Since Gamania Cheer Up Foundation was established in 2008, they have encouraged teenagers in Taiwan to pursue dreams and be themselves. In the summer of 2011, the foundation announced the theme for this year’s summer school, Courage. The foundation will also expand on the “Courage Based Educational Training Program”, assisting participated college students to cultivate team spirits, challenge themselves, and further develop and make full use of this positive energy in the future!     Activate the “Courage Education”– Training 100 Teenage Volunteers   The Gamania Cheer Up Foundation administrated a survey to understand the courage of dream chasing

Gamania Game Developers Exchange (GDEX) made its debut appearance in GHQ. Encompassing various topics and forums, GDEX consisted of 32 sharing sessions during the span of 9 days. Special guest, Dr. Won Lee, CEO of KOR R&D Company flew his way to Gamania to give a seminar speech. The topics covered by GDEX this year include, introduction on the latest technology and productions of game industry, R&D team experience sharing, promotion of development strategy and regulation, domestic and overseas game campaign sharing and feedbacks. One can say that the latest trend and technological information of the game industry worldwide

All You Can East Ice Cream: Cool and Chill GJP Birthday Celebration!  Whenever there’s a birthday goes around in Gamania, Gamanians get to play as much as they want and eat to their hearts’ content! The birthday guy/gal could collect birthday vouchers, or take birthday leaves. For other bystanders in the office, they get to TP their colleague’s office or cream the birthday person etc. Birthday events are important dates in Gamania, colleagues could seek ‘revenge’ at this time (jk) and it’s a healthy outlet for Gamanians to let it all out and be merry! (lol) GJP held a

This is definitely the first time as well as the most significant time for the group. PlayWork Campaign, initiated by Brand Center was officially launched on March 21st 2011. In addition to having simultaneous exhibitions in Gamania operating cities such as Taipei, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Blair and Berlin, the campaign also combines films, internet activities and video memorial books etc. The campaign serves as a retrospection for Gamania’s growth and glory over the past 15 years. In the meantime, Gamania will also continue to carry on the PlayWork spirit.    What named it

Joyce, GM of Playcoo   “Surrounded by the institution of reality, fame and wealth, we often forget our passion and dream. Growing up, we couldn’t tell the difference between training and education. Find a love one or watch the movie alone in one weekend evening, you’ll rediscover the passion and the learning method that fits you the best.”       Film Introduction   Rancho, Farhan and Raju are students of Indian Institute of technology(one of the finest universities in India), they’re roommates and best friends with one another. However, in the campus that grades determine everything, Rancho, the

Lucent Heart: Europe CB Test to be Launched!  Playcoo, R&D subsidiary of Gamania launched a more than a week long closed beta test in Europe on its self-produced online game, Lucent Heart in June 2011. In addition to testing the pressure on the server, players could enjoy playing all content of Lucent Heart. The character level limit has also been enhanced to maximum 65 Lv.  avel all around Acadia continent in the game. They could attend activities and events such as ride contest, village experience, holding wedding etc. The content is rich and interesting. Through this CB test, R&D

G!VOICE: Gamania’s always celebrated the Game Day in the form of Sports Day, and in private, Gamanians also like to form clubs and get involved in sports activities. Gamanians seem to have a thing for sports, do you know why?  Albert: Actually it’s kind of intriguing! I remembered back in 2005, “sports” is not really an element in Gamania’s culture. It was not until end of 2004 and beginning of 2005 while I was chatting with a few colleagues and someone suddenly mentioned, “Dare to challenge the Jade Mountain ?” Back then everyone cared a lot about their “faces”

For general companies, when engaging in critical policies, there will usually be a group of people sitting quietly at the meeting room, discussing and ruminating until a decision is being made. But for dynamic Gamania, that is never the case. “Move about, don’t sit it out” philosophy was adopted by all heads of units and supervisors. We want the strategic meeting to “pop”! Resolution can be triggered and inspired by outdoor activities, which is a necessary means to acquire for all to face future challenges with no fear.  Strategic Meeting Turned into Sports Races Remember couple of years ago,

▲(Source of picture: http://blog.regalmanners.com/ )     Open your mind and take a stride, let’s go for a grand tour!    Everyone deserves a grand tour in his/her life regardless of rich or poor. Quoting from renowned mime actor, John Barrymore, “A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” Everyone always holds on to their dreams. Be it far-reaching or within reach, it all depends on the power of realizing because some things, if we don’t do it, we never will!        Grand tour is a journey of soaring aspiration    What exactly

▲Sacred Lake: Yamdrok Lake (Provided by: GCN, Sida Yuan)   For sports-loving Gamanians, they love to watch the gorgeous views around the world with their own eyes and explore the land with their own feet. Nature has created many world wonders with its exquisite and breathtaking craftsmanship. In Gamanians’ minds, where exactly are those dream destinations? Let’s take a look!       The “Highest” Sign for Bike Riders: Wuling ▲The highest mountain road in Taiwan, Wuling has a beautiful scenery along the way.  (Source of picture: Wikipedia )     Area: Nantou County, Taiwan    Location: Wuling  

