Indonesian Game Talent Program Launched

Talent is the backbone of an industry. Including in the game industry, where to produce quality and global works, talents are needed with large quantity and high quality as well.

For this reason, active participation from educational institutions, both universities and vocational schools is needed to produce talents who can meet industry needs in producing quality works.

Responding to this challenge, the Indonesian Game Association (AGI) in collaboration with Agate Academy launched a new program titled Game Talent Indonesia or Game Talent ID.

What is Indonesian Talent Game?

Game Talent ID is an initiative that aims to minimize gap between academic graduates and industry through various programs such as webinar, internships to game development competitions.

This program takes place by forming an alliance between academic institutions such as universities, polytechnics, and vocational institutions with industry represented by AGI which is an industry association and Agate Academy.

This initiative itself was launched on March 8, 2021 yesterday through a website gathering inaugural virtual event, and followed by a press conference held today, March 10, 2021 at channel YouTube AGI and Agate Academy.

The gathering itself was attended by representatives of the 18 first member universities of Game Talent Indonesia who have majors in the field of games, or which intersect with game development, including:

BINUS Bandung
Pasundan University
Surabaya State Electronics Polytechnic
Malang State University
Bogor Agricultural Institute
STMIK & LPKIA Polytechnic
Multimedia Nusantara University
Harapan Bangsa Institute of Technology
Telkom University
MMTC Multi Media College
Jakarta State Polytechnic
Brawijaya University
ITB DKV
Ciputra University
Amikom University Yogyakarta
BINUS @Syahdan / Greater Jakarta
University of Muhammadiyah Malang
ITB SBM

Responses of Some Important People Regarding this Program

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Game Talent Indonesia is a program whose goal is to unite academics with industry players,” said Cipto Adiguno. We do this so that AGI’s efforts in developing talent in the gaming industry can be more evenly distributed,” he continued.

“Agate was formed by students in 2009, and with this Game Talent ID we complete it full circle by helping fellow academics to create programs for their students,” said Aditia Dwiperdana, Vice President of Talent from Agate. “This is also in line with our long-standing dream, which is how to reach more people to enter the game industry,” he continued.

AGI and Agate Academy themselves have prepared several programs under the banner of Game Talent Indonesia. First, there is webinar which discusses the game industry and current game technology trends that are useful for lecturers.

The hope is that there is webinar this, the lecturer will continue up to date with the development of the game industry, and can enrich the knowledge of students.

Game Talent Indonesia is still open for registration for educational institutions that want to join. Interested educational institutions can directly register through the official website.