Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 411 Immediate Combat Power

As Yuwan left, the office door closed again, and the world returned to silence.

Soon, Chu Chen also walked out of the office.

He walked a few steps toward Song Yueying's office and soon saw her.

The girl hadn't gone far; she stood not far from the tea room, her back to him, holding a paper cup and sipping water, seemingly trying to calm herself.

From Chu Chen's angle, he could also see her soft profile and slightly reddened earlobes.

She seemed to sense footsteps behind her, her shoulders tensing almost imperceptibly, but she didn't turn around.

"Want to play some more games?"

Song Yueying glanced at the office door and shook her head: "Never mind, it feels like... the atmosphere has been ruined."

After the fish ball's outburst, it's really hard to get back to that pure, focused state from before.

"Too."

Chu Chen nodded in agreement.

"Then I'll head back now?"

Song Yueying's mind was also a bit chaotic at this moment. When Yuwan suddenly barged in, and when Song Yueying was drinking water, she suddenly realized something terrifying.

Her feelings for Chu Chen might be more than just admiration and affection; more importantly, Chu Chen seemed to have feelings for her.
all in all.

At this moment, Song Yueying's thoughts were a bit chaotic.

If it weren't for greeting Chu Chen, she probably would have already gone home.

Under normal circumstances.

Chu Chen would probably only chat for a couple of minutes before returning to his office to work.

However, almost as soon as Song Yueying finished saying she was going home and turned to walk away, Chu Chen blurted out a sentence.

"Wait a moment."

Song Yueying stopped and turned around in confusion.

Chu Chen himself was also stunned for a moment. What he said just now was a subconscious reaction. He had already spoken the words and then his mind was quickly thinking of reasons.

"I don't have anything planned for today, how about we have dinner together?"

Judging from this statement alone, there isn't really a problem.

However, Song Yueying subconsciously glanced at the floor-to-ceiling window at the end of the corridor.

Outside the window, the autumn sun was shining brightly, illuminating the entire park with such dazzling light that it was almost scorching.

"Pfft-"

Chu Chen's actions cleared away most of the thoughts in her mind, and coupled with his invitation to dinner, Song Yueying inexplicably began to feel lightheaded.

"Isn't it a bit early to ask you to have dinner at this hour?"

The girl smiled sweetly, her eyes crinkling, then tilted her head, pretending to be seriously calculating.

"We haven't even had lunch yet, and you're already in a rush to make dinner plans?"

Normally, Song Yueying would never say such things, but given the emotions and atmosphere, these words, including the cute head tilt she just made, came from her.

Song Yueying did it very naturally.

Faced with Song Yueying's teasing, Chu Chen, usually so thick-skinned, showed a rare hint of embarrassment, but he quickly recovered and continued the conversation in the same vein.

"This advance booking shows great sincerity, doesn't it?"

"is it?"

Song Yueying suppressed a laugh and threw the question back at her.

"So what are we going to do this afternoon? We can't just stand in this company corridor from noon until dark, can we?"

Their conversation naturally veered towards going out for dinner that evening and spending the night together. This was illogical, but in situations like this, logic was often lacking. Chu Chen's mind raced, searching for suitable options.

"Want to go see a movie?"

"Okay."

~~~
Just as Chu Chen and Song Yueying were discussing which movie to watch.

Under the same sky, in a high-end resort area on the outskirts of Shenzhen.

The area boasts beautiful lakes and mountains, and is shaded by lush trees.

It's a place that Tencent's senior management frequently visit for team building and training.

This time was no exception. On the last day of the National Day holiday and the day before returning to work, Tencent Games organized a team-building activity for senior executives.

The theme of the team building activity was "Working Together to Create a New Future".

The main producers and executives of several core studios, including Mill and Glow, as well as the head of the WEGAEM platform, all gathered together, and there were even "guests" from the investment department.

In other companies, this kind of "departmental team building" wouldn't be considered anything special.

However, such team building activities are quite rare at Tencent, a company known for its individualistic approach and internal competition.

Not to mention the team-building theme was some kind of nonsense like "working together to create something great."

The fact that Tencent's various studios haven't started fighting amongst themselves is already a great concession.

The reason why Tencent was able to "join hands in creation" is actually very simple: an external enemy had emerged, just as the short video project was the "core of the entire group" within Tencent at that time.

The current StarCraft games are not yet at the level of Titok.

However, the threat level has reached the point where Tencent internally unanimously believes that it is definitely not possible to defeat Xingchen by relying solely on the WEGAME platform.

We must "work together to create"

However, the idea is wonderful. If the distance and contact between people could be solved with a team building activity, there wouldn't be so many messy things in this world.

Following the lavish lunch, the heads of various departments exchanged pleasantries at the table.

However, when it comes to specific matters, cooperation that is difficult to advance remains difficult to advance.

but.

Not all collaborations are like that.

For example, in a lounge that has been temporarily requisitioned as a meeting room, there is no relaxed and comfortable atmosphere for team building; instead, there is a tense atmosphere of a formal meeting.

The bright autumn sunlight outside the window couldn't dampen the serious expressions on the faces of the attendees.

There were more than a dozen people in attendance, all of whom were senior executives from Tencent Games.

At the head of the meeting room sat Leng Zefeng, Vice President of Tencent Interactive Entertainment Group. To his left and right were Xiong Youning from the Mill Group and Zhuang Zhihong, head of the Yaoguang Group.

And Qi Zhihong, the producer of "Night Spirit", and Li Xiang, the producer of "Gun Girl Auto Chess".

As mentioned before, after the first battle between Tencent and StarCraft in August ended in a draw, these two highly anticipated anime-style games have finally regained their "right to breathe."

Starting in September, Tencent held a strategic press conference, reiterating its "content is king" philosophy and announcing the "Spotlight" plan with a 9 billion yuan support fund, aimed at supporting more small and medium-sized game developers in China.

Internally, Tencent further relaxed the development freedom of each development team and proposed the concept of "full capacity".

In short, it's about using a "human wave tactic".

The goal is to produce as many games as possible, then select the best ones to compete with StarCraft, while also emphasizing a "focus on key areas."

For example, several anime-style games from Tencent, and "PUBG Mobile," a battle royale mobile game that "highly pays homage" to the wildly popular "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds."

These are all "key points".

Among these key projects, "Night Spirit" and "Gun Girl Auto Chess" are considered ready-to-play titles, having been developed to the point where they are ready to be launched at any time.

Therefore, the current meeting is discussing the specific release dates of these two games.

(End of this chapter)