Honkai Impact 3rd: Join Anti-Entropy at the start and dominate the entertainment industry.

Upon seeing the animation, Sirin's eyes lit up.

This animation is really well done. It's a waste to use this level of skill in making games; it would be better to make animation.

However, the scene quickly changed, and without even an initial screen, she was immediately taken into the contestant's level. A series of noisy cries rang out, and as the screen moved, Sirin realized that it seemed to be those little red birds chirping, looking impatient.

"This game even has voice acting? Although the voice acting consists of strange noises, I have no idea how it was produced."

Celine muttered to herself as she went through the tutorial and quickly became familiar with the game's controls.

Like Bronya, she quickly discovered the differences in this game.

"It looks like a slingshot game, but it involves a lot of geometric and physical principles, especially the direction of the collapsing buildings and the consequences of the collisions. It's quite realistic."

"Wow, this game seems pretty good!"

Xilin perked up, and her previously lazy demeanor instantly became serious.

The viewers in the live chat also noticed something was wrong.

[Wasn't this supposed to be a terrible game? Why do the graphics look so polished?]

Is this really a game? It looks more like an animation.

[Indeed, the art style leans towards animation, but that pig's head is really quite cute, it's over the top.]

Why are you everywhere? Can you please stop trying to overtake everything you see?

To be honest, this animation is much better than many other animated films on the market. Could the creator have originally worked in animation?

[And the gameplay is quite novel; you actually use birds as projectiles to shoot pigs' heads, and you even have to figure out parabolic trajectories and building collapse methods.]

What should I do? I kind of want to play now.

[Isn't it said that whoever plays this game is an idiot?]

[Really? I don't remember.]

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Chapter 35 Penguin Run

As Celine played, she gradually became engrossed in the game. She stared intently at the screen, moving the mouse to pull the slingshot and launching one bird after another.

Various types of birds, such as "Red," "Calamus," and "Bomb," take turns appearing, each with different characteristics and voice acting that are refreshing to watch.

Players accustomed to "parkour" and "adventure" games had never seen such a novel gameplay before and were immediately stunned.

This game is so much fun!

Slingshotting pigs? This reminds me of shooting birds with a slingshot when I was a kid. I used to be the best shooter in our village, known as Little Uzi!

You were shooting birds, now the tables have turned, and the birds are taking revenge by shooting at the pig's head.

I suspect you're swearing, but I have no proof.

Xilin was having a blast playing. She laughed and said, "This game is really creative, and it requires a bit of brainpower. But seeing those collapsed buildings is strangely relaxing. I have to say, if I were to give it a perfect score of ten, I'd give it eight. It would be great if there were more ways to expand the gameplay, since the basic levels are too easy."

As a professional gamer, Sirin's evaluation was quite sharp; she didn't overpraise, but her assessment was still very high.

However, the comments section clearly didn't buy it.

Here we go again, the streamer's getting cocky!

[Author, did you see that? Miss Pufferfish actually looks down on the difficulty of your game, shouldn't we give her a taste of her own medicine?]

The last time I said this was before the final boss of the Great Adventure of Houmu. What happened in the end? I think Miss Pufferfish got beaten up and cried?

[Can Miss Pufferfish's arrogance be called arrogance? That's called confidence!]

Seeing the comments, Xilin was so angry she almost twisted her mouth in disbelief.

"Fine, you dare to look down on me! I'll give you a score! One night! I'm going to beat this game in one night! And I'll get three stars on every single level!"

The chat immediately erupted with dissenting voices. Xilin gritted her teeth and said directly, "If I can't beat this game tonight, I'll donate 10,000 yuan to it! And I'll put this game's banner on my stream for a week!"

Ten thousand is the maximum amount that can be tipped. To prevent fraudulent transactions, each person can only tip a maximum of ten thousand.

[Holy crap? Is this streamer serious?]

I've already bought the game and it's downloading now.

[I've already started playing! I play whichever level the streamer plays, hehe, I'm just copying their strategy!]

Holy crap, there's such a method? No need to say anything more, I'm going to order one right now!

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While Xilin was leading a group of people to angrily beat up Pighead in the live broadcast room, the lights were on in a company building called Penguin Games.

Tencent Games has a prevalent "996" work culture, with extremely serious overtime work, even encouraging employees to bring tents and sleep at the company, euphemistically called "wolf mentality".

If it weren't for the high salaries, everyone in this company would have left long ago.

However, although Tencent Games is a well-known company in the gaming industry, it doesn't actually own many games. Most of its games are either licensed from other companies or are based on popular games on the market.

However, because he entered the gaming industry relatively early and distributed several popular online games, he won over many gamers and thus thrived in the gaming industry.

At this moment, the marketing department of Penguin Games is working overtime to promote their latest game, "Penguin Run".

Penguin Run, as the name suggests, is a parkour game. Like the recently popular Houmu Run, it is a side-scrolling parkour game. However, the player controls a penguin of a different appearance, and the map is slightly modified before it is released as a new game.

Most game companies require two departments to collaborate in developing a game: the development department and the publishing department.

The development department is naturally responsible for making games, such as programming, modeling, and drawing concept art, while the publishing department is responsible for promoting a game. For example, the promotional terms such as "one hit for 999", "all equipment can be recycled", and "hidden recharge for one yuan" are all come up by these guys.

Of course, the publishing department is not just responsible for game promotion; they are also responsible for a series of complicated processes such as game testing, player feedback, and post-launch operations.

