By Alex Villafania, hackenslash Reporter
INQUIRER.net
UPDATED: Macromedia Flash is of course now known as Adobe Flash. Thanks to anomalous_underdog for the heads up.--Joey Alarilla
A STARTUP video game development firm called Skyrocket Interactive Inc., a startup video game development firm, is eyeing to entice large corporations to use video games as a marketing tool, instead of fully focusing on creating original games.
In an interview with hackenslash, Skyrocket Interactive president and CEO James Ronald Lo said the company’s development approach would be on "advergaming," a concept wherein a video game has a direct or indirect reference to a popular consumer brand.
Advergaming provides major brand names to extend their marketing reach to either a niche of gamers or an existing community of video game players. Likewise, advergaming can also use games as an interactive value-added service to their existing customers.
Three versions of advergaming exist: in-game placement advertising wherein brand logos are posted somewhere within a video game; online advertising, with a video game referring to the brand being played on the company website; while the third is direct reference of the brand, with the main mascot or product endorser becoming a playable character.
Lo, who started out the company with five other business partners, said Skyrocket is barely nine months old and is still gradually building its portfolio.
Despite the company's relatively late entry into the video game business, they are already making headway in producing some games for local brands.
For now, all the games will be developed using Macromedia Adobe Flash, a graphics tool that can create interactive websites or games.
Lo said they are developing at least five games, all for popular consumer brands. He hopes that all the games will be launched sometime within the year.
Lo emphasized the value of advergaming for the company and also for its customers. It extends their market reach and provides an interactive method for customers, who may want to learn more about the brand.
"Besides, it’s fun to play a game with the brand present and there’s easy brand recall," Lo said.
Lo said the demand for advergaming could rise exponentially as more people go online. However, Philippine firms have to slowly understand the benefits of using the Internet as a marketing tool prior to putting their name as a video game.
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Agree. It's time to show the brick-and-mortar world that the gaming industry is huge. The potential for brand awareness and viral marketing is the next big wave. Traditional marketing methods and big budgets are not guaranteed formulas anymore, especially in our 'over-communicated' society. And the ever-growing gaming population in the country will certainly be a force to contend with.
Peace!
...and yet another group of fine fine Filipino people who dares to contest the vast world of thriving game developers here in the Philippines...
oooh this is getting exciting...
this is getting exciting indeed..
*shiver*
I can see it now...
...pinoy games, gamers, and game developers...
more power to the skyrocket team!!!
MABUHAY ANG PINOY GAME DIPILOPER!!!
Call it gamevertising. It should be gaming first, advertising second.
yup, i know, mike, but advergaming is still the more common term :)
cheers!
pssst.. its not called "Macromedia Flash" anymore, its "Adobe Flash"
thanks anomalous_underdog :) made the correction.
cheers!
Actually, there are already several companies here in the country that are planning to advertise on the games we play on the internet (online games) and on blogs made by fellow countrymen which is actually good.
It's good to see that they're now taking the opportunity on venturing and marketing their products in the virtual world.
Well, actually, isn't it much more exciting and more realistic if we see advertisements or products in our games? haha
GAMEVERTISING....
hmmm, Great Idea.
I think we should use that as the norm.
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Gamevertising doesn't sound like a good idea to me, because to me, playing games mean to de stress and advertising when trying to relax don't make sense but it does make ? I've seen some works of Philippine game developers and they were great. Young aspirants should be given opportunities to sharpen their skills.
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