Game development begins with destroying Girls' Frontline.

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If you enable voice chat.

That's still a bit excessive.

However, if you don't enable voice chat, there can be friendly fire in multiplayer mode...

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So, just after 11 o'clock, Zhou Shenlin greeted the intern who came in with him and told him that if the boss came back, he would say that he had gone out to show houses to clients.

After giving his explanation, Zhou Shenlin secretly slipped out of the company.

He planned to go to a small restaurant he frequented downstairs, while everyone else in the office building was still at work.

Firstly, it allows you to enjoy a quiet dining environment.

Secondly, it allows you to play games openly and legitimately.

The restaurant owner had clearly met Zhou Shenlin before.

"You're down here so early today? What would you like to eat?"

"If you don't come sooner, it will be crowded again. I'll have a stir-fried pork rice bowl."

"Okay, just a moment, it'll be ready soon."

After ordering, Zhou Shenlin ran upstairs.

The second floor of this shop is made of partitions. Normally, when there are many people, the second floor is not very crowded, let alone now.

During the quiet midday, while waiting for his food, Zhou Shenlin felt that the small restaurant was different from usual. After thinking it over, he finally realized what was wrong.

"Hey boss, why haven't I heard any construction noise from across the street today?"

Today, the clattering sounds from the renovation of the building across the street a few days ago are gone.

"Oh, you mean that building? It was finished last night, and the green scaffolding around it has all been taken down. It seems like some people have already gone in to work this morning."

Just then, the restaurant owner, who was delivering the food, answered Zhou Shenlin's question.

"Really? I'll go take a look."

My curiosity was piqued by my boss's words. These past few days, whether I was at work or eating, I would hear noises coming from the building across the street from time to time. Now that they've suddenly stopped, I'm not used to it.

Zhou Shenlin stood up and looked out the second-floor window.

The weather is very pleasant today, with blue skies and white clouds that we haven't seen in a long time.

The afternoon sun made the newly renovated building across the street look exceptionally majestic.

The building across the street used to be LG's building, with twelve floors in total.

After being completely covered by scaffolding for a period of time, it was finally able to bask in the sunlight again today.

After the renovation, the biggest change to the entire building was the addition of several huge vertical insulation panels on the original walls.

These insulation panels replaced the original wall surfaces.

However, the glass was retained.

So now let's look back.

The exterior of this building features alternating vertically installed insulation panels and glass.

It looks a bit like piano keys.

It's quite high-tech.

Besides.

The most amazing thing is that these heat insulation boards are coated with paint or stickers, I don't know if they are sprayed or stickers.

In short, it showcased the character illustrations of some anime characters.

Upon closer inspection, Zhou Shenlin quickly identified the characters on the exterior vertical panels of the building.

"Isn't this my wife, '95?!"

Looking from left to right, there are four heat insulation panels on the huge outer wall.

The first heat insulation panel features several popular characters from Battlefront Girls.

The second piece is FGO, then Touhou Project, and the last piece is with several characters from Starry Sky Paradise.

"Holy crap, this is Spark Games' new building!?"

Chapter 247 Soaring Sales

The fact that a company is moving to a new building shouldn't normally be considered big news.

But Spark Games is quite different.

The building has only just been renovated and hasn't been occupied yet, but leaked photos from players are already circulating wildly online.

The main reason is because of these huge canvases.

Soon, some enthusiastic netizens put the new building of Spark Games together with the buildings of miHoYo, Tencent, and NetEase.

Then they put the photos of the bosses of several companies together.

The other companies' buildings and bosses all seemed very respectable.

Only at Xinghuo Games does the boss frequently wear anime-themed clothing featuring characters from their own games, not only during speeches and events.

Even the new company building reflects the company's original aspirations.

Above the comparison image was a caption.

The owner of that restaurant is a complete shut-in; it's obvious.

This was meant as a joke.

But in a way, it can also be seen as players' recognition of Spark Games.

It's not just players who are paying attention to Spark Games' new building.

