For game developers in Taiwan, there is something unique about Taipei this June! Since 1988, Game Developer Conference (GDC) has been considered the biggest game technology exchange event in game industry. After 26 years, this year, the much anticipated first ever GDC Taipei Summit was held in Taipei. The event was joined by around 600 professional game developers from 12 countries including the U.S, Brazil, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macao and China and 20 invited guest speakers from Taiwan and overseas. In the past, Gamania had participated GDC as an attendee, this year however, we were honored to

  The combination of contemporary culture and modern technology cannot be made without creativity. East London has become a great example of cultural hybrids: its music, art, bars and graffiti, to just name a few examples of where to look. The richness of the cultures also are reflected in its mode of technology. East London’s science park has become one of the most creative centers that meet different kinds of modern demands. Modern technology is naturally linked to rich culture in places like this. It is the diversity of this region that set a perfect ground for exploring all

What’s the relationship between a car and a piano? When you see a scene like this, “on top of a still car is a 350 kg, real piano hanging by 9 ropes”, what is your first reaction? Danger! Unexpected! It could crash and kill the person in the car! That’s right, this marketing case wants to give you the message that “you cannot secure yourself against all risks and dangers, so it’s best to insure”. The interesting thing is that, when will these 9 hanging ‘ropes’ break, and what breaks them will be determine by online users. Through live

Gamania is a company that encourages creativity. Gamanians are a bunch of vigorous creative initiators. To nourish Gamania's creative nutrient, and develop internal creative force, we established Have a good IDEA community based forum platform. We invite Gamanians to share creativity and new knowledge and participate in discussions of creative themes on this platform.   Share IDEA Whether you are doing marketing, branding, R&D, planning, programming, designing or just an ordinary Gamanian, as long as you have any good tips, stories, pictures, films, books on or about creativity, we welcome you to share them on Share IDEA.   We will also provide

Born to play and to have fun, such is the strong brand character and culture of Gamania. Whether it is in space, sound, office stationary, everywhere you see you could feel the vibrant, vigorous energy of Gamania. GamaGarden was born in April, 2012, it is the brainchild of Gamania, inheriting Gamania’s style. The minute you step into GamaGarden, you could feel that strong element of play and fun!  G!VOICE invited the planner, Rainbow and desiner, Kevin from Brand Center to talk about the brand concept of GamaGarden. ▲The design of GamaGarden’s brand image was planned and executed by Kevin

I believe Gamanians have heard of such thing: Core Blaze, the new heavy-weight action MMO game developed and produced by Gamania’s R&D team, made its appearance in the invitation-only VIP event in Los Angeles, U.S on June 7th. The date coincided with the annual E3 2012, so game media from around the globe were gathered in the VIP demo for exclusive experience and Gamania received many positive feedbacks! So, what was so exciting about this event that you should definitely not miss out? Let’s read on… Core Blaze’s debut tester session was released in GGS last year and was

▲ ’Concentric Circle’ event held during Gama-Together camp on Gamania Festival, 2006. ‘Talent’ is the basic unit for constituting a company. How a company makes its staff feel sense of happiness at work has become an important issue for all companies nowadays. Generally speaking, the style of business owner decides the operation of the company and corporate culture. In the current stage of Taiwanese traditional job market, business owners tend to place ‘task demand’ over ‘corporate sharing’ and consequently making staff feel a bit left out and on the brink of feeling unhappy. 1111 Job Bank conducted a questionnaire

If someone ask you out of the blue: which 8 countries formed Eight-National Alliance intervened in China? How many could you still recount after so many years since graduation? Even though we’ve been long parted from our student era, I believe many people could still answer it correctly in an lightening speed: Russia, Germany, France, U.S, Japan, Austria, Italy and U.K. And we have our great history teacher to thank, for he/she ‘reorganize information’ for us using ‘verbal association’.   Let’s try the following order to review Eight-National Alliance   Russia, Germany, France, U.S, Japan, Austria, Italy, U.K If

Do it a step ahead, in exchange for customers’ 100% satisfaction  The Ritz Carlton is a world renowned international luxury hotel chain. Its founder, César Ritz was the king of hotel industry. The reason for him to claim the thrown of the empire was not because his countless chained hotels, but that he implanted the principle and the spirit of ‘customer service’ into the corporate DNA and his staff. “Amazing, ultimate customer experience” is the service quality that Ritz Carlton demands. Such service spirit takes place in every Ritz Carlton hotels all over the world. In the book, “The

Directed and portrayed by Italian cinematic maestro—Roberto Benigni G!VOICE Recommend:  “In life, it doesn’t matter what obstacle you run into, be optimistic, and make it a crazy game! Only the ones who believe life is beautiful becomes the winner in the end. If you’re fed up with the ‘emptiness’ of Hollywood, then you should prepare a spare evening to enjoy this movie. The deep thoughts brewing in the air after you finish watching the movie… and that each time you re-watch it, the magic is still there…  In this film, Roberto Benigni adopted black humor to map out the

As the leading figures of digital entertainment, Gamania is honored with the opportunity to work with IDEO, which is currently one of the most innovative design companies! During the project, IDEO flew out to Taiwan and got together with Gamania members,in order to discuss how the concept of Design Thinking can be actualized? G!Voice takes you in for a closer look!  Before the official meeting, IDEO hopped on a plane and came to Taiwan for a “Looking in” interview. The team learned about Gamania’s nature, working environment, company policy, brand image... etc, and most importantly, what our customers are

Work is an important place in business professionals’ lives, therefore the setting of the office more or less affects their lives. Magic mirror on the wall, which office is the coolest in the world? Inc magazine says that the coolest office belongs to the 2nd largest group purchase website, LivingSocial in the U.S. What so cool about it isn’t the advanced work facilities, but the young online company infuses with the old architecture, creating a vigorous and vibrant office with a unique bearing that pays tribute to the history. LivingSocial is located in Washington and was built by OTJ