XL Invites Developers to Create Web-Based Social Games

Continuing its collaboration with TheMobileGamer (TMG), last Tuesday, XL launched a program called XL Developer Network: Road to GameHack 2013. This program is designed to stimulate developers game in the homeland to create more game social media for the KotaGames platform created by TMG.

As the name suggests, through this program, XL will embrace developer communities in Indonesia. In the coming months, XL will hold workshops in developer pockets such as Jakarta/Depok, Bandung, Yogyakarta, and Surabaya. The workshop aims to introduce the technical side of manufacturing game social and integration game it to KotaGames.

The workshops will end with a competition called GameHack. The competition which is planned to be held in March 2013 invites around 100 participants to compete in the development competition games. At the GameHack, TMG will select five finalists who are gameit will be released on KotaGames including a minimum guarantee of 20 million Rupiah and 200 million Rupiah in the form of promotion marketing.

To increase the interest of participants, in the GameHack competition later, XL and TMG will also provide other prizes in the form of Galaxy Tab 7.0 and Nokia Lumia 900 for the first and second winners for the Professional category. In addition to the professional category, students or freelancers can also take part in the general category with prizes for Samsung Galaxy II and Nokia Lumia 800. Each winner will also receive a prize in the form of social gaming development training with tutors from Japan.

In March last year, XL launches partnership with TMG to enable XL customers to access games which is on CityGames at a low price. At the time the partnership was launched, KotaGames only contained six games games. Now, in about a year, KotaGames has 19 game with 10 game some of them are made by third party developers. In terms of number of users, KotaGames has around 1.2 million players with an increase of around 30% every month.

Games in KotaGames has advantages because it can be accessed properly using a variety of games handphone provided you have an internet connection via GPRS and a browser. Besides, because game presented is a game In social media, players can create unique characters complete with avatars, and can interact with other players on the KotaGames platform.