Leveling Up Our Games
Malaysia and the
Philippines will be building better digital economies together,
starting with Games.
Southeast Asia’s
population brew of 620 million brings about the hottest global game
revenue growth as it has doubled its total market size from 2014 to
$2.2B spell casted for 2017. Contributing to this affinity are
Malaysia and the Philippines, both having a keen understanding and
already encouraging throngs of its gamers into proper content
creators. To-date, the two have dedicated educational programs for
their respective games and animation sectors. At the same time, they
also have engaged with a range of emerging flagship studios that
feature great leadership, young talents, and long-term digital
ambition.
For the longest time,
they have continued to raise awareness for this industry with
flagship events like LEVEL UP KL for Malaysia and E-Sport &
Gaming Summit (ESGS) for the Philippines. In cooperation with
the Games Developers Association of the Philippines (GDAP),
ESGS (Oct. 27-29) is putting together its GameFest event on
October 26, 2017, featuring headline industry professionals such as:
- Brian Recktenwald – Environment Artist from Naughty Dog, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End & Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
- Ian Lang – Senior Animator from Blizzard Entertainment
- Josh Axner – Technical Artist from Blizzard Entertainment
- Ryan Torrey – Senior Animator from House of Moves, Injustice, Mortal Combat X
- Jia Shen – VP of Product for Blackstorm Labs, makers of Everwing
Yi
Fei Boon – former Lead Programmer of Sparkjumpers, now Field
Engineer at Unity
- *Jeff Agala – Creative Director of Klei Entertainment, makers of Shank, Mark of the Ninja and Don’t Starve.
*Tentative
Adding fuel to this
ambitious pursuit is the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation
(MDEC) partnership with GDAP as both have come together to
form a partnership for the first-event cross-promotion process in the
region.
Enabling this partnership
to bear fruit is Hasnul Hadi Samsudin, VP of Creative Content
& Technologies Division at MDEC. He shared: “This MOU shows a
commitment from both sides that, as a region, we believe the best way
to grow is to do it together. Since 2014, Malaysia, and MDEC, has
always pushed for closer collaboration among friends from South East
Asia. This signifies the formalisation of a partnership between MDEC
and GDAP that, we hope, will benefit both our game development
communities in Malaysia and Philippines. This is indeed exciting
times for all of us."
Also critical to this
promotional partnership is the curators /advisors for GDAP – the
famed Art Director of Sony Computer Entertainment’s Naughty Dog
LLC, Erick Pangilinan, and Animation Vertigo’s Utah-based
CEO Marla Rausch.
“This partnership is not just based on common goals, but on shared paths. We Filipinos have found no better neighbors than Hasnul Samsudin and Dato’ Ng Wan Peng, Chief Operations Officer of MDEC, on this digital road,” added Alvin Juban, President of GDAP.
MDEC and GDAP are keen to
pursue three key actions with this partnership: raise capability
building through experts influence, talks and workshops; conduct
cross-regional events promotion for respective flagship events –
GDAP’s GameFest and MDEC’s LEVEL UP KL; and build a
stronger Southeast Asian games community via this progressive
framework of cooperation.
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THE EVENTS
PHILIPPINES
ESGS
Gamefest @ ESGS
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October 26, 2017
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Function Room 1 SMX MOA, Manila
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ESGS Convention
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October 27-29, 2017
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Halls 2-4 SMX MOA, Manila
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MALAYSIA
Level Up KL
Game Jam
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Nov. 4-5, 2017
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Connexion Conference & Event Centre - CCECNo
7 Jalan Kerinchi Bangsar South City, Wilayah Persekutuan KL
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Technical Workshop
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Nov. 6, 2017
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Connexion Conference & Event Centre - CCECNo
7 Jalan Kerinchi Bangsar South City, Wilayah Persekutuan KL
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Conference
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Nov. 7-8, 2017
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Connexion Conference & Event Centre - CCECNo
7 Jalan Kerinchi Bangsar South City, Wilayah Persekutuan KL
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For questions,
clarification or high praise please contact:
Alvin Juban
GDAP President
+639178925846
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