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Now, Spark Games has arrived.

It felt like the heavens had finally smiled upon us, and the pent-up demand for in-game purchases was suddenly released.

Aside from spending real money.

Many people are discussing how Spark managed to do it.

How did you manage to change the game framework in such a short time?

At this point, the development logs and live stream videos that had already been circulating were reposted by a large number of players.

Then, most players realized it.

Oh, so there was a clue to this.

When looking at the logs, no one expected that Spark could actually succeed.

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That night.

Xishanju Tianfu Studio.

Girl Cafe Gun Production Team.

For the creators of Girl Cafe Gun Studio today, there is both good and bad news.

good news.

I don't need to work overtime tonight.

bad news.

I'm staying tonight to play games...

After get off work, the entire creative team of Shaoka Productions stayed behind.

Fortunately.

As the producer of Girl Cafe Gun, Yuan Lei still has some conscience.

They bought a lot of snacks and piled them up in the conference room.

The whole game trial was made quite easy.

It was already 10 p.m.

Except for the meeting room lights, which were still on, the rest of the office was dark.

The contrast between the light and shadow creates two distinct scenes inside and outside the conference room.

It was pitch black outside the conference room.

Inside the meeting room, however, a completely different "lively" scene unfolded.

Below the stage, everyone was holding a mobile phone or laptop, playing the new version of Seven Days City.

On stage, another person was using a computer, typing out some of their ideas and projecting them onto the projector.

"I noticed a detail here. I just tried several characters, and they all added a lock-on dash to their basic attacks."

The so-called locked displacement dash means that after the player presses the normal attack button, they will automatically dash a certain distance in the direction of the monster.

On the large map of the game, this sprint performance is quite obvious.

However, in the Seven Days City.

This locked displacement dash is mainly to satisfy the feeling of combo attacks. In the new version of Seven Days City, due to the major changes to the basic attack animation, many attack actions now have displacement.

If the lock is not engaged, players might find themselves overshooting the limit while pressing the button.

However, if you don't lock on while sprinting, the rhythm will be disrupted, and you'll have to run a distance before you can hit the next monster.

The original combat system was not well-structured, which was also related to these details.

"Spark has paid great attention to details in this regard. The so-called feel is actually built up little by little from these small details."

As Yuan Lei spoke, he wrote this information in a Word document.

tonight.

They did nothing else.

It involves reverse engineering to understand why the reputation of Seven Days City has changed so drastically, and to try to find out the problem-solving approach of Spark Games from these changes.

It turns out.

Yuan Lei did the right thing. They spent several hours personally experiencing it and reviewing the development logs provided by Spark Games.

They really did analyze the changes and reasons for these changes in Spark Games in great detail.

However, after analyzing it for several hours...

The initial excitement has given way to exhaustion.

It's 11 o'clock.

Inside the meeting room, several minutes had passed without anyone offering any new details.

Some people have even raised doubts.

"Boss, can we use this experience?"

These few hours have passed.

This group of people, putting aside everything else, are at least very familiar with each other in the Seven Days Capital.

But as they delved deeper into their research...

I looked at my game again.

It's like looking at a top student's exam paper and then looking at your own.

The disappointment was quite significant.

Seeing that the atmosphere in the conference room was a bit somber, Yuan Lei clapped his hands.

"Don't be so discouraged. Everything we did today was useful, but... it's for our sequel."

As soon as Yuan Lei uttered those words...

The group, who had been feeling a bit tired, instantly perked up.

"A sequel!?"

"The application was approved?"

"How's the budget?"

"Huh!? This... this is going to be a sequel?"

"Are you looking to hire new people?"

For the creative team behind Girl Cafe Gun, the start of a sequel was both unexpected and logical.

As a game that has been in operation for less than a year.

After the controversy surrounding the character art, Girl Cafe Gun's revenue declined rapidly.

It completely failed to meet Seasun Entertainment's expectations.

However, on the other hand, Girl Cafe Gun ultimately benefited from the girl gun theme at launch, and its revenue was even higher than its predecessor.

