Artificial intelligence and video gaming company CreateAI is looking to develop China’s next blockbuster AAA title on the back of its global rights to the works of acclaimed Hong Kong martial arts novelist Louis Cha Leung-yung, also known as “Jin Yong”.
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CreateAI, formerly known as the autonomous vehicle firm TuSimple, aims to make Heroes of Jin Yong “one of the largest-scale triple-A, open-world role-playing games (RPGs)” in the market, president and CEO Lu Cheng told the South China Morning Post on the sidelines of the recent ChinaJoy 2025 trade show in Shanghai.
He said CreateAI’s global rights cover the development of Cha’s intellectual property into an open-world RPG for personal computers and the PlayStation 5 console from Sony Interactive Entertainment.
“It is a huge software engineering project,” Lu said. He pointed out that the most difficult part of the development process was maintaining the high standards for both the game’s aesthetics and combat features, while handling a massive amount of digital resources.
According to Lu, Heroes of Jin Yong will feature characters across a span of 300 years and more than 120 famous scenes from Cha’s 15 martial arts novels. Building on that foundation, the game will present an expansive 960-square-kilometre world teeming with diverse gameplay, side stories and an immersive wuxia experience.
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That environment would make Heroes of Jin Yong more than 10 times larger than some of the industry’s most popular open-world titles, including The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Grand Theft Auto V.