Game development begins with destroying Girls' Frontline.

A loud bang echoed in the coffee shop.

Yu Zhong's coffee cup fell onto the table, spilling coffee everywhere.

Chapter 75 Appearing on CCTV?

Yu Zhong suffered repeated setbacks in Japan, cursing Spark Games and angrily denouncing the local Japanese operators for being impolite and not recognizing the value of good products.

And the other side.

Lin Li, however, was preparing to receive several special guests.

With the continued popularity of Girls Frontline 1.2.

In mid-July, representatives from CCTV.com came to visit.

Although most people, including Lin Li himself, have a very faint impression of the name CCTV.

I probably only pay attention to CCTV during the Spring Festival Gala a few days a year, mainly to see what kind of awkward things they did.

Normally, I don't pay much attention to media outlets like CCTV.

Although people don't usually pay much attention to it, it's popular in real life and even online.

Once a company or individual appears on CCTV, it can instantly attract everyone's attention.

therefore.

When the receptionist at Xinghuo Games received a call saying that a CCTV reporter would be coming to interview them the next day.

The receptionist didn't even hear clearly that it was CCTV.com and not CCTV.

He immediately jumped three zhang high and shouted loudly like the wind.

"Boss!! CCTV wants to interview you!!!"

Then, just ten minutes later...

After confirming the authenticity of the message.

The entire network of employees at Spark Games, as well as their families, knew that Lin Li was going to be interviewed by CCTV.

"Hey, you know, our company's boss is really awesome. He's going to be on CCTV, yes, that CCTV."

"Hey, what's so great about me? I'm just a little bit awesome."

"That's right, the treatment is quite good, after all, it's a company that even CCTV comes to interview."

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"Mom, don't worry, I'm doing fine. You don't know, but CCTV is coming to interview us tomorrow, and you'll see it on TV."

"Let me tell you, I heard that Dong Qing is coming!!"

"What Dong Qing? You didn't listen carefully. It's CCTV.com, not CCTV."

"Hey, who cares about that? It's CCTV anyway."

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That afternoon, the entire company was basically in a state of inexplicable excitement and high energy.

In addition to normal office work

Some people are tidying up their desks, others are thinking about what to say during interviews, and still others are preparing what to put on their computer desktops for interviews the next day. They're doing all sorts of things.

Even Grus and Borg from Iceland surprisingly took leave in advance, saying they were going to groom their beards.

...

Lin Li was quite decisive.

Seeing their excited faces and lack of focus on work, I simply held a large meeting, gathered everyone together, did a thorough cleaning, and then gave them a holiday.

Actually, doing thorough cleaning doesn't have to be as easy as going to work.

But almost everyone was in high spirits, and they cleaned every nook and cranny thoroughly.

If Lin Li hadn't stopped him...

They even planned to take down the large curtains on the French windows and wash them.

As everyone was leaving after the cleaning was finished, they were still discussing the upcoming CCTV visit.

The girls were discussing what to wear, while the boys were thinking about what expression to make in front of the camera tomorrow.

At this point, Lin Li could only sigh.

Honor can really be a buff.

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The next day, when the CCTV.com interview team arrived at the company, they found a neat, clean, and well-organized Xinghuo Games office with everyone full of energy.

Anyone who didn't know better would think they'd visited a high-tech company.

I saw on CCTV.com that they first took photos everywhere, and then recorded several videos.

The employees of Spark Games were even more focused and dedicated.

This made Lin Li, who wasn't particularly nervous before, a little nervous.

This is CCTV.com, after all.

It's normal to be nervous the first time.

Fortunately, the show's director had given Lin Li advance notice yesterday.

They came to write a feature article about Chinese game companies going global.

The report will interview three companies in total.

One is ELEX Games, a company that has been ruthlessly exploiting overseas markets with its Clash of Kings game.

Another company is IGG Games, one of the earliest publishers to go global, which established itself with browser games. By 2011, it already had more than 2000 million registered users worldwide.

Finally, there's the Spark Game.

