Successful Horror Game Galang Bandung Rp 250 Million

BANDUNG - DreadOut, a horror games made ​​by Bandung-based studio called Digital Happiness, success garner support financing through crowdfunding scheme as much as 26,097 dollars. The fresh funds would be ensured by their games in order to speed up the production process could be launched by the end of 2013.

Certainty that can be known of their proposal that aired on the site crowdfunding Indiegogo. Gim managed to reap additional funds amounting to 26 097 U.S. dollars or equivalent to Rp 250 million. This figure or exceeded the original target set at 25,000 dollars.

"Exciting, gripping, and thrilling," said Game Producer Digital Happiness, Rachmad Imron, when contacted Sunday night.

Gim is a project developed DreadOut Digital Happiness for 1 more year. Horror genre, the player moves the protagonist named Linda, a high school student, who stuck with her friends in an abandoned city. There apparently filled with gripping mystery and depending Linda to solve through the ability to see ghosts from his smartphone screen.

According to the plan, these games will be prepared for the PC platform. Nowadays even lined up on Steam Greenlight to support international market.

Speaking about the success of their fundraising, Imron claimed touched witnessed overwhelming support received during the process of making these games given the Digital Happiness is the name of a reputation in the industry with no national or even international games. However, at least 500 supporters from various countries still channeling their support for these games.

"This is the first step in the completion of DreadOut games and now we have 500 new boss from various countries who have become investors," said Imron.

This cash injection will certainly speed up the production process DreadOut games. Imron explained that they would use the funds to hire an office with more space and additional hires for programming games. If they fail to raise funds from Indiegogo, Imron remains confident of completing DreadOut but time is slower since they have to get extra funding from a side project.

DreadOut story may break the assumption that crowdfunding for games in Indonesia will not work. The previous two examples Eternal Grace and Dewa Ruci failed to get funding from the Indonesian crowdfunding sites, Wujudkan.com.

Viral

The success of the games DreadOut hook on Indiegogo supporters actually not be separated from the strategy used in introducing these games. One of them with the release of the demo games on March 31.

It did work not long after the video appeared on YouTube will review these games. Most of the response was positive, they can enjoy horror and eerie atmosphere that successfully built by programmers DreadOut. Even more importantly, the atmosphere is rarely found on the Indonesian horror games captivate anyone who watched the video.



Demo games are only 30 minutes a game featuring such games can make players fear the ghost of Indonesia for example see kuntilanak. Tricks to shock as well as gallons of mineral water found a fall can also be found.



From Indiegogo supporters, Imron revealed that only 10 per cent came from Indonesia, the rest from abroad. Understandable given the conditions he had to wear to contribute some sort of virtual money account ownership PayPal PayPal while not so much in Indonesia.

"But there is also sending money through the account and upload to our Indiegogo," said Imron.

For Indonesia, Digital Happiness via Facebook Page they also make a donation to the Indiegogo campaign.

invitation

The success of this funding is not the only happy story Digital Happiness. They also flooded with invitations to attend the games industry domestically and internationally.

One of them in the Casual Connect event in Singapore May 21-23, Imron will give a speech in the event of production DreadOut games. On May 25, Digital Happiness returned to Jakarta to attend the event Game Dev Gathering.

Digital Happiness is actually also join the competition in order to go to attend the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles in June for free through Indiecrashes program. Unfortunately they failed due to lack of support.

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