Visitors at Shengqu Games' 'Codename: South China Sea' game booth at the China Digital Entertainment Expo and Conference, also known as ChinaJoy, in Shanghai, China. The patriotic games are just the latest in Tencent’s ongoing efforts to soothe regulators. — Reuters
Tencent Holdings Ltd is teaming up with the Chinese Communist Party apparatus to develop “patriotic” videogames, edging closer to a government that’s increasingly intolerant of gaming.
In Homeland Dream, which was developed in partnership with Party mouthpiece the People’s Daily, players simulate building a city while alleviating poverty and executing tax breaks. Such actions are meant to echo real-life policies in China. Other political buzzwords such as President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative also feature.
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