Jakarta, Indonesia - 18 May 2018

Melon Game Jam 11-13 May 2018 and Winners

First Melon Game Jam was held from 11 to 13 May 2018, in Bina Nusantara - Syahdan Campus, Jakarta.

In cooperation with Bina Nusantara University, one of the most remarkable IT University in Jakarta. We are aiming to raise awareness and give support to game developer community, on HTML5 Games in Jakarta.

In that spirit, Melon Gaming has organized this gamejam.

The objective was to create new games in 72 Hrs, in team of maximum 4 people, using MelonJS, the popular HTML5 game engine, and leverage the new Facebook Instant Game Features. The end result shall be an innovative new game to be uploaded on to Facebook Instant Games Platform.

More than 12 teams joined the event from across jakarta, each consists of one to four peoples. The event itself is considered a success and has cultivated amazing games and concepts.

Here are the winners of the event :

Third Place - Team Mantap - Dreamagination

Story takes place in dream world. The genre is Top-to-bottom sidescrolling arcade shooting game. The main character is falling down from reality to dream world to fight nightmare. Main character needs to avoid obstacles and can shoot stars to destroy obstacles and bosses. The objective is to go as far as you can and score the highest possible.

Second Place - Palugada - Endless Tower

Story takes place in an endless auto-generated vertical maze tower. The main character needs to go as high as he can, by bump-jumping into the wall through the maze and collect collectibles while avoiding dangerous obstacles to score the highest possible.

First Place - Melon Bundar - Pakapa's King

Story takes place in Pakapa kingdom, we need to defend the fortress from attacking Wakakawa tribe by solving match-3 puzzle. Soldier, wizard, guardian, and crystal are the puzzle piece, they have different effect upon matched. The objective is to survive as long as possible and score the highest possible. This game was selected by the jury because it was mixing the match 3 genre with a RPG game, and standing out from other games in terms of idea.

Congratulations to all winners. See you at the next Melon Game Jam!

We would like to say thank you as well to Bina Nusantara University for their full support, hosting this event. And Facebook for their support throughout the event and especially the Facebook judge Rangga Gandina, from Facebook Indonesia.