[{"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-32":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},2271093,4435,"Chapter 32: China","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-32",32,"\u003Cp>After hanging up the phone, Qin Xiaoyu got out of the car and walked straight toward the cafeteria where he had previously dined with Lin Su.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked about the same age as the students, and carried himself with calm composure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gatekeeper didn’t stop him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>many students at Xijuxue Academy choose to rent apartments off-campus, and management is relatively relaxed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the same spot they’d agreed on before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Qin Xiaoyu arrived, Lin Su hadn’t come yet; with nothing else to do, he picked up his phone, logged onto Xiaopuzhan, and checked if any game streamers had reviewed Genshin Impact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holy shit!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After just a few glances, Qin Xiaoyu was stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaopuzhan had been flooded by Genshin Impact—out of ten videos, at least five or six were related to the game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some were professional reviewers, others were gameplay streams by gaming streamers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was nothing short of a takeover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the many videos, one titled “China’s Pride of 2D Anime Games—Hundreds of Thousands of Foreigners Cried from Craving!” immediately caught Qin Xiaoyu’s attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t that the UP had wildly praised Genshin Impact and made him feel proud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaoyu was simply curious—he really did plan to release Genshin Impact globally soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he’d only mentioned it casually to Cai Qiu and Chen Wei once; no one else knew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for overseas advertising, that hadn’t even been attempted. How could hundreds of thousands of foreigners possibly be interested in this game?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His plan hadn’t even started yet!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Out of curiosity, Qin Xiaoyu clicked on the video and began watching, puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few minutes later,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaoyu understood what had happened. Strictly speaking, the video wasn’t some clickbait UP trying to ride the trend—it was genuinely true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The title was slightly exaggerated; there weren’t a million foreigners, at most maybe a hundred thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The story began with a German automotive engineer working in Xia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His name was Dael, and he’d lived and worked in Xia for over two years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides being an automotive engineer, he was also a seasoned anime fan and a minor internet celebrity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On YouTube, he’d amassed over eight hundred thousand followers through gaming content.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even before Genshin Impact launched, Dael had heard his colleagues mention the game several times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But back then, he paid it no mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason was simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During his two-plus years living and working in Xia, Dael had tried several Chinese anime-style games.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they were so bad they didn’t even inspire him to criticize them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since then, he’d completely ignored Chinese anime and games.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But starting yesterday morning, the name “Genshin Impact” never stopped ringing in his ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every colleague who knew he liked anime games immediately recommended Genshin Impact to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even several young subordinates in his office had taken a day off to play the game on launch day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After this string of “abnormal” events, Dael finally couldn’t help but feel curious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So after work that day, he downloaded the game with a try-it-out mindset and began streaming his Genshin Impact gameplay on YouTube.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be blunt,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dael had initially intended to show his followers just how terrible Chinese anime games were, warning them to avoid any Chinese anime titles and save their money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After streaming Genshin Impact with a critical mindset, Dael was instantly stunned, just like the game streamer Tonghao Mama before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stayed up all night, completely unable to stop playing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the ten thousand viewers in his live stream were equally stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They flooded his chat with comments asking the game’s name and where to play it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coincidentally, a Chinese gaming UP who liked browsing YouTube witnessed this scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And thus, on Xiaopuzhan appeared the video Qin Xiaoyu had just seen—the one with the exaggerated title.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s a free ad if I’ve ever seen one!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaoyu’s lips curled into a faint smile as he murmured to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Either way, this was an unexpected bonus for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It also proved one other thing:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Genshin Impact would not face the problems Cai Qiu and Chen Wei feared when launched overseas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>releasing the game globally based solely on Dael’s livestream was far from enough—Qin Xiaoyu knew that better than anyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he was thinking about this, Lin Su’s figure suddenly appeared in his line of sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>another figure also entered his view.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a young girl with a delicate oval face, her black hair tied into a ponytail hanging at the back, her clear eyes curved into crescent moons, filled with a charming smile as she spoke to Lin Su.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked about the same age as Lin Su.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Morning~!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Su spotted Qin Xiaoyu sitting by the window, waved, then pulled Tao Xiaodian over and sat down beside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Morning!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaoyu returned a faint smile, his gaze turning to the girl beside Lin Su: “Who’s this…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, she’s Tao Xiaodian. Don’t pay her any mind—just treat her like air!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After introducing Tao Xiaodian, Lin Su got straight to the point: “By the way, why did you call me? You’re not asking to borrow the recording studio again, are you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Qin Xiaoyu could answer, Tao Xiaodian pouted and complained softly to Lin Su:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lin Su, that’s kind of harsh! What do you mean treat me like air? Don’t I have any dignity?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tao Xiaodian’s voice was quiet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Qin Xiaoyu was less than a meter away, and his eyes instantly lit up: “Say that again?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tao Xiaodian checked several times and confirmed he was definitely speaking to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her brows immediately furrowed; she felt a flicker of suspicion and tension, glanced at Qin Xiaoyu quickly, then stiffened her face and asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait, are you two dating now? Do you even let me speak?”\u003C\u002Fp>",961,"2026-06-19T22:23:19.067Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","83f11e73752693d3fee4ba10ab33e28ee0013c2169e1bfd6f6a7c7bfa308b4e5","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-33","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-31",89,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fgame-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-cover.jpg"]