Garena Brings 3 Indonesian Young Developers Team To IGDX Business & Conference 2024

ManPac game from developer Suseh Studios (photo: Garena)

JAKARTA - As part of its commitment to support the Indonesian game industry, Garena provides opportunities for three studios containing young developers to present their work at the Indonesia Game Developer eXchange (IGDX) Business & Conference 2024.

This initiative is also a continuation of the Garena Gam Jam 2023 program which is a competition platform for making games and networking for young developers.

Meanwhile, the young developer team for the 2023 Garena Game Jam alumni who will attend the 2024 IGDX is as follows:

Suseh Studios - 1st Winner Garena Game Jam 2023

Suseh Studios is a development team consisting of students and has participated in various game development competitions since 2022. In addition to being the first winner at Garena Game Jam 2023, the team containing nine people has also received awards at the COMPFEST Indie Game Jam.

The studio, led by Ariq Ghifari (23) as CEO, features their work entitled ManPac at the 2024 IGDX Business & Conference. ManPac is an Extraction-Horror genre game that invites players to collect Glowing Dots in a randomly changing lab.

Exploding Soes - 2nd Winner Garena Game Jam 2023

Exploding Soes is a studio containing young gamers and developers, they contain students and fresh graduates with an average age of 20 years. This team only formed in early 2023 and currently contains 9 people, with Derrick Anthony (22) as CEO.

As the 2nd winner at Garena Game Jam 2023, they will feature a work titled Repeat After Death, an action academy game that challenges players to fight the shadow of their own actions. Players must face the challenges of every step taken while trying to beat the monsters inside the tungeon.

Stellar Seven Studio - 3rd Winner Of Garena Game At 2023

Stellar Seven Studio, formerly known as Benson Impact, is a game development studio based in Indonesia. This studio contains four people, led by Rifqi Yahya Wibisono (25) as CEO.

This studio showcases a demo version of their work entitled Hope, a game that presents the concept of "replay-ability" in a different way, in players it is necessary to replay the level to solve a series of puzzles. They are currently focusing on developing Hope to be ready to be released to the public in the near future.