140 people behind the black myth Wukong: Huake alumni led the team, and the core team cooperated for an average of more than 10 years

The team size is only 140 people, how to create a domestic top 3A masterpiece?

It's too hot, it's too hot, it's just burning~

The development team behind the game science has also begun to attract a lot of attention. As a result, it was revealed that the team size is currently only a hundred people. Compared with the tens of thousands of employees abroad, isn't it all elite?!

As a result, there was a magical phenomenon of "employees being poached like crazy". It was suspected that their employees could not be bothered, so they directly marked themselves on Maimai "Don't bother if you don't look for a job, don't bother if you recruit".

Huake alumni led the team and gave up the postgraduate entrance examination to play games

Feng Ji, founder and CEO of Game Science, became one of the point persons who created "Black Myth: Wukong".

20 years ago, he graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology with a major in biomedical engineering.

In an interview with Xinhua News Agency's "Voice" program, he said that when he was in college, he realized that he was not suitable for his major. (The few things I have in common with my boss)

For the entire four years of college, he was immersed in Blizzard games. When he graduated from college and was preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination, he encountered the domestic public beta of "World of Warcraft", so he decided to give up the postgraduate entrance examination without hesitation.

According to a report in 2017, at that time, because of playing games, I wasted all the money for the postgraduate entrance examination in less than 3 months. With the financial support of my roommate, I persisted for another 8 months. Finally, I was penniless and began to submit my resume to the game company.

Just because he likes to play games, he got a stepping stone in the game industry. Here Feng Ji also specially thanked his parents for buying him a game console when he was very young.

The team's first game project "Baijiang"

In 2008, Feng joined Tencent and served as the main planner of the PC online game "God of War" project.

It is worth mentioning that "God of War" is also a work on the theme of Journey to the West, which was developed by Feng Ji's main creative team for five years. Although the game received a lot of praise when it was first launched, it gradually fell short of expectations, and the number of active people became less and less.

Therefore, in 2014, seven core developers, including Feng Ji, left Tencent to found Game Science.

The team's first game project, Baijiang Xing, was modeled after the only game Feng Ji liked to play at the time, "Legend of Dota". It took them a week to complete the game prototype. In July 2015, they handed it over to NetEase for public beta. But due to heavy user churn in the later game, it was suspended after two years.

Post a project demo video

With the recent appearance of more and more people who have cleared the level of Destiny, some players noticed the end of the game and found that there were a lot of Easter eggs!

More startup details and behind-the-scenes contributors are hidden within.

At present, there are only 140 employees, and the old employer brings money to the door as soon as possible

As of the launch of "Black Myth: Wukong", the game science team participating in the project has gathered 140 people. (excluding departing employees)

Until August 20, 2020, the first trailer of "Black Myth: Wukong" became famous, attracting people and attracting the attention of its old owner, Tencent.

Tencent rushed to invest immediately and received a 5% stake.

In addition to these 140 people, there are more Destiny people behind "Black Myth: Goku".

Hero Games (Hero Entertainment) is a joint producer. As mentioned earlier, it invested in the Angel Round of Game Science in 2017, accounting for 19% of the shares.

Finally, there are 31 people on the special thanks list, including many bosses.

Back then, there was a meme in the circle of "God of War", which was called "There is no Westward Journey after Bone".

Now everyone in the circle is saying: The group of people who most want to travel to the west are back.

The planned "Black Myth" series

"Black Myth: Goku" is just the first installment in the Black Myth series.