Gaming, e-sports and game development

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  • Falling Into Your Smile

    1. Falling Into Your Smile

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 31 episodes

    9.5

    E-sports (Onmyoji Arena)

    The story follows a well-known esports team called ZGDX OPL (Onmyoji Premier League), which is predominantly men. One day, a female pro player, Tong Yao, joins the team.

    Besides focusing on Tong Yao, this drama also tells the story of Lu Si Cheng, the leader of the ZGDX OPL esports team. Her arrogant attitude initially makes Si Cheng doubt Tong Yao's abilities. However, the girl gradually steals Si Cheng's attention. (Source: Dunia Games)

  • Go Go Squid!

    2. Go Go Squid!

    Chinese Drama - 2019, 41 episodes

    8.5

    E-sports (CTF)

    It follows the love story of Tong Nian, a student and a famous online singer under the pseudonym 'Little Squid' on her social media. She meets Han Shang Yan, a legendary esports pro player, who is also infamously known for his cold personality and his indifferent attitude towards women.

    Tong Nian falls in love with Shang Yan at first sight. Because of their contradicting personalities, you'll find your emotions played by the story. You'll also see how they maintain their relationship while trying to achieve their respective dreams. (Source: Dunia Games)

  • Go Go Squid 2: Dt, Appledog's Time

    3. Go Go Squid 2: Dt, Appledog's Time

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 38 episodes

    E-sports (CTF)

    Through his hard work and talent, Wu Bai has become the youngest star player in the national robot wars competition. He forms a team and enters the final round of the competition, sharing the stage with Ai Qing - the person who has introduced him to his passion. Both are determined to promote the popularization and application of technological robots with the younger generation group through the robot competition, hoping to accelerate the country's rejuvenation of science and technology.

    As competitors, Wu Bai's persistent and extraordinary talent draws in Ai Qing's attention, while Ai Qing's passion for her job, persistence in chasing her dreams, and outstanding tactics earned Wu Bai's respect. The two of them support each other through the competition and lead their respective teams to victory.

    (Source: DramaWiki)

  • Bie Dui Wo Dong Xin

    4. Bie Dui Wo Dong Xin

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 24 episodes

    8.5

    Gaming (shooter game) and game development

    Newly graduated classmates Gu Xun and Qian Ling are reunited when they both find work at a gaming company. The sweet and adorable Qian Ling has long held feelings for Gu Xun, so she is devastated when she confesses – only to be cruelly rejected! Gu Xun is in love with a tough-talking, no-nonsense female gamer who goes by the online handle Nuo Mi Xiao Ma Hua. However, Qian Ling and Nuo Mi Xiao Ma Hua are actually the same person, with the latter taking on a very different personality when she starts gaming! What will happen when Gu Xun learns the truth about Nuo Mi Xiao Ma Hua’s true identity? 

    (Source: Viki.com)

  • Love O2O

    5. Love O2O

    Chinese Drama - 2016, 30 episodes

    Gaming (MMO)

    Xiao Nai is a gaming expert who, courtesy of his basketball skills, academic excellence, swimming talent, and game company presidency, also happens to be the most popular student on campus. When he first comes across the gorgeous computer science major Bei Wei Wei, the infinitely talented wunderkind immediately falls in love.

    But it’s not Wei Wei’s looks that he notices; it’s the ridiculous mastery with which she is commanding her guild and owning everyone in an online multiplayer game that makes her impossible to forget. Now, Xiao Nai must use his skills both in real life and online to capture the adorable but dorky Wei Wei’s heart. But does their love have the XP to succeed, or will this relationship never level up?

    (Source: MyDramaList)

  • One Smile is Very Alluring

    6. One Smile is Very Alluring

    Chinese Movie - 2016

    Movie adaptation of Love O2O

  • Cinderella is Online

    7. Cinderella is Online

    Japanese Drama - 2021, 10 episodes

    Japanese adaptation of Love O2O

  • Gank Your Heart

    8. Gank Your Heart

    Chinese Drama - 2019, 35 episodes

    E-sports (iConquer)

    Their meeting was a recipe for disaster, but their romance is sweet. This is a love story between an e-sports gamer and a Tsundere live streamer.

    Ji Xiang Kong had the reputation, the good looks and hoards of fangirls. Qiu Ying meets him during an international competition and jumps at the chance to boost her own popularity, oblivious to the fact that his reputation in the world of e-sports is strangely tarnished. Instead of helping her, the association hurts her even more. The experience turns out to be a blessing in disguise as Qiu Ying finds her calling. By chance, she discovers that Ji Xiang Kong is actually a misunderstood genius.

