Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

What happened in Chapter 450 again!
A few minutes ago, at the Starry Sky Games booth.

"This is insane, completely insane! Xingchen's popularity is just too high."

Bai Qiaoke, holding a selfie stick, complained to the camera while sweating profusely.

Bai Qiaoke, Bilibili ID: "Lao Bai Bu Bai", is a gaming content creator with several hundred thousand followers.

Like many gaming bloggers, his videos mainly review and play games. Unlike many gaming bloggers, Bai Qiaoke's family is in business, and he becomes a video blogger purely out of interest.

One question his fans often ask is, "Where do you get so much money to travel around? Are gaming bloggers that rich?"

This problem is actually quite simple.

He didn't become a gaming blogger to make money; rather, he became a gaming blogger because he had already achieved financial freedom.
In fact, people like this have an advantage when making videos.

Since he doesn't have to compromise his principles for a living, Lao Bai's reviews are indeed quite objective. He doesn't accept commercial orders, and his relatively objective review style has earned him a base of fans.

His video content covers almost everything, and he often attends game expos to interview game developers. He started promoting his game for TGS two weeks in advance.

I paid for my own plane ticket and hotel and flew all the way from China just to be the first to livestream the gameplay of Starry Night Games.

The cost of this trip was not low.

However, this amount of money is nothing to Bai Qiaoke. He came to TGS purely to "piggyback" on the popularity.

Although Bai Qiaoke doesn't make videos for money, he does want popularity.

Since recording videos is permitted at any StarCraft event, each StarCraft offline demo is a veritable feast for gaming bloggers.

In particular, this year's TGS explicitly stated that a demo of "Floating Dreams of Jianghu" would be available. Although more than two months have passed since the game's release, it still garners considerable attention.

Old Bai himself is also looking forward to this.

However, at this moment, Lao Bai was stuck in the waiting line of the Starry Night Games trial area, in a dilemma.

"Brothers, let me tell you, the popularity of Starry Night Games at the event is ridiculously high."

Old Bai wiped the sweat from his forehead, adjusted the camera, and made sure the viewers in the live stream could see the endless dragon behind him.

"I ran straight to the Starry Sky booth as soon as I entered the venue. Look at this sign in front of me, I've been queuing for half an hour and it's estimated that it will take another two hours before it's my turn. Tsk tsk tsk, that's exaggerated, too exaggerated."

In fact, the demo area set up by Starry Games this time was already quite large, but unfortunately the queues were even longer.

Just as Lao Bai was chatting with the audience, a deafening roar of screams and cheers suddenly erupted from the direction of the main stage not far away.

The sound was so loud it seemed to rip the roof off the Makuhari Messe exhibition hall.

The entire trial area was in an uproar, and everyone instinctively craned their necks to look towards the source of the sound.

A Japanese guy next to Lao Bai, who was scrolling through his phone, suddenly looked up from the screen and, like a zombie, grabbed his companion's shoulders and shook him wildly, shouting incoherently.

Old Bai's Japanese is so-so, he couldn't understand a word, but he was still laughing.

At that moment, the chat in his live stream went completely crazy.

"Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!!"

"Gakki! It's Gakki! Ahhhhhh!"

"Ten yuan left! My goodness, Xingchen invited both of my wives?!"

"Old Bai, you idiot! What are you waiting in line for! Get to the main stage!!"

Seeing the sudden surge of comments, Lao Bai was filled with questions. After reading through them one by one, he finally uttered a classic Chinese curse.

"Holy crap!" Yui Aragaki and Satomi Ishihara! Alive! Although Lao Bai doesn't follow celebrities at all, he is somewhat familiar with these two names and naturally knows how popular this news is.

The headlines in the newspapers and personal experiences are completely different.

How can we describe the impact of this news?

Right in front of Lao Bai, the line that had been packed like sardines in a can suddenly loosened up.

A large number of people, mainly Japanese players, after a brief moment of shock and hesitation, decisively chose to give up queuing and surged toward the main stage like a tide.

Even if this group of people rushed over, there's a very high probability they would only be able to see one person.

But even if there was only a sliver of hope, this group of people would run away.

If this is the case for people offline, the online media hype is even more intense, since Starry Games isn't the only company trying to generate buzz around this topic.

The agencies behind the two actresses are eager to make this a huge hot topic.

Almost at the same time the news broke, press releases and breaking news from major media outlets flooded in, with the firm's public relations team, the media, and Xingchen's publicity department working in perfect harmony.

The fire quickly grew bigger and bigger.

This is absolutely a textbook example of a win-win situation.

By leveraging the popularity of two national actresses, Starry Games further strengthened its brand image, while the two actresses, through their collaboration with Starry Games, one of the hottest "phenomenal" companies at the moment, further solidified their commercial value and national status.

Old Bai watched helplessly as the crowd in front of and behind him dwindled to almost nothing in just a few minutes.

The queue, which was originally expected to take two hours, was at least halfway through in just a few minutes, meaning he would be able to enter in less than an hour at most.

"As a professional gaming blogger, my mission is to show everyone how to play games! Celebrities are just fluff!"

"Brothers, let's keep queuing."

Actually, Lao Bai still wanted to see the celebrities, but reason told him that if he went now, it would be too late, so he didn't go.

Time flies, and another hour has passed.

The queuing time was actually quite boring, and the number of online players kept decreasing, which is normal. The queuing time was indeed boring, especially after missing the biggest highlight of the main stage.

The popularity of Lao Bai's live stream also dropped visibly, like the receding tide.

The number of views gradually dropped from tens of thousands to a few thousand, and the barrage of comments also decreased from a flood to a few scattered ones.

This is actually quite normal. Lao Bai was just recording footage and started a live stream out of boredom, so he didn't complain too much.

Looking at the line that had shortened considerably, I figured that at this rate, it would probably be my turn in a few more minutes.

It's a blessing in disguise.

He comforted himself with this thought and continued to chat idly with the remaining viewers in the live stream, from how he got off the plane to whether the Japanese girls at Okubo Park Station in Tokyo were really pretty or not.

Then, the topic of where in Tokyo is a good place to go if you really want to experience a romantic atmosphere became increasingly off-topic.

Just as Lao Bai's speech was getting closer and closer to the "harmony" zone, a huge wave of sound erupted from the direction of the main stage once again.

This time, the screams were different from the ones when Yui Aragaki appeared earlier, which were a mix of surprise and idol worship.

This roar was purer and more primal.

(End of this chapter)