(Country) – Many games produced by Vietnamese people have made a great impact on the domestic and international game market and thereby creating more foundation for developing pure Vietnamese games in the future.
In recent years, Vietnam’s game market is undergoing a strong transformation to gradually develop into a world-class game industry. In that context, many young programmers and startups with talent and passion for games have designed video games that have made a great impact domestically and internationally.
Not only focusing on building and developing the graphics segment, those games also actively put in imprints with Vietnamese cultural identity to create a foundation for the development of more “made in Vietnam” games in the future. future.
Here, let’s take a look at the games created by Vietnamese people that make the Vietnamese and international gaming community take their hat off.
Many games produced by Vietnamese people are highly appreciated by the international community
Free Fire
After more than 5 years of development, Free Fire has achieved many great achievements and created a fever with gamers not only in Vietnam but also in many countries around the world. However, few people know that this globally famous survival game was first released by the Vietnamese. Initially, the game was called Free Fire: Battle Royal and was produced by 111Dots Studio – a Vietnamese game development company.
Free Fire’s newly released interface
Launched in the fever of survival shooters, Free Fire was the first mobile battle royale game to appear in Vietnam and quickly created a great buzz at that time. Right when it was first released, Free Fire was impressed by its simple gameplay and vivid visuals, but because it has only deployed two phases, Alpha Test and Open Beta Test, Free Fire has not yet attracted many people. play. Until Garena bought it and became the official publisher, Free Fire has built many servers around the world, including Vietnam.
Free Fire has built many different servers and attracted a large number of gamers around the world
Despite facing a lot of competition from games of the same genre, Free Fire still knows how to build its own strengths and achieve many great feats such as: reaching the revenue milestone of 1 billion USD, 1 billion downloads on Google Play, hit a record 150 million players in a day. This achievement is achieved not only by Garena’s great potential, but also by 111Dots Studio’s efforts in developing and updating the game. In particular, they and Garena continue to release a version with higher graphics quality, Free Fire Max.
Free Fire Max is the version with higher graphics quality
Flappy Bird
Launched in mid-2013, Flappy Bird was created in just a few days by Vietnamese game designer Nguyen Ha Dong, but has quickly become a global gaming phenomenon. The gameplay of Flappy Bird is quite simple when you just need to control the bird to fly through the endless green pipes without crashing into them. However, that has become a factor that attracts players and even Flappy Bird is considered an “addictive game”.
Flappy Bird has quickly created a worldwide fever
From those initial successes, Flappy Bird quickly became the most downloaded mobile game in both the App Store and Google Play in 2014. Besides, the game also brought Nguyen Ha Dong billions of dong each. from advertising as well as appearing widely in domestic and foreign media. In particular, Flappy Bird also brought the reputation of the Vietnamese game village to hundreds of countries around the world.
Flappy Bird has brought Vietnamese games to make a big impression on the world game market
However, Flappy Bird was taken down by Nguyen Ha Dong himself on the App Store and Google Play stores in February 2014. According to him, this decision comes from the game’s destruction of a simple life. own. The sudden removal of Flappy Bird made the community very sad, but “The Flappy Bird” has left remarkable milestones and later appeared many “follow-up” games of Flappy Bird.
Splashy Fish – a game with gameplay similar to Flappy Bird
God Worm
As a game of the horror genre, Than Trung attracts the attention of gamers when integrating a Vietnamese spiritual theme. The game is developed by DUT Studio – a game production team consisting of well-known streamers in the community such as Dung CT, Vu Hay Ho and Dat Oc. According to the sharing of DUT Studio members, the staff is not professional programmers and mainly tinkers with where to go. However, the game has made the whole Vietnamese game village eager to experience when it just released the first trailer.
Famous streamer Dung CT is in the game development team Than Trung
Entering the world of God Worm, the player will play the role of a young man in the journey to decipher the puzzles that the game poses, and at the same time have to flee before the pursuit of the female ghost. With each puzzle solved, the player will step by step uncover the secret hidden behind and thereby escape the haunted inn. In particular, the game also has very Vietnamese details such as newspapers, floor tiles, signs, hangers, flashlights…
A paper newspaper bearing Vietnamese characteristics appears in Than Trung
Currently, the demo of Than Trung is available on the Steam platform and is more upgraded than the previous trailer. Although there are many “hotels”, Than Trung still receives positive reviews from players, especially the well-built visuals and plot. In addition, many fans are also looking forward to DUT Studio to release the complete version so that gamers have the opportunity to fully experience the game.
Than Trung has just released the demo but has already received many positive reviews
Flower
Launched in August 2021, Hoa is a puzzle game developed by Skrollcat Studio – a Vietnamese indie game development team. Despite being the first product, the game has made a strong impression on international gamers because of its bright and artistic graphics, and many people even compare the game’s context to a Japanese cartoon. Ghibli that gamers can directly experience.
The graphics of Hoa are compared with the films of the famous Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli
Hoa’s gameplay is not complicated when players will be transformed into a little fairy and embark on a journey to discover many new lands. The highlight of the game is the slow-paced but extremely attractive part, the melodious background music and the appearance of countless lovely designed creatures. All these factors make players feel like they are immersed in a poetic, peaceful but extremely magical space.
Flowers bring relaxation to players
Obviously, the developer Skrollcat Studio has chosen a simple and easy gameplay to help the game reach more gamers. Besides, Hoa also opens a new direction for the indie game series in Vietnam when the domestic game market is still focusing on developing multiplayer genres like FPS or MOBA.
Hoa is a breakthrough for Indie game series in Vietnam
It can be seen that the games created by Vietnamese people are equally attractive and attractive as international ones. However, the creation and development of games still face many difficulties in terms of both human resources and economy, especially for small studios. Therefore, the domestic game market needs to have the right recognition and investment so that “made in Vietnam” games have the opportunity to develop and compete fairly with the world, especially when the industry’s potential is high. Games in Vietnam are extremely large.
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