Altermyth Studio, 5 years of experience in game development in Indonesia, will share our experiences in the Game Development Clinic at Indonesia Game Show 2008. Our team will provide you with consultation and answers related to the topics at that day.

The topics are:

Wednesday, 12 Nov 2008, 13.00-19.00:
Game Online Dev. Clinic (Inspirit Arena and Lilo Online Team).

Tuesday, 13 Nov 2008, 13.00-19.00:
Game llustrations and Comic

Friday, 14 Nov 2008, 13.00-19.00:
Flash Game Clinic.

Saturday, 15 Nov 2008,
10.00-15.00:    Storytelling, Character design, and Game Design Clinic
15.00-20.00:    C++ and Playground SDK PC game dev. Clinic

Sunday, 16 Nov 2008,
10.00-15.00:     J2ME based mobile game clinic
15.00-20.00:     Game development process and Game business

Come and have a friendly chat with us!

Indonesia Game Show 2008 is the FIRST and the BIGGEST game convention in Indonesia this year, and will be held at jakarta Convention Center 12 – 16th November 2008.
The increase of game enthusiasts and industries believed to be the start up jolt for this exciting event. With this event, we all hope that Indonesia will have bigger chances to participate in the ever growing international electronic gaming industry, also to gain more trust for business investment potentials.
The objectives are:

1. To introduce and increase game industry in Indonesia, in various business fields, such as, game publishers, developers and distributors.
2. To share tips and tricks on how to start and maintain a game business in Indonesia
3. To introduce existing and to be released games to all game enthusiasts in Indonesia
4. To share and market new gaming tools/technologies
5. To attract more support from Indonesian government in game industry.

Ok, I admit that my first description about the game and the screenshots although look nice but still do not give clear explanation about the game. It seemed that the best way to know this game is to play it.

If anybody want to join with the closed beta tester, please email me at ricky@altermyth.com, perhaps I can give you an account. If anybody wanted to download, please visit the download section at
www.inspiritarena.com, and don’t worry about the virus warning and all, it has been fixed but the google search engine bots still hadn’t update result that tells the real situation about the website.

But I’ll try to explain what it is in a more elaborative way…

INSPIRIT Arena is a Multiplayer 3D strategy turn based online game.

Multiplayer : It is intended to be played by more than 1 player, an opponet is required in this game.
The game it self more or less similar to a chess battle, 2 players minimum.

3D : The game shader engine is producing 3D images that become the main visual representation along the game, except at some screen where the graphic is 2D art. The interface screen for example.

And while we’re on the rune battle set creator – room interface, as told in the background story, we, as the rune hunters must collect runes and use them for battle against another rune hunter(s) in the arena.
The runes are collected from booster packs bought from rune shop, player will get 10 random selected runes from all of the races / affiliations, in the rarity level, most of them are common, some are uncommon, and the rare runes are the hardest to find / collect. In the closed beta version, player can have gold in many ways, weekly or direct request to the GM, in the real version, player must access numbers from vouchers that can be bought via game centres or online ( in development ).

Strategy : or tactical means the player do not use hand and eye coordination to do headshots or have to maneuver ship to avoid hundreds of plasma bullets. instead, player as rune hunters must use strategic thinking and tactical decisions to prevail in this game. You have limited SPIRIT that also your hit point (live) and summoning / activating runes to unlock its powers you have to spend them, so summoning hordes of armies will make your character fragile. And like the chess game, there will be sacrifice move and traps move, your wit and your management skill is put to the test here.

Turn Based : Not simultanously, but the game progress by taking turn between you and your opponent. Yes, games like front mission, heroes of might and magic, and final fantasy tactics are best example of turn based games. In this type of game, the player are given the illusion of more tactical and more pleasure at making traps and eliminating armies you enemy had ( or once had ).

Online: Yes, you can challenge your cousin at Bali while you at Jakarta.

But some general and easy descriptions can call this Inspirit Arena a combination of Magic the Gathering trading card game and heroes of might and magic with a pinch of World of Warcraft look and feel. But please don’t too excited at spreading this game with this in mind.

Hello again,

After few weeks of Inspirit Arena closed beta testing and internal evaluations, we manage to patch the game to version 1.025, several graphic tweakings and visual bug have been eliminated along with network to server communication glitches…

So..

These are some ingame screenshots, Me against one of Altermyth’s programmer, .. result.. I need a more practice! ( And bestiary studying..)

Army of Valar, lead by Gavin on his griffin,.. summoned by my friend, Bima.

And this is my army of undead MORGHOUL, I have Luna the Hollow ( super rare rune ), hehehe..

Undead Army - Monastery

Too bad I didn’t save the replay for my.. ehm.. rather embarrasing defeat…

Then…

ROUND 2!

This is my army of insect warrior, SHAGGART!

SOG Hive army

And this is my enemy’s army of Elves… with arrows…

Archers of Elvar, assemble!!

And the winner is…

again.. my strong army of shaggart insect warriors is defeated… by those bloody (literally) arrows..

Seemed that 2-0 is the result..
well.. till the next battle… oh by the way… I found some bug with the cursor movements, I believed that Bima can handle that as easy as Gavin eliminate my army of undead!

next time gadget.. next time….

INSPIRIT Arena is a multiplayer online 3D strategy game, developed for windows (PC) platform. The main idea of INSPIRIT Arena is the combination of chess game, board game and TCG (trading card game).
It may be best described as an Online Collectible Digital Game. Where players can collect and trade digital items (in this case, Runes) and use them to play with other players online.

The game play itself is based on turn based strategy game, where players compete against each other using their runes to attack and defend on a digital game board. Each player takes turns to do their action and each turn consists of 4 phases: pre-cast phase, move phase, battle phase and post cast phase.
For the competitive players, INSPIRIT Arena also implements a ladder system that automatically records a player’s score and ranks them accordingly.

Story

Five hundreds years has past since the battle of races that split the world of Inkemia into 3 parts. Ancient legacy has been discovered, technology rebuild to revive extinct powerful creature captured in runes.

INSPIRIT Arena is a Multiplayer 3D strategy turn based online game.

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