2024 China Game Industry Annual Conference: Technology empowers native games, Hongmeng ecology is full of innovation

Dec 14 2024

From February 12th to December 13th, the 2024 China Game Industry Annual Conference was grandly held in Beijing. The conference was held with the theme of "raising the sail of culture and jointly creating games to go overseas." With the theme of "New Chapter", many people from the government were invited to Authoritative figures from the government, academia, and industry jointly drew up a blueprint for the development of the game industry on its new journey. At the same time, Huawei Game Center also held the Hongmeng Game Industry Forum, which focused on "joining hands to welcome new opportunities, share innovative services, and create together." The theme of "Excellent Gaming Experience" attracted the active participation of more than 150 game manufacturer representatives.

"Ten years of sharpening a sword, Hongmeng Forging is independently controllable A full-scenario intelligent operating system. "Zhang Sijian, Vice President of Huawei Terminal Cloud Global Ecosystem Development and Sales Department, delivered a speech at the main forum titled "Technology empowers native games and the Hongmeng Ecosystem is flourishing and moving forward." He said that the Hongmeng Ecosystem has taken root down to the root and has been fully developed. Breaking through the core technology of the operating system, Huawei Game Center will work with partners to create a Hongmeng Garden of high-quality games.

HarmonyOS NEXT is newly upgraded, saving over 80% of native Harmony game development time

As a pan-terminal operating system for the all-scenario intelligent era, HarmonyOS NEXT has achieved independent research and development and comprehensive renewal in every aspect from the operating system kernel, file system to programming language, compiler and other aspects, laying a solid technical foundation for the construction of Hongmeng ecology, while also bringing native refinement and native interconnection to users. , native intelligence, native security and native smooth ultimate experience

HarmonyOS NEXT introduces a new distributed soft bus technology to achieve natural and insensitive cross-end collaboration, reducing power consumption by 20% and increasing connection speed by 3 times. The new Xiaoyi intelligent body is based on the Pangu large model and supports 23. Top-like scenario interaction, reasoning planning task success rate exceeds 90%. Security is Hongmeng’s core DNA, and the new Star Shield security architecture ensures the reliability of applications and meta-service sources from the source, providing players with a safer gaming environment.

For game developers, HarmonyOS The NEXT system upgrade also brings a lot of convenience. All aspects of the industry chain such as mainstream game engines, third-party self-developed engines, SDKs and plug-ins have completed native Hongmeng adaptation. Huawei has complete system and tool chain support, as well as a professional team of more than 200 people. With the support of on-site and training, the Hongmeng game adaptation time is greatly shortened, and the adaptation and development verification can be completed in 2 weeks. Compared with complete adaptation from scratch, the current development time of native Hongmeng games is saved by more than 80%.

Innovation in software, hardware, and cloud technologies promotes improved experience, making Hongmeng native games smoother and more fun

With the continuous upgrading and innovation of HarmonyOS NEXT, Hongmeng native Games are gradually showing their unique charm and infinite possibilities. Based on Hongmeng full scene and system-level AI technologies, Hongmeng native games bring players a smoother and more fun gaming experience.

Technical collaboration and innovation of software, hardware, terminal and cloud have promoted The improved native game experience makes game graphics clearer, full-frame battles last longer, and games load faster. With the support of the Ark graphics engine, Huawei’s latest Mate 70. Game performance on the Pro+ mobile phone has once again achieved a breakthrough. Compared with the previous generation model, the startup speed is increased by 52%, and the average frame rate is increased by 31%. The use of distributed technology breaks down the barriers between terminal devices, making multi-device connection an easy task. Possibly. For example, "Happy Fishing Master" integrates cross-terminal collaborative interactive gameplay with watches and smart screens, allowing players to fish and enjoy the fun of fishing in the living room at home;Field sensing technology enables the function of quickly initiating game team invitations with the touch of a mobile phone, making the interaction between players more convenient; "Beach Landing 3D" applies the remote control's coherent pointing technology to gun-type peripherals. And connected to large-screen devices, it brings players a more realistic and immersive shooting experience.

Hongmeng ecological development is changing with each passing day. As of now, more than 15,000 native applications and meta-services have been launched. More than 200 game partners have joined Hongmeng cooperation, and more than 1,800 have been launched. With a variety of Hongmeng native games, Huawei Game Center is working with partners to create Hongmeng Garden of high-quality games.

Full link empowers the commercialization process and accelerates the prosperity of high-quality content

Huawei also provides tens of billions of full-scenario and full-media publicity resources to better promote user reach and conversion online for high-quality games. Dual-end distribution in the application market and game center accurately reaches 230 million game players; offline, through new product launches, more than 5,000 stores and other core business district resources, online and offline marketing linkage breaks the game circle and helps good games to be more popular

In addition, based on Huawei's global resources and localized operational support, Huawei has also joined hands with domestic game partners to export high-quality games and Chinese culture to benefit the world. More game players. Currently, the game is distributed in more than 170 countries and regions around the world, with 5 major regional operation centers, and the cumulative revenue of overseas partners exceeds 10 billion.

For Hongmeng ecological partners, the Huawei Game Center incentive program continues to upgrade, covering all scenarios and all categories of high-quality games. As of now, there are more than 1,000 partners. A number of games have received ecological incentives worth more than 900 million yuan, further accelerating the commercialization of native games and the prosperity of the high-quality game content ecosystem.

"As an open, innovative and win-win new ecosystem , Hongmeng will provide an important engine and driving force for the high-quality development of the gaming industry. "As Zhang Sijian said, Huawei will work with more developers and partners to build a new Hongmeng ecosystem, create new opportunities for Hongmeng, and jointly promote the further prosperity and development of the game industry.