Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Aurogon's latest news

Aurogon(烛龙) is a game company founded in 2008 and most of its staffs are from Softstar Shanghai (上海软星) which was affiliated with Tanwan's Softstar (大宇资讯), soon after the PAL4 (Chines Paladin Series 4 仙剑奇侠传四) hit market on Aug 1st, 2007, Shanghai team was dismissed as they complained they didnt get much support from its parent company.
Most of the team members joined Aurogon, and the new firm, funded by one Real Estate businessman from Beijing, determines to insist in PC game development. Its first try, The Bizhero(商战-飞黄腾达), a webpage game, was released for testing in Jan 15, 2009, and now the team are working on a RPG game, as they promised at very first.
The official forum just opened two weeks ago, serveral sketches of the new game were presented to players, as quoted here, very ancient Chinese style:


They didnt disclose any more information of the new game, which is expected by many many game players, especially those touched by PAL4.
PAL series are one of the most popular Chinese RPG games and PAL4 is the best-seller game in China with around 800, 000 copies sold so far (it is also my favorate game), although the game was cracked one month after it hits market, many players show their support by buying genuine copies. Meanwhile, it is estimated that millions of pirated copies are downloaded thru Internet.

PAL5 development is taken over by Softstar Beijing, supervised by Yao Zhuangxian, the creator of PAL series, it is said the storyline will finish by year 2010.

2 comments:

zhengjin said...

where does the name "Aurogon" come from?

Ray said...

From PAL4, most powerful character in the game lah; not sure whether it appears in Chinese myths.