Black Fantasy: Wukong Ignites Cultural Revival Amongst Chinese language Youth with Document-Breaking Launch

A picture of Son Wukong from the Chinese language sport ‘Black Fantasy: Wukong (悟空)’. Picture = Supplied by the reporter

[신화망 타이위안 8월21일] The Chinese language sport “Black Fantasy: Wukong (悟空)” was formally launched on the twentieth and is inflicting an unprecedented stir amongst Chinese language youth.

“Black Fantasy: Wukong” is a Chinese language AAA sport, which reached an all-time excessive of over 1.2 million pre-orders inside a month of its launch. The sport is predicated on Son Wukong, a symbolic character from “Journey to the West”, one of many 4 main Chinese language classical novels and infrequently tailored into TV sequence, motion pictures, and video games through the years.

On August 20, 2020, the primary video for “Black Fantasy: Wukong” was launched on China’s main video platform Bilibili (嗶哩嗶哩∙Bilibili) and acquired greater than 10 million views in simply 24 hours.

Final 12 months, China was thought-about the world’s largest market with sport gross sales exceeding 300 billion yuan (about 18.7 trillion gained).

Recreation Science, the corporate behind “Black Fantasy: Wukong,” spent years taking pictures video at historic and cultural websites throughout China to create an immersive, world-class sport. Then, utilizing 3D scanning expertise, historical buildings, statues, and sculptures had been uploaded into the real-time 3D creation device Unreal Engine 5, laying the muse for a surreal expertise.

A scene from the Chinese language sport “Black Fantasy: Wukong (悟空)”. Picture = Supplied by the reporter

Han Xiao, a lecturer on the Academy of Chinese language Language and Literature on the China College of Overseas Economics and Commerce, stated that the mixture of conventional tradition and interactive video games can curiosity younger folks at house and overseas in Chinese language tradition. He added: “Not solely are you able to benefit from the sport itself, however you can even use it as a method to discover Chinese language tradition and talk with younger customers.”

Individuals who visited “Gamescom 2023” held in Cologne, Germany on August 23 final 12 months are experiencing video games on the Recreation Science sales space. (Picture/Xinhua Information Company)

Feng Ji (馮驥), CEO of You Shikeshe and producer of “Black Fantasy: Wukong,” stated, “We plan to constantly launch the Black Fantasy sequence sooner or later in order that extra customers can benefit from the fantastic and profound conventional tradition.”

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