On November 26, 2022, the 18th China International Cartoon and Animation Festival? Mengmeng Cup? International Game Creativity Competition concluded successfully at the Hangzhou International Expo Center. As an influential game creativity competition in the industry, 14 teams were shortlisted for the finals of this year's "Mengmeng Cup" with their own game works. The competition invited a number of industry veterans to form a strong judging panel. Under the selection and guidance of professional judges, "The Record of a Floating Life" won the "Best Game" in the college group, and "Eternal Regret", "Pipa Xing Green Treasure Chronicles", "Poetry" and "Oracle Bone Travels" won respectively It won the "Best Gameplay Award", "Best Art Award", "Best Innovation Award", and "Best Narrative Award" organized by colleges and universities. "Shu Dao Xing" and "Mantra" won the "Best Art" and "Best Innovation" in the professional group respectively.
This competition has the theme of "National Style Casting Beauty" and inspired a large number of people. The game creativity of the national style has also led to the growth of the young game design team. As the initiator of the competition, Dianhun Network is trying to explore a new development path for the Chinese game industry that integrates the national culture and digital technology in the collision of games and creativity. Path.
The China International Cartoon and Animation Festival covers animation, comics, music, COS, games and other fields. After eighteen years of development, it has developed into a business card of Hangzhou’s digital interactive entertainment industry. Representative of a local game company in Hangzhou, Dianhun Network has a close relationship with the China International Cartoon and Animation Festival. This year’s E-Soul booth is divided into an e-sports experience area and a stage performance area, focusing on the "Dream Three Kingdoms 2" and "Dream" independently developed by Dianhun Network. Products such as "Three Kingdoms Mobile Game", "Spiral Warriors", "My Knight", and "Barbarian Wars 2" are full of national style elements, attracting many animation and game enthusiasts to stop and watch.
One of the highlights of this animation festival? The 2022 Mengmeng Cup International Game Creativity Competition was successfully held on November 26. The judges included university digital media experts, the founder of Animation Space, and the person in charge of game research and development. We will consider the entries based on the creativity, art style, gameplay and other dimensions of the work, and judge the degree of fit between each work and the theme of the competition "National Style and Beauty" as well as the intention of cultural inheritance, and make a collective score and comprehensive selection to strive for fairness. Fairly select high-quality creative works.
Next year, the Hangzhou Asian Games will be held in Hangzhou. The Chinese style MOBA product "Dream Three Kingdoms 2" independently developed by Dianhun Network has been selected as the official e-sports competition of the Hangzhou Asian Games. . In order to further unleash the potential of "Chinese style" games, Dianhun Network has set the theme of this "Mengmeng Cup" as "Chinese style builds beauty" to encourage young game developers to develop games around traditional Chinese style culture.
With the rise of the post-90s generation, "cultural self-confidence" has become a trend that cannot be ignored in China. Chinese cultural elements have begun to go abroad and go to the world. As the "ninth art", games have great influence on culture. The promotion effect of "Mengmeng Cup" is based on the theme of "National Style Builds Beauty", and its original intention is to consolidate the foundation of "National Style Games" from the bottom up and accumulate strength for the spread of Chinese culture.
It can be seen from the works in the finals of this "Mengmeng Cup" that the young people participating are not only capable of programming, art, and designing complex and novel gameplay, but also can deeply explore traditional Chinese culture. "Pipa" as the plot framework, some use the ancient drama "The Palace of Eternal Life" grafted with modern technology; some use Miao folk music as the core, some use Chinese classical gardens as the theme; some lead players to explore the esoteric classical oracle bone culture, and some It makes players dream back to the era of ancient poetry with harmonious rhythms. From Taoist culture to ancient Shu culture, this generation of young game producers have a deeper and broader understanding of traditional Chinese culture than most people imagine.
It is worth mentioning that as the Hangzhou Asian Games gets closer and closer, the sports, competitions, and Hangzhou local elements it contains have also become loved and adopted by the works of each team in this competition. elements. This fully proves that young Chinese game developers can not only inherit traditions and appreciate the national style, but also advance with the times and keep up with current events.
This "Mengmeng Cup" competition has seen the emergence of many young and outstanding game production teams. Through the journey of "Mengmeng Cup", they not only gained honors, but more importantly, accumulated practical experience.
The best game in the college group of this final, "The Record of a Floating Life", was produced by a small studio team from Zhuhai College of Beijing Institute of Technology. The person in charge said that during the process of participating in the Mengmeng Cup, the team's tacit understanding and cooperation have been greatly improved, and more efficient development processes and professional skills have been found.
The best game in the college group "The Record of a Floating Life"
The team leader also believes that the "Mengmeng Cup" provides a communication and display platform for game production enthusiasts, whether it is The exchanges between this year's participating teams and the display of previous years' works left a deep impression on them and inspired a lot of inspiration.
To stimulate the growth of young teams is the original intention of the creation of "Mengmeng Cup". For Dianhun Network, the Mengmeng Cup is not only a competition, but also an incubation platform. The final on November 26 is not the end, but another starting point.
The teams participating in this final, whether winning or not, firmly stated that they will continue to improve their games.
Dianhun Network will also provide tens of millions of resources for outstanding entries in the Mengmeng Cup, including site incubation, technical support, team formation, distribution operations, project investment, etc., to empower outstanding creative projects. It can help solve various problems encountered in the process from demo to official launch of the game. In previous editions of the Mengmeng Cup, high-quality original game works were selected through competitions, and many game talents were discovered, providing opportunities for outstanding players such as internships, interviews, employment, and regularization.
This year’s Mengmeng Cup has come to a successful conclusion, but the emergence and growth of young creative teams is far from over.
In the days to come, Dianhun Network will continue to support the growth of China’s game development reserves and integrate the forces of all parties to jointly promote the prosperity of Chinese-style games. In the collision of games and creativity, we will explore a new development path for the Chinese game industry that integrates national style culture and digital technology.