Saturday, August 6, 2011
Square Enix Hunting Game in Indonesia
Square Enix, which is famous through the Final Fantasy game series, apparently were hunting local game in Indonesia. They do it through a competition by holding Community ICT Creative Industries Indonesia (Mikti).
“We have a survey to Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines, but we are actually interested in Indonesia,” said Keiji Honda, Executive Vice President and Representative Director of Square Enix.
Games that competed is a mobile game. The plan, game results of the competition will be marketed in Indonesia before brought to the international market.
Judging will be held in Jakarta on September 19 to 22, followed in Tokyo (September 23 to 27). The jury will select the 10 best games ideas and the best 3 games for mobile phones based on Android.
The winner, who finished three games and 10 games the best ideas, will be offered in ICT Award ceremony in Jakarta, 4-5 October.
Total prizes prepared by Square Enix is Rp 90 million with marketing and distribution costs of gaming. Besides the participants, Mikti will also act as a developer.
In the framework of this competition, Mikti will hold a roadshow that presents Takashi Tokita, Producer of Square Enix and Ian Livingstone, producer of Tomb Raider.
Roadshow will be held as scheduled below:
- Bandung. Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at the ITB, the Faculty of Electrical, Games Technology Programs
- Jakarta. Thursday, August 11, 2011 at Bina Nusantara University, Faculty of Computer Science, Campus Orchid
- Yogyakarta. Friday, August 12, 2011 at AMIKOM JOGJAKARTA, Faculty of Computer Science & IT
