The team won a cash prize of CNY 30,000 provided by Shanda Games. Using an upgraded version of the engine, they developed a game called Legend of Saha ( 娑婆物语) for a Flash game development competition held during the second China Game Developers Conference (CGDC) in July of that year. Katsuragi Misato, a character from the Japanese franchise Neon Genesis Evangelion, inspired the name. In 2010, the team developed an isometric tile-based game engine called the "Misato Engine" or "Misato2D" using Adobe Flash Player.
Their first project was an open-source literature community which won them scholarships worth CNY 200,000 at a competition.
Before establishing the miHoYo name, the three have worked on projects together. MiHoYo began with three computer science students from Shanghai Jiao Tong University who shared an interest in technology and ACG (anime, comics, and games) culture: Cai "Hugh" Haoyu ( 蔡浩宇), Liu "Forrest" Wei ( 刘伟), and Luo Yuhao ( 罗宇皓). Hatsune Miku was picked because of her popularity among otakus. Due to "HoYo" already being registered, "mi" from the VOCALOID software Hatsune Miku was prepended to the name. The letters "H" and "Y" in miHoYo's name come from the names 2 of 3 founders, Cai Haoyu and Luo Yuhao, and the letter "O" was added based on the fact that names of famous companies such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft contain that letter. MiHoYo also operates under the subsidiaries Shanghai miHoYo Yingtie Technology and Shanghai miHoYo Tianming Technology the former is the publisher of Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, and Zenless Zone Zero, while the latter is the developer of Tears of Themis. Since then, miHoYo has been doing business globally under the brand and has operations in Montreal, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Seoul. ( trade name: HoYoverse) based in Jurong East, Singapore.
miHoYo also developed Genshin Impact, an open-world action role-playing game released in 2020, which is one of the highest-grossing mobile games.Īiming to expand its content production, technology research, and publications outside China, in February 2022, miHoYo launched its global publishing subsidiary Cognosphere Pte., Ltd. The company is the creator of the Honkai series, which consists of several games, including Honkai Impact 3rd and Honkai: Star Rail. In addition to games, the company has created various products such as animated series, novels, comics, music, and merchandise. ( Chinese: 米哈游 pinyin: Mǐhāyóu) is a Chinese video game development and publishing company. Shànghǎi Mǐhāyóu Wǎngluò Kējì Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī Shanghai miHoYo Network Technology Co., Ltd.
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