Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 504 The American

The entire PV not only showcases the characters and their attack methods.

It also showcased many gameplay mechanics, such as M4 rolling to pick up the "core data card" after UPM45 dies.

Then, seizing an opportunity, she turned and sprinted toward a communications tower in the distance that was glowing with blue light. In the next shot, the card was inserted into it.

A blue beam of light shot into the sky, and a few seconds later, UPM45 shook his head and teleported back to the battlefield unharmed!

The three-person team looked into the distance again.

The game logo appears.

[The Final Forbidden Zone]

More information coming soon.

If the trailer for PUBG Mobile was a deep-sea bomb dropped into a lake, then the PV for "Final Zone" is a nuclear bomb that explodes directly in the minds of all players.

After a ten-second barrage of questions and exclamation marks, the live stream chat for "Night of Stars" finally began to break down.

The first to react were the loyal fans of "Final Front".

"Holy crap!!!! It's moving! The wives are moving! Is this fucking 3D?"

"I'm going to die! I'm going to die!! Anime Girl Battle Royale!! Star, my god! You understand us so well!"

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, I feel like this PV is packed with information!! Is that UMP45's reconnaissance and target acquisition skill??"

"It feels very different from the settings of 'PUBG'! There's even a resurrection mechanism! Teammates can pick up cards to revive after they die!"

Why does Chu Chen always believe that time travel is his greatest advantage?
In fact, we can see something from the reactions of these players.

If this PV were released ten years later, it definitely wouldn't have caused such a huge reaction.

Character skills, in-game resurrection, and tactical shooting with an anime art style—these elements have already been thoroughly explored by major manufacturers and have become standard features of the genre.

But this is the last day of 2017.

Apex Legends would not be released for another two years, bringing the combination of "hero shooter" and "battle royale" to a new level and popularizing the revolutionary "respawn beacon" mechanism for the first time.

Although Fortnite is about to be released, its core gameplay is building, and its art style leans towards American cartoons, which is completely different from the style of End Zone, which precisely targets Asian aesthetics, especially the anime culture circle.

At this point in time, every "new" gameplay element showcased in the "Final Zone" PV is genuinely "new".

For players...

What excites them most is new things!

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Many manufacturers like to save the biggest surprise for last, which is understandable for purely fan-oriented events and can effectively guarantee completion rates.

But "Starry Night" is different.

Tonight, nearly 200 million users from around the world have gathered here, much like diners who have been queuing for ages outside a wildly popular restaurant. You can't please everyone, but at the very least, you have to secure your core customer base first.

This group includes all sorts of people, but the majority are undoubtedly gamers.

Why was Leng Zefeng so certain that something bad was going to happen at Xingchen? Because in his view, trying to please everyone at the same time with a single live-streamed gala was simply a pipe dream.

But Chu Chen did it.

He didn't try to please everyone. From the very beginning, he used the simplest and most direct method to first capture the core group of users, the players.

Once this group of people is satisfied and excited, the mainstream online discourse will no longer be complaints about "not winning the lottery," but rather a fervent discussion about the new StarCraft game.

That's exactly what happened.

As soon as the trailers for PUBG Mobile and Final Zone were released, the entire internet was instantly filled with reports discussing StarCraft's new games.

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Lei Jun looked at the updates on various social media platforms on his phone, a slight smile flashing across his lips.

Pretty.

That was a brilliant move, a complete reversal of fortune.

First, he appeased all the pre-registered users with a random game, telling them that "everyone gets a prize." Then, he immediately followed up with two bombshell announcements, completely igniting the attention of all the players. When it comes to masters of manipulating emotions during press conferences, Chu Chen is definitely one of them.

Just as Lei Jun was expressing his feelings, the live stream switched to the first program of the Starry Night, which officially began.

The stage was not a studio, but an open outdoor space with yellow sand and targets as the backdrop.

The image shows several cosplayers dressed in costumes from "Final Front".

The girls are all cute, but compared to the two PVs just now, this scene looks a bit ordinary. However, the next second, the petite girl in the lead, cosplaying as a UMP45, skillfully raised the submachine gun in her hand, pulled the bolt, turned to the side, and aimed.

Just when all the viewers thought it was just a model.

“Da da da da da—!”

The gun spat out realistic flames, and a dense stream of spent cartridge cases clattered and ricocheted from the ejection port, tracing golden paths in the sunlight. In the distance, a series of sparks erupted from the android target!

"Holy crap?! A real gun?!"

"Is this a firing range in the US? Are they serious?!"

"I'm dumbfounded. This girl doesn't even look as tall as the gun, and she's controlling the recoil with one hand? She must have incredible strength!"

Following closely behind, several girls staged a live-action gun cosplay in front of the camera, their enemy being plastic robotic models.

The exquisite cosplay, the black and white stockings, and the camera work make this video look like a movie.

"This is what cosplay should be like! My wife should look this dashing... Holy crap! Who's that big guy?!"

Before the audience's gasps had even subsided, a giant man, at least 1.8 meters tall and with bulging muscles, dressed in a cosplay outfit and carrying an M249 heavy machine gun, rushed out from the side.

However, the beautiful long dress worn by M294 in the game takes on a completely different flavor when worn by this character.

A burly man dressed in an M294COS outfit roared and brandished a machine gun.

"Rat-a-tat ...

The roar of the heavy machine gun was transmitted to the ears of audiences around the world through the microphone, and the whip of fire made of tracer bullets struck the target in the distance with precision, tearing a half-body target to pieces.

The atmosphere in the live stream room went completely crazy.

"Hahahaha! Where did this hunk come from?!"

"A hardcore American gamer!"

"I declare that this is the strongest character in 'Final Battlefront'!"

But that wasn't the end of it. Just when everyone thought the heavy machine gun scene was the climax, the live stream camera suddenly zoomed out.

On the other side of the firing range, three M4 Sherman tanks, which seemed to have been towed from somewhere, slowly drove into the frame with a deep rumble.

The turret rotated, its dark muzzle aimed at a specially made, enormous AI BOSS model in the distance.

In the live stream, a bolded English subtitle appeared.

【This is how American hardcore players do it.】

(This is how hardcore American gamers play.)
next second.

"boom--!!!"

The deafening roar of the cannonball seemed to vibrate your eardrums even through the screen. The whistling shell traced a clear parabola through the air, striking the android BOSS model precisely in the chest.

The violent explosion kicked up a cloud of dust, and flames and thick smoke shot into the sky.

After a three-second silence, the entire live stream was flooded with a single sentence.

"Kneel down."

"When it comes to handling guns, I'm fucking an American."

(End of this chapter)