The web novel ‘The Youngest Son of the Master Swordsman’ (originally written by Emperor Penguin, Golem Factory, OS Media), serialized on Kakao Page, is being made into a game.
‘The Youngest Son of a Master Swordsman’ is a blockbuster work that began serialization in 2019 and reached the million page mark in the shortest time for a fantasy novel in 4 months. It has recorded approximately 340 million cumulative views in Korea, and is one of the most popular works that is firmly at the top. .
It depicts a coming-of-age fantasy action narrative of the main character, Jin Runkandel, who is reborn as the ‘strongest magic swordsman in history’ from the ‘worst swordsman’ of a swordsmanship family. It quickly rose to the top of most popular works by showing her accelerating her growth into the so-called ‘strongest person in the world’ and the exhilarating pleasure of overcoming the urgency just before her death with splendid magic swordsmanship. Thanks to the enthusiasm of millions of readers, the webtoon was launched through Noble Comics last May, and it is on an upward trajectory, exceeding 8 million views in just two months after launch. The webtoon will be launched sequentially in North America, Thailand, Indonesia, and Taiwan in September, and in Japan in October, and will also be visited by global readers.
The planning and production of the game ‘The Master Swordsman’s Youngest Son’ was handled by ‘Ocean Drive Studio’, a rare PC and console-oriented package game developer in Korea. Ocean Drive Studio decided to produce the game after seeing the unrivaled action scenes of ‘The Youngest Son of a Master Swordsman’ as well as the worldview that unfolds systematically over several years of serialization, and judged it to be a work optimized for storytelling-based RPG games.
The game ‘The Youngest Son of a Master Swordsman’ is based on the latest Unreal Engine 5 and plans to reach the pinnacle of technology by implementing the martial arts fantasy world of the novel with AAA-level graphics. The explanation is that by applying console-level high-quality graphics to PC, users will be able to experience realistic swordsmanship and magic battle scenes as if they were drawn into the work.
In addition, the ‘Sword Master’s Youngest Son’ dungeon strategy is available in two versions: single play and cooperative play, and a special ‘social action system’ that will maximize the fun of cooperative play is also being developed. Through this, the goal is to make it not a game where you can quickly clear dungeons and missions as long as you have strong attack power, but a special RPG game where you can have fun combining and creating new strategies with various ideas between users. .
Emperor Penguin, the author of ‘The Youngest Son of a Master Swordsman’, also shared his thoughts on the news of the game’s production. He said, “I am overwhelmed with emotion that ‘The Youngest Son of the Master Swordsman’ is being released worldwide as a game following a webtoon. I expect that the game will be just as fun as the original. “More than anything, I want to share this joy with Kakao Page readers who love my work.”
Hwang Hyun-soo, CEO of Kakao Entertainment’s story division, said, “Kakao Entertainment has been widely recognized for the outstanding value of its IPs, and is actively developing secondary production into games as well as video productions such as dramas, movies, and animations.” Various IPs such as ‘Up’, ‘In-house Confrontation’ through the Kakao Community, ‘Imitation’, and ‘This is an Obvious Fraudulent Marriage’ are being developed and prepared for service as games, so please look forward to ‘The Youngest Son of the Master Swordsman’.” reported.
Ocean Drive Studio CEO Kim Hee-jae said, “Based on the storytelling know-how accumulated while developing the previous work ‘Lost Eidolons’ and the know-how in developing package games based on PC and console platforms, fans of ‘The Youngest Son of the Master Swordsman’ will be satisfied, and further global gamers will be satisfied. “We will make a game that will satisfy everyone.”
Source: Pangyo Techno Valley Official Newsroom
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