Game development begins with destroying Girls' Frontline.

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The books on the bookshelf are quite numerous and I feel they are actually quite helpful to me.

During this period, Lin Li also completed the game script outline, which had previously entered the preliminary project approval stage and was tentatively titled "Black/White World".

To Lin Li's surprise, after staying for three days...

Surprisingly, it was Su Shanshan who was the first to feel bored.

“We played a little game together during the holidays before. Since we're pretty bored now, why don't we play another little game together?”

A long time ago.

Lin Li and Su Shanshan worked together on a product called...

The game "Drinking Simulator" was actually quite popular and still has many players who enjoy it, but it's relatively small in scale and has a very simple gameplay.

So after the game was popular for a while, it gradually faded from view.

Now it mainly appears in videos such as "must-play for new players on the Spark platform" or "free masterpiece on the Spark platform", or in the mouths of players.

Of course, Su Shanshan's suggestion wasn't because she thought the game was anything special, but because she really enjoyed the feeling of doing something together with Lin Li.

"It's good, but we don't have any tools at all. We only have one computer."

Lin Li didn't mind taking action.

After all, for him, developing a game is essentially no different from a Lego enthusiast building a house with Lego bricks.

To outsiders, game development may seem like a job, but Lin Li is one of the few eccentrics who can derive enjoyment from the work itself.

Just like those who enjoy building Lego.

However, although I don't mind, the current environment doesn't really allow for building Lego, or rather, there's no condition for making games.

There was only one computer in the entire villa, which Lin Li brought over himself.

It's not impossible to develop it if we really want to.

But for Lin Li, everything was daunting and hesitant. He wanted to draw a design sketch, but he had to use a mouse to draw it. It was like building a Lego set without the corresponding Lego bricks, which obviously wasn't as fun.

"How about we do a live stream? We can play games together. Isn't Galaxy Paradise Survival going to be released tomorrow? Let's play that together, okay?"

As a sequel to Paradise: Survival, Galaxy Paradise: Survival has never had a very strong presence.

Especially now that the base game of "Galaxy Paradise" has been released.

However, it's true that its presence isn't strong.

However, it cannot be said that Paradise Survival is unpopular. In fact, even now, the Paradise Discovery mod community is still the largest game mod community in the United States.

The mod creator's love for Paradise: Discovery is similar to that for The Elder Scrolls V.

Every now and then, a mod that you can't tell what game it is will pop up online. Many times, even players can only tell by the iconic speech bubble that appears above the character's head.

"Ah! This is actually a theme park exploration mod!?"

Furthermore, because mod creators can receive payment based on player deaths, Paradise Discovery has remained a paradise for Western players for several years.

Throughout the year, it can be found on the most played lists of the European and American servers of the Spark platform.

It's almost become a meme.

You say your game is very popular? Then let me ask you, has your game surpassed "Paradise Discovery" on the most-played charts?

Based on the popularity of Paradise Discovery, Paradise Survival has maintained a popularity in Western communities that many Chinese players find completely incomprehensible.

For example, there's also a promotional video for Paradise Survival.

The video might only get around two or three million views on Bilibili, but on YouTube, it can easily reach five or six million views.

Chapter 528 Survival in Paradise

Simply put, Paradise Survival is one of the few games from Spark Games that is more well-known overseas than in China.

Based on this relatively unique fact, the development team of Paradise Survival also placed greater emphasis on overseas distribution channels in their marketing plan.

As a result, overseas players actually knew that Paradise Survival was going to be released a long time ago, while domestic players had to rely on reposts and clips from overseas bloggers to learn a lot of information.

Of course, this is also part of the production team's marketing strategy. They hope that overseas marketing can have a positive impact on domestic marketing.

If the game is a huge success overseas, it will naturally attract domestic gamers to the game.

However, this promotional strategy was being implemented.

A black swan event has occurred.

No one expected that at this juncture, a new trend of game releases would suddenly emerge.

Paradise Survival also capitalized on this point, and was ultimately scheduled for release on the third day of the Lunar New Year.

Firstly, there is indeed a free period in this release window. Last year's "The Wandering Earth: Home" was also released in this period, and "The Wandering Earth: Home" was very successful.

Secondly, the current environment is perfect for launching a new game; it's a perfect storm of favorable timing, location, and people.

The forced stay-at-home orders, while causing many inconveniences, also created a brief boom period for online entertainment.

Not only is the number of online users on the Spark platform breaking yesterday's record every day, but platforms like Douyin and even Tencent's WEGAME are also entering a period of data growth.

After three days of free promotion, Fall Guys' sales on the first day exceeded 600 million, once again proving the power of this market opportunity.

Penguin, in a panic, seized upon the detail of Fall Guys' one-time sale and paid subscription model, and launched two new games in quick succession.

And almost immediately, in existing games such as Honor of Kings and Penguin Racing, a "competitive" battle royale mode was announced.

In particular, Honor of Kings doesn't even bother to put on a show.

The promotional video directly copied the gameplay of Spark's "Fall Guys: The Holy Grail War".

