This looks cool and I am very curious about the movie:
Get to play action hero Panom Yeerum in Tom Yum Goong: The Game The much-anticipated Tom Yum Goong, with action star Panom "Jaa" Yeerum, starts showing tomorrow, but fans that want something more can also turn to a new 3D PC game called "Tony Jaa Tom-Yum-Goong: The Game," where they get to play their fighting hero.
The game was developed by Game No Limit, a 10-million baht joint venture company between Saha Mongkol Film International and Show No Limit, an IT event organiser.
The company was set up in January last year to develop PC games based on Thai movie characters and Tom-Yum-Goong is its first game.
In an interview with Database, Game No Limit managing director Pongsuk Hiranprueck, who also owns Show No Limit, said the action romp Ong-Bak, Panom Yeerum's first action movie from two years ago, was the inspiration for the game.
Panom is also known internationally as "Tony Jaa."
"After watching Ong-Bak I was so excited about his marvellous Thai kickboxing skills. I was inspired and wanted to develop a game by using his character," he said.
Pongsuk searched the Internet for information about PC game development and later made a business proposal to the owner of Saha Mongkol Film, Somsak Techarattanaprasert. He also had help from his thesis adviser from four years earlier, Prachya Pinkaew _ the director of Tom Yum Goong, who also helped direct the game.
He agreed to Pongsuk's proposal, noting that it would be the first time a Thai movie had a tie-in through a computer game, which could help promote the movie.
Pongsuk recruited five game developers through a web-board on Thai3D.Net and started developing a demo version based on the Ong-Bak movie almost two years ago.
But Somsak of Saha Mongkol Film convinced Pongsuk to change his mind and produce a game based on the new movie instead.
"It was a new project and there was not yet a script at the time so we worked closely with the film director. Our game designers also joined the movie production team to observe them and wrote out our game script," Pongsuk said.
Although the game follows the movie, it does have some differences, he said.
The development team came up with nine mission levels. At each level, a player learns how to fight like Panom.
In the story, users get to play Panom, who is a young man whose family elephant is stolen by the mob. As in the movie, he has to leave his forest home to retrieve the animal from the mafia's den in Sydney's Chinatown.
The player can gain energy by collecting items and fighting members of the gang. There is also some problem solving along the way.
Jaa Panom's Tom Yum Goong: The Game will be available with English subtitles through distributor New Era, which will market the game in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Brunei and Thailand. The price is 299 baht.
The company expects to sell around 50,000 copies and will also launch the game for mobile phones.
Game No Limit expects to make a profit after introducing two more games based on Thai movies in the future.
Source: Bangkok Post
Get to play action hero Panom Yeerum in Tom Yum Goong: The Game The much-anticipated Tom Yum Goong, with action star Panom "Jaa" Yeerum, starts showing tomorrow, but fans that want something more can also turn to a new 3D PC game called "Tony Jaa Tom-Yum-Goong: The Game," where they get to play their fighting hero.
The game was developed by Game No Limit, a 10-million baht joint venture company between Saha Mongkol Film International and Show No Limit, an IT event organiser.
The company was set up in January last year to develop PC games based on Thai movie characters and Tom-Yum-Goong is its first game.
In an interview with Database, Game No Limit managing director Pongsuk Hiranprueck, who also owns Show No Limit, said the action romp Ong-Bak, Panom Yeerum's first action movie from two years ago, was the inspiration for the game.
Panom is also known internationally as "Tony Jaa."
"After watching Ong-Bak I was so excited about his marvellous Thai kickboxing skills. I was inspired and wanted to develop a game by using his character," he said.
Pongsuk searched the Internet for information about PC game development and later made a business proposal to the owner of Saha Mongkol Film, Somsak Techarattanaprasert. He also had help from his thesis adviser from four years earlier, Prachya Pinkaew _ the director of Tom Yum Goong, who also helped direct the game.
He agreed to Pongsuk's proposal, noting that it would be the first time a Thai movie had a tie-in through a computer game, which could help promote the movie.
Pongsuk recruited five game developers through a web-board on Thai3D.Net and started developing a demo version based on the Ong-Bak movie almost two years ago.
But Somsak of Saha Mongkol Film convinced Pongsuk to change his mind and produce a game based on the new movie instead.
"It was a new project and there was not yet a script at the time so we worked closely with the film director. Our game designers also joined the movie production team to observe them and wrote out our game script," Pongsuk said.
Although the game follows the movie, it does have some differences, he said.
The development team came up with nine mission levels. At each level, a player learns how to fight like Panom.
In the story, users get to play Panom, who is a young man whose family elephant is stolen by the mob. As in the movie, he has to leave his forest home to retrieve the animal from the mafia's den in Sydney's Chinatown.
The player can gain energy by collecting items and fighting members of the gang. There is also some problem solving along the way.
Jaa Panom's Tom Yum Goong: The Game will be available with English subtitles through distributor New Era, which will market the game in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Brunei and Thailand. The price is 299 baht.
The company expects to sell around 50,000 copies and will also launch the game for mobile phones.
Game No Limit expects to make a profit after introducing two more games based on Thai movies in the future.
Source: Bangkok Post
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