August 6, 2012   [Gama News] As part of beanfun! Summer Carnival, beanfun! National Open of first half year came to a perfect end on August 5th 2012. Players from all over Taiwan competed nearly 4 months and finally the champion team was born! The winners of regular match and sudden death match of CS online were AlphaForce and Pi-Li GoGoGo respectively. The winners of group speed match and individual speed match of 2.0 Crazy Racing Kartrider were Low-key club and oPTTo respectively. The intense competition carried on all the way to the final moment, everyone’s emotion was brought

G!VOICE conducted a special interview with Vivian He (right), GTW-CS and Emily Huang, GTW-CS as they shared the unspoken hard work in customer service.    Currently Gamania divides customer service sector into four divisions: staff who are responsible for answering customers’ calls, staff who deal with players’ online queries, staff who set up internal trainings for quality control of the customer service, and staff who assist in testing product quality and are part of QA team. Out of these four divisions, telephone customer service occupy the most people. Being front line customer service personnel is hard work. They need

    Ah Bin: “Courage is the process of escaping your comfort zone.”    Ah Bin: “Courage is the process of escaping your comfort zone.” The foundation’s activities encourage everyone to push their comfort zones and make them larger. They encourage people to have firm beliefs in their goals and strive for them. This process then enables them to take on even more challenges. Having courage means going to do things that you find extremely frightening, uncomfortable or just don’t like and also coming to terms with the possibility that you might fail. Sometimes the weight of a challenge,

Famous Astronaut Armstrong said, “One small step for man, a giant leap for mankind.” Now the scene shifted to Angry Birds, the moment when it is about to be flung what would it say? Would it snicker? Would its feather fall?  Videos about Angry Birds never disappoint me, and they always make me laugh! The Space edition of Angry Birds was launched on March 22. About a month ago, its official website released this video and quickly created sensational talk around the space edition. The video was inspired from true humor, the good kind of creativity. The creative team

Have you had an experience of trying to survive under cross fires? Have you ever experienced escaping with your partners in a dire situation?  This June, members in customer service unit participated fierce guerilla warfare. In addition to getting to know each other more, this activity also made the team more unified through collaboration.  There were also delicious BBQ and exciting team activities! The team activities consisted of three games so everyone had a field day. The winners also received lovely little gifts!  The three games were ‘A mouthful of fruit burst’, ‘Love & hug’ and ‘Who’s the rat’s

▲Gamanian observers from marketing and technology perspectives: Bea (left) and Gilbert (right).  Facing the rapid changes in the global market, are you fully prepared? G!VOICE interviewed Gamanian observers who possess of keen market senses, Bea and Gilbert, to share their observations on the marketing and technology aspects of digital entertainment market. Still haven’t caught up with the trend? Let’s hear what they have to say!  Observation from the Marketing Perspective: GOBU3 of GTW, Bea Wang ▲GTW-GOBU3-Bea Wang(王蘭君) Rapid Changes in the Market: Are You Ready? Judging from the game companies who participated in the exhibitions, web game and mobile

Players can enjoy many popular webpage games in beanfun! [Gama News] The biggest online game entry website in Taiwan, beanfun! announced on September 7th that its membership has reached over 14 million. Deputy COO of GTW, Summer Yu said that these new joined members were attracted by the new games launched in the summer and the version changes of popular games. beanfun! also launched dozen of popular webpage games starting in August, including self-developed, Web Koihime†Musou, Shikihime-Zoushi (strategy), Star Song (RPG), Chi-Fun Online (leisure), Iron Alliance (shooting), Average Joe (funny) to satisfy different player groups.    To provide better

[Gama News] Ultra-popular game characters, from Kart Rider 2.0 and Bomb King, Dao and Bazzi will embark an exciting water gun fight with Taiwanese players! Gamania announced on October 5th that it has acquired the agent right of Bubble Fighter in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. This is the first water gun shooting game featuring adorable characters that most players considered classic cast: Dao and Bazzi. Director of GTW-GOBU3, Bea Wang said “In order for Taiwanese players to enjoy the fun of shooting water gun, our Taiwanese operation team will work closely with developers to shorten the waiting time.

