More and more "post-90s" have become the younger generation of entrepreneurs, who tear off labels and redefine; They are eclectic and dare to break through, painting a different entrepreneurial color. 94-year-old Zhi Yuhao is committed to doing a rare metaverse adventure game project in China, which is something he is fighting for and passionate about. In this issue of "Science Innovation Star Says", we approach Zhi Yuhao, the founder of Shaanxi One Zero Island Technology Co., Ltd., to see his "adventure journey" in the field of meta-universe games.
Company Profile
Founded in October 2022, Shaanxi One Zero Island Technology Co., Ltd. is an innovative technology company focusing on the field of metaverse games. The company has a total of 11 people, including a young team of returnees with masters, senior programmers and fresh graduates. The team is currently working on a large-scale metaverse platform full of adventure, fun, and combat elements. Using advanced technologies such as LBS (location-based services), AR (augmented reality), UGC (user-generated content) and AIGC (artificial intelligence generated content), it combines the styles of different places to allow users to create and urban adventures in the game, and aims to turn the city into a large-scale adventure scene full of thrills and excitement.
01 Progressive Growth The game of the brave
Picture left | Zhi Yuhao
Zhi Yuhao's journey to pursue his dreams is also a gradual growth of self-cultivation. Unlike most entrepreneurs' elite school resumes, he was born in 94 and dropped out of junior high school. "Dropping out of school is not because you can't learn well, but because you just want to learn what you like." Perhaps he has been pursuing what he loves. After dropping out of school, he went to work and saved up for his tuition. During this period, I learned many skills such as animation, German, and programming, and even attended overnight school and took the adult self-exam. More than ten years of experience, Zhi Yuhao from being a data clerk, sales, insurance, programmer, to writing scripts, sending web articles, to receiving projects, opening studios, doing film and television, repeated grinding of study and work experience, time brings him accumulation and polishing is full of uncertainty, but it is also in these many changes that he anchors the choice to be loyal to himself, "pursue what he loves." ”
Figure | Zhi Yuhao participated in the 2023 Future Metaverse Innovation Conference
In 2021, the metaverse industry ushered in accelerated development, with major Internet technology giants vying for layout, and domestic manufacturers also accelerating their entry into the market. As a carrier for the integration of the virtual world and the real world, the metaverse contains huge development opportunities. Zhi Yuhao smelled the business opportunity. "Initially, it was influenced by foreign "Pokemon Go" games, and found that there were almost no such games in China, coupled with the concept of the number one player and the rise of Web3, blockchain, Meta, script killing industry, and later paid attention to foreign NFT and chain games, and found that there was a huge gap in the domestic LBS+AR field. I've been a programmer myself, and I thought it would be interesting to combine LBS and AR, borrow from pokemon go's game format and combine script kills to create local cultures in different regions, allowing players to occupy, fight, explore and decrypt in their own cities. Talking about the original intention of starting a business, Zhi Yuhao said frankly.
During the epidemic, he began to try to make the most basic demo, found that this meta-universe game project could be done, and began to form a team and start his entrepreneurial journey. In this "entrepreneurial game" belonging to the brave, Zhi Yuhao opened a new game, his ability and love are still the same, but the difference is that this time he has a lot of side missions outside of his work, although the end of this game is unknown, he is ready to launch this new chapter.
02 Metaverse + Cultural Tourism Explorer's game
From a professional to an entrepreneur, this unknown "adventure" is full of challenges and uncertainties. At that time, Zhi Yuhao was like standing in front of a brand new level. In 2022, he officially established Shaanxi One Zero Island Technology Co., Ltd. "Difficulty in recruiting" became the first hurdle for him to start a business. Due to the relative lack of development talents in the game industry, he could not recruit the right people for a long time, which made him once in trouble. Fortunately, through the joint efforts of multiple recruitment channels, the company's team was finally successfully formed. "There are a total of 11 people in our team, most of whom belong to the post-00s, including returnees with masters, senior programmers, and fresh graduates." Dynamism and creativity are probably the unique hallmarks of this team. In addition to the need to do his own technical research and development, Zhi Yuhao also has to take care of various tedious affairs such as administrative personnel, marketing, business cooperation, etc., and business trips, overtime, and staying up late have become commonplace. Difficulties and setbacks are inevitable, just like this metaverse game developed by the company, slowly grow and accumulate energy in the adventure, so as to continue to advance and harvest different scenery.
Figure | Corporate team
Different from traditional games, this game full of adventure, fun and combat elements independently developed by Zero Wild Island Technology innovatively adopts the metaverse model, using advanced technologies such as LBS (location-based services), AR (augmented reality), UGC (user-generated content) and AIGC (artificial intelligence generated content). Combining the styles and cultural characteristics of different regions, users are free to create and explore the city in the game, and strive to turn the city into a large-scale adventure scene full of thrills and excitement. This is also the first innovative metaverse platform in China to adopt this model. Users can not only solve AR puzzles on the platform to get rewards, but also interactive battles in real scenes, the platform adopts open maps and plots, users can freely explore and accumulate reputation points, when the reputation value of their city reaches a certain level, you can unlock free walking, and at the same time invite foreign players to explore their own cities, get digital collection prop rewards, and bring users a new game experience and adventure fun.
In this game, users will play as intrepid explorers traveling through different parts of the city, solving mysteries, fighting enemies, discovering treasures, and interacting and cooperating with other users. Through real-time LBS technology, game adventures are carried out in the real world, explore every corner of the city, discover hidden secrets and tasks, and open a new immersive "explorer" game in the integration of meta-universe and urban cultural tourism.
Figure | The company won the award
At present, the company has developed and completed the LBS technology based on geographical location, AR image recognition and basic combat system, and has reached cooperation intentions with China Aerospace International Exchange Center. In August this year, the company was invited to attend the "2023 Future Metaverse Innovation Conference" and won the "Metaverse Business Value Potential Award" for its metaverse urban adventure game project.
03 Have enthusiasm and chase dreams by riding the wind
In October 2022, Zhi Yuhao learned about and settled in the Qingkong Science and Technology Innovation Western Innovation Acceleration Center through a friend's introduction. As the first innovation and entrepreneurship service carrier signed by Qin Chuangyuan, it is located in the core bearing area of Qin Chuangyuan's general window, which not only has perfect office facilities, high-quality scientific and technological innovation services, and a strong entrepreneurial atmosphere, but also has various supporting policies to fully empower entrepreneurs and help dreamers. "There are many support policies for enterprises here, and the policies are conveyed in a timely manner. The staff of Qingkong Science and Technology Innovation are very attentive to service, will ask our needs in time, provide accurate help according to needs, really think what the enterprise thinks, according to the needs of the enterprise, the experience of settling here is great! ”
Figure | Central service map
For the future development, he is full of confidence, "At present, the team is fully developing this metaverse game, and if it goes well, it will be officially launched within half a year." At the same time, we are also planning to build a theatrical film around this IP to form a long-term development. It is believed that the advent of this metaverse platform will "detonate" the mainland metaverse industry market.
On the road of chasing his dreams, Zhi Yuhao's every step is solid and powerful, and difficulties are constant, but he has always felt that "love can last a long time." ”