Following the strategic partnership announcement at GDC 2015 which was held in San Francisco from 2nd to 6th March : “ARM and Tencent Games collaborate to advance mobile gaming”, we have worked with Tencent Games to provide Tencent’s mobile game developers with:
- Access to the latest developers boards based on high-performance ARM Cortex@ CPUs and ARM MaliTM GPUs
- Guidelines for developing mobile games on ARM-based solutions that address compatibility and performance challenges
- Access to engineering resources from Tencent R&D Game studios and the ARM ecosystem
In order to better manage all the collaborations with Tencent Games, in the last five months we have worked with Tencent Games to build a joint innovation lab which locates Tencent Games Headquarter and ARM Shanghai office respectively. Now this lab has been opening for around six thousands game developers of Tencent Games.
“ARM + Tencent Games Innovation Lab” at Tencent’s Office
“ARM + Tencent Games Innovation Lab” at ARM Shanghai Office
At the lab, we provide lots of lots of development devices based on high-performance ARM Cortex@ CPUs and ARM MaliTM GPUs, such as:
- Xiaomi TV II 55’ powered by MStar DTV Chipset (Quad-core A17 CPU and Mali-T760MP4 GPU)
- Xiaomi 4K TV Box powered by Amlogic chipset (Quad-core A9 CPU and Mali-450MP4 GPU)
- Nagrace HPH Android TV Gaming Box powered by Rockchip RK3288 chipset (Quad-core A17 CPU and ARM Mali-T760MP4 GPU)
- HTC Desire 626w Android phone powered by MediaTek MT6752 chipset (Octa-core A53 CPU and Mali-T760 GPU)
- Samsung Galaxy S6 powered by Samsung Exynos 7 Octa – 7420 (Octa-core big.LITTLE A57 and A53 CPU and Mali-T760MP8 GPU)
- Samsung Gear VR and Galaxy Note 4 powered by Samsung Exynos 7 Octa – 7410 (Octa-core big.LITTLE A57 and A53 CPU and Mali-T760MP6 GPU)
- 64bit Android Smart TV powered by HiSilicon DTV Chipset (Quad-core A53 CPU and Mali-450MP6 GPU)
- And other devices powered by ARM CPU and Mali GPU
In addition to provide these devices, we also pre-installed the great demos created by Mali ecosystem engineering team and ecosystem partners, including :
- Ice Cave– Built on Unity 5 and using Global illumination powered by Enlighten engine with lots of advanced features, such as soft shadows and so on.
- Moon Temple– Built on Unreal Engine 4 with ARM 64bit enabled and Mali specific features, such as ASTC(Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression) and PLS (Pixel Load Storage)
- Cyber Cook– A big fun Mobile VR game from Starship for Samsung Gear VR
- “格斗江湖” TV Game from Tencent Games
- And other demos to showcase how to leverage ARM technologies to optimize the games
By studying these demos, the game developers will be easier to understand what benefits to their games by leverage ARM technologies, and have a try in their games; finally we expect the game developers of Tencent Games can develop the great games which have better compatibility, higher performance, greater visual effects and better power efficiency.
Under this joint lab, we also work with Tencent Games to organize the regular workshops to provide the face to face communication between Tencent Game developers and ARM ecosystem engineers. For example, we co-worked with Unity and Tencent Games to organize the VR workshops at Tencent Shanghai and Shenzhen offices recently, which were very successful! See the pictures as below, you will know what I mean
ARM VR DAY at Tencent Office