In the fierce competition in the capital market nowadays, business owners could only wish their shops are filled with customers and their products pre-sold way before official launch. Shrewd sales personnel wish they could see through customers’ minds and know what they are thinking so they could earn handsome amount of commission fees. In this day and age, everyone wants to know what the customers think, what they want and how to get them to pay. In this article, I’ll introduce a research method that could have an insight into consumers’ real demands—context inquiry.   Context inquiry is a

▲Lego master, Nathan Sawaya pieced up many seemingly petty Lego bricks into artworks full of life force! In 2008, Lego, a brand originated from Denmark had gone through half a century but still standing tall. It is the common interest and memory of many children and adults alike. Why is its charm so pervasive that still influences people even after 50+ years? Such charismatic toy possesses the features of numerous combination and diversity so that people could use their imagination and creativity and create many precious pieces and stories! Creative Lego: Intricate to the Ts Lego’s slogan has changed

A Role Play Task   As the marketing department in Gamania, we often alternate between two roles: when we face the business operation, we turn into professional Ad personnel, providing marketing strategy and corresponding effect according to the features of each game and the target player group; however when we face external advertising agency or production company, we act as a client of game company where we carefully examine the proposal and estimate prospective result. Switching characters between these two roles requires more than adjusting the attitudes but professional skill-set to deal with different tasks. Therefore, a real life

Summer is the peak season for game industry, Gamania will not be absent from the mobile game market. Presenting branding new mobile content, Gamania officially launched SubCat with enhanced visual quality. In addition, two new quests were added: East Sea Dragon Palace and Honey Strait. The new game targets cat-lovers, recreational players and iPad owners and seeks to attract spotlight with the hottest ‘screen-wipe’ method.   This time we did an unannounced interview with potential player, Grace from operator, to test the game effect of SubCat HD.   We installed SubCat HD to iPad and placed it on Grace’s

▲Spokesperson and Taiwanese celebrity, Jolin Tsai, representative from Korean developer (left) and COO of GTW, Vincent Chuang (right).  July 13th, 2012 [Gama News] Gamania’s annual masterpiece, Cyphers launched the official open beta test on July 31st 2012. Cyphers embodies the thrills of DOTA strategic appliance and exciting action games. Taiwan was announced as the first overseas launch location and was positively perceived by players, who expressed high anticipation for this game. Two game modes, point accumulation battle and player vs. computer, were added for the open beta on July 31st Open Beta. The ‘union system’ was also opened to

▲The map of U.S presented through inforgraphics: the features of each state was presented through different colors and illustrations, elevating the visual enjoyment.      What is Infographics？   Infographics is a compound word comprises of information and graphic. Basically it is a graphic, visual representation of specific information, message or knowledge. Examples of infographics range from maps, metro or bus maps, data graphs on the newspapers to various diagrams on Excel.    Originally infographics were used mostly on newspapers or magazins to illustrate the storyline or the plot of an incident. During 1970-90, the art editor of The

Gama-Townhall  What is it that enabled this 30+ young guy to establish iPartment, a dating social networking site that spreads across China Strait and has over 30 million members? This virtual apartment provides a platform for people to make friends online. It is not only one of the most famous dating sites in Taiwan but successfully made its way to China and became one of the top 3 dating websites there. We invited this young entrepreneur, the chairman of SunFun Info., Ltd, Chang Chia-Ming to share his story of success with us in Gama-Townhall.  iPartment : http://www.i-part.com.tw   How We

In the digital time, millions of information is transferred or exchanged in the virtual world in the speed of light at every second. If you want to be the leading creator in the digital entertainment time, you must have a clear sense of market trend. There are certain ‘required credits’ you must study and obtain before you could become a creator. These would be useful tools when Gamanians to explore and expand the territory in the future.     Required Credit 1: Communities? Networking? Get it Straight First!    What is a community? Scholar Shafer (1999) defined it loosely

WOWOW is a private satellite broadcasting and pay TV station. Its channels provide movies, TV series and sports. They recently launched a commercial for promoting their online TV service. In the commercial, an eagle was resting on top of the tree. You could see from someone’s window that the TV was playing some intense drama. In the drama, a mother failed to grab the baby stroller and it dashed down the long stairs. The eagle, which was also watching the TV from the tree outside the window, soared and flew to the filming scene. The crew thought the eagle

July 9th, 2012 [Gama News] Gamania’s very own ultra-simulated online action game masterpiece, Mabinogi: Heroes officially launched on July 9th, 2012, introducing new profession, Archer, Kai and multi game systems, including Transformation system, Enchant system, X skill contest and M skill contest. Other launch campaign activities include gift package for initial battle, war-currency waiver, and double-up weekend experience, taking the avid players on to the road to becoming heroes!  ▲The only concurrently released new profession in the world, the Archer, Kai!  Mabinogi: Heroes received the highest honor in Korea, the President Award. The game caused quite a sensation before