Draft:Yuan Meng Star
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| Developer(s) | 腾讯天美工作室群 |
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| Engine | 虚幻4 |
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| Mode(s) | 多人 |
《Yuan Meng Star 》is a party game developed by Tencent, which will be launched on Android and iOS platforms on December 15, 2023. The game art is designed in the style of "cute and weird" and "cute". The gameplay has racing, survival, cooperation and shooting elements. It also has a built-in map editor, allowing players to create maps. Developer Tencent attaches importance to this project and invested 1.4 billion yuan in the first phase of the project launch. Some media commentators praised the gameplay, map editor and art design of the game, but some commentators doubted whether the game could maintain its user viscosity and long-term development of content ecology.
How to play
[edit]《Yuan Meng Star 》is a party game. The game is designed in cartoon style, and the game characters are dolls in doll clothes. The core gameplay of this game has elements of racing, survival, cooperation and shooting. Players can complete the game by finding map shortcuts through relevant game operations in overweight, weightless and other game environments. The game emphasizes social gameplay and designs many interactive functions between players, such as following players to move, playing the piano and other gameplays. The top three of the game will be announced at the end of the game, and the level record will be set next to the level to maintain the player's game image. And the game has built-in video and music players. User-generated content (UGC)" is one of the core gameplays of the game. Players can use visual editing tools to create game maps with different gameplays. The game also has built-in artificial intelligence to assist players in map editing. It can also customize the value and appearance of game props, edit game plots, or edit character images.
Develop
[edit]《Yuan Meng Star》is developed by Tencent Games and belongs to TiMi Studio Group. The map editing gameplay of the game is produced by the Unreal Engine. Developers do not take party games as the development goal of the product, and try to integrate elements of the metaverse into the product. The initial investment of the game is 1.4 billion yuan to serve relevant event players, game map creators and game content creators on media platforms. Tencent also announced that there would be no upper cap on the later investment of the game. Compared with other similar products, the commercial content of this work is more affordable. Developers attract players by restraining the commercialization process of the game. The game 《Dead by Daylight》 provides guidance for the design of the gameplay "King, Don't Catch Me".
Publicity and distribution
[edit]《Yuan Meng Star》began the reservation activity on September 19, 2023, and landed on Android and iOS platforms on December 15 of the same year. The similar product 《Egg Party》is its competitor. The game obtained the publication number issued by the State Administration of Press and Publication in January 2023 and qualified for distribution in mainland China. Tencent used the word "family party game" to describe its product positioning and attached great importance to the publicity of the product: at the beginning of the release of this game, Tencent announced that it planned to invest 1 billion yuan to reward excellent game map authors, and announced the linkage with 《Honor of Kings》, 《Human:Fall Flat 》and 《Kung Fu Panda》, and obtained the genuine authorization of 《Fall Guys》. The game has placed a large number of advertisements on the functions of "official account" and "video account" of WeChat, a product under the developer Tencent, for publicity and established a game wiki, which attracted some players' comments. On March 31, 2024, the game developer held an e-sports event of the game in Super Brand Mall. On February 24, 2024, this work appeared on the relevant program of China Central Television's program "2024 Lantern Festival Gala" and carried out advertising. Tencent also carried out some Public interest in the name of this game, funding some schools in Luan ping County, Hebei Province, China to improve teaching conditions.
Evaluation and response
[edit]Game commentators Isaac and Xian Pei both think that the gameplay of Yuanmeng Star is rich. Isaac also said that the map editor function of the game is perfect and makes reasonable use of the current trend of user-generated content gameplay. The media commentators Yan Jinyan and Isaac also jointly praised the gameplay of this work and expressed their expectations for the future development of Yuanmeng Star. But they are uncertain whether the game can maintain its user viscosity and long-term development of content ecology. Commentator Grey Pigeon said that the game's product positioning "Hejiahuan" is conducive to expanding the player audience and has advantages. In terms of art, Youzi.com uses the words "cute and weird" and "cute" to describe its picture and character design. Chen Jing, a commentator of the media, believes that the game has potential and has made progress in building the metaverse. Chen Jing and Dong Hangye of Touch Music, and Media Game Daguan all mentioned that the game operation is simple and easy to get started. Dong Hangye praised the map creation gameplay of the game and called it "the future of the party game UGC". Some players of this game uploaded the game map created by the players of Egg Party in the game, which caused some controversy. In March 2024, NetEase, the developer of Egg Party, sued some maps in this game for plagiarism. In response, Tencent removed the map from the shelves.
Popularity
[edit]In the first month of its launch, Yuanmeng Star gained 80 million users, and players created tens of millions of game maps. Three months after its launch, the game gained a total of 129 million users. From the release of the game to January 1, 2024, the game entered the top ten of the best-selling list of the App store.