Customer Introduction
iDreamSky was founded in 2009 as a technology company with full global R&D and publishing capabilities, committed to becoming the most creative technology company.
Strinova is the world's first anime-style competitive third-person shooter (TPS). Following its international server launch in November 2024, the game topped Steam's new releases and free games charts within two hours, reaching players across 100+ countries and regions, including North America, Japan, South Korea, Europe, Southeast Asia, and South America.
Challenges & Goals:
As a cross-platform game launching globally, Strinova faced three core technical challenges:
As the world's first anime-style competitive TPS built around innovation string/phase mechanic, placing exceptionally high demands on real-time responsiveness. State heavy mechanics significantly increase synchronization complexity, while TPS combat demands minimal tolerance for latency, jitter, or correction. This required suitable high-performance overseas network infrastructure to consistently deliver stable, low latency gameplay, with end to end network response times maintained below 90ms.
A smooth global rollout required region-specific localization and adherence to diverse regulatory frameworks, including language, cultural adaptation, and market specific compliance and certification processes, adding significant coordination and release management complexity.
Security requirements vary significantly across countries and regions, requiring fine grained policy management to ensure compliant and timely launches. In parallel, as an FPS title, the game faces continuous anti cheat and exploit threats, demanding sustained detection and enforcement to protect fair play and maintain a healthy in-game ecosystem.
Why Tencent Cloud
1.Global Node Coverage
Leveraging Tencent Cloud's 21 global regional nodes and its deep experience supporting FPS titles overseas, Tencent Cloud helped iDreamSky identify optimal overseas server placement, ensuring low latency matchmaking for players across regions.
2.Overseas Network Optimisation
To address the complexity of overseas network environment, Tencent Cloud worked closely with iDreamSky to deploy Elastic IP Address (EIP) and EdgeOne (EO) accelerated routing paths, ensuring players competed on the optimal network path and enhancing overall gameplay experience.
3.Game Quality Optimization
WeTest provided end-to-end game QA services, covering performance and compatibility testing, overseas localization validation, stress testing and crash analysis. In addition, multilingual player feedback collected via Tencent Questionnaire enabled rapid validation, iteration and regional adaptation.
4.Game Security
Tencent Anti-Cheat Expert (ACE) delivered self-configured anti-cheat strategies to detect and counter common cheating behaviors, while intelligent content monitoring ensured compliance with regulatory and review requirements across different countries and regions. In parallel, high-protection Anti-DDoS services safeguarded game lobby services, with EdgeOne (EO) security acceleration links providing on-demand combat protection for real-time combat scenarios.
Highlighted Benefits
Tencent Cloud's extensive gaming expertise and mature technology ecosystem uniquely positioned it to support the game’s global launch and long-term live operations across network performance, quality assurance, and security.