It's clear that CCTV put in a lot of effort.

Of the three companies, one made a lot of money, another went overseas early, and Spark Games was selected mainly because of its high profile.

On one hand, the animation of the space elevator from Spark Games recently topped the trending charts on NCNC in Japan and YouTube in the United States, and even appeared in BBC news.

Although the BBC made a blunder in the news, mistakenly taking the animation as China's future space program.

But it was precisely this blunder that gave CCTV.com a gimmick to use as a starting point.

Furthermore, a month after the Japanese server of Girls Frontline launched, it successfully climbed to the top of the Japanese mobile game charts with the help of version 1.2.

So superimposed.

The CCTV news team selected Xinghuo Games.

Coincidentally, the Chinese government had a strategy to support Chinese games going global back in 16.

Therefore, the quality of this special report is not too bad. In addition to the news, interview videos will also be updated on the website.

Talk about it.

Lin Li was quite lucky, as he benefited from the early launch of the server.

This is the eve of a surge of domestically produced anime-style mobile games going global.

If this topic is reported a year or two later...

Spark Games has become the top-grossing game on the Japanese server, but probably nobody cares.

After all, back then, when Chinese anime-style mobile games launched their Japanese servers, they could all try to reach the top spot.

Games like Genshin Impact and Honkai Impact 3rd don't even need to launch a new server; they can just open a gacha banner and they'll be at the top.

So it's no wonder miHoYo is drifting.

On this track, everyone else is truly disappointing.

Especially Japanese manufacturers.

A huge number of IPs are at hand.

Gundam, Evangelion, Naruto, Bleach, One Piece—in 2024, the only games that can truly compete with miHoYo are still a few old titles: Monster Strike and Fate/GO.

If it weren't for the later appearance of the racehorse girl who salvaged some of the image...

Just couldn't see it.

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Compared to previous interviews with gaming websites.

CCTV.com's interviews are much more professional now.

It was the same lounge.

But after CCTV.com made a series of moves, setting up several cameras there was quite intimidating.

What's even more interesting is that today's CCTV.com host is Wang Bingbing, a familiar face to Lin Li.

Although this acquaintance was someone Lin Li knew, she didn't know Lin Li.

However, with such a "familiar" beautiful female host interviewing him, Lin Li relaxed a bit.

She wasn't stage-frightened at all.

Following the pre-rehearsed script, they engaged in a question-and-answer session with the host.

The overall rhythm was quite brisk.

It just doesn't have much nutritional value.

But considering that it would eventually be posted on CCTV's website, Lin Li didn't think much of it.

Anyway, his goal is to get on CCTV.

What you say is not important.

The important thing is that this happened.

Perhaps because of this incident, Xinghuo Games will be able to weather the storm of game license approvals.

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After the formal interview was recorded.

Wang Bingbing changed her posture, adjusted the camera, and pointed the lens at Lin Li.

It seems they plan to record a few individual shots of Lin Li.

I saw the camera shooting towards me.

Lin Li was also a little confused: "What do you want me to say?"

Wang Bingbing said with a smile, "It's just something I said casually, it might not even be used, I'm just collecting material."

This is actually the free time that CCTV.com prepared for the interviewees to express themselves.

Since it's an interview, you can't just read the lines from the script.

If it's well said, it might be edited into the final cut.

There was no set topic; it was an open-ended interview.

Lin Li had rarely been interviewed before. After pausing for a few seconds, he slowly said:

"Although our theme this time is game overseas, whether it's going overseas or in the domestic market, the most important thing to establish a foothold is product quality and a sincere heart."

"Everyone says they want to make games with integrity, but it's actually very difficult to do that."

"Your investors will question you and ask why you're not increasing revenue."

"If you also waver, then adding this today will improve performance, adding that tomorrow will increase income. Before long, you will find that what you want to express in the game has been covered up by the numbers."

"It's not hard to succeed, the hard part is to keep succeeding."

"Products need to be constantly refined and perfected. If you, as the producer, slack off first, then your employees will naturally slack off as well."