    (Source: ChineseDrama.info)

  • You Are The Joy of My Youth

    9. You Are The Joy of My Youth

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes

    E-sports

    Professional e-sports player Xiao Yi Chuan is about to face retirement. In order to stand on the highest stage of the podium, he gave up treatment of injuries, and the moment he returned home, he met a hot-blooded girl Xiong Jiu Jiu who was going around recruiting players for her grassroots e-sports team. After Xiong Jiu Jiu's unrelenting efforts, Xiao Yi Chuan decided to join this team.

    When the team is completed - the gaming maverick Xiao Yi Chuan, theory king Hong Yang, Chu Tian, who's full of potential, and Dong Shi, who entered the team with his own funding - the team is not only faced with strong rivals, but run into troubles with people ranging from gaming newbies to gaming masters. 

    (Source: iQiyi)  

  • Love Scenery

    10. Love Scenery

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 31 episodes

    Big data

    Liang Chen is devoted to bringing good music works to the listeners, expressing the idea of being kind, real, and perfect. Lu Jing loves computers and big data research. He is highly recognized in the academic field through studying complicated human behavior and psychology, thus influencing his classmates around through his solid speciality in literacy. They are strangers at first but then brought together by big data and they become closer in the journey of pursuing dreams. 

    (Source: WeTV)

  • Cross Fire

    11. Cross Fire

    Chinese Drama - 2020, 36 episodes

    E-sports

    In 2008, Xiao Feng is a dejected e-sports team leader barely keeping his team together. E-sports is still in its infancy, and there is little money to be earned. Xiao Feng's team is looked down upon and ridiculed, but continues to fight for recognition.

    In 2019, Lu Xiao Bei is a genius in the same game, a masterful player. Outside of the game, he is a disabled young man in a wheelchair. He vows to live up to his brother's legacy and become a professional e-sports player, but misses his chance to join a professional team.

    Despite 11 years of separation between them, a cosmic glitch allows the two players to transcend space and time and chance upon one another within the game. From mutual distrust to eventual camaraderie, they form their own teams, and help each other grow in life and as players in order to reach their dreams.

    (Source: MyDramaList)

  • The King’s Avatar

    12. The King’s Avatar

    Chinese Drama - 2019, 40 episodes

    E-sports (Glory)

    In the multiplayer online game Glory, Ye Xiu is well known as the textbook-level expert and top-tier player Ye Qiu. Due to a series of circumstances, he was forcefully expelled from his professional team. After leaving the pro-gaming scene, he resides at an Internet Café employed as one of the managers. When Glory launches their tenth server, he throws himself into the game once more—equipped with ten years of gaming experience, memories of the past, and an incomplete, self-made weapon. His journey back to the top begins.

    ~~Adapted from the web novel "The King's Avatar" (全职高手) by Hu Dielan (蝴蝶蓝).

  • The King’s Avatar 2

    13. The King’s Avatar 2

    Chinese Drama - 0000, 40 episodes

  • You Are My Glory

    14. You Are My Glory

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 32 episodes

    Gaming

    In order to mend her reputation, Jing Jing asks Yu Tu (Yang Yang), a spaceship engineer who's also a former pro-gamer for help. That's when the romance blossoms between them. Jing Jing slowly convinces Yu Tu to make a return to the gaming world, as well as being her mentor. (Source: Dunia Games)

  • Mo Bai

    15. Mo Bai

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes

    Gaming

    It mainly tells the love story between Lu Wan Wan, a student of the Film Academy, and the online game god, Han Jing Mo.

    In the game, Han Jing Mo is the No. 1 god in the whole server but in reality, he is the famous senior in the Film Academy. He is the most powerful player under the name 'Mo Bai'. In real life, he has a cold personality, dreams of becoming an actor and likes to spend his time playing game. Meanwhile, Lu Wan Wan is a student at the film academy, who dreams of becoming a successful actress and wants to prove her own strength. In her leisure time, she would play game. In the virtual world, she showed her great skills and has slayed many players. She is one of the greatest players in the game.

    To win the 'Champion Cup Challenge', both of them agrees to set an alliance and team up for the competition. Both of them, then established empathy as they go through many adventures together. But what Lu Wan Wan doesn't expect is that Han Jing Mo is actually 'Mo Bai', who has always been by her side since the very beginning. Despite many things that happened after their meeting, they both gradually fall in love with each other and pursuit their dreams of acting.

