Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 425 The Amazing System

However, in China, the ship girl genre has not been very profitable. Even at its peak, the popularity of Kantai Collection and Kantai Collection R was only within a small circle.

Its core user base is not large, which is why Azur Lane is a huge hit in Japan but only average in China.

However, in this timeline...

Regardless of the final retention rate of the game, at least on the first day of its launch, thanks to the nearly 100 million RMB invested in marketing and promotion worldwide.

In addition, the game's PV quality is much higher than the "dumb kids having a water fight" type from the previous game.

With the added reputation of StarCraft Games, Azur Lane attracted far more players than in its previous life.

There were hundreds of thousands of players who voted for Yixian alone, and more than five million other players participated in the event. Even if only one-fifth of these players who came to join in the fun actually entered the game.

in the country, this also represents one million people entering the game.

Therefore, Azur Lane Studio will face the same problem as Night Spirit.

That is, after a large influx of players, will Azur Lane be able to retain these players?
And the answer to this question.

The answer will be revealed soon.

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The time is now 10:10 AM on October 18th.

Just like everyone else.

Qiao Jiayou also pre-loaded Azur Lane as soon as it was available.

Qiao Jiayou, male, 26 years old, works as a planner at a struggling advertising company. His biggest hobby is gaming, a passion he has maintained since elementary school.

He calls himself a glutton in the gaming world.

They eat everything and play everything; their motto is "never refuse anything."

Furthermore, Qiao Jiayou has a very special hobby: he likes to "create guilds" in games. Basically, he likes any game with guilds, alliances, clans, or similar systems.

He will 100% join in the fun.

However, he didn't create his guilds to "dominate," which can be seen from the names of his guilds, which are mostly named after things like "XXX Retirement Home."

Its main focus is on a "Buddhist-style retirement" approach.

If you were to say that players who can enter the "XXX retirement home" are mostly players who don't like socializing.

Over the years, this QQ group called "Game Retirement Home" has grown to over a hundred members, and these people are true "players."

Everyone in the group is talented and speaks very well.

Like Qiao Jiayou, he's the type to play all kinds of games, and in the past year or two, he's become so addicted to the "bottomless pit" of Starry Night Games.

And Starry Sky Games is making a strong push.

The QQ group chat gradually shifted from discussing domestically produced online games to when "Final Battle Front" would release a new waifu, and recently they've been talking about "Fate/Grand Order: Assassination Classification."

However, the hottest topics in the group these past two days...

That must still be yesterday's "Night Spirit".

"Who among you has tried that piece of crap, 'Night Spirit'? I played it for half an hour yesterday while holding my nose, and it almost killed me."

"I went, I repent."

"The plot is terrible. The main storyline is okay, but in the affection storyline, the girl is like she came from a brothel. She keeps saying things like, 'Your deep eyes seem to be filled with a broken world, making me fall into it.' It's so awkward."

"Speaking of which, I hope Azur Lane won't have any major mishaps today?"

"A disaster? Probably not. Wasn't Chu Chen, that old scoundrel, also a co-producer?"

"It's probably just a figurehead job. That old scoundrel was busy picking up girls in Japan a few days ago. He wouldn't have time to worry about games."

"Huh? Japanese girls dating? What gossip? I didn't know that." "Didn't you see it? It was a really popular clip, I think it was a Japanese game show that invited Nogizaka46."

"Alright, alright! Stop gossiping! The game is now live!!"

"What?! The server opened early again!!"

"Go, go, go!"

The group chat was instantly flooded with "charge" emojis, and then the entire QQ group fell silent. Clearly, everyone had actually entered the game.

Qiao Jiayou also closed QQ and opened Star Tap.

Because the game had been pre-loaded, Qiao Jiayou was able to enter the game smoothly.

The screen went black and then lit up.

Manjiu Network, Star Alliance, Project Star, plus AMD, NVIDIA, a whole bunch of logos flashed by, it actually looked like a AAA game.

Finally, after the familiar "Healthy Gaming Announcement," the opening PV for Azur Lane appeared.

The shimmering sea, the sunset, the battle, the giant siren, the seagulls, and the girl's silhouette.

Compared to the narrative openings commonly used by stars.

Azur Lane, on the other hand, is more like a traditional anime-style game. Its opening style mainly serves to "showcase elements," meaning that after watching it, you don't know what it's about.

The classic opening animation where every character makes an entrance and strikes a pose.

The reason for using this opening animation.

Because the theme of ship girls is a "fantasy" game, it doesn't really need a narrative, and the core of Azur Lane has been mentioned many times before.

It doesn't follow a "hardcore storyline," but rather a "daily romance," based on this setting and the overall tone of the game.

The opening sequence of Azur Lane didn't evoke such exaggerated emotions.

Or to put it simply, "Final Battlefront" is a war film or a historical web novel with decisive battles, while "Azur Lane" is a romance film.

Different emotions naturally manifest in different ways.

Even the player's introduction storyline isn't particularly dramatic.

In the background setting, the island that the player arrives at is a front-line port area fighting against the Sirens. The new player "encounter battle" tutorial is when the player is about to take up their post and is attacked.

As a result of the cooperation between the commander and the ship girls, the commander finally arrived at his loyal port.

After the combat tutorial ended, the port area tutorial began.

Once players arrive at the port, the first thing they should do is build the port.

Of course, it's called construction.

In the tutorial, you just need to freely place a few important buildings in the port area. This system is quite familiar to players who have played "Final Front".

However, the following steps were a bit unfamiliar.

Qiao Jiayou dragged the pre-built buildings—the port command center, the ship girl dormitories, the training ground that looked like a school, the supply restaurant, the warehouse, and the dock—out of the construction menu and randomly placed them on an empty plot of land.

In Qiao Jiayou's mind, the next thing would be a few lonely building models standing on a barren grassy field, and then he could enter the port area.

After all, the PV demonstrated that players could control the commander to move freely in the port area.

However, after he placed all the initial buildings and clicked "complete," a magical scene unfolded.

Using the buildings he placed as nodes, roads were automatically generated and connected to each other to form a reasonable road network. On both sides of the roads, the system automatically laid green lawns and planted roadside trees.

(End of this chapter)