Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 428 Japanese Server Reaches the Top
Immediately afterwards, the system displayed a notification that the [Affection Level] had increased.

"Wow, this works!"

Qiao Jiayou felt as if he had discovered a new continent.

While this interaction is quite obvious and bears a resemblance to the interactive storylines in "Final Battlefront," "Final Battlefront" only features interactions in certain specific scenarios.

However, there are indeed more interactive elements in Azur Lane, and given Chu Chen's penchant for such interactions, it's easy to imagine that these interactions, combined with the storyline, will definitely have some elaborate presentation.

Wait, this game doesn't seem to have been made by that old scoundrel Chu Chen.
"Interesting, quite interesting."

In the core gameplay of Azur Lane, the port area actually carries a lot of content. For example, players can unlock new buildings and new building functions through the main story.

You can farm resources through PVE to unlock more "scene upgrade options", such as "a stage appears in the port area".

In addition, the most exploitative aspects of the game, such as "ship girl personal missions," "affinity missions," and "oath storylines," are all set in the port area.

Compared to its previous existence where Azur Lane gradually found its niche through trial and error, in this new timeline, Azur Lane had a clear understanding of its own positioning from the very beginning.

The battle system relies on players farming resources and building extensively, in a continuous cycle, to make the ship girls stronger.

On a daily basis, they focus on the port area.

Moreover, besides acquiring characters, the majority of the money is clearly spent on "cheating rings" and "buying skins".

So, what about this road?

Putting everything else aside, Qiao Jiayou has spent most of the two hours he's been in the game in the Hong Kong area, if it weren't for some affinity events that require interaction with the main storyline.

He didn't even want to leave the port area.

He's a complete useless person living in a "gentle embrace," and it's obvious that this is the target user of Azur Lane.

Over time, such people will gradually fall into the gentle embrace of ship girls.

And then? Then it becomes something like this: watching the ship girls actually change their behavior according to the weather, triggering a mission to go back to the dormitory together under an umbrella, and you'll be grinning like an idiot and holding an umbrella with the ship girls.

A loyal Azur Lane fan, when faced with casual player comments like, "Are ship girls afraid of getting rained on? Aren't your main characters always in the water?", will only reply with, "Mind your own business in the world of anime. It's only natural for my waifu to be afraid of the rain."
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That day, night fell and the city lights came on.

Starry Sky Games Operations Center.

The entire building was still brightly lit, but the atmosphere was completely different from the tense feeling of the morning when things were on the verge of collapse.

Everyone had bloodshot eyes, but their faces were beaming with barely suppressed smiles.

An inexplicable excitement permeated the air, especially among the Fishballs and the people from the Azur Lane studio. Even without their name tags, their excited expressions were visibly different from those of the Starry Sky Operations Department staff who were working overtime with them.

The people in the Starry Sky operations department were also excited, but having seen it many times before, they mostly felt a sense of "my friend is awesome".

The people of Azur Lane were genuinely excited.

"Mr. Chen!!! We've reached the top of the Japanese server rankings!"

Yuwan was holding her phone, sharing the good news with Chu Chen.

Chu Chen's slightly helpless voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Yes, yes, I got it, I'm not deaf. Goodness, I just got home and you've already called seven times." "Mr. Chen, you've reached the top of the Japanese server!!!"

In fact, Yuwan didn't hear what Chu Chen was saying at all, because he was too excited at the moment.

Not only him, but the atmosphere in the room had already cooled down a bit, and when he shouted, goodness, everyone else in the office started yelling back.

Applause, cheers, and whistles filled the air.

There's no way around it. It's like a spring that's been compressed for too long, and when it's suddenly released, the emotions are just too much to handle. Even though Azur Lane was prepared for it to be a hit when it launched.

But no one expected that it would top the Japanese server's best-selling charts on the very first day of its open beta.

It's worth noting that this achievement is something that games like "Final Battlefront," "Honkai Impact 3," and "Onmyoji" couldn't accomplish back then, but the "Fate/Grand Order" remake did.

However, at this point, just like the previous game's revenue ranking, "FGO" was automatically ignored, leaving only "Final Battlefront: Origins" and "Final Survival Guide" as single-player games.

In short, after rounding up and adding two qualifiers, Azur Lane is the first anime-style mobile game to top the charts in Japan on its first day of open beta.

Even with qualifiers, this achievement is nothing short of miraculous!
The only problem is that Chu Chen is really boring; even with such a miraculous event, his tone didn't change much.

After Jiao Xiaofei's "Floating Dreams" demo went viral, I called him and said that President Chen was too aloof. I didn't really understand it then, but now I do.

No, I need to call Fei-ge later too. Oh, and I also need to call Hai-mao to put some pressure on him.
Just as my mind was wandering, Song Yueying's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Ask them about the situation in the Chinese server."

Because Yuwan was in a state of excitement at this time, he seemed to be in the operations department directing the overall situation.

In reality, his mind was completely blank. He didn't even bother to gossip about why Song Yueying's voice could be heard on Chu Chen's phone. Instead, he subconsciously relayed the message.

"Quickly! Report the situation of the Chinese server to Boss Chen!!"

"Report to Boss Chen! Domestically, we've topped the StarTap bestseller list! We're currently second on the Apple App Store bestseller list, only behind 'Honor of Kings,' and all the metrics are still rising. We might just knock it down tonight!!"

What about "Night Spirit"?

"Night Spirit has now fallen to number thirty-seven on the Apple best-selling list..."

The moment the data was released, the office fell silent, then erupted into even louder laughter. It wasn't a jab at someone who was down, but rather a pure, unbelievable laugh.

Just a day ago, they were worried about whether they could beat Night Spirit; a day later, they were already discussing giving King of Glory a power drill.

The difference is simply too great.

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Just as Yuwan was wailing and howling, saying he would kill "Honor of Kings", the whole group ate oysters that night.

Inside a high-end apartment in Suzhou and Hangzhou.

After listening to the report, Chu Chen... no, to be precise, after listening to Yuwan's boasting.

That was definitely bragging. On the phone, Yuwan even said he wanted to become the number one studio in the Star Alliance.

Although Fishball might feel like he's showing loyalty, Chu Chen simply couldn't imagine a day when Azur Lane would be beating up Black Myth and kicking The Wandering Earth.
(End of this chapter)