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5 things to know about billionaire Forrest Li's shooter game Free Fire

An avatar from the last-man-standing online survival game, Free Fire, which has become a huge worldwide success.
An avatar from the last-man-standing online survival game, Free Fire, which has become a huge worldwide success.
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The huge variety of realistic weapons and wide range of avatars that players can choose have helped to make the kill-or-be-killed mobile phone game a worldwide success

Free Fire is a popular last-man-standing online survival shooter game that can be played on any mobile phone or tablet.

It involves about 30 to 40 players parachuting onto a remote island, where the priority is to kill (or be killed), as you try to pick up different weapons – mostly guns – and other items to eliminate all of your opponents.

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Billionaire game developer

Forrest Li, founder and CEO of Sea, the Singaporean parent company of gaming platform and developer, Garena. Photo: Singapore Press Holdings
Forrest Li, founder and CEO of Sea, the Singaporean parent company of gaming platform and developer, Garena. Photo: Singapore Press Holdings

Free Fire is not the first mobile survival game to be inspired by the 2000 Japanese film Battle Royale. There is also PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) and Fortnite, both of which are huge hits.

Yet this has not failed to stop the rise in popularity of this new digital game, which shares some similarities with the Hunger Games films.

The worldwide success of the game has helped to make a billionaire of Forrest Li, founder and CEO of Sea, the Singapore-based parent company of the game’s developer, digital entertainment platform, Garena.

Derek Ting
A film director, producer, and writer originally from New York, now based in Hong Kong, Derek strives to challenge himself in everything he does. He's written and produced several feature films: $upercapitalist shot in Hong Kong, New York, released internationally in 2012 with millions of views; Always, a romance drama shot in Hong Kong and Shanghai released globally this 2016, and has a 8.5 rating in China on qq with 500K+ views, and “Agent”, a science fiction action thriller, released this 2017, entirely in California that explores the origins of the Pyramids, Stone Henge, and the Great Wall as well as Alien conspiracies. Recently, he wrote and directed a science fiction short film, "Lucid", about the possible future use of "virtual reality" as a way to reconstruct memories. He's the creative director for Random Art Workshop Media with Joyce Yung a prominent photographer and producer, and he directs lifestyle branding videos, corporate and music videos, and has had the opportunity to work with some of the greatest stars and brands in entertainment, both in Asia, and North America. He loves to travel, play sports, and exercise. He's a former CNN Producer, ex-Doubleclicker(now Google), Mercer consultant, and Cornell University graduate.