In the Philippine GameDev Expo held last month, Philstar.com was able to know more about these two globally recognized games.
MANILA, Philippines — It’s not just in esports that Filipinos have been bringing home trophies. Filipino game developers have started making waves in the game development marathon Game Jam Plus, an event that challenges developers all over the world to create a game from scratch in just 48 hours.
Org mates while studying in the University of the Philippines, Nissie Arcega and Andrei Fernandez joined Game Jam Plus not knowing how wide the reach of the event was. “Yung story lang actually yung na-retain from our first iteration of the game. Sobrang nag-iba na siya from what we had in Game Jam pero the story remained the same. One of the things we really wanted with this project was trying to figure out how to use video games as a medium to best tell a story about grief,” explained Arcega, whose personal experience with grief fueled the story.
“It was a process. We didn’t really know how we would tell the story and how we could incorporate the visuals we wanted. When we started the game, we were all still learning how to make games and how to translate the narrative into a game. The more we tried, the more we learned and one of the things we lived by is ‘Simple is better’. You don’t really need a lot of hard mechanics when telling a story,” admitted Fernandez.
He shared that the team had only one objective in mind: to develop a game they liked and have fun at, but RiBeat! broke into the top eight games of the Game Jam Plus Manila and moved on to the next round, which was the Asia finals.
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