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Creativity Meets Constraint: China’s Video Games Head to Overseas Markets

Chinese game developers hoping to dodge bureaucracy and make profits abroad still face problems with localization

Despite passing through the 18 layers of Buddhist hell, conference-goers at the GCORES gaming convention in Beijing seem excited. “It reminds me of Resident Evil,” one pink-haired gamer cosplaying an anime character exclaims, referencing a pioneering Japanese game series, after demoing the Chinese horror title Summoning Spirits.

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author Roman Kierst (小罗)

Roman Kierst is a staff writer and editor at The World of Chinese based in Beijing but much more at home in Chengdu, where his own China story first began as a high school exchange student in 2006. Likes to pick up a film camera occasionally to take pictures of (mostly) old places.

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