Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 423 I Can Go to Yours
"This event attracted nearly six million players. With this number of players, the general public's aesthetic sense naturally surpasses that of military enthusiasts."

"Even those who don't understand military matters will find the name 'Yixian' appealing when they see the character illustration and the name. Add to that the traditional Chinese style, and it becomes more and more pleasing to the eye."

"That's why the mascot in 'Final Front' is a Type 95 rifle. When making military games, you can't just focus on military games; you also need to achieve a balance that appeals to the general public while retaining military elements. That's the core."

Fishball nodded, as if he understood.

When creating military-themed ship girls, you can't be too generic, because if you're too generic, you'll lose your unique characteristics.

But it can't be too niche, because the group you're serving is the general public.

This balance needs to be controlled by the producer.

However, even a reserved young man like Yuwan couldn't help but chat with Chu Chen during such a tense moment, let alone the players' reactions.

Not only in China, but also in Japan, the promotion of Azur Lane has been a huge success.

Japanese gamers on 2ch and Twitter were also arguing fiercely about the voting results.

Compared to the Chinese server, the top ten votes in the Japanese server are more concentrated, with a large number of popular ship girls such as Atago, Yamato, and Shimakaze making the list.

But in the end.

Kaga took first place. Kaga's character design is a typical Japanese shrine maiden and beast girl. Actually, in terms of character design, Atago's black stockings are obviously more erotic.

But Kaga is still number one.

"We won! Kaga was the best! We'll split 100 million yen!"

"Having voted for Belfast, I feel utterly hopeless. But since I got the game points, I'll forgive it."

Similar storylines unfold in different countries, and the basis of public opinion is that there is something to discuss. In this respect, Azur Lane is clearly much better than Night Spirit.

And this is only the first punch.

As the voting activity continued to gain momentum, the ranking of fan-created content for "The First Encounter with Ship Girls" also rose, and the final winners were announced at noon that day.

The top-ranked video was a corporate-oriented hand-drawn animation called "The Oath," which unsurprisingly took first place with its overwhelming number of views, likes, and coins.

With the boost from "mirror incentives," the number of favorites for this video has already surpassed a staggering two million.

Below the video, countless moved players left comments such as "No regrets entering Azur Lane in this life, I wish to be a commander in the next."

In the dance section, the MMD dance video "Royal Lady's Invitation" by the three sisters, Glorious, Victorious, and Formidable, has surpassed five million views, with the comments section filled with "AWSL" and "I will always love the Royal Navy".

Music, parody, cosplay... all the winning entries were awarded honors and prizes by the official team at this moment, and received a new round of traffic recommendations.

In the comments section, besides the amazement at the video quality, there was a lot of discussion about the "mirror incentive" campaign.

"Holy crap! This video got first place! I thought it was high quality right away, so I casually added it to my favorites, and now I've received 200 game points! Freebie! Awesome!"

"Me too! I have several MMD collections, and I won two, which adds up to almost 400 points!!"

"Thanks to the content creator for taking me to drink soup! I'll fill my favorites list with every event like this in the future!"

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For every person who rejoices, there is someone who grieves.

Tencent headquarters, Night Spirit Studio.

The studio, which was "fun" in the morning, completely shut down in the afternoon.

Actually, at this point, Night Spirit wasn't finished yet; it was just that the marketing campaign was interrupted. If the gameplay was fun, the graphics were exquisite, and the storyline was good, there was still a chance to win the resurrection battle.

pity.

Tencent's games have never disappointed when it comes to being disappointing.

Actually, today's entire promotional campaign for "Azur Lane"

To say it had a huge impact on Tencent wouldn't be accurate. A large number of players still entered the world of "Night Spirit," such as Du Yuhan, who was one of the veteran "Final Front" players attracted by the slogan "The student surpasses the master."

He logged into the server as soon as the game launched.

The opening CG was indeed well done, transforming the post-apocalyptic wasteland into a world of swords and magic, with exquisite modeling and a familiar UI.

The new setting did bring a sense of novelty. During the tutorial, seeing all sorts of black and white stockings and female warriors, you have to admit, he even had the illusion that "Tencent really put their heart into this."

Although the tutorial is almost a 1:1 replica of "Final Frontiers", including but not limited to, when others say that you can't leave the city, the protagonist insists on leaving the city alone.

However, the problems are also obvious.

To get players into the game as quickly as possible, the tutorial storyline is rather abrupt and not as smooth as in Final Frontline.

The advantage is that the beginner tutorial goes by very quickly.

The downside is that the plot is rather boring.

After the tutorial ended, the protagonist, due to his meritorious service in combat, became the "Special Operations Team Captain".

Everything is actually fine up to this point.

But the story quickly progressed to the lord of this territory. An NPC dressed in fine clothes, with a beer belly and a small mustache, appeared on the screen and patted the player on the shoulder, saying, "The future of the territory depends on you." Du Yuhan's brows furrowed involuntarily.

Du Yuhan is actually very familiar with this line.

Because in "Final Battlefront", there is a similar plot, where the Federation Commander-in-Chief is seriously ill, and the player, as the "Hero Commander", needs to temporarily take over the command of the Earth Federation.

At that moment, the old man's eyes were filled with weariness and determination. He patted the player on the shoulder and said...

"The future of humanity depends on you."

Although the words are similar, and it's unclear whether it's a tribute from Tencent, the feeling they give is like heaven and earth.

Fortunately, Du Yuhan wasn't a story-obsessed person; he quickly skipped the story and started doing PVE roguelike gameplay.

This is what interests him the most. After all, although "Final Front" is fun, it's been almost two years, and after playing through each new map in every version, he's been quite bored.

He's not the kind of PVP fanatic; he basically just gets the standard PVP rewards each season and plays a couple of rounds when he's bored.

Available soon.

He frowned immediately after he started working on it.

I thought there would be something special about the transition from gun girls to weapon girls, but after experiencing it, there was nothing special at all.

He was completely unfamiliar with the various weapon girls, so he didn't even know how to form a team. What made him even more speechless was that when he cleared the first dungeon, the system notified him that a "special card pool" had been unlocked.

Upon opening the window, it was discovered that the free gacha tickets obtained earlier could only be used to draw from the regular pool, while the "Matchet Gun" could only be obtained using premium currency.

He frowned and closed the mall.

Back in the game, after playing only two levels and while the story was unfolding, a shiny scroll appeared: "Purchase Royal Knights Certificate," priced at 68 yuan, with a red text indicating a 1000% rebate.

"Fuck you."

Upon seeing this familiar pop-up appear in the game, Du Yuhan couldn't help but curse.

He could tolerate the things before, but he really couldn't stand this. This smell was just too overpowering! Was it really necessary to play this kind of thing in the middle of the story?!

What the hell.

He felt that his intelligence and his initial expectations for the game had been insulted.

(End of this chapter)