Indonesia’s mobile market is huge – across both feature phones and smartphones – as well as social media addicts. Game developers are doing good business by providing these people with some good entertainment on mobile as well as tackling games on PC and in-browser. So without further adieu, we present you with the 11 awesome startups to watch for in Indonesia’s gaming industry.
1. Garuda Games
With the vision towards delivering quality, fun-filled gaming titles, Garuda Games is an award-winning game developer that was established back in 2009 by a bunch of dreamers. Its 2011 online game called SteamOps got Garuda Games serious notoriety when it won the Indonesia ICT Award 2011, and SteamPunk Deathmatch 1, won first place at the Indonesia Game Show 2012 in the 3D PC game category.
Recently, Garuda Games’ Bermain Dengan Bentuk dan Warna also won third place in the Pro Rock Star category at Rock Star Dev 2013.
Garuda Games develops web games, multiplayer PC games, branded games, and web games. The studio has 14 games for iOS including SteamPunk Warrior and Burger Frenzy, with three more games coming soon. They’re also trying to enter the Android market by developing the upcoming Save Orang Utan game.
2. Agate Studio
Next stop is another award winning game developer, Agate Studio. Built also in 2009, Agate Studio is famous for its Football Saga 2 an online game that won Flash game of the year in Indonesia Games Show 2012 and has recently released a web game called Sengokuixa, in collaboration with Square Enix Co. Ltd.. The game was published in closed beta on July 1st.
Agate Studio is now operating in three major cities in Indonesia; Bandung as headquarters, Jakarta, and Jogjakarta with more than 80 staff that are experienced in developing entertainment, advertising, training, simulation, and education games across all platforms. Agate also represented Indonesia in Tokyo Game Show 2012.
3. Toge Productions (site under construction)
Our third stop is Toge Productions (toge means beansprout in Indonesian), a game developer founded in 2009. It won first place in Indonesia Game Show 2012 for 2D PC game category with Relic of War. Its other famous PC games are 2010’s Infectonator: World Dominator (which gained more than 7 million plays) and the sequel Infectonator 2. For mobile users, Infectonator 2 can be downloaded in the App Store for $0.99 and Google Play.
4. Creacle Studio (site under construction)
5. Touchten Games
6. Maximize Games Studio
7. Tinker Games
8. Educa Studio
9. Altermyth
10. Square Enix Smileworks
11. Nightspade
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