Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 40 Why?
Like Liu Bo, at this point in time, many people are also paying attention to "The Final Front" because of work.

For example, right now, at the 1717 editorial office.

"Holy crap!! What's going on? 'Final Battlefront' actually has higher stats than 'Gun Girls'?!"

"Huh? Wasn't it said that 'Gun Girls' was guaranteed to win because they got Tencent's promotion? What's going on?"

Hu Yubin looked at the data in front of him with some confusion. He had been observing the data of "Final Battlefront" and "Gun Girl" since this morning.

The reason he kept observing was certainly not because he was gossipy or bored.

It's not because he took money, but because of whom?

Of course, they received money from Tencent... or more accurately, they received money from Tencent's promotional channels.

They do the job once they get paid.

Hu Yubin had already written the press release last night, since neither "Final Frontline" nor "Gun Girls" can be considered a new game in a sense.

Final Frontline was actually open for testing in March, and Gun Girls was also publicly tested in March.

So everyone actually knows what the two games are like.

In terms of gameplay and reputation, Final Frontline is clearly better. Under such circumstances, praising Gun Girls would have the opposite effect.

Even Tencent itself knew this, which is why they provided the publicity and distribution plan.

The media is forced to choose between the storyline and the server launch data.

Ultimately, Hu Yubin chose to hype up the game based on the expected launch data, since Tencent's biggest advantage is its traffic, as long as it involves Tencent games.

League of Legends, Honor of Kings, Dungeon Fighter Online—any one of these games generates data in the hundreds of millions.

With Tencent's support, "Gun Girls" should easily crush "Final Battlefront" in terms of viewership, regardless of its final reception after the open beta.

If the data is good enough, it can in turn create a publicity and public opinion advantage.

Following this logic, Hu Yubin had already written a formulaic essay yesterday, and was just waiting for the official data to be released today so he could simply stuff a few numbers into it and use it directly.

So this morning, when he learned that the main storyline of "Final Battlefront" had completely blown up—not just "a garbage explosion," but a "super awesome explosion"—his feelings were quite complicated.

He watched those cutscenes himself and was amazed.

He couldn't help but feel that his decision was prescient, because if he had actually used the plot of "Gun Girl" to exaggerate, he would be in a complete mess now.

If not a single sentence of the manuscript can be used, wouldn't that be a complete disaster?
However, just as Hu Yubin was congratulating himself on his "foresight" and started looking at the Apple App Store rankings and various game-related data lists, he was completely dumbfounded.

"No way! You can't even beat the sales charts, how come you can't beat the download charts either?!"

If the sales charts were boosted by the compelling storyline of "Final Battlefront" and the subsequent release of skin packs and the Oath System after the first chapter's launch, this would still be within Hu Yubin's comprehension.

After all, the player base of "Final Front" was much larger than that of "Gun Girls" at that time.

In addition, since Final Frontline had not introduced any monetization features before, although it was ridiculous, players' desire to spend money was suppressed.

Now that the game has been officially launched, and with players having just finished the main storyline and caught up in the excitement, it's perfectly normal for it to surge to the top of the sales charts.

The fact that it never topped the download charts illustrates another terrifying truth: even with such a large user base already on Final Frontline.

The efforts made by "Final Front" to attract new users, and the final results of that attraction.

It's still higher than Tencent's "Gun Girl". This is certainly related to Chu Chen changing the original plan to give everyone a ring to a new player referral reward, but on the other hand, the players' strong motivation to attract new players is also due to the quality of the game itself.

The principle is actually very simple.

For the same benefits, for example, if Black Myth has an event where you get a 10% discount by referring two people, the number of participants in that event will definitely be much, much greater than with Starry Sky Agent.
But even so.

"This can outperform Tencent's promotion? That's too outrageous!"

Hu Yubin was genuinely and repeatedly boosting the data; this action demonstrated his disbelief at the result.

After all, this is not yet the era that will be a few years later when Tencent will suffer heavy losses in the ACG market and be suppressed by Douyin in the traffic market.

At that time, Tencent was practically the "god of traffic."

Now, "Final Front" has leveraged its existing user base and a new storyline to ignite these existing users, and its positive word-of-mouth has led to "Final Front" being featured in numerous online posts seeking new users.

"Please, kind people!! Please click this link to register me! I only need one more person to go back to my hometown to get married!!"

Similar posts are everywhere.

It's not very useful for one person to do this, but it's useful for hundreds of thousands of active players of "Final Front" to do it together.

#Get a ring to go back to my hometown for my wedding#

That's how it became a meme.

Although many people dislike memes, the problem is that you really need memes to break into new circles, because the essence of memes is the compression of information.

When people outside the circle try to relieve stress, they become interested in the matter itself.

Only then will new traffic be generated.

"No, wait, what's with the 'asking for a ring to go back to my hometown to get married' thing?"

Even Hu Yubin, an industry insider, became curious about this thing when he encountered it while searching.

Click to find the source of this meme on Weibo.

Then he saw a video.

The video is a clip from a live stream where a streamer is playing a game. Hu Yubin doesn't recognize the streamer, but he seems quite enthusiastic in the video, like he's having a blast.

"Brothers! Look at my base, what do you think? I'm just asking, what do you think!?"

After the main storyline of the first chapter, the game enters its second phase, where humanity realizes that relying solely on the giant rings as a defensive line is insufficient, and thus the concept of a frontline base is introduced.

With the assistant android's words, "Commander! The enemy has retreated, but we have limited time. Now, please begin constructing our frontline base."

The game then introduced a frontline base construction system.

This is an interface viewed from a classic 2.5D perspective at a 45° angle.

In the center of the base is the base vehicle, which is already deployed. In the very center of the game interface, there is a radio wave-shaped tranquility index, and next to it is a countdown timer.

Next to the countdown is an EVA-style "Power Available" icon.

At the bottom of the interface is a row of building and operation interfaces; overall, it's somewhat like a building simulation game.

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