Not speculating on coins, not launching chains, one person with #区块链 level of faith broke through the consensus barrier of the global gaming circle.
This is not GameFi; this is MythFi.
👇 This is the story of (Black Myth: Wukong).
🧑💻 A youth addicted to the internet, breaking through the reality dungeon from the internet café
In 2005, Feng Ji was a college student addicted to (World of Warcraft),
To play games, he gave up his master's degree, moved into an internet café, and relied on borrowing money to survive.
Relying on good gaming skills, he got his first game design job.
The real-life 'Play to Earn' has begun.
🧠 At Tencent, he encountered the 'narrative paradox'
The game he was responsible for developing (Demon Battle God) had a cool theme, the Sun Wukong IP, but ultimately went off-track: from fun to pay-to-win.
Like many projects in the crypto circle: the original intention is faith, the ending is 'scamming'.
Feng Ji directly rage quit, left the large factory DAO, and formed his own node.
🛠️ 7-person DAO starting, maintaining cash flow through mobile games
In 2014, Feng Ji and 7 brothers founded 'Game Science'.
They initially made two mobile games, both of which failed.
But they did not give up the narrative, just waiting for the right opportunity.
Waiting for the chain, waiting for the market, waiting for technology to mature.
📈 The waiting dividends have arrived: the number of Chinese players on Steam surged
In 2016, Steam data showed that one-third of global active users came from China.
Feng Ji knew: users were already ready, the technology was mature, it was time to launch the mainnet.
Thus, he began planning that truly domestic AAA single-player masterpiece—(Black Myth: Wukong).
🧑🤝🧑 League of Legends team building, the real Web3 tacit understanding
In 2017, a key node appeared: late-night ranked teammate Wu Dan became an angel investor.
It's not about investing in a business model, it's about investing in faith: $8.5 million for 20% equity.
True on-chain brotherhood.
This money became the fuel to launch the dream project.
🔀 Company business split into two, dual chains running in parallel
Main chain (Dream): Feng Ji personally leads the team to develop AAA games
Subchain (Survival): Continue making mobile games to ensure the team's survival
Doesn't this resemble the cold start of a Web3 project: relying on DeFi to earn and support the chain, using NFTs to link narratives?
🔥 Starting (Black Myth), the team went all in to the core
In 2018, the team officially went all in on AAA development:
Members sold houses, resigned, and had no income for several years
With a budget of $70 million, most of it continued to be invested by Wu Dan
(Journey to the West) all members brushed it more than 100 times
Sun Wukong's modeling exceeded 1.2 billion data points
Field trips to cultural heritage sites, just to pursue extreme restoration
This is the opposite of GameFi: not 'play to earn', but 'create to burn'.
📚 Using 'cultural currency' to reconstruct the world of Journey to the West
They are not making games; they are forging a segment of cultural assets on-chain.
🌊 The process was too difficult, nearly collapsing several times
The team couldn't recruit people, talent was extremely scarce
Unfamiliar with the Unreal Engine, bugs flying everywhere
Two founders described themselves as 'drowning rats' 🐭🐭
If it were a Web3 project, it would have been said that 'the project party has run away' long ago.
But they held on.
📹 A demo video that ignited global attention in the market
In 2020, they released a 13-minute live demonstration:
YouTube views 2 million
Bilibili views 25 million
Received 10,000 resumes
Tencent subscribed to 5% equity
The team expanded to 140 people
Originally a recruitment video, it directly transformed into a global blockbuster narrative.
This is Attention-Fi: content as liquidity.
🚀 Global launch: Breaking through the ceiling of the AAA game market
On August 20, 2024, (Black Myth: Wukong) officially launched:
This is not a launch; it is a successful minting of culture.
🌍 Outside of games, (Wukong) became a global phenomenon asset
Increased visitor numbers to related tourist spots by 300%
Ignited the Chinese mythology and historical game track
Global players discussing Chinese cultural symbols, Wukong became a meme icon
This is a classic example of cultural narrative being assetized.
🙇♂️ Builder spirit: he did not celebrate, but started building an expansion pack
When faced with the title of 'national pride', he simply said:
'The journey to seek the scriptures is more important than reaching the spiritual mountain.'
This is not the success of a game,
This is a process where a builder uses faith to forge real value.
✅ Summary: This is an off-chain version of the Web3 Genesis experiment
Not relying on hype, not relying on tokens
No minting, no pulling liquidity
Relying on building, relying on narrative, relying on belief, relying on extreme content
Incorporating Chinese mythology into the global cultural ledger 📜
This is not just the success of a game, but a cultural 'on-chain';
Not a miracle of traffic, but a victory of narrative
This is a true practice of 'Play to Believe'.
This is not Black Myth; this is the Chinese Dream on-chain. 🔥
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