Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 454 Visiting Professor
Saturday, November 2nd
After two days of building momentum, the Tokyo Game Show's buzz began to spread further.

Actually, if we look at the overall market, the reach of Touhou Fantasy Chronicles this time is actually less than that of the FGO remake and anniversary celebration.

In Japan, mainstream society and media discussions mainly focused on the fact that Satomi Ishihara and Yui Aragaki were both endorsing Starry Night Games.

The hottest topic in the Japanese entertainment industry right now is whether Hoshino's endorsement commercial will be filmed together or separately.

This seemingly trivial matter somehow managed to reach the top of Japanese Twitter.

In China, the explosion of "Eastern Fantasy Chronicles" came suddenly, but its overall influence was not as great as the initial release of "Floating Dream Song" a few months earlier.

In Europe and America, a large number of media reports focused primarily on the new technologies in "The Eastern Travelogue".

However, this standard of "not too popular" is actually based on the entire internet. If you narrow your focus slightly and don't look at the world outside the gaming circle, but only at the gaming circle...

This time, the Starry Night game can be described as a massacre.

If we focus a little more on the anime and manga community, then "Touhou Fantasy Chronicles" is definitely a bombshell.

Of the top ten most popular videos on Bilibili, four are related to "Touhou Fantasy Chronicle".

The popularity of the term "Touhou Gensokyo" and the search volume for related videos have more than doubled, even though the situation was already quite alarming.

Pixiv serves as the headquarters for fan creations of Touhou Gensokyo.

On the day "Touhou Fantasy Chronicles" was announced, submissions with the Touhou tag increased seventeenfold, and some people even took screenshots of the day's trending topics on Pixiv.

At least half of the images on the entire webpage were celebrating the official announcement of the game.

This kind of terrifying popularity.

For players in the broader anime and manga community and the gaming community, the impact is quite noticeable.

Of course, this kind of popularity is overwhelming.

We also have to thank our competitors. Throughout the 2017 Tokyo Game Show, apart from StarCraft making a few big announcements, no other manufacturer could really compete.

In my previous life, the Tokyo Game Show didn't even sell out of tickets in 17.

Therefore, even though StarCraft's ammunition was exhausted on the first day, the media was still discussing StarCraft on the second day.

However, Chu Chen, who was at the heart of all this, was not at the Tokyo Game Show at the moment.

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University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus.

The first day of November.

In the afternoon sunlight, the ginkgo avenue, covered with fallen leaves, adds a touch of autumn's unique golden hue to the scene.

Just half an hour ago, Chu Chen received the title of Visiting Professor of the University of Tokyo in the lecture hall of the University of Tokyo and gave a short speech.

The speech itself didn't have much content; it mainly discussed the progress of the Star Project in Japan and encouraged more top talents to enter the game industry.

However, the speech process, especially the awarding ceremony, was quite interesting.

There were just too many reporters, with their long lenses and microphones, making it look like some big star was walking the red carpet.

When he came out of the lecture hall, security personnel had to clear a path for him to get to the parking lot, separating him from the overly enthusiastic reporters.

After finally getting into the black van, the door slammed shut.

The noise from the outside world was completely shut out.

Chu Chen let out a long sigh and leaned heavily against the soft chair back.

"These reporters are wasting their talents if they don't become paparazzi."

He couldn't help but complain.

"After all, you're currently the most popular man on the Japanese internet." A clear, slightly teasing female voice came from beside me.

Chu Chen was taken aback, only then noticing that there was another person in the back seat of the car.

"Yueying? What brings you here?"

As usual, Song Yueying did not accompany Chu Chen on his business trip.

This is because, within the Starry Sky organization, although it wasn't explicitly stated, Song Yueying's role was somewhat that of "Chu Chen's spokesperson."

As the saying goes, a family cannot be without a head for a day. When Chu Chen was away, Xingchen was the one who kept an eye on many things for him, and she would handle some of the small matters as she could.

When things couldn't be handled, Song Yueying's understanding and subsequent communication with Chu Chen made Chu Chen's decision-making more efficient.

Therefore, Chu Chen never expected Song Yueying to appear here.

You know what, I'm actually quite happy about it.

However, Chu Chen's happiness vanished in the next second.

"Speaking of which, a reporter just asked you about the details of your collaboration with Ms. Satomi Ishihara. Why didn't you say more about it?"

"what?"

Chu Chen was stunned for a moment, but quickly realized that this little girl had flown over because she was jealous.
I was just about to say, "Is it really that big of a deal? It's all just media hype."

The words were on the tip of his tongue, but Chu Chen swallowed them back. As someone who had been through it all, he didn't really care about these things, but for Song Yueying...

The two had just broken the ice.

They probably heard the gossip circulating in the company, which is why they rushed over in such a hurry.

This possibility is quite high. After all, there were quite a few Starry Sky employees around when Satomi Ishihara was chatting with Chu Chen backstage. If you put yourself in her shoes, it's normal for her to be jealous.

Thinking of this, Chu Chen simply didn't reply, but reached out and very naturally tucked a strand of her hair that had been ruffled by the wind behind her ear.

"There's nothing here yet, and you're already like this. If I say anything more, I'm afraid you'll have to sleep on the sofa tonight."

This unconventional approach, coupled with the warm touch of Chu Chen's fingertips brushing against his earlobe.

Soon, Song Yueying was overwhelmed, and her cheeks began to burn.

The two chatted for a while longer, quickly moving on from the previous topic. The dynamic shifted, with Song Yueying becoming jealous and Chu Chen teasing her, asking when she bought the plane tickets and such.
The contest ended in a complete defeat for Song Yueying. In an attempt to save face, Song Yueying, still in the car, forcibly steered the conversation back on track.

"Honestly, why would the University of Tokyo suddenly send you an invitation? That's a legitimate academic title."

"It's precisely because it's respectable that this title is easy to obtain."

The more prestigious the university, the greater its demand for resources and the wider its opportunities for commercialization. This is true globally. For example, Chu Chen himself holds the title of visiting professor at Suzhou University.

As Starry Sky Games grows larger, in-depth cooperation with universities has become standard practice.

There are official policies and local demands; Tencent's Game Academy, NetEase's Game Academy, and many other companies that have developed similar programs are also doing so.

The stars are doing it too.

The company has established partnerships with several top universities in Suzhou, Hangzhou, Chongqing, and Beijing, investing a considerable amount of money each year in areas ranging from scholarships and co-developing courses to providing internship programs.

Of course, it wouldn't be entirely accurate to say that this money was entirely charitable.

On the one hand, this money can indeed be converted into a certain number of recent graduates who meet Xingchen's needs, providing Xingchen with a stable pool of talent.

Secondly, such cooperation can indeed enhance the brand image.

(End of this chapter)