Winners of MIKTI and Square-Enix Game Ideas Competition

MIKTI announced winners of game ideas competition for mobile phones (Android) in collaboration with Square-Enix. MIKTI-Square Enix Game Idea Competition 2011 was held at the end of last year and its selection made since September 2011. DailySocial had attended the promotional event of this competiton at ITB in August last year.

After the selection period, judging and announcement of 10 finalists, finally 3 winners were selected and officially announced. In a press release on MIKTI’s official site, the announcement actually had been done in March but apparently the press release was not made available on MIKTI’s official website until April.

The three winners are Whizzy Wazzy (Manticore Studio) as the champion, Beat The Flooder! (Hendri Kusuma Firdaus) as runner up and Buzway Bhablass! (Manticore Studio) as second runner up. The winners will receive prizes totaling US$3,000.

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Game Idea Competition from Indonesia Bermain Now Open for Public

A series of events from Indonesia Bermain enters the next stage, namely Game Idea Competition. Registration for competition has been open since August 1, 2011 until August 31, 2011.

Before the opening of registration, Indonesia Bermain held Road Play series of events in various cities, such as Semarang (7/14), Solo (07/15), Yogyakarta (7/16) Surabaya (7/21), Bandung (7/ 23) and Jakarta, which was held last July 30.

From a release sent to DailySocial there will be three categories to be contested, the first category is Digital (not limited to one platform), Conventional Game (boardgame) and Mobile Gaming Idea (the idea of the game will be developed for Nokia phones), the last category is sponsored by Nokia.

Unfortonetly DailySocial can’t attend the last Road Play event, but we reported Bandung’s event, you can see our report event in here. From a release sent to DailySocial, Indonesia Bermain explained that the Jakarta’s event was attended by more than 60 participants and came from various backgrounds such as game developers, game enthusiasts, media, students and family, they played board games and mobile gaming, there is also a talk show with three speakers, Narenda Wicaksono (Developer Marketing Manager – Service & Portfolio Nokia Indonesia), Ivan Chen (Anantarupa Studios), and Eko Nugroho (Initiator of Indonesia Bermain).

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Pendaftaran Game Idea Competition dari Indonesia Bermain Telah Dibuka

Rangkaian acara Indonesia Bermain memasuki tahap selanjutnya, yaitu Game Idea Competition. Pendaftaran untuk ikut kompetisi ini telah dibuka sejak 1 Agustus 2011 sampai dengan 31 Agustus 2011.

Tahap dibukanya pendaftaran kompetisi ini hampir bersamaan dengan berakhirnya rangkaian acara Road Play yang digelar di berbagai kota, Semarang (14/07), Solo (15/07), Yogyakarta (16/07) Surabaya (21/07), Bandung (23/07) serta terakhir Jakarta yang diadakan tanggal 30 Juli kemarin.

Dari rilis yang dikirimkan ke DailySocial akan ada tiga kategori yang akan dilombakan, pertama kategori digital (tidak terbatas platform apapun asal media digital), conventional game (boardgame) dan mobile game idea (ide game akan dikembangkan untuk ponsel Nokia), kategori terakhir yang disponsori oleh Nokia.

Untuk acara yang di Jakarta kemarin, DailySocial tidak bisa hadir, kami hadir di acara Road Play di Bandung (liputan bisa dilihat di sini), namun dari rilis yang dikirimkan ke DailySocial dijelaskan bahwa acara yang dihadiri lebih dari 60 peserta dan berasal dari berbagai kalangan seperti pengembang game, game enthusiast, media, mahasiswa dan kalangan umum (keluarga) ini diisi dengan acara bermain game board dan mobile game, serta acara talkshow dengan 3 pembicara Narenda Wicaksono (Developer Marketing Manager – Service & Portfolio Nokia Indonesia), Ivan Chen (Anantarupa Studios), dan Eko Nugroho (Inisiator Indonesia Bermain).

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