Recently, the 14th China Excellent Game Producer Competition (2022 CGDA) was successfully held, and the results of the awards of the competition were announced. The production team of "Game of Thrones Winter is Coming" under Youzu Network won the "Best Game 3D (Character/Scene) Art Design Award Winner" in the professional category, and the production team of "New Tomb Robbery Notes" won the "Best Game Audio Design Award Excellence Award" in the professional category.
The CGDA Outstanding Game Producer Competition has been held for more than ten consecutive years since 2009, and is a selection competition for outstanding game producers or teams held in China, and it is also the only award issued in the field of game research and development in China, with the purpose of encouraging the development and creation of original Chinese games and recognizing powerful Chinese game development teams or individuals. Youzu's product production team won a number of honors in this competition, which also confirmed the company's outstanding ability in high-quality research and development.
The art quality is excellent, and the "Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming" team won an award in the art design category
"Game of Thrones Winter is Coming" PC version is a next-generation 3D real-time strategy page game self-developed by Wanderers licensed by HBO, the product focuses on portraying the war and chaos in the world of the original "Game of Thrones", and interprets the grudges and feuds on the continent of Westeros. Since its launch in 2019, the product has been recommended by Facebook 6 times in a row. The game production team, which belongs to Youzu's Onigiri Studio, won the "Best Game 3D (Character/Scene) Art Design Award" in the CGDA Competition for its magnificent scene design and vivid character design.
The PC version of "Game of Thrones Winter is Coming" has excellent art performance, on the basis of trying to conform to the original setting, the product has poured a lot of art resources into architectural design and character image, creating high-quality art effects, and the exquisite model almost completely constructs the topography and cultural wonders on the continent of Westeros. At the same time, in the face of massive resource processing, the game still ensures the integrity and smoothness of the whole, which is one of the main reasons for the recognition and praise of players around the world. The game constantly iterates new gameplay and functions, which also ensures the freshness and diversified experience of players.
(Some architectural scenes in the game)
In addition, in terms of character design, the core goal of the production team is to restore the image in the original work as much as possible, including the appearance, clothing, texture, movement, etc. of the face. To this end, the production team has repeatedly studied and observed the original book and spin-off series for a long time. At the same time, on this basis, the production team also carried out appropriate exaggerated artistic processing, such as allowing the "Mother of Dragons" Daenerys to appear with the fire-breathing dragon, which not only conforms to the setting, but also makes the picture have a stronger artistic impact.
(In-game Daenerys and the Dragon character design)
The music performance was outstanding, and the "New Tomb Robbery Notes" team won an award in the audio design category
As an MMO mobile game authorized by the genuine IP of Nanpai Sanshu, the self-developed "New Tomb Robbery Notes" strives to restore the original plot and world view, adds adventure elements to the game, and adopts a unique puzzle-solving gameplay to integrate the collection system, allowing players to experience a new "tomb robbery" world through the exploration of ancient monuments, antique tasting, treasure collection and other links. The game production team belongs to the dragon hunting studio under Youzu Network, adhering to the concept of thinking leap and technological innovation, deeply engaged in content creation, especially in game music, bringing players immersive listening enjoyment. Based on the quality of music creation, the production team also won the "Best Game Audio Design Award of Excellence".
The game music in "New Tomb Robbery Notes" is rich and diverse, and each has its own characteristics, not only Hangzhou City, Corpse Cave and other different scenes have exclusive background music, but also a number of distinctive battle BGMs. The game's combat interface music is based on a passionate key, mixing metallic percussion drum sets and scary PAD sounds, plus some violin sounds and brass music, and the changes of Horn and drum kits in the second half make the mood more uplifting and radical. In addition, some battle music also uses the violin Staccato, and the dissonant partial pitch between the front slide notes makes the whole song more distinctive, and the whole song gradually flattens from fierce; Some battle music The whole drum set is very powerful, and the brass is combined with the drum set in the case of low frequency foot, and the strings are interspersed, with a clear sense of rhythm. These musical designs with nomadic characteristics and distinct artistic atmosphere add a lot to the fantasy and mysterious "tomb robbery" world in the game.
(The game builds a new "tomb robbery" world)
Adhering to the "boutique" game route has always been the focus of Youzu's layout, the company will continue to enhance its innovation ability and technical strength, create high-quality works, invest more high-quality R&D resources in art, music, gameplay, category integration, etc., and strive to achieve more innovative breakthroughs and further enhance the market competitiveness of its self-developed products.