[{"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-45":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},2271106,4435,"Chapter 45: First Stop, Akihabara!","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-45",45,"\u003Cp>Twenty million is just a part?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Are all the landmarks filled with Genshin Impact ads?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Qin Xiaoyu spoke these two sentences, they exploded like two heavy bombs beside Cai Qiu and Chen Wei, leaving their minds instantly blank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Guo’s games had advertised overseas before, but at most they simply bought traffic, flooding game platforms with paid promotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Physical ads? They’d never heard of such a thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And would this even work?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This doubt didn’t stem from Cai Qiu and Chen Wei’s lack of confidence in the game—it was simply that this method seemed outdated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Old Cai, let’s make Sakura Country our first stop—get us an ad spot in Akihabara!” Seeing the two remain silent, Qin Xiaoyu broke the silence directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was Gaohe’s suggestion from Hongshan Investment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since we’ve decided to pour money into overseas promotion and launch the game, let’s go all-in from the start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That place is the holy land of anime culture, especially Akihabara.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anime fans worldwide pay attention to it—any small movement draws their gaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sega Building One, Akihabara Electric City, subway stations, AKB48 ad spaces—all these physical locations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Genshin Impact’s posters appear on them, it will cause a massive sensation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We won’t even need to spend extra money on media—they’ll report on it themselves out of curiosity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>spend another sum buying traffic and ads on the upcoming launch platforms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two reinforce each other, achieving results far beyond merely buying traffic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>when Qin Xiaoyu first heard Gaohe’s suggestion, as a transmigrator, he couldn’t help but secretly admire Gaohe’s vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gaohe’s advice was exactly the path Qin Xiaoyu had planned to take.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the details he’d thought of were far more specific than Gaohe’s—he’d already experienced this once on Earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fish Brother, are you crazy?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One simple sentence made Cai Qiu jump to his feet: \"That place is hell mode! Monster Strike, Fate\u002FGrand Order, Uma Musume, Pokémon, One Million Arthur—they're the regulars there!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So what? We just want ad space—we’re not going to war!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaoyu smirked in reply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could guess a little of what Cai Qiu and Chen Wei were thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those few anime games dominated almost the entire Sakura Country market and had become the standard for anime culture locally and worldwide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But how does that relate to our advertising?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would those game companies actually come out and stop us from advertising?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, Akihabara’s ad space goes to whoever pays the most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Qin Xiaoyu’s view, their fear was simple—they simply lacked confidence in their own game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They feared their ad would be hung up, then mocked mercilessly by busybodies comparing it to others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>there’s no need to worry about this at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our game hasn’t launched yet—what are they going to compare it to?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The character illustrations on the promotional posters?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we’re talking about that alone, Qin Xiaoyu believed Genshin Impact’s art wasn’t vastly superior—but at least equal, perhaps even slightly better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t just his own bragging; the mature 3D-to-2D rendering tech was rare even among overseas anime mobile games.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Genshin Impact not only maintains character illustrations but offers full 3D models for player control, all within a vast open world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The games Cai Qiu mentioned do have strong IPs and years of player bases—no denying that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But ultimately, their character art remains flat—put plainly, the characters are still just pixelated sprites.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, in the realm of anime mobile games, Genshin Impact’s experience—exaggerated as it may sound—is truly a dimensional strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Qin Xiaoyu’s hour-long explanation, Cai Qiu and Chen Wei’s anxiety vanished completely, replaced by pure anticipation and determination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>we’re not declaring war—we’re just placing an ad. So what’s there to fear?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fish Brother, don’t worry! Wherever cherry blossoms bloom, I’ll make sure our Genshin Impact ads appear everywhere!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cai Qiu slapped his chest, his voice brimming with boldness, “Enough talk—I’m going to pick a few interns who studied Sakura Country’s language and leave right away!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No need to rush so much…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaoyu shook his head, then explained the general strategy and key details to Cai Qiu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That night, Cai Qiu quietly boarded a flight to the anime holy land with four new interns and a massive sum of money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fish Brother, Cai Qiu’s gone—what’s your plan for me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Cai Qiu left the office, Chen Wei looked at Qin Xiaoyu with excited eyes and asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Handle the overseas voice actor recording and matching for now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaoyu paused, then added, “Also, think about the company’s functional structure—we’re official now. We can’t keep acting on raw passion and brute force like before.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through this period of working together, Qin Xiaoyu had come to understand these two better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cai Qiu was impulsive and might make mistakes, but he had relentless drive—he was perfect for pioneering tasks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Wei was calmer, considered details even more than Qin Xiaoyu sometimes—he’d be ideal for managing internal studio affairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for himself, he’d only need to handle the big direction and decisions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>things wouldn’t be easy now—three critical tasks still awaited him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of them, naturally, was the Liyue map issue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To pull off this deception, he’d need to hire a large number of third-party outsourcing studios—and not all from within Shen Guo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This would inevitably waste a huge sum of money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that he thought about it, Qin Xiaoyu felt a pang of pain—this money could’ve been spared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second, he needed to take those sheet music scores and spend heavily to hire an orchestra for recording.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he had to prepare for Klee’s gacha pool launch in a few days…\u003C\u002Fp>",931,"2026-06-19T22:23:19.067Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","91c42d358cd12f5264b6d0ba1760d2081132573f394eb748780bf383dfa5bb79","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-46","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-44",89,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fgame-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-cover.jpg"]