Epic fantasy masterpiece, Forsaken World Online made its debut closed beta test and public beta test in Hong Kong in June 2011. I Swear, My Lord! closed beta test campaign was launched on June 2nd. Players who vow to gods or demons for alliance during the campaign can gain rewards in the game. Public beta test will be launched shortly after with arena and underground city opened simultaneously, the maximum level is opened up to 60 Lv. Forsaken World is a game masterpiece jointly created by many experts. GHK serves as its proxy agent. The high quality 3D scenes

Energetic and playful Gamanians just can’t seem to sit still, they love to do it in “groups” when it comes to participating sports event, be it marathon, mountain climbing, swimming across Sun-Moon Lake or other competitions, they love to have other Gamanian partners on board. Well, since they love to do it ensemble, then why not do it with some style and honor? Below is a series of “Best Moment” pictures, showing GTW raising the Gama flags after they finished each sporting event. See how they’re full of passion and vigor? Gamanians worldwide, are you tempted to carry Gama

I’ve been blogged about core ideas, the importance of core ideas and how to create them since I launched this blog last year.  Before I get to the script production, I’d like to share with everyone on “how to present your core ideas” Everyone is either the creator or manager of the games. To explicate your ideas to make the team, clients or your supervisors can understood is called the proposal. The purpose of the proposal is to make people understand what you are trying to say and subsequently identify with you.  There are many ways to raise a

The greatest and most expected  1st national CSO championship is coming!  In order to rise the vigor of 《CS Online》 in FPS and attract players. The operation unit in Taiwan especially hosts the first [National CS Online Championship]. The contests are [Formal], [Inter-campus], and [Just for Fun]. 5,248 players and 896 teams are estimated to participate in the contests. There will be 945 intensive games. It will definitely be the greatest and most attractive CS contest in Taiwan ever! The first National Championship not only provides both actual and online matches. The operation unit also grants $1 million as

▲Senior Supervisor of R&D department  If game equals fun, the routine of R&D department in Gamania can be called as the process of making fun. However, they are playing professionally and consciously. The senior supervisor of the R&D department, Cookie (Rao, Min-Han) pointed out, “Essentially, although our responsibility is to focus on the games the greatest difference between us and the players is that we are playing consciously. While most players are luckier than us (laugh), because they can simply enjoy the fun of games.” Building a Fun Theme Park The so called “play consciously,” Cookie suggested means the

What is User Experience?    We often here friends saying, “This thing is rad!” or “Feeling awesome!” to describe their positive feelings after experiencing something. This process where they interact with people or things are what we called User Experience (UX). To elaborate further, user experience is based on the user-centric idea, emphasizing on the application and aesthetic value of the product or software, including subjective impression, functions, usability, information etc. These factors relate to one another and cannot be separated and the whole thing comes into form the user experience. User experience is subjective and psychologicalal feeling that

GCN hosted its very own Spring Banquet on February 25th 2011. This year’s banquet was unprecedented, participants wise, or content wise. GCN also had the most VIPs, in addition to CEO Albert and BU/SU heads of GHQ, 臺灣區營運長V哥, COO of GTW, Vincent Chuang, COO of Alibangbang Barron Lo, and COO of RedGate, Jacky also came to Shanghai. The event was mesmerizing and marvelous, in addition to exciting games and shows prepared by the organizing committee, all the supervisors of GCN also prepared stellar performances to show their appreciation for Gamanians’ hard work and encourage everyone to keep up with

At the start of 2012, Gamania hosted a two day long technical exchange symposium at No. 4 Park’s Huo Shui Cultural and Creative Park in Zhonghe: Gamania Agora from 1/9-1/10. Agora means “market plaza” in Greek. In ancient Greece, the market was combined with the plaza. The former was a location for trade and barter, while the latter was a place for exchange of public opinions. Gamania hopes that this can be more than just a place to present the group’s new technological achievements, that it can also become a good channel for internal technical exchanges so that Gamania’s

At the end of the year, Gamania Japan held its much anticipated year-end banquet on December 16 at the Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo. Activities at the banquet that day included fun-and-witty Q&A games, introductions to new Gamanians, and a mysterious guest – the Christmas Girl, adding a much fun, enjoyment, and Christmas spirit to the banquet’s atmosphere. What was it actually like at the banquet? Let’s look at some pictures and find out! ▲To ensure a successful year-end banquet, the planning team is hard at work making all the necessary preparations! ▲An introduction to the newcomers who will

Even in the cold of winter, Gamanian’s passion and enthusiasm does not diminish. On December 14, 2011 Gamania Korea rejoiced in elated spirits as it held its year-end banquet at a Korean Barbeque restaurant where you can eat barbequed meat and drink hot liquor. The restaurant specializes in Korean barbeque-style pork. Because the environment is more comfortable and open, and they provide unlimited alcoholic beverages, it has become the tradition of Gamania Korea to hold its year-end banquet at the Korean barbeque restaurant.  ▲(Image source：http://www.blackpigseoul.co.kr)   In July of 2011, Gamania Korea established the “Tornado Studio” (TND) R&D company,