    (Source: acejoy at MyDramaList, Yue365)

  • Please! 8 Hours

    16. Please! 8 Hours

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 36 episodes

    Gaming

    A love story across two parallel universes - a fictional wuxia world and a modern-day workplace.

    The story of high IQ black technology genius Ye Tian and the AR sports sister Bai Wei who turned from "lifetime enemy" to "lifetime love" in a high-energy and cool setting of two worlds- virtual and reality.

    (Source: DramaWiki, IJQtv, iQIYI)

  • Guo Fu Wang Zhe Shi NvSheng

    17. Guo Fu Wang Zhe Shi NvSheng

    Chinese Drama - 0000, 24 episodes

    E-sports (planned, not airing yet)

    A love story revolving around Wen Si Yue, who dreams of becoming a professional e-sports player and Jiang Ye, the captain of the successful e-sport Team, The DC Team.

    Wen Si Yue is the only woman player from the DC Team, who has a sassy and intelligent personality. Her parents died when she was young and she grew up with her uncle, Niu Kai Rui. She is a very talented player and has great skills. She also wants to prove her own strength as a top player in the team. With talent and passion, she hopes to be the king of the game who brings honor to her team.

    Jiang Ye is the captain of the DC Team. He seems cold but actually has a heart of gold. He is a wise and responsible leader, who managed his team well. He is also very passionate about e-sports and very loyal to his teammates. He suffers from serious insomnia. When Wen Si Yue accidentally entered his life and joined his team, he was very annoyed by her talkative personality, but he did not expect that as time went on, Wen Si Yue becomes the cure to his insomnia disorder.

    (Source: acejoy at MyDramaList, Yue365)

  • Love is Always Online

    18. Love is Always Online

    Chinese Drama - 0000, 37 episodes

    Gaming (planned, not airing yet)

    CEO Jiang Anzhen has been looking for Yao Yuan who saved him during his university days. After learning that Yao Yuan played the 'ShengShi" game, he took the opportunity to save Yao Yuan’s life in the game, and he announced that he would marry her. Then the two met through a party and began a passionate pursuit, in reality, finally determining the relationship between the couple. However, Jiang's brother revealed a secret regarding their parents' death that resulted in the couple's separation. How would they reconcile?

    (Source: Baidu)

  • Beyond Light Years

    19. Beyond Light Years

    Chinese Drama - 2018, 38 episodes

    Gaming

    This drama revolves around Lu Yu Chen, a highly intelligent student with a genius high IQ who always uses his reasoning and analysis to solve problems. He crosses paths with freshman Xia Xiao Ci, who is a novice gamer.

    Having completely opposite personalities, the two have a bumpy start in their relationship. However, Yu Chen slowly finds comfort in the smile that Xiao Ci always gives and her cheerful demeanor.

    (Source: Dunia Games)

  • To Love, To Heal

    20. To Love, To Heal

    Chinese Drama - 2018, 40 episodes

    Game development

    A story about a corporate executive who gets acquainted with a kendo coach and resorts to different ways to get close to her, silently protecting her as she slowly walks out from a painful past. Xiao Shui Guang has become depressed after the death of her boyfriend. Because of an accident, she meets one of her student's older brother. He is Zhang Zheng Lan, the CEO of a gaming company.

    Zheng Lan recognizes Shui Guang as the woman who gave him the inspiration to get into gaming and he starts to actively pursue her. He says, "You protect your secret; I will protect you." Just as they get closer to each other, Jiang Yu Ru returns from abroad and sets sights on Zheng Lan. Luo Zhi also comes into the picture and opens up to Shui Guang.

    (Source: ChineseDrama.info)

  • Lucky's First Love

    21. Lucky's First Love

    Chinese Drama - 2019, 24 episodes

    Game development

    A story about first love and romances from the perspective of three couples in the workplace. It follows an independent young woman brimming with potential who crosses paths with a black-bellied boss.

    Because of the prosperous meaning behind her name, Xing Yun is recruited by Xia Ke to work at his gaming company. He is determined and headstrong, a son who refused to take over the family business and chose to make it on his own. In her journey from a sketch artist to a gaming designer, she experiences many extremes and jumps many hurdles in dealing with her black-bellied boss. Their continuous bickering brings them closer, and the girl who has never been in love before finds that the last hurdle is love.

    (Source: ChineseDrama.info)

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