Customer Introduction
Zilong Game Limited is a leading global mobile game company integrating R&D and publishing, headquartered in Beijing with offices in Taipei, Tokyo, and Seoul. The company specializes in mobile game development and distribution, with products spanning over 30 countries and regions, including Greater China, Japan, Europe, and Australia.
Dragon Traveler is a globally-released Japanese-style fantasy idle card RPG launched in 2026, across 160+ countries and regions. The game also supports a fully cross-platform player experience on mobile, PC, and Steam. Featuring semi-turn-based combat built around a comedic harem "princess and dragon" narrative, with multi-hero team mechanics, the game delivers an accessible yet strategic RPG experience for players worldwide.
Challenges & Goals
To support a simultaneous global launch across multiple platforms and ensure long-term stable operations, Dragon Traveler faced three core infrastructure challenges:
To support the game’s global release strategy,the infrastructure is required to deploy servers across Southeast Asia, Japan, South Korea, and Western markets to ensure proximity‑based access, minimizing latency and jitter to ensure smooth cross‑border interactive gameplay.
The game relies on real-time updates of player data and game state, requiring strong data consistency and database availability. Any service disruption or data inconsistency would directly degrade player experience and trust, potentially leading to user churn.
From closed beta through official release, Zilong Game Limited demanded systematic coverage of capacity planning, risk mitigation, data disaster recovery, stress testing, and emergency planning.
Why Tencent Cloud:
Tencent Cloud’s deep expertise in database architecture for large‑scale gaming platforms made it the ideal partner for Zilong Game, providing the reliability, scalability, and performance required to support high‑concurrency global game operations.
To support Dragon Traveler’s global release, Tencent Cloud deployed a proximity‑based network access architecture using high‑quality regional nodes in Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, and Virginia.
Tencent Cloud delivered high-availability (HA) architecture with multi-availability zone (AZ) deployment, enabling automatic failover in the event of database instance failures or AZ outages.
Leveraging extensive game industry experience, Tencent Cloud delivered a structured and systematic launch assurance framework tailored for new titles covering architecture review, risk mitigation, and stress testing. From CBT through launch, Tencent Cloud worked closely with the operations team to proactively manage risks and ensure a stable, smooth, and successful release of Dragon Traveler.
Highlighted Benefits
1.Stable Global Launch
Dragon Traveler successfully built a globally-covered game architecture, reliably handling the high traffic surge during its first month post-launch and delivering smooth gameplay experiences worldwide.
2.High performance and reliability
Through database disaster recovery, network redundancy, and the comprehensive launch support program, the game maintained high availability and high reliability throughout to ensure stable operations.