It is said that employees of a large number of game studios, including Tencent's Honor of Kings, were enjoying the Spring Festival at home, eating hot pot and singing, when they were suddenly pulled into working from home.

It's really terrible.

Regardless of the fact that their actions actually reinforced players' stereotype that Tencent Games only copy others, and ignoring the fact that this hastily produced promotional video can only stabilize the stock price temporarily.

It's worth mentioning that Tencent Games had to rush out such a promotional video even during their holiday break.

They abandoned all shame and made up their minds to start copying.

This also indirectly proves the current popularity of the Spark platform and Fall Guys.

As for the development team of "Star River Paradise: Survival", they were clearly stimulated or inspired.

We opted for accelerated launch.

Even while working from home, we are still rushing to meet deadlines in order to seize this opportunity.

After all, the government has already introduced new policies. Areas where no infections are detected after three days of home quarantine will gradually begin to lift restrictions a week later.

Although people are still not allowed to leave the city after the lockdown is lifted, the city will be open to the public.

This is naturally a good thing for ordinary people.

But for game developers, by then, will this short-lived advantage still exist or not?

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Thanks to the efforts of the Stargazing: Survival development team, they did indeed manage to move their release date forward.

Naturally, the game's marketing and promotion were also brought forward.

However, promoting "Star River Paradise: Survival" was not in Lin Li's plans; he really just wanted to take a good rest for a while.

But now Su Shanshan is feeling bored and wants the two of them to do something together.

Lin Li thought it would be nice to play games together.

"You want to start a live stream? Sure, let's start a live stream and play games and chat with the players."

The two quickly finalized their plan to do a live stream together.

There are actually quite a lot of things to prepare for a live stream at home, such as a camera and software setup. Fortunately, he can ask for help, and after a few phone calls, he got the setup done.

Paradise Survival had already been released by this time, so there was no need for any special demos; you could just download and install it directly.

Before the official live stream, Lin Li called the people at the Paradise: Survival studio to inform them.

When the people at the Paradise Survival studio learned over the phone that their boss and his wife were going to try out the game, the entire studio got excited.

Even though Lin Li said he was just playing around.

However, the studio still notified many people that they would wait until Lin Li started his live stream, then cut the videos into clips and incorporate these clips into their promotional plans.

After one or two years of development, Xinghuo Live has become a major player in the industry.

By this time, it had become a relatively unique live streaming platform. What makes Xinghuo Live special is that it almost exclusively features live streams about games, voice actors, and related topics.

Although the categories are not as comprehensive, Xinghuo Live's revenue and traffic are not small.

On the one hand, gaming is an entertainment activity that reaches a wide population. On the other hand, Xinghuo Live also collaborates with live streaming websites such as YouTube, Bilibili, and Douyin.

The streamer can broadcast on multiple platforms.

As mentioned before, many people use the Spark platform's mobile app as a video streaming service, and many Spark-related programs premiere on it.

Therefore, although Xinghuo Live is just a function of the Xinghuo platform, its popularity is not much less than that of dedicated video websites, as seen during the Tangdouren live broadcast a few days ago.

It was also broadcast live on the Xinghuo Live Channel.

That move at the time attracted a lot of media attention, and related clips were being updated every day. Lin Li estimated that the clips would take until the second half of the year at the latest.

These live stream clips will continue to drive traffic.

Every day in the Fall Guys game review section, there are belated comments from people asking, "Did XXX play this game?"

I logged into the live streaming backend of the Spark platform.

Su Shanshan excitedly ran to prepare some equipment for the live broadcast, and also brought a few bottles of drinks and some snacks, which she placed on the table.

Soon, Lin Li and Su Shanshan sat in front of the camera.

Then, Lin Li looked at himself in the mirror and suddenly laughed.

"It feels so silly, like we're about to broadcast the evening news."

Su Shanshan also felt it was a bit silly, but she also found it very interesting. After all, it's fun to do silly things with someone you like.

Chapter 529 Live Broadcast

"Alright, stop joking around. It'll be funny if nobody watches the live stream later."

Su Shanshan was a little nervous before the broadcast.

Lin Li smiled confidently.

"Are you kidding me? Do you know how many fans I have across the internet? Do you think nobody would watch my live stream?"

Lin Li does indeed have a lot of fans.

Especially on the Spark platform.

After all, he's not the kind of boss who stays completely behind the scenes. He still comes out to stream when a new game is released, and that's usually when the game is most popular.

Therefore, Lin Li's account has several million followers.

"Should we chat with the players first?"

Su Shanshan adjusted her hair as she asked.

Let's chat casually for now.

As Lin Li spoke, he opened the live streaming app and adjusted the picture and sound.

The live stream started quickly.

Lin Li's claim of having many fans is no joke. Without any prior announcement of the live stream, just a simple notification that the stream was starting drew a large influx of players.

The comments started scrolling rapidly.

"Holy crap, CEO Lin is actually doing a live stream!"

"The proprietress is here too! The two chefs are overjoyed!"

"Sister Shanshan is so beautiful! She's gorgeous!"

"President Su, I love you!!!"