Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 447 Cards
The real breakthrough came a month later in the preview of a major update for Final Frontline, which introduced a new skin themed around black dresses and black stockings.

The official account had just released the promotional PV for the skin when the comment section was immediately flooded with Chu Chen emojis.

The "White Silk" Party has revolted!!

Chu Chen's emoji was photoshopped with the words "I want white stockings".

As we all know, while everyone criticizes the use of memes, everyone also wants to use them.

Soon, the comment section was filled with "white stockings" supporters. Even if someone was shouting that the new skin was so good just a second ago, it didn't stop them from joining in the shouting in the comment section.

"I see you guys don't take President Chen seriously! The White Silk Party will never be slaves!"

Once there's one, there's bound to be two.

Soon, a whole bunch of meme-filled photoshopped images appeared, all using the "Chu Chen looking at white stockings" map and photoshopping in various ways.

"The operations department doesn't want their bonuses this month?"

"How dare you defy the White Silk Immortal's decree!"

"Mr. Chen: I clearly prefer white, but you gave me black? Don't you want your performance bonus?!"

What's even more interesting is that this meme, being so abstract, has traveled across the ocean to Japan and Europe and America.

From then on, the nickname "leader of the white stockings party" became firmly associated with Chu Chen, even though Chu Chen had never actually said that he liked white stockings, but that didn't matter.

"Seriously, if you dare to shout it out, I'll send you rockets during my live stream."

Zhao Yang was still encouraging Li Rui.

"Get lost, I want to live for another two years."

Li Rui rolled his eyes. There are many people on the internet who joke that Chu Chen likes white stockings, but very few people would actually call him that when they meet him.

"Speaking of which, Mr. Chen's popularity seems really exaggerated."

From their perspectives, since Chu Chen entered the venue, there hasn't been a single ordinary player in the venue yet, but almost all the executives from the surrounding exhibition areas have gone up to greet him.

Sony's, Capcom's, Nintendo's, and the official TGS exhibition.

There was even a white reporter with a media pass who quickly caught up, seemingly wanting to conduct a brief interview, but was politely stopped by the man in a suit behind Chu Chen.

Chu Chen himself seemed quite relaxed, wearing that anime-style pajamas, which created a strange contrast among the group of suit-wearing elites.

He was very approachable to people who came up to him, and responded to everyone's greetings with a smile and a nod, occasionally stopping to say a word or two.

"Holy crap? Huh?? Was that Aragaki Yui who just went up to say hello???"

"Holy crap! Huh? It really does seem to be!!"

At this moment, the two of them were still not quite sure what Yui Aragaki had come for, but that did not stop them from watching this scene and feeling that it was outrageous and even a little unreal.

"My God, is this how popular President Chu is in Japan?"

"That's really impressive..."

Li Rui couldn't think of any other adjectives besides these few words.

The same sentiment was expressed by the group of people behind Chu Chen.

Following behind him was the core team of the Starry Sky Games Alliance, who were heading to TGS this time.

Hai Mao, Yu Wan, Bai Ruilin, Yan Chuan, and Shi Jingxiao are basically the core characters in the current Starry Sky Game Alliance. Since they are close to each other, their perception is naturally stronger.

Fishball quietly approached Sea Cat and nudged him with his elbow.

"See that, Mr. Sea Cat? That's the difference. When you came in just now, not a single person greeted you."

Sea Cat glanced at him. "You talk as if anyone knows you."

"Let's not talk about us."

Bai Ruilin crossed his arms and quietly added insult to injury.

"I estimate that even if we bring people from Sony and Nintendo over, in terms of individual popularity in Japan, only Shigeru Miyamoto and Kazuo Hirai can definitely surpass Mr. Chen. I feel that even Hideo Kojima is a bit lacking."

After these words were spoken, everyone fell even more silent.

This sounds like bragging, but when you think about it carefully, it's actually true.

This only made people more silent.
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Time flew by, and it was already 9 a.m.

The Tokyo Game Show venue is finally open to the public.

The crowd surged in like a tide, and the temperature in the entire venue seemed to rise several degrees instantly.

"Hey Tanaka, look over there, isn't the Starry Sky booth a bit strange?"

In the crowd, a slightly chubby young man wearing glasses nudged his companion with his elbow. His name was Suzuki, a veteran gamer, and his companion, Tanaka, was his longtime playmate.

"Strange? What's strange? Come on, let's get in line! There's going to be so many people waiting to try it out."

Before Tanaka could finish speaking, Suzuki grabbed him and pointed to the official cosplay section of Starry Sky.

She wore a red and white shrine maiden outfit and held a shrine maiden's talisman and amulets.

A witch in a black and white robe, wearing a huge pointed hat, a blonde vampire in a gorgeous dress holding a parasol, and a girl in a blue dress with ice crystal wings on her back...

"Hakurei Reimu? Kirisame Marisa? Remilia Scarlet? Cirno?"

Tanaka identified them one by one, his expression gradually shifting from curiosity to shock.

"What's going on? Why are there so many Eastern characters?"

"Right? That's so weird!"

Suzuki seemed very excited.

"Do you think the mysterious new work that Starry Sky Entertainment officially announced might actually be 'Eastern'?!"

During the promotional phase of the Tokyo Game Show, StarCraft Games did mention that a previously unannounced mystery game would be unveiled.

It caused quite a stir in the gaming community at the time, with many people buying tickets just to see StarCraft's new game, and all sorts of speculations circulating online.

Based on a fleeting glimpse of footage in a previous documentary, some people confidently asserted that it was a 3D spin-off of "The Final Front".

Some people say it should be a new IP project, since Starry Sky Games hasn't released many new IPs in the past two years.

However, no matter how much speculation there was, no one suspected it was Touhou Gensokyo. Although there were rumors in the industry that Hoshino had acquired the IP rights to Touhou Gensokyo, this had never been confirmed.

Therefore, when they saw these cosplays, the two looked at each other in bewilderment.

Just like the martial arts IPs in China at that time.

In present-day Japan, the era of capital games is yet to come, and Touhou Gensokyo remains highly popular in both Japan and China.

Even though it was just the official cosplay section of Starry Sky Games featuring characters from Touhou Project, it still made many people's eyes widen.

Tanaka and Suzuki were not the only players who discovered the "tricks".

Many people took out their phones after seeing the Touhou cosplay in the official Starry Sky COS section.

Soon, scattered messages appeared on social media saying "A large number of Eastern cosplayers appeared at the TGS Starry Night booth".

(End of this chapter)