This document summarizes the results of the Build Your Own Game with HTML5 competition held by Indie GameDev India. It provides details on the games created, developers who created them, sponsors who provided prizes, and the winners in different categories. In the Best Design category, Neil Armstrong won first place and Ma won second. The winners of Best Innovation were the developers of Ma, Defenders from Past, and Astrogravity who will be invited to Google Bangalore. Saturn Speed won Best Gameplay and also received an additional bonus game. All participants will receive steam games and the winners will be contacted about receiving their prizes.
2. Indie GameDev India
Indie GameDev India is India’s oldest community of
independent game developers from India that strives to
help create an ecosystem for the indie developers and
enable them to innovate and invent awesomeness in the
domain. We have been working over the last 3 years with
these objectives and have built a strong community of 900
independent developers across the country.
Other than BYOGs, InGDIn also organises regular Indie
Meetups and has partnered with institutions such as the
NASSCOM Gaming and Animation Forum to push game
development forward in India.
InGDIn also does a series of features on the gaming
industry in India called the State of Indie, a media outreach
program for indie developers to reach out to gaming media
with updates called Stay in the Loop, a member directory
and a game directory.
4. Games Members
Directories
A listing of indie games and developers from India
5. A series of interviews with independent game
developers from India: their experiences, opinions
and stories
6. 48 hour game development hackathons for
independent developers to participate in
7. A press list with gaming media to share developer
news and get visibility and exposure for game
developers
8. Build Your Own Game with
HTML5
Games, Developers, Sponsors and Winners
9. Build a game prototype within 48 hours between April
14 2012 – April 16 2012
On one of the themes: Space, Sex, History and Energy
Game has to be built using HTML5 and associated
technologies only
11. +ma
Made by Vidhvat Madan
+ma is a game about
space, and the absence of
it. Ma(間), or 'Negative
Space' in Japanese
suggests interval, or 'gap',
which depicts that which
isn't present.
Occupy your town and
notice how its slowly
inhabited by more than
what you put in.
12. Astrogravity
Made by Vamsi Krisna
Veligatla
Simple game where you
control a machine which
can manipulate the path of
asteroids which are on
collision course with the
planet.
Save the planet from the
asteroid onslaught from
space for as long as you
can and achieve high
score.
13. Defenders from Past
Made by Kushagra Gour
A tower defence game but
ahemm...we don't have
towers here. Insteaadd,
we have characters from
the history coming to our
rescue.
So its a game where in
you can deploy Einstein,
Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi
etc to battle the evil
forces.
14. Moksha
Made by Kinshuk Sunil,
Mayank Saini, Varun Rana
and Yadu Rajiv
Moksha is a 2d side
scrolling platformer game
depicting the history of
the Browser War. It is set
in the Browser Wars era,
and you play as Netty the
Navigator, which was
totally pwnd by Interwebz
Exploder by various evil
tricks.
Will you be reborn as the
fiery fox? Will you free the
web?
15. Neil Armstrong: Dancing on the
Moon
Made by Tanmay
Chinchkar
In an alternate universe
where birds aren't angry,
Neil Armstrong laid the
first dance step on the
moon! Off course he was
supported by Dj Collins
and Rapper Edwin Buzz.
As Armstrong dances, just
press the key which looks
like the dance step he is
doing and score the
highest points to win!
16. Odd Boost
Made by Farhan Khan
This is a simple two
button game, where you
control the rocket or
whatever it looks like,
with the left and right
arrow keys. Try to
balance the rocket and
move towards the top
while collecting solar
cells for energy and
avoiding the comets to
get the highest score!
17. Saturn Speed
Made by Jalay Bhatti,
Avichal Singh, and Pramod
Nautiyal
A 2d Side scroller game
free run survival game
inspired from Canabalt
which is based on the
theme space.The player is
playing the role of the
russian dog Laika who
somehow survived in 1957
and now has reached
Saturn and must survive
the meteor shower
19. Avichal, Jalay,
Pramod
Avichal,Pramod and Jalay are
students of GameDesign in
Dsksupinfogame.
Avichal and Pramod did the
Level Design and Build the level
for BYOG and Jalay did the
Artwork.
All three look forward to
participate in more Gamejams.
From: DSk Supinfogame, Pune
Made: Saturn Speed
20. Farhan Khan
I'm a technology enthusiast and
a hobby game developer.
I've been into programming
and web development since the
age of 12; Game Development
is a recent interest, that is,
when I first came across the
SDL library in 2009. I'm
basically into the programming
part and a little bit of game
design. Art, however is not my
cup of tea.
From: Hyderabad
Made: Odd Boost
21. Kinshuk, Yadu,
Varun, Mayank
Kinshuk and Yadu are the
founders of InGDIn.
The four of them co-founded
Hashstash Studios together.
From: Delhi (Yadu is in
Bangalore)
Made: Moksha
22. Kushagra Gour
An Indie Game developer who
is a big fan of creativity and
likes mixing it with everything
he does. Make Games. Play
Games
From: Delhi
Made: Defenders from Past
23. Tanmay
Chinchkar
Currently a student, studying
about Game Design and Project
Management.
Interested in Augmented
Reality, Movies, Baking , Special
Effects and stuff
Ambition to make games ,
Movies, Trailers, and cakes -
awesome awesome cakes.
When did i make my first
game? When i was like 14/15
(Using gamemaker). Never
stopped since then !
From: DSK Supinfogame, Pune
Made: Neil Armstrong
24. Vamsi Krisna
Veligatla
from Hyderabad, India
Interested in Programming
Favorite
Games Quake3(Arena, Live),
Borderlands, RaymanOrigins,
Age of Empires, League of
Legends, Dota, WarCraft3,
Shank, GodOfWar Series, Gears
Of War
Made: Astrogravity
25. Vidhvat Madan
A student of Computer Science
and an aspiring game
developer, I spend most of my
time designing
and programming small games
on my own quite a few of which
get published for everyone to
enjoy.
I also like to read and write
about games and game
development in general.
Other than that, if I'm not
wasting my time debugging
ugly code, I'm either lost in
some fantasy world hunting for
loot, or spraying bullets at
random blokes on the internet.
From: Delhi
Made: +ma
27. Best Best Best
Design Innovation Gameplay
IronCode Gaming
Mpowered India
OverCloud9 &
Google Phantasm Games
Mozilla
Developers
Pyrodactyl
Rolocule
Yellow Monkey
Studios
29. Best Innovation
Winners will be invited by Google on an all expenses paid
2-day trip to Google Bangalore.
Over the two days, the participants will also get an
opportunity to interact with the Google Developer Relations
team.
They will also be invited at a Google Technology User Group
(GTUG) Developer event in Bangalore - DevFestX and will
be featured in the HTML5 track to talk about their game
and their development experience.
30. Best Gameplay
A Sirius Game (OverCloud9 Carmella the Flying Flick Tennis: College Wars
& Phantasm Games) Squirrel (Mpowered) (Rolocule)
Its Just a Thought (Yellow Pahelika: Secret Legends Will Fight for Food
Monkey Studios) (IronCode Gaming) (Pyrodactyl)
36. Best Design
Neil Armstrong Ma
Moksha Astrogravity
37. Best Innovation
All three get invited to Bangalore by Google Developers:
Vidhvat Madan (+ma)
Kushagra Gour (Defenders from Past)
Vamsi Krisna Veligatla (Astrogravity)
38. Best Gameplay
Everyone gets the Indian Indie Pack
Saturn Speed (Winners) also get the bonus Pehelika:
Revelations