Chapter 102. The Upcoming Pokémon Trailer
Since the last virtual reality test, more than two months have flown by.
Autumn has already layered the air with a chill, and only a little over three months remain until the AR glasses launch.
With the full cooperation of Anti-Entropy Entertainment, several prototypes of the AR glasses carrying Pokémon were finally built a few days ago.
Led by Xander, the designers and familiar friends used "testing" as an excuse to kick off a series of tense and thrilling Pokémon battles.
As the lead designer, Xander, relying on his outstanding understanding of Pokémon, won battle after battle and in just a few days stood at the summit of the current group of Trainers.
According to a certain "Old Man Xing" who asked not to be named: "That bastard pulls out a max-level Legendary Pokémon every time he's losing.
We don't even have Legendaries—how are we supposed to fight that?
Isn't he obviously just messing with us?
You bastard, watch yourself on your way home after work.
If I catch you alone, you'll 'enjoy some good juice'!"
Ahem, ahem.
In short, Xander had a blast.
When the fighting ended, thanks to Xander's superb hands-on skills, Bronya finally cooled down and walked out of the lab holding him.
"Big Bro, the test results are out!"
Tap—tap—tap.
Seele and Kaguya hurried over, smiling as they reported, "All metrics are within normal ranges.
However, due to ambient light, there's occasionally a delay on Pokémon; the display is off by roughly 0.1 seconds."
"I see.
That's not a big problem.
Bronya, this part was mainly handled earlier by Sakura in the team.
Remember to notify her and have her fix this little bug."
After giving Bronya the assignment, he looked at Seele and Kaguya again.
"More rigorous testing will start in a day.
I'll have to trouble you two to keep watch then."
Both quickly shook their heads.
Kaguya squeezed his hand and said, "It's fine.
Compared to us, husband's work is harder."
As overall chief designer of Pokémon, Xander had indeed been quite busy for the past half-year.
Every day he not only had to convene meetings for the various groups and issue tasks, but also had to coordinate the overall progress of the game.
On workdays he was basically so busy his feet barely touched the ground.
If not for the strong requests of the three girls headed by Seele, he might even have voluntarily worked overtime on Sundays.
"Isn't the production basically done?
I haven't been that busy for a while."
He patted the little heads of Seele and Kaguya.
Seeing their relaxed expressions, Xander smiled as well.
"Right."
Remembering something, Xander looked at Bronya at his side.
"You went to handle the promotional film earlier, didn't you?
Is it done?"
Naturally, the promotional film was handed to Anti-Entropy's in-house film company.
The group gave them ample funding and two months of time; by all accounts it should already be fine.
"It's done."
Bronya recalled that short film and couldn't help but say in amazement, "As far as I'm concerned, I can't pick out any flaws.
They made it pretty much perfect."
"Oh?
Then I should really look forward to it.
Among the three, Schicksal and Shencheng Technologies started their AR-glasses warm-up a few days ago, and only our Anti-Entropy has had no news.
We've probably been roasted by users online already."
Hearing that, Seele paused, scratched her cheek a little embarrassed, and said, "About the online public opinion, it really isn't that great..."
"It's fine.
The evaluations will flip soon."
He waved it off and went on, "I watched both Schicksal's and Shencheng Technologies' trailers.
Their approach is still the same as with previous AR glasses—mainly touting various apps and convenient communication.
For games, it's still the same old party card-and-board minigames.
Aside from adding some real-time interaction, there's nothing standout about them.
With performance this good and they only use it for that—tsk, tsk, tsk—what a waste..."
Listening to him hold court, the three girls blinked, suppressing the urge to retort.
Did he really think anyone could be like him and, in just half a year, make a game you could call epoch-making?
Was it that Schicksal and Shencheng Technologies didn't want to?
Of course not.
They simply couldn't do it in such a short time.
It was only thanks to Xander's complete design, Cocolia's support, and Anti-Entropy Entertainment running at full throttle that they managed to produce this hard-to-replicate result.
"Did they say when the promotional film will be released?
I'll go greet my lovely players on the blog then.
After more than half a year of radio silence, some people have already been lighting incense in my comments section."
"The day after tomorrow.
8:00 a.m. North American time.
It'll be a simultaneous worldwide release.
They'll probably start the warm-up tonight and drop a teaser for the trailer."
"Watch it together at home then?"
"Sure.
It's the weekend anyway.
Let's lie in the bedroom and watch it~"
"Invite Kaguya?"
"Can you handle that?"
"...Let's just do the living-room sofa."
...
In the distant Far East.
In a warmly decorated living room, a family of five was chatting and laughing over dinner.
"Sirin, it's the weekend tomorrow.
Let's hurry over to Mei's place to hang out and come back tomorrow!"
"It's so late.
Won't we be disturbing her?"
Across from them, a gentle-looking woman with long silver hair spoke softly.
"Aw, Mom, Mei's always alone at home.
If we go keep her company, she'll be overjoyed."
"Is that so?
Then since it's late, be careful when you go out."
Looking at her daughters, Cecilia's eyes were full of warmth.
She wiped the grains of rice off Kiana's face and added another bowl of rice to her bowl.
"It's fine.
I can escort them."
On Kiana's other side, a quiet blond girl suddenly spoke up.
Bianka Schariac—Cecilia's eldest daughter—was currently studying at St. Freya Academy.
As for why the three daughters had three different hair colors—chalk it up to accidents.
When Bianka was little, her life hung by a thread because of a traffic accident; the blond hair was a side effect of Schicksal's treatment.
Sirin's case was even more outrageous: when she was little and went to Schicksal HQ with her parents, she wandered into a lab in the middle of an experiment.
No one knows what she ate, but while her body had no major issues, her hair turned purple and has never changed back.
"Really?
Thanks, sis!!"
"I'm not going."
Just as Kiana was getting excited, Sirin's words threw a bucket of cold water on her.
"Huh?!!
Why?!"
Sirin finished the rice in her bowl, wiped her mouth, hopped off her chair, and said to Kiana, "I still have a stream, and tonight there's also the trailer for Bronya and the others' new game."
"New game?
Didn't the trailer say eight in the morning?"
"That's North American time, dummy.
We're fourteen hours ahead of them!"
Rolling her eyes at the baffled Kiana, Sirin dashed back to her room.
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