Lao Ma was one of the main people in charge of the publishing department and also the person in charge of "Penguin Run". It was he who took the initiative to propose to copy and learn from "Houmu Run" to make a similar competing game.

With the game's release imminent, he is personally overseeing the final steps at the company to prevent any unforeseen circumstances.

At this moment, Lao Ma was comfortably sitting on the sofa in his office, teaching his young and beautiful secretary how to play the PUBG game.

Oh, the battle royale game here isn't the one from the original world, but an offline two-player interactive game that's very fun and everyone loves to play.

Just as the two finished warming up and were preparing to enter the next stage of the game, there was a sudden, urgent knocking on the door.

Old Ma was so startled that he almost shrank back, while the female secretary knew that she couldn't let others know that her boss was playing games at work, so she quickly tidied everything up and sat upright next to him, looking like a diligent worker.

Old Ma, his face dark with annoyance, said, "Who is it? Come in!"

Hearing the noise, a middle-aged man pushed open the door and entered. Seeing his boss's dark face, he immediately thought to himself that he might have ruined his boss's plans and might be retaliated against in the future.

However, the situation was urgent, and he didn't have time to explain. He quickly placed a set of data on the table.

"Minister Ma, I've discovered an anomaly in the data on the Steam platform! This could potentially affect the release of our new game!"

Upon hearing this, Old Ma immediately perked up and straightened up, ignoring the discomfort in certain areas.

"What's abnormal?"

He was the one who proposed "Penguin Run," and the company put a lot of effort into the game, spending a considerable amount of money. Of course, the game production itself didn't cost much, since copying code doesn't really cost much, cough cough. But the advertising cost a lot. Inserting small ads into various platforms, startup animations, and pop-up interfaces was quite expensive.

Old Ma is also looking forward to the game's release, hoping it will enhance his resume and help him advance further in the company. However, if the release goes wrong and the game flops, he'll be devastated.

The middle-aged man said with a bitter face, "A small game suddenly appeared on the Steam platform's new game bestseller list, and in just two hours, it actually jumped into the top ten!"

Chapter 36 The Angry Old Horse

The top-grossing chart and the download chart are the two most important charts on the Steam platform, and they are divided into two tracks: new games and old games, making them highly valuable.

However, the top-selling charts require money, and players aren't stupid; they won't be foolish enough to buy games that aren't fun.

Therefore, the best-selling chart is more valuable, since download numbers can be inflated, but best-selling numbers are much harder to fake.

Within just two hours of its release, Angry Birds sold 20,000 copies at a price of 6 yuan.

Originally, 20,000 copies sold wasn't actually that high, but what was terrifying was the speed at which its downloads skyrocketed. For most new games, unless they have a fan base or are promoted in advance, selling a hundred or two copies on the first day is considered high.

The 20,000 copies sold in those two hours made Angry Birds a standout performer on the new game bestseller list.

Old Ma is capable, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to climb to the position of head of the publishing department at Tencent. When he saw the data in front of him, he immediately felt that something was wrong.

"Minister, won't this affect the release of our game?" the middle-aged subordinate asked in a trembling voice.

Old Ma frowned and looked at it for a while before saying, "Don't worry too much. Although this game's data is soaring very quickly, it is, after all, a game made by an indie game developer. Without a sufficient fan base, it won't become a big hit. Once our game is launched, we will definitely be able to steal its popularity and crush it under our feet. After all, how could a small game be our opponent?"

Old Ma is very confident in his game. He has done so much pre-release promotion and has been following up closely. Many Penguin Games players have also expressed high expectations for the new game. It is conceivable that once their game is launched, it will be incredibly popular. At that time, who will still pay attention to Angry Birds?

This is the confidence of large companies. Because they have a huge player base, they don't have to worry about their new games failing miserably upon release. What can really cause their games to fail is the later operation and the brilliant planning.

Sometimes when Lao Ma sees his own game shut down, he wonders if there are spies from other companies planted among his planners.

Otherwise, how could a normal person be so overpowered? Spending all day thinking about how to kill the game?

That said, Lao Ma was quite surprised by this game called "Angry Birds" because he found that apart from the login screen introduction, there was almost no other information or advertisements.

In other words, this game was released completely unpromoted! There was absolutely no advertising or promotion whatsoever!

This is too perverted!

As the head of the marketing department, Lao Ma naturally knows the importance of promotion for a game. It's no exaggeration to say that if a game is released without any promotion, most games will only fail miserably!

After all, the aroma of wine is also afraid of deep alleys.

He keenly sensed that this game might cause a huge upheaval in the industry!

This version of Angry Birds has the potential to create a gaming legend in the industry!

Knowing yourself and your enemy is the key to victory in every battle. Old Ma immediately logged into his account, bought the game, and started playing it on his computer.

This time, they're really playing a game.

As he played, Old Ma became increasingly surprised.

The gameplay, graphics, controls, and other aspects of this game are all very interesting. While it may not be a blockbuster game on the market, it's not far off, and it also has the advantage of being novel.

The gameplay of "Penguin Run," which they copied and adapted, is almost identical to that of "Houmu Run," with no innovation whatsoever. While it might attract players with some launch benefits at the beginning, it will suffer a serious loss of players over time.

Of course, the most crucial thing now is the server launch. Although Lao Ma says he's not afraid, he's still a little apprehensive.

After all, the game sold so well in just two hours. If it were given enough time to promote, it might actually affect the release of "Penguin Run".

Old Ma's subordinate clearly thought the same thing, and said worriedly, "Minister, how about we postpone the release?"

Old Ma's face immediately darkened. Delayed release?