Game development begins with destroying Girls' Frontline.

Xu Dengke, beaming, quickly finished the dinner his wife had prepared.

He rushed to his study, turned on his computer, and began searching for information about Xinghuo.

He had been following Xinghuo for some time.

But overall, I didn't look at it that carefully.

I read it carefully today.

I have only one feeling in my heart!

Damn, how can someone be so rich!

When I meet with General Manager Lin, I should ask for more funding!

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Time flies.

Especially in December.

Almost in the blink of an eye, it's the end of the month.

Lin Li's plans for Xinghuo next year are still ongoing.

During this period, his office desk was almost entirely covered with documents.

The project proposal submitted by the core creative team of Spark, the marketing plan for Spark's new game "Mobile Suit Girl" which will be launched at the beginning of next year, the event plan for the Spark Game Competition award ceremony, and the final draft of Spark's New Year's Eve celebration.

Although most of these documents only require Lin Li to make decisions.

However, even when piled up together, the workload is not small.

In order to have time to do his own things, Lin Li has been going back to his office after lunch these past two days, resting while flipping through documents.

But today seems a little different.

Lin Li picked up a cup of green tea.

I had just sat down and hadn't even flipped through a few pages of the document when Su Shanshan walked in with an angry look on her face.

It was lunchtime.

With no one else in the large office, Lin Li felt relatively relaxed.

"What's wrong? Who made my little fairy angry again?"

Su Shanshan rolled her eyes at Lin Li.

The phone was handed to me.

"See for yourself."

Lin Li took it and saw that it was a news article.

AAA titles are the foundation of a platform's success; Epic Games fires the first shot in the next generation of AAA exclusives.

"It's just a promotional article for EPIC, what's there to be angry about?"

"Look down."

Lin Li then looked down again.

Below this news article, there is another article.

EPIC executive responds to reporters: If EPIC, which owns Fallout 76, isn't a next-generation gaming platform, then who is? Is it just a collection of browser-based games?

The popularity of the Spark platform during this period has been evident to players worldwide.

Starting with Heroes of Might and Magic III Remastered.

The influence of the Spark platform in the overseas gaming community is growing day by day.

It's not surprising that competitors would chime in with a few words at this point.

However, Lin Li's first reaction upon seeing this news was a mixture of anger and amusement.

"What is this? Are elementary school students arguing?"

"It's not that simple."

Su Shanshan sat down next to Lin Li, controlled his computer, moved the mouse, and skillfully opened the Tieba forum, entering the Xinghuo Uncle forum.

Lin Li couldn't hold back any longer and pointed to the name of the forum.

"No, you're still looking at this?"

This "Xinghuo Uncle" forum was originally created by the moderator of the Xinghuo forum.

The reason is that in the Xinghuo Tieba forum, a large number of genuine and fake "Xinghuo insider" parties keep posting so-called guaranteed authentic information, and some people are also reposting insider information from other forums.

There are far too many posts that exploit the desire of Spark players to get freebies and generate traffic.

So the moderator of Xinghuo Bar simply created a Xinghuo Uncle Bar.

As it has evolved, this forum has become increasingly bizarre, filled with all sorts of outrageous and not-so-outrageous news, both domestic and international, as well as gossip about various games...

Some of the posts were very well edited.

So sometimes the traffic is even higher than that of Xinghuo Bar.

After all, if the purpose of discussing Spark's games is to discuss Spark's games, one can do so on Spark's platform forums, Bilibili, and other channels.

But if it's just for gossip, for all sorts of true and false rumors...

Then it has to be this uncle.

Lin Li probably knows about this too, and occasionally uses it as a way to understand what players are thinking.

But I haven't seen many.

On the contrary, Su Shanshan seemed very familiar with this forum.

"Oh dear, now is not the time to talk about this. You should read this post first."

Su Shanshan clicked on a popular post on Baidu Tieba.

Lin Li wasn't particularly interested.

