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Be Ready for Final Event of CHIP – Nokia Mobile Game Developer War

The series of events CHIP – Nokia Game Developer Camp and Developer War is entering final stage. Seminar, workshop, developer camp and developer war held in various cities like Jogja, Surabaya, Bandung and Jakarta will enter its final and closing event, on June 4, 2011.

DailySocial also followed the series of events among others in Bandung and Jogjakarta. You can check out the coverage here and here.

Now it’s time for the final stage, 6 winners from Jogjakarta and Bandung will compete with 3 winners representing Jakarta and Indonesia to “go on a war” and present their game applications and a live coding with higher level of challenges and difficulties. The finalists will be competing for a grand total of Rp 60.000.000 prize. The final will be held at fX Lifestyle X’nter – Jakarta on June 4, 2011.

The event held by Nokia and CHIP and supported by Agate Studio already has 6 winners from Developer War at Jogja and Bandung, they are: School Escape (Yuandra Ismiraldi – Paramita Hapsari), Digibomb (Darrin Harly S – Saeful) a student of SMK Negeri I Cimahi, Defender Windvale (Raka Mahesa – Timotius Nugroho Chandra) – which name will most likely change to Bhineka Tunggal Ika after participating in Developer War in Jogja, Arjuna Sang Pemanah (Arjuna The Archer) (OMG – Rifauddin Tsalitsy Muh. Lathif Pambudi), Warung Ekspress (EnlightGamesStudio – Jeffrey Hermanto H. Alexander Rahardjo), Too Much Satay (Sate – Gelar Isnu Satria A. Wisnu Raditya).

To complete the 9 participants slot allotted for final stage, CHIP will conduct selection for 3 finalists to join final war stage. Selection is open for game developer from Jakarta and all around Indonesia, for FREE!

Selection registration will be opened until May 13, 2011. Those who passed the first stage selection will be announced by May 17, 2011. Second stage selection will be conducted on May 19, 2011. All finalists will compete in Final War on June 4, 2011. The requirements for CHIP – Nokia Mobile Game Developer War can be found here.

Still not interested? Really? How about checking out the prizes for the winners, for game developer who passed selection first? 1st Prize, 2 units of Nokie E7, 2nd Prize will be Nokia N8, and 3rd Prize will be 2 units of Nokia C7.

The grand prizes are: 1st place, will get cash of Rp. 30.000.000,-, 2nd place will get Rp. 20.000.000,- and 3rd place will get Rp. 10.000.000,-.

If you are a game developer and interested to participate, make sure you’ve read the requirements thoroughly, and seriously, do not miss this event. Complete information can be found here. Have fun, good luck, and may the best team win.

Disclosure: DailySocial is the media partner of the event.

Translated by Nita Sellya.

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