Game Development: Taking the World by Storm, Starting with Minecraft
Chapter 6

Five Top Streamers Play the New Modpack Together: Utopia Adventure Journey

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After reading the announcement, Chen Ze immediately clicked to download the platform.

The platform was small, only a few hundred MB, and the download finished quickly.

After registering with his phone number, he immediately saw his game, "Minecraft."

He clicked on the game, and various categories of resource packs appeared on the right side of the platform.

He clicked on a modpack category at random, and a modpack called "Utopia Adventure Journey" appeared.

He opened the modpack and found an introduction and various pictures inside.

There were bees, wings, airplanes, and... a showcase of visual effects different from the vanilla game.

Just then, a song began to play. It was music made by Starfield and included with the modpack.

"Anywhere / Everywhere We Go"

As the song played, images appeared in Chen Ze's mind of himself adventuring in deserts, on plains, and out at sea.

This music... sounds so good.

"Buzz~ buzz buzz~"

His phone rang beside the table.

Chen Ze picked it up and saw that a friend was calling.

Lü Zhenghao.

He answered, and Lü Zhenghao's voice came through.

"A-Ze, have you downloaded the Xingye Gaming Platform?"

"You can play multiplayer on a dedicated network there. How about I get a group together and we play?"

Chen Ze paused, then laughed and teased him. "Sure, Dan, get a group together. But what are we playing?"

"Utopia Adventure Journey. I saw that it has tons of stuff, and it seems to come with shaders and texture packs."

"Sure. Make a room and send me the code. I'll download the modpack."

After hanging up, Chen Ze drifted into thought for a moment.

It had been a long time since he'd had this feeling of playing with friends. The last time... seemed to have been when he was a kid, playing hide-and-seek and card games with the other children in his village.

Thinking back on those days, Chen Ze smiled and clicked to download the modpack.

Soon, Lü Zhenghao sent him a code. He opened the platform's multiplayer feature, entered the code, and quickly joined the room.

There were three other people in the room besides him and Lü Zhenghao.

There were Qiezi and Da Sima, as well as a game streamer called XDD. He knew all three streamers too. They were all in gaming, after all, and were quite familiar with each other whenever they met.

"Hello, hello, can you hear me?"

Lü Zhenghao's voice came through the room channel.

"Yeah, we can hear you."

Chen Ze replied, and everyone in the room immediately began laughing and shooting the breeze.

"Lao Ma, have you still been streaming Bicycle Simulator lately? Dying in a crash five times in one minute-amazing."

"Qiezi, that's a bit low. I'm an entertainment streamer, how can I compare with you guys? If you want a comparison, go compare yourself with Xiaodingdang XDD."

"Don't say that, Teacher Ma. You were still the first person online to discover the nine heavens thunder double-foot stomp. Nobody else can copy that move."

As everyone chatted, Chen Ze couldn't stop grinning.

The livestream chat went wild too.

[What a god-tier crossover! First time I've seen so many famous gaming streamers play together.]

[Seriously. We've got entertainment streamers Chen Ze and Teacher Da Sima, plus three skilled streamers. It really is a first.]

[Start the game already! I really want to see it.]

[This modpack looks so fun. I'm going to get my friends to play it with me.]

[Anyone want to play together? I'll make a room for us.]

[I'm playing on the server right now. It's already packed, and the lobby is full of people.]

Looking at the livestream chat, Chen Ze smiled and opened the game.

Once the screen finished loading, everyone entered the modpack.

With the added VR 3D effects, all five of them froze for a moment.

That's right, they froze.

The scene before them was different from vanilla Minecraft. Although it was still mostly made of blocks, they could all see the lighting and textures.

Sunlight filtered through the clouds in several beams, casting long shadows as it fell on them.

Above their heads, the wind blew through the trees, sending a few leaves drifting down.

Amid the interplay of light and shadow, they almost thought they had truly arrived in another world.

"Whoa, Starfield really went all out. Is this... is this still Minecraft?"

Lü Zhenghao's shout rang in their ears as he came over and jumped excitedly in front of them.

Chen Ze's mouth twitched when he saw Lü Zhenghao. He had changed his character skin, and instead of a humanoid one like theirs, it was... an egg.

His head was an egg, and his character's body looked like a chicken nest.

Good grief, no wonder Lü Zhenghao calls himself danking. He really made himself an egg to play with.

Likewise, the other three had changed their skins too.

Teacher Ma had made a character with eight-pack abs, Xiao Dingdang had chosen a blue cat, and Qiezi had made a bearded middle-aged man.

So I'm the only one who didn't change skins, and I'm still Steve, huh?

Seeing Lü Zhenghao getting ready to run off and play, Chen Ze hurriedly called out, "Dan, don't run off yet. Let's introduce ourselves first. Some of the livestream viewers might not know everyone."

Hearing Chen Ze, Lü Zhenghao jumped back, his egg head bobbing.

The five stood in a row, and Chen Ze switched straight to third-person view to look at them.

Standing in the middle, he jumped, waved, and said, "Hello, everyone, I'm Chen Ze."

"I'm Dan King. You can call me God Dan."

"You're a god again? Hello, everyone, I'm Xiaodingdang XDD."

"I'm Wuhu~ Da Sima."

"Hello, everyone, I'm Qiezi."

They jumped and waved as they introduced themselves one by one. With the woods behind them and the light and shadows in the sky, it had a distinctive feeling of friends meeting up.

By then, Lü Zhenghao had already taken off running. He wanted to see how this world differed from the normal version.

Da Sima, meanwhile, opened his inventory and examined the crafting section on the right.

There were a lot of things in the crafting section. Seeing that there were nearly a hundred pages of craftable items, Da Sima couldn't help exclaiming, "Wuhu! There are so many items!"

Xiao Dingdang also noticed the change in the item list. Compared with the vanilla game, this one had 76 pages of items, several times more than the original.

With so many things, what about the achievements?

With that thought, Xiao Dingdang opened the achievement list to take a look.

An achievement list that looked like a towering tree appeared before him.

"Holy crap, guys, look at the achievement list! There... there are way too many!"

Chen Ze opened the achievement list and saw the same enormous chart. Shocked, he stared with his mouth wide open.

These achievements... there are so many.

He thought for a moment, then said, "How about this, guys? What if we make this achievement tree our goal?"

"No problem, let's tackle the achievement tree!"

"We've got this."

Everyone hit it off immediately. Seeing this, Chen Ze quickly said, "In that case, how about we divide up the work?"

"Divide up the work? What do you mean, A-Ze?"

"I'll handle building. I don't think I'm very good at exploring, so you guys can explore and mine while you're at it. How's that?"

"No problem. ×4"

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