#HERO ACADEMY STRATEGY FULL#

#HERO ACADEMY STRATEGY FULL#

Western fantasy theme and game elements Hero Academy is full of elves, orcs, and other character types that Western gamers are totally familiar with, from Lord of the Rings and other classics.

Trouble is, neither Twitter nor Facebook are even accessible in China. On top of that, the Western version of Hero Academy has a lot of connectivity to Twitter and Facebook, so players can share content with their friends, and find fellow players on those social networks. Otherwise, it would take forever for Chinese players to find opponents, and cause long delays in between moves. After partnering with Robot Entertainment to create and release a new Chinese version of the game, we went through Hero Academy point by point, and identified several likely problems it was having here: Time zones and social mediaAs a multi-player turn-based game, Hero Academy needed a local server presence in Asia. But even though China was the second biggest market for Hero Academy by downloads, it was still only reaching a fraction of China's potential iOS audience. Hero Academy from Robot Entertainment is a huge hit with U.S. Henry Fong is the CEO and founder of Yodo1, a Chinese game publisher that has helped Western companies like Robot Entertainment and Digital Chocolate localize and distribute games for the Chinese market.

Hero academy strategy