After a year of operation, the costs were recovered.

Given the current booming anime and manga market, after Yuan Lei, unwilling to give up, proposed developing a sequel last month, Xishanju headquarters quickly approved the decision.

The project initiation process for Girl Cafe Gun 2, also known as Twin Star Exorcists, has been completed.

The project for this sequel was initiated quite quickly.

It's worth noting that only a year has passed since Girl Cafe Gun's public beta test began at the end of 16.

The preliminary research for project approval will only begin earlier.

In other words, for Yuan Lei, the Girl Cafe Gun commercial had just collapsed when he started planning his new work.

To some extent, Yuan Lei's impatient nature affected the entire studio.

Later, Twin Vision also failed, and the fact that Tianfu Xishanju launched the Dust White Forbidden Zone project is proof of this.

even.

If, in the previous life, Chen Bai hadn't encountered Yu Zhong's assistance in the second year of the forbidden zone, and had ultimately managed to revive and survive...

It's estimated that the "Dust White 2" project should be approved around 24...

In short.

At Xishanju Tianfu, while other aspects may be lacking, the project approval process is quite fast.

Faced with a group of puzzled creators, Yuan Lei nodded.

"The proposal has been submitted. The funding for this new project is quite generous. We really have to thank Xinghuo for getting it approved..."

In fact, in the current world line...

Yuan Lei wasn't the only one who felt this way.

The entire ACG (Anime, Comics, and Games) market, and everyone working in it, will be grateful to Xinghuo to some extent.

Chapter 276 Who's the Clown?

In the past two years, anime-style mobile game development teams have enjoyed immense success.

If you say you want to make anime-style mobile games, investors will be willing to give you money.

"Alright, although the new project has been approved, our focus today is still to thoroughly understand the development strategy of Spark."

"Boss, now that the new project has been approved, why don't we try investing in the Spark Program? That way we won't need to do any research, we can just have the Spark people come and help us."

The speaker is Zheng Dong, a newcomer who joined the studio this year.

Although he is a newcomer, he has extensive experience in Shanghai.

I also had experience as a team leader at Xinghuo.

If it weren't for the fact that he's a local from Chengdu, his girlfriend is also from Chengdu, and he's getting married this year, he would be even more fortunate.

It's quite difficult to recruit such talent in Chengdu.

It took Yuan Lei a lot of effort to recruit him.

However, these efforts did pay off.

After Zheng Dong arrived, the first version update of Girl Cafe Gun that he hosted achieved growth in both reputation and revenue.

Although the overall market is not doing well.

This left even the most skilled cook with no ingredients, but Yuan Lei still held Zheng Dong in high regard.

However, this person is not without flaws.

The biggest drawback is that I always try to trick him into packaging the whole project and adding it to the Spark Program.

"I recently saw the announcement from Spark. The Spark program has also been adjusted. If the game quality is high, the domestic developer can retain the operation rights, and only the overseas operation rights need to be granted."

"Isn't this perfect for us? Boss, think about it, we can't sell overseas anyway, and we don't have any channels. Why not give out the overseas operation rights of the new project?"

"When we join the Spark Program, we can ask President Lin about many of our internal issues, not to mention anything else."

"With Mr. Lin's guidance, it would be difficult for us to fail."

Faced with Zheng Dong's renewed attempt to deceive him, Yuan Lei rubbed his forehead.

"We're Seasun Entertainment, joining the Spark Program...that's just too much..."

Yuan Lei had considered joining the Spark Program.

But as he said, Xishanju is Xishanju after all, not some roadside factory, and it has its own standards.

"It's because of us at Seasun Entertainment that we were able to convince Spark Entertainment to let us join as long as they wanted the overseas copyrights."

"This is a pledge of loyalty. Think about it, if we, as a traditional big company, are the first to join the Spark Program, it will definitely be much easier to negotiate terms."

"Boss, you have no idea, these small factories outside are now negotiating their revenue sharing to 90% just to get into the Spark Program."