Fuchikoma bags win at Pinoy Indie Games Competition

By Relly Carpio INQUIRER.net TEAM Fuchikoma bagged the win at the awards night of the first Pinoy Indie Games Competition held recently at Temple Bar in Greenbelt 2 with their game Teddy’s Happy FuN TiEm Wonderland garnering the top scores. "It was a solid game," said Game Developers Association of the Philippines (GDAP) president Gabby Dizon. "When I tried it out, I had a feeling this was going to be one of the top contenders." The gameplay of Teddy’s Happy FuN TiEm Wonderland consists of a giant zombie-like monster teddy bear rampaging through the city collecting power-ups while crazy hang-gliding ninjas try and stop him. Members Joseph Cunanan, Carlos Nazareno and John Tiangco took home their Intel Core 2 Quad machines as their prizes. They beat out 13 other competitors from various colleges for the win. Check out this video of the awards night taken by INQUIRER.net multimedia reporter Erika Tapalla and INQUIRER.net community evangelist Alex Villafania. Excited about the just finished competition, hackenslash asked the obvious question to Jerome Matti, marketing manager of Intel Microelectronics Philippines: "When is the next one?" His answer? "Soon." The Pinoy Indie Games Competition was held on February 1 to 3 at the i-Hooked Internet cafe. Fourteen teams composed of hobbyists and students from various schools spent 48 hours making a game from scratch with the theme "May the fours be with you" in reference to Intel's Core 2 Quad chip. hackenslash was one of the sponsors of the competition.