[{"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-68":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},2271129,4435,"Chapter 68","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-68",68,"\u003Cp>1:30 p.m.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the email inbox of TAP platform president Dong Guanglin, a message forwarded by his secretary arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The attachment contained the list of award-winning games selected by the GA organization for April.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dong Guanglin received such an email every month-end; usually, he didn’t bother opening it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this month, due to Genshin Impact’s collaboration with their platform and its instant breakout success after launch,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he wondered,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>how many awards Genshin Impact might win in this GA list. So he casually opened the attachment to check.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After reading it once, Dong Guanglin initially thought he’d misread—or that his secretary had forwarded the wrong email, sending him last month’s list.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after verifying again,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he found not a single award on the list mentioned Genshin Impact—and his face instantly darkened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Best New Game of April—Fantasy Archangel!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon seeing that name, Dong Guanglin was stunned. Did TAP platform even have a game called Fantasy Archangel?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, he carefully reviewed the platform’s weekly popular game data.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Any new game that made the top ten most popular on the platform,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dong Guanglin hadn’t necessarily played them all, but he knew them all by reputation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Fantasy Archangel—he had zero recollection of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This game had defeated Genshin Impact, which had over five million downloads that month, and won Best New Game of April.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was utterly absurd!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it wasn’t that a breakout hit had to win Best New Game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some niche games had exceptional storylines and quality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They just had fewer players or hadn’t yet gone viral.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had happened before—GA judges favored such games and awarded them Best New Game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was this happening again?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking this, Dong Guanglin, seeking confirmation, picked up his phone, opened the TAP app store, and typed “Fantasy Archangel.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a game saturated with heavy browser-game aesthetics appeared on his phone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could tolerate the crude production, but the pop-up payment prompts every thirty seconds pushed his temper past its limit!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>though he didn’t know exactly what had happened, Dong Guanglin was certain this award list was utterly fraudulent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Genshin Impact was now the lifeline and golden goose of their TAP platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though they only took a ten percent cut of revenue each month,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that ten percent already exceeded the combined revenue of the next nine games.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond revenue, Genshin Impact’s release on their TAP platform had caused their user base to surge dramatically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had now officially entered the hundred-million-user club.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this award list went public, Dong Guanglin couldn’t imagine the catastrophic consequences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Dong Guanglin’s lips twitched twice. He picked up the desk phone and dialed the number of GA’s boss, Shen Nan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as the call connected, before the other side could speak, Dong Guanglin launched into a furious tirade:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Shen, after all these years of cooperation, if you want to ruin your own reputation, can you at least not drag me down with you?”\u003C\u002Fp>",489,"2026-06-19T22:23:19.067Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","d5e280f6f0d63b6198f20c9f1b7c32301332ed9fa3538c4b0f6a17e8e0c14723","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-69","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-67",89,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fgame-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-cover.jpg"]