It's also the direction TiMi Studios strives hard to pursue. For game makers like us, it's always been our dream. And games like this will likely lead the direction of the whole industry. Games like this have to solve a lot of issues which are considered worldwide challenges regarding design, production, and technology.
"In order to gain a bigger chance of success, you have to make games that players feel are one step ahead of the best game on the current market. "It's far more important for game developers, no matter where they come from, to understand 'the future' than 'the West' or 'the East,'" he says. He says that the games market is globalized, and that good games "transcend borders." However, despite somewhat of an international divide existing in the past, Gao says that TiMi Studios and Tencent don't really think about game design as something divided by national boundaries. "It's far more important for game developers, no matter where they come from, to understand 'the future' than 'the West' or 'the East'" Vincent Gao As a result, Chinese game makers now have a competitive development capability in the globalized market." "The world-leading mobile game market leads to world-leading mobile game development investment. "It's wholly driven by the market," he says.
Speaking to via email, TiMi Studios international director Vincent Gao attributes the recent interest in Chinese games in the West to the considerable growth that the development scene in China has seen in recent years. Some of this might be attributed to the fact that awareness of Chinese-developed games has only recently been on the rise in Western markets despite the massive numbers of players and spending involved, with titles like Pascal's Wager and Genshin Impact bringing considerable buzz in 2020. Former Ubisoft and EA exec Scott Warner will operate as studio head, while former DICE product director Rosi Zagortcheva will take the role of Head of Operations.Despite being one of the most popular and highest-grossing games of all time, still topping mobile revenue charts five years after launch, Honor of Kings (also known under its Western release title, Arena of Valor) hasn't gotten quite the media buzz overseas that its revenue numbers might imply. TiMi Studios has already seen success with the development of Call of Duty: Mobile for Activision, a hugely successful release that raked in almost $500 million USD in its first year of release.Īs for the studio itself, the new digs will be located in the Bellevue district and will house around 25 staff members once it opens its doors later in 2021. The unnamed game will also be a games-as-service title, which shouldn’t come as a surprise to anybody. The new studio’s first project, as reported by, is expected to be a large-scale shooter for multiple platforms. TiMi Studios, the Tencent subsidiary responsible for mobile money-magnet Honor of Kings, has announced its intention to open a new branch in Seattle, Washington, from where it plans to design and develop games for the big-budget “AAA” game market.
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