Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 42? Me?

The Final Battlefront is a hit.

This is not just a sentence, but a fact that countless people can clearly feel.

However, everyone experiences it in slightly different ways.

To veteran developers like Wanmei, everything Xingchen did was completely baffling. They didn't sell stats or items, just a broken ring and a few skins that didn't add any attributes.

The revenue on the first day was already approaching ten million.

I can't figure it out, I don't understand it.

Even more shockingly, a senior executive at Shengda asked at the meeting, "Who exactly is paying for this? And why are they paying?"

According to 1717, this group of media professionals, known as "Youmin,"...

"Final Battlefront" is a true dark horse in terms of traffic. Yes, even though "Final Battlefront" had already shown some characteristics before, no one expected that the popularity and reputation of "Final Battlefront" could really surpass the gun-wielding girl promoted by Tencent.

What else could this be but a dark horse?!

The reason the term "dark horse" is preceded by the word "traffic" is because the media, as the vanguard of traffic generation, has the clearest perception of which things are "hyped" to be popular and which are "genuinely" popular.
Almost immediately after the open beta launch of "Final Front," many media outlets noticed that any news containing the words "Final Front" received several times more views than other news.

This is quite unusual in the current gaming industry.

Therefore, in the eyes of media professionals, The Final Battle is definitely a dark horse in terms of traffic.

But in Yang Defeng's eyes at this moment.

He felt that the final battlefront was a problem.

Yang Defeng's awareness of the popularity of Final Frontline stemmed from an hour earlier when he was called over by his big boss, Chen Rui, the owner of Bilibili, just before he was about to leave work.

As the head of Bilibili Games, Yang Defeng doesn't have many opportunities to meet Chen Rui directly; basically, it's only once or twice a month.

After all, for Bilibili at this time, the gaming business was just a branch.

Therefore, Yang Defeng was somewhat surprised when Chen Rui summoned him.

This strangeness became even stranger after hearing Chen Rui's idea, because Chen Rui asked him to prepare a "business plan for investing in Starry Sky Games".

"I've been observing the data for 'Final Frontline' all day. This StarCraft game is no ordinary game."

"You should prepare a report to see if we have any opportunities to further cooperate with the other party, or if there are any investment opportunities."

To be honest, Yang Defeng was completely stunned when he heard this request. In fact, if this request hadn't been made by Chen Rui...

Yang Defeng had to retort on the spot.

After all, everyone in the Chinese gaming industry knows that Starry Sky Games even rejected investment from Tencent, so how could such a studio possibly accept investment from Bilibili?

Chen Rui's words are basically equivalent to that "Hey! Go and kill Tang Sanzang" meme.

however.

Yang Defeng thought it was nonsense, but Chen Rui's expression was very serious.

It's clear that although Chen Rui isn't very familiar with the gaming business, he was genuinely shocked by the data performance of "Final Frontline".

In fact.

This data is indeed quite surprising.

Perhaps sensing Yang Defeng's lack of interest, Chen Rui, in an effort to get Yang Defeng to take the matter seriously, deliberately opened the Bilibili backend data in front of him. As the mouse hovered over the "site search volume" column, the focus shifted.

The top search term was "Final Battlefront," with a nearly vertical curve and a bright red number next to it displaying "+1503%."

This data means that the number of users on the final search front today is 15 times that of yesterday!
To be honest, Yang Defeng was also quite surprised when he saw this data.

It's important to know that although "Final Front" is officially launched today, strictly speaking, it's not a new game.

Starting from March, "Final Battlefront" has been running for two months.

Under normal circumstances, within two months, the users who should have settled in will have settled in, and those who should have left will have left. The game's popularity curve will usually decline slowly and flatten out over time.

However, the data performance of "Final Front" was somewhat abnormal during these two months.

The search volume for "Final Front" on Bilibili has been quite high over the past two months.

The reason for this is that although "Final Front" has not been updated with a major version, various strength adjustments and optimizations have been continuously made. Moreover, with the natural increase in users, old users are being lost while new users are being added.

Many streamers on various platforms broadcast Auto Chess.

Moreover, because it's a new game, many new gameplay elements are constantly being developed.

Therefore, for the past two months, the search volume for "Final Battlefront" on Bilibili has remained at a certain level, and the PVE guides, PVP guides, strength rankings, lineup strength rankings, fan-made MVs, and traffic have all been quite good.

Even content creators who previously made funny League of Legends highlights have started making "Final Battle: Hilarious Highlights." While each episode doesn't get a high number of views, it's still about half the number of funny League of Legends highlights.

Under these circumstances, the update of the first chapter of the main storyline of "Final Front" actually brought an exaggerated burst of nearly fifteen times! This is a bit too outrageous.

According to the backend data, the total number of searches for "Final Battlefront" on Bilibili today has exceeded one million, and the total number of video views with the "Final Battlefront" tag on the entire platform has exceeded ten million.

what does this mean?
This means that many users felt unsatisfied after experiencing the game's updated content.

They flocked to Bilibili, China's largest ACG (Anime, Comics, and Games) content community, repeatedly typing "Final Battlefront" into the search bar.

They want to see plot analysis, character discussions, walkthroughs, and everything related to the game.

This behavioral pattern is all too familiar to Bilibili.

Almost every instance of phenomenal content creation is accompanied by this kind of "search surge."

From the earliest FATE/ZERO to last year's "Monkey King: Hero Is Back", every time a large number of users are touched by a certain content, such a search popularity will appear.

Because players need an outlet for their emotions.

This is why some movies and games from the past have received positive feedback.

Humans are social animals. Even if face-to-face communication is impossible, the need for online social interaction will not decrease. Players need to discuss, share, and find common ground.

Because that feeling of determination hasn't faded, we need to repeatedly savor, observe, and discuss it.

This is precisely the fertile ground for the birth of the culture of creative derivative works.

The essence of all "powering for love" stems from this unquenchable emotion.

And without a doubt, the first chapter of "Final Front" succeeded in igniting the passion of players and showing signs of becoming a blockbuster.

Therefore, Yang Defeng can understand his boss's thoughts very well.

But boss, oh boss, your reaction time is way too slow!
Why didn't you do this sooner?

(End of this chapter)