5/7/2023 0 Comments Smalland kickstarterThe two brothers quickly found themselves operating far outside of their comfort zone, trying to build games that they seldom played, let alone understood. We're core gamers, personally when we buy a burger, we really want to get a burger." "We didn't know to make a game that has to be surrounded by monetisation. "That's really not our forte," DC Gan says, when we meet shortly after his talk at Level Up KL. Founded in 2015 by two Malaysian brothers, DC Gan and Welson Gan, Magnus Games' early efforts in development were all for an area of the market that new developers in emerging industries are regularly advised to target: free-to-play mobile games. Perhaps the most exciting of those developers is Magnus Games, which has achieved a virtually unprecedented level of success for a Southeast Asian developer of its size and experience. Indeed, across five days at the Level Up KL conference, whenever I asked where the creators of a promising game were based, the answer was almost invariably the sleek, collaborative space at the top of the UOA Corporate Tower. Thanks to a deal with the property developer UOA Holdings, the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) has taken a big step toward its goal of turning this rapidly modernising area of Kuala Lumpur into the country's key hub for game development of all kinds from large companies like Streamline Studios, to the many small and creative teams that operate out of Komune. More specifically, about halfway up one of its many gleaming, glass-and-steel towers, to the Komune co-working space. If you're in Kuala Lumpur and looking for interesting indie developers, you could do much worse than heading to the flourishing tech hub of Bangsar South.
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