Hong Kong author Louis Cha's novels form the basis of China's next AAA video game
autonomous vehicle firm
TuSimple , aims to make Heroes of Jin Yong 'one of the largest-scale triple-A, open-world role-playing games (RPGs)' in the market, president and CEO Lu Cheng told the South China Morning Post on the sidelines of the recent
ChinaJoy 2025 trade show in
Shanghai
He said CreateAI's global rights cover the development of Cha's intellectual property into an open-world RPG for personal computers and the
PlayStation 5 console from
Sony Interactive Entertainment
'It is a huge software engineering project,' Lu said. He pointed out that the most difficult part of the development process was maintaining the high standards for both the game's aesthetics and combat features, while handling a massive amount of digital resources.
According to Lu, Heroes of Jin Yong will feature characters across a span of 300 years and more than 120 famous scenes from Cha's 15 martial arts novels. Building on that foundation, the game will present an expansive 960-square-kilometre world teeming with diverse gameplay, side stories and an immersive
wuxia experience.
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