Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 37 Porter

"OMG! Were they all wiped out?!"

"All personnel lost in battle... This atmosphere is just too hopeless!"

"Hurry up and activate the protagonist's halo!"

Just then, the commander, played by the player, spoke up.

"Don't be afraid."

"I know what you want to say, I'm here."

A simple sentence completely changed the atmosphere. Colt, the youngest member of the team and always the one who cried the most, could no longer contain his emotions.

She burst into tears with a "waaaah," and large tears rolled down her cheeks like beads from a broken string.

"Waaaaah... I... I knew it... I knew the Commander wouldn't abandon us!"

The small figure tried to rush towards the commander, but due to the injury in her leg, she stumbled and almost fell.

"Yes, Commander won't abandon us!"

"Commander, please give the order! We...we can still fight!"

The surviving humanoids had a renewed glimmer of hope in their eyes.

Paul also got excited. He suddenly stood up from his chair, clenched his fist, and shouted loudly in the live broadcast room.

"Yes! Yes! That's the spirit! This is our commander! This is what a protagonist should be like!"

"Fight back! Fight back!"

"Avenge them, Commander!"

Just then, a brand new dialogue option slowly appeared in front of the player in the center of the screen.

This time, please fight alongside me.

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In the footage, Paul is still boisterous and in high spirits.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the camera, Liu Yanchen, far away in Shanghai, was checking the footage he had recorded and cutting out some classic clips from Paul's live stream, intending to upload them to Bilibili.

As a video creator on Bilibili.

A month ago, Liu Yanchen discovered a new "business opportunity".

The business opportunity lies in cutting videos, or more precisely, cutting videos of foreigners playing "Final Battlefront".

After he discovered this business opportunity, U-site actually had some such videos one after another, but most of those videos only roughly recorded the game process and did not introduce foreign streamers much.

Liu Yanchen, on the other hand, would edit the reactions of these foreign broadcasters, selecting the best and most interesting parts, and then add gimmicks such as "YouTube influencer with 100,000 subscribers" or "famous YouTube broadcaster".

Logically speaking, Liu Yanchen wasn't quite sure why the videos he edited had such high view counts.

Some of these videos even surpass the views of the original YouTuber.

However, he didn't really need to know why; he only knew that people would watch him do it.

His fan base has grown from a few thousand to over one hundred thousand, which is a good example.

Moreover, because he has edited so many videos, Liu Yanchen can now actually feel the effect of his own editing when watching YouTuber live streams.

Take Paul's part, for example.

Even before it was released, he knew the final cut would be excellent, and the view count would be high. He quickly made a rough cut of Paul's video, titled it "[YouTube Chinese Guy Passes the Main Story of the Final Battle! Greatly Shocked!]", and uploaded the video.

Liu Yanchen opened another computer window and started checking another YouTuber's live stream.

The streamer in this live stream is a Japanese gamer.

Compared to the United States, there are significantly more bloggers playing "Final Frontline" in Japan, especially in the last couple of days. This is because although "Final Frontline" has not yet launched in Japan, it has been confirmed that the Japanese server will be launched a week after the Chinese server launches.

Secondly, "Final Battlefront" has Japanese dubbing, so even if you don't understand Chinese, you can still understand the plot by listening to the built-in dubbing.

As the window is dragged.

A deep, middle-aged voice reached Liu Yanchen's ears.

"Wow, this is amazing! Is this our new base? And look at that tranquility index in the top left corner..."

"Oh no! Why is there no voice acting in the tutorial?!"

"M4-chan, I need your guidance! Why aren't you saying anything now?!"

In "Final Battlefront", the tutorial is done by M4, but it's actually just using M4's character art and doesn't have its own voice acting.

However, Tomohiro Otomo does not actually understand Chinese, so he is in a predicament.

Fortunately, although I don't understand Chinese, I can still barely read Chinese characters, and with the help of the comments in the live stream, I can still manage to continue playing.

Tomohiro Otomo was originally a Japanese illustrator and an amateur voice actor. The reason he played "Final Battlefront" was because of the Pixiv incident, or more accurately.

Most people currently streaming on YouTube actually learned about this game from Pixiv.
Also because the place of origin of its spread is too bizarre.

This led many people to initially play the game with the thought, "Wow!! The art style of eroge (adult games) is so good now!!"
However, regardless of the reason for getting hooked, the fact that everyone's playing games now is something to celebrate.

As mentioned earlier, Tomohiro Otomo acted quickly, so he has already completed the entire first chapter and entered the new base gameplay mode.

For him, having played it from the beginning until now, his perception is still very good, in his own words.

"It felt like watching a movie!"

The first chapter's plot is actually quite substantial, and it doesn't go through long, pretentious explanations of what omnics are, yet it still feels very good.

The final emotional release was also quite substantial.

In particular, the final outcome was due to the commander's appearance, which greatly boosted the morale of the androids on the entire front. In addition, the commander on the scene did not follow the plan to break through the enemy lines, but instead led the androids to continue charging forward.

This left the commander of the Omnic Legion bewildered.

According to calculations, 90% of these people will retreat, so how can you possibly move forward instead?
It was precisely based on AI calculations that the AI ​​legion made the decision to intercept the rear with all its might. This decision, coupled with the commander's unexpected direction, ultimately led them to break through the AI's defenses and destroy the AI's front-line base.

Yes.

Intelligent machines also need a base, perhaps even more than humans. The rebellious military AI "Tenri" possesses a complete thought process.

However, the development of military AI and civilian AI follows completely different paths.

Military AI uses a 1+N approach, which means one AI commander directs a large number of soldiers without AI. This approach is a compromise made in peacetime for the sake of cost and efficiency.

After all, it's not necessary for every piece of military equipment to have its own unique design.

Civilian AI, on the other hand, pursues individuality and miniaturization, so each humanoid has complete emotions just like a human.

Strictly speaking, the enemies in "Final Front" are not actually omnics, but rather "AI commanders" led by "Tenri".

(End of this chapter)