Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 43 Diffusion
There's a saying that time is the best fermenter.
For "Final Front," the fermentation process was more intense than anyone imagined.

As the second day arrived, the popularity of "Final Battlefront" began to spread even further, and the extent of this spread was greater than expected.

On the one hand, Final Frontier already has a huge player base.

On the other hand, compared to other anime-style games from the previous era, Final Frontline has a very special advantage.

That is, it also has quite a few streamer players.

Many streamers don't even play anime games; the reason they stream "Final Battlefront" is simply because the auto-chess genre became popular, so everyone jumped on the bandwagon and started streaming it.

Players of League of Legends, Dungeon Fighter Online, and even Fantasy Westward Journey...
When the auto chess game "Final Front" was first released, many streamers joined in the fun.

Although, barring any unforeseen circumstances.

Once Tencent, NetEase, and other major companies release their own auto chess games, these streamers will likely return to their comfort zones.

This is something that will almost certainly happen.

For example, the reason why League of Legends streamers are now streaming Auto Chess: Final Frontier is because Tencent allowed them to stream it.

The goal is to attract some users of the Final Frontline auto chess game.

Once the auto-chess mode of League of Legends is released, the conversion can be done directly.

In its previous life, Auto Chess was the source of traffic that was diverted in this way.

However, in this timeline, other auto chess games haven't been copied yet, and then the main storyline of "Final Battlefront" is updated.

Many bloggers who originally only played Auto Chess either wanted to play it themselves or their viewers wanted to watch it.

Most of the time, the main storyline of "Final Battlefront" was broadcast.

Even though Tencent realized what was happening that evening and banned its own game's streamers from playing "Final Frontline," the effects had already been felt during the day.

This resulted in "Final Battlefront" reaching a wide audience from the very beginning, and as these users began to express their emotions online, the reach expanded further.

of course.

The reason why the topic of "Final Battlefront" has spread so widely is...

Besides the game's storyline itself, there are also several animated sequences within the game, such as the opening animation of the space elevator defense battle. Although in terms of special effects, this animation is nowhere near as good as the special effects of the previous "The Wandering Earth".

On the other hand, the unique texture brought by animation itself is something that movie special effects cannot provide.

In addition, the game's plot itself is full of suspense.

Chu Chen's handling of the game's storyline was also very clever.

At first glance, the main storyline of version 1.0 seems very clear, but in fact, much of the background in this story is not explained.

The reason players can read on so smoothly is that over the years, numerous science fiction films and novels have treated certain basic settings as "common sense."

Just like zombie movies don't need to start by telling the origin story of zombies, they can just show a person standing up in a wobbly way, and people will know what's going on.

Oh, this is a zombie movie.

It is precisely because of these "stereotypes" about science fiction games that players can easily immerse themselves in the story of "Final Front" even without any world-building.

But at the same time.

There are also a lot of hooks in the game.

For example, what are lunar rings? What exactly is electromagnetic silence? What are omnics? What is a space elevator? What exactly is happening in this world?
As such.

In fact, many things in the main storyline of this first chapter have not yet been revealed. And these unrevealed things have become the best breeding ground for players to discuss.

This is similar to how Schrödinger has many formulas, but people can only remember Schrödinger's cat.

If the suspense in a game is so suspenseful that most viewers cannot understand it at all, even if the suspense chain is set up very cleverly.

It still failed to generate any buzz.

Because the barrier to entry is too high, no one discusses it at all.

However, in "Final Frontline," the situation is completely reversed. Anyone who has played the game can offer their own insights into the aforementioned issues.

This well-balanced level of "difficulty in discussion" is largely a contributing factor to the further spread of discussions about the plot of "Final Front".

On the very night the game launched, video bloggers were already analyzing what the first chapter was all about.

Even the smallest details can spark discussions among different people.

For example, the game's gacha animation features the word "re-armed," and the game also mentions that the weapons equipped by the dolls are all modified versions.

Why use these "antique" level weapons?
For example, if players know that the protagonist won because he defeated the Omnic Commander, then the Omnic 1+N command method raises another question.

In other words, can the player, as a human commander, "outmaneuver" the enemy's AI commander?

Don't doubt it, players' imaginations are truly boundless. The origin of this idea is simply the name "Tianli" (天理), which sounds rather suggestive.

On Baidu Tieba, a post titled "Don't you guys think the name 'Tenri' is lewd?" has already received hundreds of replies in just one day.
In this post, someone even drew a personification of "natural law".

On Pixiv, some people have even started announcing that they will draw fan art of "Commander X Tenri".
In addition, some bloggers have singled out the lunar ring, saying that this space elevator may very well be the means of transportation for humans to reach the lunar ring.

The reason why humanity can still resist machines is that...

The reason is that humans also possess a lunar ring. According to the commander, the lunar ring is visible to the naked eye, indicating that it is actually quite large. It should be a ring-shaped artificial settlement surrounding the moon.

Aside from discussing the setting.

There were also a lot of people talking about the plot.

It's no exaggeration to say that this whole host of debatable issues underpinned the positive reception of "Final Front".

People tend to follow the crowd. When a topic repeatedly appears in their field of vision, and they don't understand it at all, they will go to Baidu or try to find out what it is.

Not to mention, at this time, the number of views for the first chapter's cutscene of "Final Battlefront" had already reached number one on Bilibili.

A combination of factors.

The final result was that the number of players did not decrease by half as often as traditional games do at launch, even on the second day after the story update for "Final Front".

On the contrary, it continues to increase.

There is increasing discussion about "Final Battlefront" on the internet.

Of the top ten videos on Bilibili, three are related to "Final Battlefront," two are official PVs, and one is a cover of the theme song by a famous singer.

Below the comments section of these videos, there are also many discussion threads.

Given the current level of discussion.

Everyone knows that the star formation is now truly complete.

Faced with this undeniable fact, it's natural that some are happy while others are sad. The happiest are Starry Night Games, while the saddest are...
It's actually quite easy to guess.

(End of this chapter)