On July 19, 2024, Friendtimes announced that their freestyle martial arts mobile game, "Ink Sword Jianghu", will officially enter public beta. This work, which combines the essence of traditional martial arts and modern game aesthetics, aims to bring players an unprecedented and ink-scented martial arts world. The product structure has operating incomes of 401/1288/60 million yuan respectively for products worth 100-300 billion yuan.
"Ink Sword Jianghu" is a 2.5D ink-style martial arts RPG mobile game that cleverly blends romantic heroism with the strangeness of the rivers and lakes, and aims to create a fulfilling martial arts world. Players will become knights, exploring dozens of martial arts systems in the game, freely constructing martial arts schools, experiencing the profound and intricate martial arts moves; they will face martial arts secrets changing unpredictably in the rivers and lakes, enjoying the fun of strategies and movements, and experiencing love and hatred in the world of martial arts.
Previously, with the peculiar ink-style martial arts editing video and the poetic rivers and lakes atmosphere, rich and varied martial arts matching, highly recognizable art style and other characteristics, "Ink Sword Jianghu" attracted the attention and expectation of many players. The official game team also actively interacted with players, listening to their voices and suggestions. After continuous optimization and polishing by the development team, this game has finally announced that it will be officially released during the summer period, and it is believed that it will bring a wonderful and incomparable martial arts feast to players.
Gongbi and Xieyi painting styles unique art style.
With its unique art style combining Gongbi and Xieyi painting styles, "Ink Sword Jianghu" presents players with a delicate and realistic martial arts world. The development team carefully collects mountains and rivers, uses delicate Gongbi techniques to depict scenes and characters, and combines with ink-style effects to show off grand and brilliant action moves. At the same time, the unique weather system and time change settings add to the immersion and reality of the game.
Under the blessing of next-generation development technology, "Ink Sword Jianghu" visually displays character movements and story development, bringing players a more fluid gaming experience. The exquisite and concise art style, rich and varied animation effects and 2.5D top-down gameplay are perfectly integrated, greatly enhancing the game's visual expressiveness. Players will be freed from the dull experience of "looking at PPT", and more easily immerse themselves in the magnificent scenes and wonderful stories of the world of martial arts, feeling the unique charm of the rivers and lakes.
Hundred schools of thought and a thousand combat techniques, reshaping the charm of martial arts.
"Ink Sword Jianghu" deeply integrates the essence of traditional martial arts with modern game aesthetics, constructing an all-encompassing martial arts world. The game consists of various martial arts schools such as swords, fists, barely-there throwing weapons, polearms, and more. Players can freely combine them to create unique martial arts. The unique mechanism of "seeing moves and countering moves" allows players to experience more realistic martial arts duels on the fingertips of the screen.
At present, there are six major sects in the game, each of which pays attention to different internal and external martial arts schools, as well as various styles of weapons such as knives, swords, sticks, and barely-there throwing weapons, offering players the freedom to mix and match. Unlike most games that restrict learning sects, "Ink Sword Jianghu" has no such learning restrictions on sects, giving players extremely high freedom to flexibly choose to practice martial arts, not only greatly increasing the player's matching space, but also paying homage to the martial arts spirit of free will.
The game uses a turn-based combat system, but unlike traditional turn-based games, players can freely choose when to release their ultimate moves based on the battle situation; at the same time, environmental props are introduced to affect the game, such as attacking a bonfire can release an output, and using the "power" on the ground can cover the player with a shield to block damage. In addition, to avoid an obvious sense of detachment between combat and map exploration, the development team has set up a lot of gameplay linkage, such as in specific situations, players can use the difference in enemy and their own perspective to sneak and ambush, helping players master map construction and adding a tense and exciting atmosphere to the game.
Exploring the unknown intricacies of the special gameplay.
In addition to the core gameplay, "Ink Sword Jianghu" also has abundant exploration and daily gameplay prepared for players. The top of the snowcapped mountains shrouded in clouds, the deep and unfathomable depths of the forest, the ancient tombs filled with mechanisms, and other secret realms await knights to explore. The ingeniously designed levels are not only a visual feast, but also a test of the player's wisdom and courage. The randomly triggered event system makes every journey full of unknowns and surprises.
At the same time, the development team has set up a large number of treasure chests in the map to add surprises and rewards to players' Jianghu travels; after joining a sect, players can not only establish a relationship with more characters, but also immerse themselves in the ideas and pursuits of each sect, experiencing the interest of classical culture and traditional rivers and lakes in the province.
With the official announcement of "Ink Sword Jianghu", a brand-new ink-styled world of the martial arts is about to open up to players. Let us look forward to this game filled with poetic and martial arts flavor, and embark on this magnificent journey together.
Conclusion
While constantly launching high-quality APP games, Friendtimes has also actively responded to the development trend of the H5 casual game market and launched multiple H5 products. Among them, "Lin Yunuo H5" has performed particularly well, with monthly revenue exceeding 10 million for the past three months and entering the top 50 of the WeChat casual game bestsellers list. The company has also reserved multiple small games such as "Durela's Promotion Diary H5" and "Ink Sword Jianghu H5" to meet the needs of different players.
As Friendtimes continues to create benchmarking games for high-quality female audiences, it also actively seeks breakthroughs, constantly exploring game themes that cater to different user preferences, in order to build a more sophisticated and diverse product matrix. The release of "Mo Sword Rivers and Lakes" and the outstanding performance of "Lingyunuo H5" are powerful validations of the company's strategy, and are expected to thicken and widen the company's dual barriers in the industry and capital markets.