But with Su Shanshan so enthusiastic, it wasn't good to spoil her fun.

I took it as a break from work and spent some time looking at it.

This post revolves around the news article that just came up, namely the one in which an EPIC executive responded to and mocked Spark.

Lin Li initially viewed this news as a sarcastic remark from a competitor.

But in this post.

However, all of this was written into a spy drama.

First, this "Uncle Spark" analyzed why EPIC would say that.

There is a premise to saying this.

Just recently, some overseas media outlets, perhaps because it's the end of the year, reported...

We've started doing year-end reviews.

By comparing EPIC, Spark, and Steam, the conclusion was drawn that EPIC was not very successful, despite being backed by the Unreal Engine, it did not achieve much in 2018.

It truly doesn't live up to its title as a next-generation gaming platform.

On the surface.

This executive was responding to these reports and dissing Spark.

but.

However, this poster discovered a shocking piece of gossip through a series of clues.

"All of this was just a publicity stunt orchestrated by EPIC itself."

To demonstrate this point.

The original poster provided a lot of evidence and analysis.

Even those media outlets that mocked EPIC all published their articles at almost the same time, indicating that they were scheduled to release them.

And some media outlets that published articles saying EPIC was unqualified were still praising EPIC just a day or two ago.

Don't tell me.

These kinds of posts, which unravel the mystery and reveal the truth, are really engaging to read.

Chapter 117 Backstabbing Is Everywhere

The fact that the post went viral actually had little to do with its content.

I'm just here to watch the author's meticulous reasoning process.

"That's interesting. Why does this kind of meticulous, step-by-step analysis attract so many viewers?"

"If we want to make puzzle games or exploration games in the future, we can take inspiration from this approach."

"By having the protagonist meticulously unravel a single matter, the character's intelligence is developed..."

When Lin Li said this, Su Shanshan next to him didn't know how to respond.

No, I'm showing you this to tell you that EPIC is making a strong push. In the overseas platform arena, EPIC is clearly trying to ride the wave of opportunity.

Why are you still thinking about games?

Although Lin Li didn't hear Su Shanshan speak, he could roughly tell what she was worried about from her eyes.

So Lin Li patted her on the shoulder.

"There's nothing to worry about. What effect can EPIC's level of slander have?"

"But we don't currently have any new AAA games like Fallout 76 joining the platform..."

Lin Li's expression was initially very serious.

When I heard about Radiation 76, I don't know why, I suddenly felt like laughing.

"I'm talking to you about serious business, what are you laughing at?"

"No, I just thought of something funny. Okay, even if EPIC really did it on purpose, it has nothing to do with us. Let's just do our own thing."

Lin Li defined the nature of the matter, then patted Su Shanshan's bottom, indicating that today's gossip time was over and he should get back to work.

It stands to reason.

That's the end of the matter.

However, to everyone's surprise...

That very evening, Lin Li had just finished doing what he needed to do at home and taken a shower.

Lost in a state of post-coital bliss, Su Shanshan lay on the beanbag chair intending to play some PSV when she suddenly jumped up from the bed and sat directly on Lin Li.

Lin Li thought the battle was about to continue, so he placed one hand on Su Shanshan's long, slender, white legs.

Su Shanshan, however, shoved the phone screen towards her.

"That person was right! EPIC really orchestrated this whole thing!!"

Lin Li then shifted his gaze from the snow-white skin in front of him to the screen.

That was a news item on Twitter.

Eating melons is truly human nature.

It's late at night, and I just finished exercising.

Su Shanshan even had the mind to search for related information on Twitter.

Lin Li felt a little speechless while carefully reading the news.

Believe it or not, it really is the story that was reported.

A former EPIC operations employee, seemingly triggered by something, suddenly posted a picture of his employee badge on his social media account, claiming that EPIC was engaging in a "victim-driven propaganda campaign."

It was a complete self-directed and self-acted marketing farce.

First, hire some online trolls to attack EPIC, then EPIC's head, Eric Nathan, will come out.