David Guo and Top Games Inc.: The Remarkable Developer Behind the Evony Universe
Evony: The King’s Return won the NYX SILVER Award in the 2022 NYX Game Awards Season 1 cycle, enjoying well-deserved recognition among players and the industry.
Evony: The King’s Return is an epic Real-Time MMO strategy game. Evony allows players to choose one of seven unique civilizations and draw expertise from legendary generals from throughout history. Once their civilizations and leaders are selected, players can expand their kingdom, form troops, and build alliances to resist enemies across the Evony universe. An interactive puzzle feature with thousands of puzzles also provides an exciting and vital part of this war-strategy game.
Released in 2016, Evony: The King’s Return initially attracted a wide range of players, offering a multilingual system, engaging scenario design, mysterious and historical characters, and diverse elements and strategies unmatched across the world of gaming.
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Behind the Game
As the popularity of Evony: The King’s Return grew, more people came to know Top Games Inc. and Top Games CEO David Guo, the developer behind its fantastic, unparalleled MMO universe. During that time, many have also discovered a variety of great titles released by David Guo’s team, including King’s Legion, Alliance of Glory, Mafia Origin, Plague of Z, and more.
Mafia Origin, a cornerstone of the Top Games library, is a mafia-themed strategy game centered on the loss of family and building new territory, while Plague of Z focuses on military strategy, zombie attacks, and recruiting survivors to build armies, break through the siege and find a safe haven.
Develop Team Core: David Guo
Top Games Inc. Co-founder and CEO David Guo is an experienced technology and online gaming professional. Shortly after joining the Top Games team, Guo successfully returned the company back to the public eye.
David began his career as a multimedia management software developer. Following that, David created firewall software for cybersecurity applications.
Shortly after earning a degree in physics, David Guo devoted his energy to the gaming industry. In 2009, David Guo joined Top Games Inc., bringing a renewed emphasis on and passion for optimizing the user experience. Focusing on player experience, David and the Top Games team developed Evony: The King’s Return, applying details and process control throughout the game development process.
Improvement Never Stops
Top Games Inc. operates under David Guo’s insightful direction and his development team’s proactive execution. The team tests products or services repeatedly to identify the best options and scale up as quickly as possible, an effort that continually improves the player experience.
Tech Bullion interviewed David Guo shortly after Evony: The King’s Return took home the NYX SILVER Award. In the interview, Guo outlined Top Games Inc.’s concept of developing games and his views on the game industry, including the biggest challenges for his team.
”With the competition increasing substantially, only the highest-quality and most user-oriented games will survive,” says Guo.
David Guo believes that being user-oriented is the trend in strategy games. Players know their own preferences and love to spend more time and money on games that provide a satisfactory experience.
With the success of popular games like Evony: The King’s Return, Top Games Inc. is sure to reach new heights, particularly under David Guo’s leadership.
