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  SHENZHEN, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) –Considered China’s first homegrown high-cost, high-volume, high-quality stand-alone title, “Black Myth: Wukong” is deeply invested in the usage of cutting-edge motion capture technology to incorporate real-world martial arts into the game. Through the technology, the actions of professional stuntmen dressed in customized suits with reflective points are recorded from all angles, processed into virtual data and finally presented on in-game characters. Yin Kai works at a motion capture workshop in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province, Aug. 28, 2024. (Xinhua/Mao Siqian)   Yin Kai works at a motion capture workshop in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province, Aug. 28, 2024. (Xinhua/Mao Siqian) Yin Kai, hailing from Shandong Province, is among the game’s motion capture crew. He undertook the majority of the action work for the game’s protagonist, a monkey character based on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. Inspired by TV stars such as Jackie Chan and Jet Li, the young Kong Fu enthusiast began practicing martial arts at the age of five and majored in martial arts performance at Shanghai University of Sport. To make the combat scenes more engaging both technically and artistically, Yin integrated a variety of elements from Chinese martial arts…