If you are a real gamer, you must be so familiar with the names like Ubisoft, Konami, EA, Capcom, Blizzard, etc. Those American and Japanese developer companies are the huge brands in the game domain. Then, Korean developers has come since 2000s, gives us even more alternatives.
Meanwhile, Indonesia was only a market, consumers, spectators, or critics.
This bitter fact made some Indonesian game developers get motivated. One of them is David Setiabudi. He created DivineKids (divinekids.com), an umbrella organization for game developers, in 2004.
His effort bore fruits. In 2008, at the Indonesian Games Award, DivineKids was selected as the Favorite Indonesian Game Developer. David was also (controversially) gained MURI Award as the First Indonesian Game Maker.
However, DivineKids has listed more than 90 games with many genre, such as strategy, RPG, education, puzzles, or horror. It makes us kind of proud.
Not only in desktop games, Indonesian game creators are also good in mobile or browser games. Search some games on Facebook, you’ll find some words from bahasa Indonesia. For example:
- Majapahit Online (by Anantarupa Studios)
- Climb The Pinang (by Agathe Studio)
- Gado Gado Sibuk (you are a gado-gado vendors who search for customers)
- Art Of Pencak Silat
- Kiri-kiri (you are a driver of public transportation who is looking for passengers)
- Defend The Monas
In the Visual Novel (VN) genre, don’t forget the Revival of Queen Leyak (RoQL) as well. It is developed by Indonesian team, but published by American publisher (DEVGRU-P).
Obviously, you can’t compare those games with the products of world-class game developers. But, at least, this shows that Indonesia can “make”, not only “play”.
- Contributor: Hamdi Rizal
People loves games, from children to adult, from male to female.
Agree. Not “everybody”, only “a lot of”.
Mas Brahmanto ada email gak? Trims.
brahm @ warungfiksi . net
Trims Mas for quick response, saya kirim email ya ke situ. Tq.
ane juga pengin jadi writer bro, and lagi nekunin ini profesi 😀
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Iya, kita juga punya potensi kok. Developer Indonesia ada banyak, cuman kurang dukungan dari masyarakat sendiri
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Sangat berpotensi. Tapi sering nggak ada lahan yang kondusif untuk mengasahnya.