Tencent Games to Showcase Latest Innovations in Game Development at GDC 2023

Tencent Games, the world’s leading game development, publishing, and operation platform, is pleased to announce its presence at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023 in San Francisco from March 20 to 24. With a record number of 18 sessions and a booth exhibition, Tencent Games will showcase its latest innovations and share its experience and knowledge in mobile game development with the industry.

The sessions will cover a wide range of topics, including machine learning, large-scale and cinematic rendering, next-generation mobile game development techniques, audio techniques, and efficiency tools for pipeline management. The lineup includes many of Tencent Games exciting titles, including Honor of Kings and Return to Empire from TiMi Studio Group, START Cloud Game, upcoming title Arena Breakout from Morefun Studio and Funcom’s highly anticipated Dune: Awakening, as well as a presentation on the game development tool CloudFlow Pipeline and the in-house CROS Game Engine developed by Tencent Games Common R&D and Operation System (CROS).

At the Tencent Games booth, attendees can experience the power of game technology through the Digital Great Wall cloud game, a culture heritage conservation project, using CROS Game Engine to create a cloud-based video game of the Great Wall in China. The booth will showcase Tencent Games’ latest game development tools, such as Game AIR, a platform for game AI development based on machine learning; Artigician, a series of smart tools for art production; and Anti-Cheat Expert, an anti-cheating product developed by Tencent Games CROS.

Tencent Games invites all game developers and enthusiasts to visit its booth and attend its sessions at GDC 2023. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience the power of game technology.

Tencent Games @ GDC 2023

l  Tencent Games Developer Summit
Building A Digital Great Wall with A New Game Engine

Yingpeng Zhang | Technical Expert, CROS, Tencent GamesTuesday, March 21 | 9:30am - 10:00amRoom 3022, West Hall

Cloudflow Pipeline: A Catalyst for the Improvement of R&D Efficiency

Rui Ryan Su | Senior SRE Manager, Tencent GamesTuesday, March 21 | 10:00am - 10:30amRoom 3022, West Hall

Arena Breakout: Creating A Next-gen FPS Game on Mobile

Yiming Sun | Producer of Arena Breakout, Morefun Studio, Tencent GamesTuesday, March 21 | 10:50am - 11:20amRoom 3022, West Hall

TiMi Audio Lab: Sound Design for Honor of Kings

Hongfei Zhao | Deputy Director, TiMi Audio Lab, Tencent GamesTuesday, March 21 | 11:20am - 11:50amRoom 3022, West Hall

l  Conference
Machine Learning Summit: Differentiable Rendering for Scalable Asset Pipeline in ’Honor of Kings’

Fei Ling | Lead Engine Programmer, TiMi Studio Group, Tencent GamesFrei Zhang | Senior Engine Programmer, TiMi Studio Group, Tencent GamesTuesday, March 21 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmRoom 2010, West Hall 

Machine Learning Summit: Advanced Heightmap Compression Using Deep Learning in ’Dune: Awakening’

Calle Lejdfors | R&D Technical Director, Level Infinite, Tencent GamesClemens Rögner | Senior R&D Programmer, Level Infinite, Tencent GamesTuesday, March 21 | 1:20pm - 1:50pmRoom 2010, West Hall

Practical High-Performance Rendering On Mobile Platforms

Xiaoxin Guo | Senior Rendering Engineer, TiMi Studio Group, Tencent GamesThursday, March 23 | 2:00pm - 2:30pmRoom 2016, West Hall

Thousands of Soldiers Battle on One Mobile Screen: Applications of Unity’s DOTS in ’Return to Empire’

Jian Xiao | Lead Client Programmer, TiMi Studio Group, Tencent GamesCangjian Hou | Lead Engine Programmer, TiMi Studio Group, Tencent Games Thursday, March 23 | 3:00pm - 3:30pmRoom 2002, West Hall

BroadLeaf: Real-Time Cinematic Rendering of Large-Scale Forests

Yixin Hu | Senior Graphics Researcher, Pixel Lab, Tencent GamesThursday, March 23 | 4:00pm - 5:00pmRoom 301, South Hall

l  Expo
Gameplay - Digital Great Wall Cloud Game

Tech Show - Anti-Cheating Expert / Digital Content Creation (Artigician) / Game AI (Game AIR)March 22-24Booth No.S963

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