Submitted2024.05.05 16:00
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In second place in global sales only … One person from Poland surprised the world of games
Medieval management game ‘Manor Lord’ was 2nd in Steam sales
1 million copies sold within two days of release … 170,000 concurrent users
A freelance video editor tries to make a VR game.
‘Manor Road’, a game created by Polish game developer Greg Steckzen. David appeared in the capture game market Manor Road X. A game developed independently by a video editor from Poland was second in sales in the global PC game market. This is a performance that surpasses games provided by Sony or Microsoft. There is a market forecast that the entry barrier to high-quality game development will be lowered thanks to the spread of graphics engines and artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
According to the gaming platform Steam on the 5th, the medieval management simulation game ‘Manor Road’ ranked second in sales from the 23rd to the 30th of last month. Steam is the largest PC gaming platform in the world with approximately 34 million concurrent users. After being released in early access format on the 26th of last month, Manor Road became the highest PC game in weekly statistics, after Valve’s Counter-Strike. It pushed back ‘Hell Divers 2’ distributed by Sony and ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’ published by Activision Blizzard, a subsidiary of Microsoft. Steam trigger screen for ‘Manor Road’. The game industry is surprised that Steam provided that Manor Lord is the work of a solo developer. This is because this game has decent graphics and a high level of freedom. Manor Road was created by Greg Steckzen, a Polish freelance video editor. Steggen, who made flash games as a hobby, taught himself graphics engine technology to create virtual reality (VR) games as well. After that, he stopped developing VR games, but used the skills he learned to create a medieval simulation game over seven years.
Photography and motion capture technology have been outsourced. We grew the business from scratch, hiring experts to review various deals through social media and determining development direction through test user surveys. Steggen also got help from NVIDIA. NVIDIA supported ‘DLSS’, a technology that can implement high-quality graphics on low-end computers with AI deep learning technology for its game. Thanks to optimized graphics performance, Manor Road sold 1 million copies in just two days after its release, and the number of concurrent users reached 170,000 Steam promotional screens for ‘ Manor Road’. The solo developer that Steam provided last year also had trouble. The horror game ‘Lethal Company’, released last October, sold over 10 million copies. The industry estimates that the game’s sales are around $75 million (around 102 billion won). Zicus, the developer who created this work, is a solo Roblox creator. ‘Dincom Mobile’, which is being developed by Krafton, is also based on the game ‘Dincom’ released in 2022 by a solo developer from Australia. An industry official said, “Because next-generation AI allows not only the creation of images and text but also avatars (virtual characters), the creative scope of the developers has expanded. It can be reproduced in the gaming industry.” ” Steam promotional screen for ‘Manor Road’. Provided by Steam Reporter Joohyun Lee deep@hankyung.com
