As one of the Top-Grossing Game Developers for this April, Evony: The King’s Return won the NYX SILVER Award in the 2022 NYX Game Awards Season 1 cycle, enjoying a well-deserved reputation among both players and the industry.
Evony: The King’s Return is an epic Real-Time MMO strategy game that starts its storyline with the selection of up to seven civilizations, and players can draw expertise from legendary Generals to expand their kingdom and form their troops and alliances to resist enemies. Interactive puzzle feature including thousands of puzzles is also a vital supplemental part of this war-strategy game. Once released in 2016, Evony: The King’s Return attracted a wide range of players with its multi-lingual system, engaging scenario design, mysterious and historical characters, and diverse elements and strategies in the game.
Developer Behind the Game
With the popularity of Evony: The King’s Return, more and more people come to know the developer behind the popular game, Top Games Inc., which is under its CEO David Guo’s leadership. In addition to Evony: The King’s Return, David Guo’s team also released King’s Legion, Alliance of Glory, Mafia Origin, Plague of Z, etc. It is worth mentioning that Mafia Origin is a Mafia-theme strategy game that started with losing family and being invaded land by the Mafia, while Plague of Z is a military strategy game containing zombies attack and survivor recruiting, where players must lead their armies to break through the siege and find a safe haven.
Develop Team Core: David Guo
David Guo, the co-founder, and CEO of Top Games Inc. is experienced in technology and Online Gaming. After he joined TGI and Brings Top Games Inc. Back to the Public Eye.
David began his career by developing multimedia management software. After that, David created firewall software for cybersecurity applications.
David Guo devoted his energy to the gaming industry after he graduated as a Physics major. In 2009, the fact that many game companies don’t care about user experience led David Guo to join Top Games Inc. Focusing on player experience, the team developed the popular game Evony: The King’s Return through the details and process control in game development. Up to now, the development team has been expanded and has tried to develop more fun games.
Improvement Never Stops
David Guo has insightful direction and his team has proactive execution. The team tests products or services repeatedly to make out the best option and scale up as quickly as possible, striving to improve the player experience constantly.
After Evony: The King’s Return won the NYX SILVER Award, David Guo was also interviewed by TechBullion. In the interview, he detailed Top Games Inc.’s concept of developing games and his views on the game industry, such as the biggest challenge for the team and his analysis of the game industry.
”With the competition increasing substantially, only the highest-quality and most user-oriented games will survive.” David Guo believes that being user-oriented is the trend in strategy games. Players know their own preferences and love to spend more time and money on games they like that provide a satisfactory experience.
In the future, the competition in the game market will lie more in the various details of game development, among which the need to focus on the user’s experience will be crucial. And with the success of popular games like Evony: The King’s Return, Top Games Inc. is sure to reach new heights under David Guo’s leadership and develop more popular games.
