Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 578 Everyone has their own agenda
In addition, there are Red Alert mobile game, Heroes of Might and Magic mobile game, Dungeon Keeper 2 mobile game, and even Gods Must Be Crazy 2 mobile game.
These scraps that Tencent collected from various places after the Star Reset Game Festival were also brought out, especially Dungeon Keeper and God is Crazy.

When Tencent finally found a copyright holder for these two games from the Bullfrog era, they learned that StarCraft had actually bought out the copyright.

After much negotiation and roundabout methods, Tencent finally obtained the licenses for the sequels to these two IPs through a roundabout approach.
But in any case, turning these classic IPs into mobile games is indeed a winning strategy.

In addition, Tencent has supported the acquisition of new works from some small and medium-sized game developers in the past two years, and after negotiating with Capcom for a long time, it was finally able to release the new PV of Monster Hunter: World at Tencent's pre-show press conference through its financial power.

These are all things that Zhao Ming and Leng Zefeng did.

To be fair, in this era of intense competition within the gaming industry, among a large number of traditional game companies, only Tencent and NetEase are considered to be among the manufacturers that have joined the fray.

Without StarCraft, if this lineup had been released in the previous life, regardless of its impact overseas, it would have been absolutely acceptable domestically.

In this timeline, for this lineup to be effective, it would require a significant amount of resources to generate public opinion.

But at this very moment, the higher-ups started playing the "horse race" mechanism again.

"We will fully leverage the platform advantages of our international partners to realize the strategic overseas expansion of my country's game industry."

That's a very nice thing to say.

In reality? It's just that they saw that StarCraft was too powerful and felt that their own people couldn't beat them, so they dragged EPIC into the fight as well.

For Tencent's top management, this is a sure-fire deal. If EPIC wins, Tencent, as EPIC's major shareholder, will naturally reap huge profits and also be able to suppress StarCraft.

If Zhao Ming's XGAME manages to break through the encirclement, that would be an even greater surprise.

But is this a good thing for Tencent Games, for Leng Zefeng, and for Zhao Ming? Obviously not. Even children compete for attention, let alone in this situation where they are competing for real money resources.

That's why I said that earlier.

So, if Zhao Ming had no information from the beginning and didn't intend to share information with Davis, what was he doing here?

answer..
To gather intelligence on the military.

Yes, regardless of Tencent's top management strategy, EPIC is by no means an ally in their eyes.

“Substantial stuff? Davis, you underestimate Chu Chen and overestimate me. If I could get his cards out of him in just over an hour, Starry Sky Games wouldn’t be where it is today.”

Zhao Ming's words made Davis frown. He desperately needed more information, not this kind of empty talk.

Zhao Ming also noticed Davis's impatience, leaned forward slightly, and lowered his voice: "However, the more he acts like this, the more I feel that he has a big move up his sleeve."

"Although he didn't say anything when we were talking about other things, his expression when we talked about the E3 pre-show press conference... well, it was quite interesting."

"E3 pre-show press conference?"

Davis repeated a sentence.

The so-called E3 pre-show press conference is actually part of the E3 show itself.

It's somewhat similar to Gamescom's Game Night, but also different in that E3 isn't like Gamescom or Tokyo Game Show, which are events geared towards gamers.

Essentially, E3 is an exhibition aimed at "game industry professionals and media".

There are fewer than 2 admission tickets available to players each day.

However, manufacturers spend so much money to participate in E3, investing manpower and building exhibition halls, so it's clear they're not really there for exchange. Everyone talks about exchange, though.

They're all here to promote themselves.

Therefore, before the official exhibition, larger manufacturers will hold their own E3 pre-show press conferences to reach a wider audience of gamers and promote the demos they will be showcasing at E3.

In other words, you can organize this E3 pre-show press conference yourself as long as you attend E3; you don't need an application from the E3 organizers.

Normally, it's only major companies like Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Ubisoft, and EA that hold these pre-show press conferences.

This year, however, suddenly there are EPIC, STEAM, Spark, and even WEGAME.
Regardless of whether you're just filling in the numbers or not.

Anyway, we've secured the position.

As an aside, it's precisely because the E3 pre-show press conference has become increasingly effective as an online event that Sony stopped participating in E3 starting in 19.

Then, with the rise of face masks, E3 completely collapsed and was eventually replaced by the Summer Game Fest, which evolved from the pre-show press conferences.

"Yes, StarCraft will definitely have something big planned for their E3 pre-show press conference."

In fact, Zhao Ming's words were half nonsense, but Davis still fell into thought. Many times, the key to intelligence is not whether you know it or not, but whether you dare to believe it.

This year, there are too many pre-show press conferences. Starting with Microsoft's press conference tomorrow, there will be a total of 9 pre-show press conferences over three days.

Specifically, it starts tomorrow, May 11th, with the Microsoft press conference at 10 AM, followed by Square Enix (SE) at 3 PM, and then Ubisoft's press conference at 7 PM.

5月12日上午10点的索尼，下午3点的星辰，晚上7点的任天堂。

5月13日上午10点的Steam，下午3点的EPIC，晚上7点的WEGAME。

If you look closely, it's not hard to see that, compared to the other three platforms, StarCraft is sandwiched between the second day, Sony, and Nintendo.

When the time was first announced, Davis didn't think it was a good position. He even mocked Star, thinking they were too bold.

That's incredibly bold; those are Sony and Nintendo!
But just before the launch, Davis felt that StarCraft was deliberately released the day before the three platforms. The other party might not be competing with Sony and Nintendo, but rather trying to pressure the platforms.

"Putting the press conference between Sony and Nintendo is like choking on your own words."

"He's not crazy, he's just gambling."

Davis leaned back on the sofa, trying to appear more relaxed.

"Gamblers at the poker table always like to bluff. They think that by pushing out all their chips, they can intimidate their opponents."

"And what about your cards, Davis?" Zhao Ming followed up. "We can't just stand by and watch him put on a show at the poker table, can we?"

Davis was silent for a moment after hearing this, then smiled.

"Zhao, your eyes are only focused on the stars, but you haven't noticed that some pieces are missing from the chessboard."

Zhao Ming's heart skipped a beat, but his face remained expressionless. "What do you mean?"

(End of this chapter)