🗝️ Bosskey Newsletter 24 - Black Myth Wukong AAA debut, Steam Platform Updates, Impact of Gacha Games on RPGs
# 🗝️ Bosskey Newsletter #3 Things: 1 🎮 Game news, 1 🔎 Interesting Find, 1 📱Social Post. Written by a Part Time Indie Game Dev
Hello Everyone,
This week #3 things from Bosskey:
Black Myth Wukong made a big debut with its AAA action game debut and now there are band tie ins.
Steam has quite a lot of updates that might impact Indie Devs.
Lastly sharing a good writeup written by
on Gacha gaming impact on Mainstream JRPGs
🎮 Game News
Black myth WuKong has take AAA gaming with a big swing debut propelling AAA Games made in China. The game is already in the top Steam Charts.
From a once unknown china developer Game Science, now in the spotlight China Gaming industry might have a shift from making mobile F2P games like Genshin Impact to AAA Single player games.
Chinese firms like Tencent and NetEase, which have invested heavily in Western studios to gain AAA development expertise, may now focus more on nurturing domestic talent and IPs. It is a shift that promises a more diverse and competitive global gaming market, with Chinese developers establishing themselves as leaders in both mobile and PC gaming realms. via Super Joost
Besides the big launch, Brand Deals are also being done with the game with PC Lenovo and Luckin Coffee.
Ahead of Tuesday's release of China's first AAA video game, Black Myth: Wukong, Chinese brands are rushing to link themselves to the highly anticipated title through partnerships and product tie-ins.
Lenovo Group, Luckin Coffee and Didi Bike are among those giving their products a design makeover drawing inspiration from what could become China's first blockbuster game to become a global hit, generating excitement among domestic gamers.
Via https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-first-aaa-game-black-093000699.html
I do remember a time when i was a younger child, during Chinese studies about this legend from China. I did watch a production about the Monkey King but it was laughable. Looks like this game has really propelled chinese culture and legends. Maybe It’s a good step up for the gaming industry there, I did remeber China trying to get into animation as a cultural export but looks like video games might be the way to go.
Links and Reviews
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2358720/Black_Myth_Wukong/
IGN: https://www.ign.com/articles/knowing-this-lore-makes-black-myth-wukong-way-more-enjoyable
📱Social Post
Gacha Gaming Impact on RPGs
Gacha gaming or Free to Play has taken off in recent times thanks to games like Genshin Impact gaining popularity worldwide.
In this article by
he goes about how these Gacha Games make it accessible for players who might not have a lot of cash, the game design and their monetisation methods good and bad.Gacha gaming are taking over traditional JRPS like FInal Fantasy, reading this looks like old JRPG games might be falling the wayside. if they want to attract new audiences it might have been a F2P game.
I do love the old JRPG games but they might not be that financially accessible to all, but a modern Final Fantasy Game might be a Gacha game like Genshin Impact, instead and Square Enix might have missed it.
Links Further Reading on Gacha Gaming
🔎 Interesting Finds
Steam Platform updates for Devs
Whale making a steam page saw this updates in my email and on YouTube. Steam to me is both How to market a game and Belluar News talk about these changes.
This is also gone into greater details by Chris Zukowski of HTMAG on the changes and its impact to indie devs.
Here is the short of it:
Demos get their own page
Not sure how this will affect new games but getting demos as a page can help with seeing how a game can potentially do and it can be its own marketing. That means indie devs have to release a demo for their marketing efforts.
Removal of Links and IFRAME in Store page Description
Store Page will just be a store page you cannot add links. Chris Z goes through this in detail and one strategy Indie Devs used as they keep releasing games is to promote the new game on the old popular game.
I do feel that Steam is trying to moderate some abuses especially spam link, but it’s actually a good way to get visibility if you have released manay games by interlinking them. you may need to build up your own website and othe rplaces to promote your steam game
User reviews moderation New helpfullness System
Steam will be prioritising Informative reviews ont heir platform so that customers will make informed decisions on the game they are going to purchase. So low quality reviews might get pushed down if it does not seem to help with a purchase.
Watch here to listen to belluar news for their summary on steam changes.
Links
Thanks for including my work in your article!
China has been really pushing into the gaming market. Black myth is great! Have u seen lost soul aside? This should be another killer from a chinese developer.