[{"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-7":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},2271068,4435,"Chapter 7: Chapter Seven: Did the Design Team Spy on My Browser History?!","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-7",7,"\u003Cp>“Design team, I suggest you change the game’s name from Genshin to ‘Money Grab’—it’s more accurate!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the download progress bar, Tanghao’s mother immediately lost interest and couldn’t help but start complaining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The game was already in internal testing, yet the official website still hadn’t been built.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the entire Xia Nation’s gaming circle, this wasn’t unheard of, but it was rare enough to count on one hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Game companies that couldn’t even be bothered to build an official website.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Definitely not a legitimate company.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Tanghao’s guess, this was surely a tiny workshop with no more than five employees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason they refused to build a website was simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On one hand, to save on upfront costs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other, they had no real faith in their game—just wanted to make a quick buck and vanish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regardless of which reason you considered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The game currently downloading, Genshin, had already begun to disappoint this gaming blogger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d burned the midnight oil all night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t want to waste any more energy on a garbage game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Tanghao’s mother had completely lost the urge to try it; he casually picked up his mouse, ready to close the download window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when the cursor moved to the top-right corner, a look of confusion suddenly crossed his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His hand froze mid-motion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thirteen percent downloaded?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he remembered correctly, at least ten minutes had passed since he started the download.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why was it only thirteen percent?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last night he hadn’t visited any suspicious websites.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Logically speaking,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There shouldn’t be any slow network issue!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The previous games he’d downloaded had all loaded at normal speeds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After frowning in thought for a moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tanghao’s mother suddenly realized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t a network speed problem—it was because the game’s content was huge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that were truly the case,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then this game called Genshin didn’t seem like a typical quick-money scam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn! I want to see what kind of game this really is!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tanghao felt he must be insane—unexplainably fixated on a 2D anime game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was now completely wide awake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moments later,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He got up to wash his face, then boiled a pot of hot water. After finishing, he returned to check—the game still hadn’t finished downloading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He went downstairs to his favorite breakfast shop and had a proper meal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before returning to his room, Tanghao brewed a cup of black coffee, determined to see this Genshin game through to the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the game finally finished downloading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took a large gulp of coffee to wake himself up, entered the internal test invite code, and waited quietly as the game loaded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Nothing special here!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the game loaded, Tanghao’s mother silently gave it a mediocre evaluation in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aside from the door that briefly opened, he hadn’t noticed any major highlights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a brief loading period, the game began its main sequence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tanghao’s mother sat up straighter, gripping his mouse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ready, as he had with previous games,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To carefully read the sect (class) descriptions and then create a character.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second, he was completely stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>???\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where the hell was the character creation interface?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless question marks involuntarily popped up above Tanghao’s mother’s head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While he was still bewildered, Genshin’s opening animation had already begun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A bit surprising—this actually seems promising!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the animation started, Tanghao’s mother’s opinion of Genshin subtly shifted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This opening style made him involuntarily feel dazzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a professional gaming blogger, since entering this field, whether Xia Nation or overseas games,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d tried thousands—certainly not ten thousand, but at least several thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A game opening this impressive was, honestly, extremely rare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The opening animation wasn’t long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It ended quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, Tanghao’s mother already felt a surge of excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The quality of the opening animation and the three character models were undeniably top-tier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One thing he now dared to conclude:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This game was absolutely not something a quick-money workshop could produce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the opening animation ended, the game entered the character selection phase (actually, character selection occurred during the opening animation—here slightly adjusted).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For an LSP—no, a professional gaming blogger—this wasn’t even a choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tanghao’s mother unhesitatingly chose Xiao as his starting character.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason was simple:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That little brat’s look directly and mercilessly hit his XP!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Xiao’s model wasn’t based on a Xia Nation appearance, did that matter?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That golden short hair, eyes sparkling like stars, skirt fluttering in the wind, white thigh-high stockings, and the perfectly placed soul leg band—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To a man, all of it was a magic critical hit!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even before the game officially began, just the opening animation and Xiao’s model had already earned a very high score from Tanghao’s mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, the game officially started.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when Paimon appeared, Tanghao’s mother was struck by his XP again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seriously,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he hadn’t played this game, he never would’ve realized he had such a strange preference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So cute!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost melted!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a professional gaming blogger with years of experience, no game had ever hit his XP twice in just a few minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tanghao’s mother was utterly stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, he couldn’t help but suspect that Genshin’s design team had hacked into his hard drive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or secretly checked his browser history…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no way they could so precisely target his weird preferences!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t just precise targeting!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This game’s design team was deeply mining players’ XP.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He himself was a living example.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before trying this game, he’d always believed he had little interest in kawaii styles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, that belief seemed to have changed…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Tanghao’s mother was thrilled—he couldn’t wait to keep going.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To see what other surprises this game had in store for him…\u003C\u002Fp>",962,"2026-06-19T22:23:19.067Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","b74eb777855cd36d8fd0c3f582acf5d414a161665ffbdc643b6dfcc39d10ac37","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-8","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-6",89,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fgame-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-cover.jpg"]