Many of Spark Games' employees felt the same way, and in fact, they discussed the matter even more than the players.

After all, this matter is closely related to them.

However, not all Spark employees are paying attention to the new building.

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"How's it going, Brother Wang? Have you broken three million yet?"

Wang Wei's office.

In the newly formed Spark 79 group, everyone gathered around Wang Wei's computer.

As the number of Spark Games and project teams has increased, the serial numbers for these project teams have also changed.

No further sorting is required.

Instead, the project team was allowed to submit the application themselves.

At the same time, the corresponding groups have also been added to the game loading animations in the corresponding games.

For example, Spark Group 1 has now been renamed Spark Group 95.

The source of this number is naturally the mascot of the Girls' Frontline, 95. Even the logo of the Spark 95 group is a silhouette of a Type 95 rifle.

Wang Wei's group, because of the numerous ambitious projects, was aiming for the Gundam project from the very beginning.

Therefore, it lies between Spark 00 and Spark 79.

After an internal vote, they chose the number 79 from the original "Mobile Suit Gundam 0079" anime as the name of their project team.

These relatively unique project team names are also part of the future independent reputation of each project team at Spark Games.

Just like Tencent and NetEase.

Each game studio has its own product line, so even if a studio encounters a major problem, it can stop the losses in time.

At the same time, once these studios release a good game...

Then the reputation of that studio will spread among the players, creating a certain word-of-mouth effect.

For example, while the overall reputation of Tencent Games is not very good, Linlang Tianshang has a good reputation among certain groups of players.

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After the establishment of Spark Group 79, in the past four months, it can be said that all members have been fully buffed.

High morale, coupled with Wang Wei's genuine familiarity with programming.

The entire team of 79 quickly got the hang of the Spark Engine, and also launched "Girls' Frontline: AR Squad" as scheduled after the Girls' Frontline 1.6 version update.

Talk about it.

When the opening of "Girls' Frontline: AR Squad" showed the Spark Games logo, followed by the Spark 79 logo, Wang Wei was even a little teary-eyed.

Once a game is completed, the development team is naturally most concerned about player feedback.

For Wang Wei...

He barely slept a wink all night after the game was released yesterday.

I dream about the game's sales.

The reason for this pressure on him is simple: AR Squad was launched at the same time as Girls Frontline 1.6.

yesterday.

Whether it's the entire Girls' Frontline community, Bilibili, or various gaming forums.

Players' discussions, as always, focused on the Girls Frontline 1.6 major update.

what

"Italy has betrayed us again."

"A detailed analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of the reasoning-based approach in version 1.6."

"Discussion on future storylines after version 1.6."

"Version 1.6, tips for scoring in the Frenzy mode."

Online, all you see are discussions about version 1.6.

This situation once worried Wang Wei a lot.

Fortunately, by this morning, or more accurately, late last night, things had improved.

The wind direction has changed.

Discussions about "Girls' Frontline: AR Squad" have started to increase.

This surge in popularity stems from the fact that streamers on major live streaming platforms around the world started playing the AR team multiplayer mode.

Well known.

Once a game sets up friendly fire, it becomes a problem.

We are absolutely not afraid of not having a good show.

Add to that the fact that these game streamers, whether they invite some viewers or other streamers to play games together and sabotage each other, the effect is definitely greater than the sum of its parts.

Besides the product promotions by these game livestreaming content creators.

The AR Squad's first-week leaderboard incentive program also attracted many players, especially Frontline Girls players from the European and American regions.

Even many players who don't really care about Battlefront Girls but are interested in roguelike games are also very interested in AR Squad.

In Western communities, AR Squad's popularity even surpassed that of the original 1.6 version for a short period.

This whole host of conditions came together starting this morning.

The sales of "Girls' Frontline: AR Squad" skyrocketed like a rocket.

Videos about the AR team are popping up one after another on Bilibili.

Skill combination.

Tips for killing monsters.

In addition, Spark Games has added features that can automatically edit exciting moments from the game.