Games industry association leaders from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam have agreed to support the development of a SEA Games Industry survey, the Asean ‘Game Jam’ and GameFounders Asia in Kuala Lumpur. They also shared a high interest in fostering industry-academia collaboration between their respective countries, Malaysia’s national ICT custodian Multimedia Development Corp (MDeC) said in a statement. These statements of intent came at an Asean Games Roundtable Forum held in Kuala Lumpur to discuss current happenings in the Asean games ecosystem, part of an effort to position Malaysia as a regional hub for games, MDeC said. “Malaysia is in a good position to work with our Asean neighbours to [take] the games industry in this region to the next level. This is in line with the spirit of the Asean Economic Community (AEC),” said Dr Sharifah Zarah Syed Ahmad, Secretary General at the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia. “The Malaysian Government sees games as a … new engine for economic growth,” she added. MDeC, as the driver of the National ICT Initiative, the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC Malaysia) project and the Digital Malaysia programme, has outlined various strategies to position Malaysia as the preferred regional hub for games development and delivery.
These key strategies will build upon Malaysia’s existing digital content sector, which includes attracting anchor companies, increasing local games capacity and capability, and raising global market access, the agency said. – See more at: https://www.digitalnewsasia.com/digital-economy/asean-games-associations-agree-on-collaboration#sthash.eZUUUkci.dpuf
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