[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game":3,"chapter-game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-21":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Game Development: Starting from a 2D Game",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2271082,4435,"Chapter 21","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-21",21,"\u003Cp>If this equity swap became known to outsiders, they would surely regard it as fake news—an impossible event.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, as the two participants in this deal, Qin Xiaoyu and Gaohe, neither felt they had been at a loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a mutually beneficial transaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From Gaohe’s side, although he held far more shares of the small platform than the shares of Genshin Impact he received, the fact remained that it had been losing money year after year—indeed, a bottomless pit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Exchanging it for shares in a game with strong potential and a bright future was certainly no loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As someone who had studied abroad in Sakura Country, he understood the immense developmental potential of anime culture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The culture had not yet exploded in Xia Country simply because there lacked high-quality works to cultivate an audience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The birth of Genshin Impact might very well become the turning point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other side, Qin Xiaoyu also believed he had scored a massive win.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least, when launching new games in the future, he would no longer face the previous predicament—he could simply advertise directly on the small platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The previous targeted promotion had yielded decent results.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But ask any game developer: who wouldn’t want full-spectrum, carpet-bombing advertising?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to each other, which was superior required no further explanation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The small platform lost money under Gaohe’s control, but under Qin Xiaoyu’s, it might not remain a perpetual loser.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond that, there was another more important consideration—though the scenario he envisioned had not yet materialized, Qin Xiaoyu had merely prepared in advance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid this atmosphere of mutual satisfaction—“you may not lose, but I always win”—they exchanged a few more pleasantries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaoyu rose to take his leave of Gaohe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, he had promised to join those voice actors for dinner; if he never showed up, it would be hard to justify.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That evening,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaoyu finished dinner with the voice actors, nearing ten o’clock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After leaving the hotel and seeing off the voice actors, he did not go to the studio but returned directly to his rental apartment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After washing up, he lay in bed, finding it hard to sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was primarily thinking about what to do next.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The promotional momentum was already in place; the official website would open tomorrow morning, the game license would arrive next Tuesday, and all conditions seemed ripe—just waiting for the final push to officially launch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before that, Qin Xiaoyu felt there was one more thing he could do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Open a player reservation channel before the game’s official launch. Though less than a day remained, the effort was still worthwhile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reservation data could not only boost the developers’ confidence but also reflect, in certain ways, the game’s popularity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even professional data analysts sometimes offered highly effective suggestions based on the reservation pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he contemplated this,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not realize how much time had passed until his eyelids grew heavy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next day, at 9:30 a.m., Qin Xiaoyu arrived punctually at the studio.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cai Qiu and Chen Wei had already arrived before him; the moment they saw Qin Xiaoyu enter the studio, they immediately surrounded him.\u003C\u002Fp>",527,"2026-06-19T22:23:19.067Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","c784f97ad99c06487da2bf34fce9049991775df018cb2fc82fac26c317baf21b","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-22","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-20",89,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fgame-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-cover.jpg"]