By Relly Carpio
INQUIRER.net
THE VERY first independent game design marathon competition in the Philippines began Friday at i-Hooked Cafe at C.M. Recto in Manila. The Pinoy Indie Games Competition is a 48-hour marathon design competition where the participants must complete a game within the allotted time frame.
Fifteen teams, composed mostly of students, are vying for prizes which include Intel Core 2 Quad PCs, 80GB iPod Classics and P5, 000 worth of gift certificates for each member of the teams. Each team is composed of up to three members.
“The competition is to see how these young Filipinos can push themselves in creating video games. Eventually they will be the ones who will work in the country’s budding game industry,” said Gabby Dizon, president of the Game Developers Association of the Philippines, which organized the event together with Intel Philippines.
Jerome Matti, marketing manager of Intel Philippines; Gabby Dizon, president of GDAP; Iggy Villanueva, business development officer of Yehey!, and Rommel Celespara of American Technologies Inc./Wacom were present at the event’s launch.
The contestants included students from Asia Pacific College, De La Salle University, Ateneo De Manila University, and STI, as well as some freelance game designers. The contest runs until Sunday, February 3, when the contestants must submit their finished games which should include Intel elements under the theme “May The Fours Be With You.”
The event is sponsored by Intel, hackenslash/INQUIRER.net, Yehey!, ATI, Wacom, i-Hooked Cafe, Challenge Systems and GGDAP.
