MiHoYo's "Collapse: Starry Railroad" won this award! The 3rd China Game Innovation Competition Announces Games | Innovation | Grand Prize
On July 29th, the 3rd China Game Innovation Competition Awards Ceremony was held in Shanghai, with "Collapse: Starry Sky Railway" selected by MiHoYo and "Egg Party" selected by NetEase winning the Best Innovative Game Award.
This competition has been soliciting more than 150 works since February this year, with participants covering 15 provinces and municipalities across the country. Top enterprises have selected works and there are also outstanding creative works from small and medium-sized teams. At the same time, student developers from universities such as Communication University of China, Zhejiang University, and Shanghai Vancouver Film Academy have applied for more than dozens of game works with novel gameplay. After multiple rounds of evaluation, 15 award-winning works, 4 innovative teams, and 4 innovative individuals were ultimately selected.
In recent years, Chinese original games have kept up with the times and innovated. "Crash: Starry Railroad", which won the Best Innovative Game Award, is a Milky Way adventure strategy game developed by MiHoYo. With outstanding technical skills and audio-visual performance, "Collapse: Starry Sky Railroad" has created one immersive Milky Way scenic spot after another, especially the Chinese style world "Fairy Boat Luofu" based on traditional culture and known as "silk punk" by foreign media, which has received attention and praise from global players.
Collapse: Starry Sky Railway
The gaming industry continuously draws on the nutrients of excellent traditional culture and launches a series of "Chinese style" games that combine production quality and cultural connotations. "Deep in the Peach Blossom Land", which won the Best Innovative Chinese Culture Award, is an ancient and leisurely simulation management game. "The game art style is learned from Wang Ximeng's" Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains ", a painter from the Northern Song Dynasty. This kind of blue-green color is particularly advanced and beautiful, and we hope to showcase the beauty of traditional culture through games." Ye Tian, General Manager of Suzhou 51st District Network Technology Co., Ltd., with a game development team of more than 50 people, developed it for two and a half years. "The original intention was to feel that urbanites have a fast pace of life. We wanted to make a game with a slower pace, working at sunrise and resting at sunset. After the game was launched, its popularity exceeded our expectations." He revealed that in addition to the traditional charm of the art style, the game draws inspiration from intangible cultural heritage and shadow puppetry. "Kunqu Opera, Suzhou Pingtan, and others are all showcased in the game. The 2D side scrolling action game "Journey to the West - Liuli Zhan" won the Best Innovative Art Award. The game adopts a Chinese style comic art style, and draws inspiration from old animated films from the Shanghai Film Studio and mythological story comics to restore traditional folk art in the game. It also extracts the style of existing ancient murals from Yongle Palace, Fahai Temple, and other places.
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"There is a family deep in the Peach Blossom Land"
Lilith's game "High Beam 84" won the Best Innovative Art Award for its iconic artistic style. The relevant person in charge introduced that the game cleverly combines realistic style with American cartoon style, making the overall scene appear bright despite being desolate. In April this year, the game quickly attracted a large number of players after its overseas launch. After being online for over a month, it entered the top 10 of iOS and Google Play free and action game charts in multiple countries and regions; In the Philippines and Brazil regions, it even topped the double list. Meng Hao, the producer of Far East 84, also won the Best Innovative Individual Award in this competition.
High beam 84
The game "Fantasy Tower" won the Best Innovation Sail Award. The game has been launched globally in Europe, America, Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, and other regions. On the day of its launch, it topped the iOS download charts in 36 countries and regions, and entered the top ten in 122 countries and regions, achieving good social and economic benefits.
Fantasy Tower
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To encourage game works with strong social value, which play a significant role in learning knowledge, stimulating creativity, expanding teaching, simulating management, training skills, adjusting behavior, and cultivating good qualities, the China Game Innovation Competition has established the "Best Innovative Social Value Award". This award was won by "Health Defense War" and "Star Life Park". Among them, "Health Defense War" starts from the perspective of health science popularization, integrating the fight against human immune mechanisms and invading pathogens into various fun new gameplay, and translating complex health knowledge in a simplified and fun form. Star Life Paradise is the first autism assisted training game in Chinese Mainland, which is the exploration and practice of innovative application of the game in the field of autism education and training.
Star Life Paradise
The China Game Innovation Competition is guided by the China Audio Video and Digital Publishing Association, hosted by the China Game Industry Research Institute, supported by the Shanghai Municipal Press and Publication Bureau and the Jing'an District People's Government, and organized by EasyPlay Network Technology Co., Ltd. and the Shanghai Online Game Industry Association. It is co organized by companies such as Boke Technology and Giant Network.
The complete list of winners in the 3rd China Game Innovation Competition:
Best Innovative Game Award
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"Collapse: Starry Sky Railroad" and "Egg Party"
Best Innovative Art Award
Journey to the West - Glass Pot and Far Light 84
Best Innovative Design Award
"The Battle of the Golden Shovel" and "Alia's Reflection"
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Best Innovative Music Sound Effects Award
Fire Ring and Heartbeat Town
Best Innovative Social Value Function Award
"Health Defense War" and "Star Life Paradise"
Best Innovative Chinese Culture Award
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"There is a family deep in the Peach Blossom Land"
Best Innovation Going Global Award
"Collapse: Starry Sky Railway" and "Fantasy Tower" Software Technology Development Co., Ltd
Best Innovation Academy Work Award
"Light and Shadow Puzzle" and "Song Yan Xing"
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Best Innovative Individual Award
Guo Liang, Jiang Wei, Meng Hao, Xiao Peng
Best Innovation Team Award
TapTap team, Pok City "Game+Medical" team, Egg Party team, Tencent Interactive Entertainment Social Value Exploration Center