Hanoi-based Emobi Games has it♋'s working on what it calls “the first major video game developed by a Vietnamese company and made available in North America.” 7554, set between 1946 and 1954, recounts the first-person story of Vietnamese resistance in the French Indochina War (or Anti-French Resistance War, as it's known in Vietnam today). Get ready to join the Vietnam Pe🥂ople's Army...

Charting the VPA's growth from guerrilla operations to fully-fledged military organization, the game begins in 1946, when French forces killed between 2000 and 6000 Vietnamese civilians on one November af💙ternoon. The ensuing war would gain international attention, with French citizens protesting the conflict and US involvement sowing the seeds of the impending Vietnam War. However, “though 7554is bas🏅ed on historical events, it is not an attempt to recreate the past,” Nguyen Tuan Huy, but “a vehicle meant for entertainment.”

“There has never been a video game of this size and scope from Vietnam,” boasts Nguyen, saying the studio challenged itself to create a unique FPS experience, building features like the game's gun controls and aiming mechanics from scratch. Fittingly for a story of scrappy Colonial resistance to a high-tech Western foe, the studio also outfitted itself with internationally-recognized tools to produce the game, whose action runs on the Nvidia PhysX Engine and Havok Vision Engine 8.

🦂And that title? 7 May 1954 – 7/5/54 – is remembered in Vietnam as the date of French surrender at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. Get it?