Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 465 What kind of amazing move did he come up with?

Leaving aside Tencent's hellish situation, it wasn't just Tencent that was kept behind that night to watch the video.

Bilibili Games Studio, Meeting Room.

The projection screen was also showing Xingchen's variety shows, but the people on Bilibili were a little luckier; they didn't watch the variety show parts, but instead watched Chu Chen playing games.

Even so, the image is still very abstract.

More abstractly, this is the second time they have organized a group viewing this afternoon.

Bilibili's journey in mobile games over the past two years has been exceptionally bumpy.

While FGO is a good game, its high revenue share has always been a sore point for Bilibili, especially since FGO is Bilibili's only source of revenue that allows it to turn a profit.

In many situations, Bilibili's decisions even depend on Xingchen's opinion.

For example, at the end of 16, Chu Chen proposed to completely cancel Bilibili's quiz registration model.

This suggestion was originally something Chu Chen casually mentioned at Bilibili's senior management annual meeting.

"What era are we living in! Others are eager to bring people in, but you're driving them out! It's only because I, as a shareholder, don't have real power that I'm left. Otherwise, Mr. Chen, you'd better punish yourself with three drinks for this matter."

Chu Chen didn't really think much when he said that.

After all, the atmosphere of a community has absolutely nothing to do with restricting registration.

Rather, it's related to the website itself. If Bilibili is full of high-quality anime series, then no matter how many users there are, the mainstream anime discussion atmosphere won't be bad.

But if, like in the previous life, the quality of anime series declines year by year, and the overall creation relies entirely on content creators (UPs), then the atmosphere of your community will naturally become more mainstream.

This is a very simple principle.

Every angler knows that you can catch the right fish by using the right bait.

Instead of focusing on improving the website, the idea of ​​maintaining a certain atmosphere by limiting users is essentially a form of escapism.

The problem is, after he said that...

Whether Chen Rui listened or not is unknown, but the other senior executives at Bilibili did listen. So, in early 17, Bilibili removed the registration restrictions under the pretext of integrating game accounts.

The subsequent explosive growth of Bilibili's user base over the next 17 years made this event seem like a typical "legendary story in the industry."

But many times, Chen Rui felt uneasy when he saw Chu Chen.

On the one hand, he was reluctant to give up the profits brought by "FGO", but on the other hand, he was worried that Xingchen would use its control over "FGO" to "remotely control" Bilibili's decisions.

Therefore, Bilibili in this timeline places greater emphasis on the operation of mobile games.
However, Bilibili is Bilibili. Whether it's the "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" game they acquired in late 2016 or the self-developed anime-style mobile game "Kamiyo Yumekatan" released this August, they've consistently delivered high-quality content.

Two years have passed.

While it wasn't a resounding success, none of the games besides "Fate/Grand Order" became popular.

"I didn't let you surpass the stars! I'm asking you, can you even have one-tenth of the stars' ability?! They make one product and it's a success, you make one and it's a failure! Where did all your money go?!"

Chen Rui was truly helpless.

No matter how much you scold them, if they can't do math, they can't do it; if they can't play games, they can't play them.

That's how this absurd scene came about.

Anyone with a modicum of common sense wouldn't think of learning game development through a variety show.
But Bilibili did just that, and it's not just Bilibili; many game company bosses in China are doing the same thing.

After all, although everyone knows that Chu Chen is very good at making games, these bosses don't know exactly how good he is, and they can't understand some of the reference materials that Xingchen posted on the forum.

On the contrary, this time it's a video program.

To cater to the audience, the production team described many of Chu Chen's thought processes quite clearly, which actually made them easier to understand. They then seized upon this as a valuable resource and began having their subordinates learn it.
However, the most abstract part of this matter isn't even there. The most abstract part is that many production teams, after watching Chu Chen's program, actually clarified some basic common sense.
This kind of abstraction.

It's just like when the China Submarine Research Institute bought a toy and discovered that the toy contained the structure of a real submarine.

In conclusion, while this 48-hour video didn't quite go viral globally, it certainly attracted a large audience.

Especially for relatively hardcore players.

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Time flies and it’s the next day.

On the Starry Sky Games platform, the number of players who have pre-registered for the DEMO has reached tens of millions. At the same time, major game streamers around the world have also set their sights on this traffic opportunity.

"Hello, hello, your devilish little raccoon is back!"

Su Xiaoli made a playful fox paw gesture at the camera.

If we had to be specific, Su Xiaoli should be considered a blogger in the "borderline" category, the kind who dances, chats, and shows off her legs.

As for popularity, it's just average.

It's not that she has a bad foundation, but rather that there are too many people trying to make a living in this field.

Her real transformation came six months ago when she released a swimsuit cosplay of Final Frontiers and was warned by the platform's moderators.

After changing her clothes, she angrily opened "Final Front" and clicked on the swimsuit skin in the game, which was meant to express something.

The joke was something like, "Why is it okay for characters in the game to wear this, but it doesn't work for me when I'm streaming."

This kind of prank is actually quite common.

Sometimes, these streamers even deliberately provoke warnings from the platform's moderators to create dramatic effect for their shows.

However, that live stream completely changed Su Xiaoli's live streaming career, because she soon discovered that these perverts were more interested in watching her sell her body.

It seems she prefers watching her swoon over the characters in the game.

Although Su Xiaoli herself did not understand the reasoning behind it, it did not prevent her from quickly grasping the essence of being a female streamer of anime games.

While other female game streamers are diligently practicing their skills.

She was already holding a life-size body pillow of A-017 from "Final Battlefront" and tearfully complaining in the live stream about why the official didn't give her more skins.

"I want to lick A-017's ice cream..."

He could casually utter such vulgar and offensive language.

Sometimes, she even gets "cyber jealous," asking the audience whether they came to see her or the female characters in the game.
After a while, Su Xiaoli can be said to have completely transformed herself, and she herself liked this direction of transformation, and soon she became a specialist in game live streaming.

And so it started yesterday.

She was already joining the barrage of comments, saying she wanted the demo Chu Chen made.
The reason they all wailed together was because Su Xiaoli discovered a secret to gaining followers: empathy. You should like what the audience likes.

The audience likes ice cream, and Su Xiaoli likes ice cream too.

The audience is looking forward to Xingchen's game, and Su Xiaoli is looking forward to it too.

Viewers enjoy watching her flirt with young men during live streams, so Su Xiaoli specifically does this during live streams.

All I can say is that although she doesn't know much about theory, her popularity has indeed been growing ever since she changed her image.

"Here it comes, here it comes!! Today we're not eating ice cream, let's see what kind of amazing trick Chu Chen, that old rascal, can come up with in 48 hours!"

(End of this chapter)