Huawei's Hongmeng System Game Adaptation Updates and Unity Engine's New Features
TapTechNews July 2, the official of Huawei released a theme video of "Full Sprint of Game Adaptation for HarmonyOS NEXT" today, introducing the current game adaptation status of the Hongmeng system.
According to the introduction, the Huawei Game Center upgrades the Petals Game Developer Service and provides the ability to support the Hongmeng adaptation tool. The HarmonyOS NEXT game engineer said:
Currently, the mainstream general-purpose engines such as Cocos, Unity Engine, and LAYA have all supported HarmonyNEXT games, and can generate HarmonyNEXT game projects.
Using DevEco to compile and build the HarmonyOS NEXT game package, based on past experience, it takes about 3 weeks for one person to complete the game adaptation.
The progress of some games adapting to HarmonyOS NEXT of Hongmeng is as follows:
The mobile game of "Naraka: Bladepoint" is adapting to Hongmeng NEXT and has been connecting to the NetEase middleware SDK, and it is expected to complete the adaptation of the HarmonyOS NEXT version of Hongmeng in September this year.
The series products of "Three Kingdoms Kill" have basically completed the adaptation of the HarmonyOS NEXT system of Hongmeng, including games such as "Three Kingdoms Famous Generals Biography" and "Free Journey to the West".
The mobile game of "Awakening of Ten Thousand Dragons" started to adapt in mid-April this year, and currently, the game engine upgrading work is underway.
The "Primitive Journey" completed the access of HarmonyOS NEXT of Hongmeng in November 2023.
Huawei has made corresponding plans in the Hongmeng game ecosystem. TapTechNews previously reported that the Huawei Hongmeng HarmonyOS NEXT system will support a multi-account system login for one client to achieve compatibility with the official account system and the continuity of user game assets.
In addition, the Unity official launched the "Unity Engine 1.2.0" on June 28 this year. In this technical update, the OpenHarmony SDK is upgraded to the 4.1 Release version, supporting API 11 and covering the new functions in API 11, and at the same time, the existing functions are also optimized according to API 11, as follows:
New gyroscope API support;
New network status API support;
New permission application function during recording and the function of automatically adding network permission when calling Application.internetReachability;
New application split-screen function support;
New interface support such as Display.main.systemWidth/Height, Sceen.orientation, and Input.DeviceOrientation;
New support for.etslib types of plugins and related arkt's file modifications;
New validity check when setting the JDK path.
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"Unity China's 'Unity Engine 1.2.0' Officially launched, covering upgrade directions such as WeChat mini-games, vehicle-mounted machines, and open source Hongmeng."
"The experience of the game channel server and the official server of Huawei Hongmeng HarmonyOS NEXT is consistent, and the account assets of old players are continuous."