In addition to the Malabar team, Indonesia will also be represented by Org.com in Imagine Cup 2012. While Malabar competes in the software design category, Org.com will compete in the final of Imagine Cup 2012 for the game design: phone category. Org.com will present its mobile game, Cronus.
For this competition, Org.Com sends Muhammad Hilman Beyri, Prisyafandiafif Charifa, Alfian Ramadhan, and Mahardiansyah Kartika. All of them are students of Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) class of 2009. Org.Com is actually a community of students similar to Creacle. Both of them are communities of students who like to create games and participate in game competitions and together have a dream to build a professional game studio once they graduate from the university.
Org.Com with its game, Jonk! was also a finalist of Mobile Games Developer War 3 held last week. Prior to that, it also released a game titled The Garbager and has created Gundu Tubruk and Pasar The Game.
Different from the software design category which has regional “preliminary phase”, participants of game design: phone in Imagine Cup 2012 will directly compete globally. To reach the final stage of Imagine Cup 2012, they have to pass 3 phases.
In the first phase, the participants are asked to send documents of the game design or storyboard. All participants who send the game design pass to the second phase. Then in the second phase, participants resend the game design or storyboard with additional description on the game play, gameplay video and playable game. Participants who made it to third phase are required to resend the game design or storyboard with the gameplay, gameplay video, playable game, 3 screenshots of the game and one game trailer video.
From the three phases, 10 finalists were chosen and will present their work at the final of Imagine Cup in Sidney, Australia in July. Org.com with its Cronus game will compete with Monkey Pepper (Brazil) with Little Changes, Wicked Games (Czech Republic, Yggdrasil: The Tree Of Life), Ecosia (France, Ecosia), Swifteam (France, Swifty Ball), Turtle Games (Hungary, Rum Rum), Gaon Nuri (Korea, Knocking Hope), LevelUp (Lithuania, Never Future), AVe (Romania, City Quest), and Drexel Dragons (United States, MathDash).
Even though they are competing in the game design: phone category, all participants will still carry the main theme of Imagine Cup 2012; which is “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems”. More information on how Org.com team wraps the theme in a cool game called Cronus will be explained in the next article. May Org.com team and Cronus be able to bring good name to Indonesia in the Imagine Cup 2012 final.
Thanks to Puja Pramudya for the tip.
