[{"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-61":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},2271122,4435,"Chapter 61","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-61",61,"\u003Cp>Moments later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaoyu and Chen Wei walked from the parking lot all the way to the shopping plaza where the Kentucky store was located.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene before them instantly left both of them frozen in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brother Fish, we probably won't get to eat Kentucky after all…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everywhere they looked, there were people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The queue stretched from Kentucky’s entrance all the way to the street outside the plaza—just this single line numbered nearly a hundred people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many more had no space to join the queue and instead gathered in small groups across the plaza.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like Xie Xiaoying they’d seen before, there were no shortage of anime fans dressed in cosplay outfits of Genshin Impact characters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Venti, Klee, Diluc, Chief Qin, and others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everywhere you looked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaoyu roughly estimated the total number gathered at Kentucky’s entrance plaza—minimum one thousand people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ordinary passersby who saw this scene were instantly stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They stared blankly at the young people in bizarre costumes, nearly convinced they’d wandered into some abnormal human research center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Nowadays… young people are really… this into it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A middle-aged man, around fifty, gazed in confusion at the crowd on the plaza, muttering to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t just older ordinary passersby who couldn’t understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Kentucky staff and managers who’d been briefed ahead of time were equally bewildered upon seeing the scene outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the collaboration announcement, the feedback they gathered from their website and Weibo had been utterly ordinary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, not only did outside competitors consistently doubt the event’s success,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Kentucky’s own employees didn’t believe this crossover would meaningfully boost sales.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the event hadn’t even started yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The store was already completely surrounded… who could explain what the hell was going on?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fear and unease slowly rose among the store staff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the crowd at the entrance seemed to have decent manners.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Either they were quietly lining up, or chatting quietly nearby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no chaos or loss of control despite the massive number of people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their tense hearts gradually eased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’d never encountered anything like this before—such a scene in the middle of the night felt deeply strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Keep in mind,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even during past promotions with massive discounts, the scene had never been one-third as crowded as this!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though no disturbances had occurred, out of safety concerns, numerous police officers had arrived to maintain order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The same frenzy wasn’t happening just at this one Kentucky store in Yuncheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On an otherwise ordinary night,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In most cities across Xia Gu, Kentucky stores had become oceans of mysterious young people gathering and celebrating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Qin Xiaoyu had thought earlier,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surrounded by peers who shared the same interests, the slogan “Meeting Across Worlds, Savoring the Flavor” no longer felt so hard to say aloud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From initial shyness and embarrassment, players eventually erupted into massive crowds shouting in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>",479,"2026-06-19T22:23:19.067Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","b12af0b012d921ce6045f85487050028362c83d3a276aa1e33101bde84338513","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-62","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-60",89,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fgame-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-cover.jpg"]