construction plans launched by various local governments were more and more frightening than the last. The Yufeng Industrial Park was a product of the ambitious "large-scale construction" plan that Yufeng officials had undertaken in previous years, despite their debts.

When it was first built, it was privately nicknamed "ghost town" because of its low occupancy rate. The huge parking lot was so empty at night that a rally race could be held there.

There are four industrial buildings alone, along with a central canteen and a complete green park.

If it weren't for Xingchen Rising, Wang Jianmin wouldn't have been promoted, and in the current climate of various "debt" defaults, this large "public welfare" office building might even serve as a negative example.

Or, to put it another way, was Wang Jianmin's rise in rank partly due to clearing mines for Yu Feng?
No one can tell.

of course.

These things have nothing to do with Chu Chen.

For Chu Chen, the only advantage of this "spectacular" building is that he doesn't have to worry about developing too fast and not having enough office space.

Moreover, Yufeng officials were determined to retain Xingchen, their "golden goose."

They also pay great attention to Xingchen's office environment. Not only did they approve a piece of land nearby to allow Xingchen to build employee dormitories, but this year they also approved a fast road to connect to the nearest highway.

This will make it easier for people in the park to travel to Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Shanghai more quickly.
It can only be said that the Yufeng authorities are indeed making great efforts to retain their major taxpayers.
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As time went by, the number of people in the Starry Sky Building also increased.

By the afternoon, almost everyone had arrived.

The most nervous person in this group.

It's Bai Ruilin.

If Hai Mao, Yu Wan, and others present were considered core projects within the Star Project, and people Chu Chen paid relatively more attention to, then he was more like someone Chu Chen had unintentionally illuminated from the crowd.

The lucky ones whose entire destiny was changed.

Just a year ago, Bai Ruilin was just a frustrated copywriter.

For a long time, the status of Chinese game copywriters was at the bottom of the hierarchy of contempt.

The core of a game can be its gameplay, graphics, art style, or numerical values. As for the story? It's fine as long as it's passable, since players will skip it anyway.

Bai Ruilin was a copywriter during this "dark age".

He had worked in online gaming and online novel writing, and had achieved some success in the field, but it was all just enough to make a living. Moreover, he preferred the expression in games to online novels.

However, in the Chinese gaming industry at that time, such people were not in high demand.

then.

The Final Front emerged out of nowhere, no longer pursuing a tedious, long-winded main plot like an old lady's foot binding cloth, but instead adopting a grand and focused main narrative logic like a movie.

It completely overturned everyone's understanding.

It turns out that the plot isn't just an add-on; it can be the core soul and driving force of a game. The success of "Final Front" was like a thunderclap, gradually pulling the profession of game writer out of the mire.

As Xingchen rapidly rises, this pull is becoming faster and faster. However, although the industry trend has begun to change, the change is not so strong for practitioners.

The reason is also very simple.

Game scriptwriting is a systematic process, and it's difficult for investors to judge whether a story is good or bad.

After all, if capital could judge the quality of a script.

Where do all these bad movies come from in this world?
In addition, the same text can produce different results depending on the in-game presentation, since game text is not a novel.

The reason why Starry Sky Games can adhere to the principle of focusing on copywriting is that the copywriting framework for many of Starry Sky's games was written by Chu Chen.

The phrase "written by Chu Chen" actually helped avoid many problems throughout the project's development.

No one dared to slack off.

The final result was naturally much better than expected.

However, Bai Ruilin obviously did not receive this treatment. The reason he left Wanmei was not because Wanmei did not value copywriting, but because of what happened after "The Final Front".

Conversely, Wanmei has placed too much emphasis on copywriting in her new auto chess project.

Today the lead planner comes up with an idea, tomorrow the producer offers a suggestion, and a fairly complete story is quickly torn to pieces.

As Xingchen (a popular online platform) becomes more and more popular, the copywriting work for Wanmei (another online platform) has become increasingly difficult. In the past, it was enough to write one piece of trash, but now they are forced to work overtime to write even more trash.

Bai Ruilin simply couldn't take it anymore.

I resigned.

After leaving his job, he conceived a story about the confined and the post-apocalyptic city, and wrote it into a complete world view and plot outline.

Then I casually posted it on the Starry Sky Games Developer Forum.

This forum was originally just an official channel used by StarCraft Games to collect feedback on engine usage.

The reason for establishing this forum is that, compared to many one-on-one customer service interactions, the posts on the forum can form a database for the development team.

Some documents and Q&As can be retained for a longer period of time.

People who encounter problems using the Star Engine can first search on the forum to see if there are similar issues. This method can reduce the communication pressure on the Star Engine.

However, with the development of StarCraft and the increasing number of companies joining the StarCraft Games Alliance.

This forum gradually evolved into an industry forum similar to a "game developer forum".

Legend has it that someone shared their game demo here, and as a result, Starry Sky's investment department approached them and directly invested millions.

There are even rumors that Chu Chen himself occasionally uses a secondary account to browse around here, looking for interesting ideas and then having his subordinates make contact with them.

Although these rumors are almost entirely unfounded.

But some people do post artwork or copywriting here and end up getting jobs or investments; they aren't necessarily the ones who attract the stars.

It could also be other domestic studios. Don't forget, this is the Star Engine forum, and there are quite a few "new" studios using this forum.

Therefore, this place has gradually become a place for game developers to "find jobs".

(End of this chapter)