VIdeo Game Industry Intro for Students

I spoke at Universitas Ciputra Surabaya last Thursday, as always my favorite topic: The Intro of Video Games Industry. I spoke infront of 65 wonderful university students from IT major, and few honorable lecturer from the university.

This is the 5th time i introduced video game industry to university students, it might seem small, but after i gave it a thought, it doesn't. This is why. Back in 2006 i spoke at Universitas Surabaya, for the opening of Multimedia Major, i represented video game industry. The audience were students, lecturers and parents (ouch). At that time most of the parents didnt have any clue about the video games industry, they even had negative perspective on how video games will only ruin their children life. After i spoke, i received a few frontal question regarding this matter but fortunately survived the session with a smile on everyones face.

Last week, when i arrived at Juanda airport, i got a call from my Universitas Surabaya friend. She asked my schedule, which sadly very packed and didnt allow me to see her. We ended up talking on the phone, and she updated me with current students work. Mostly students who heard my talk back in 2006. Most of them chose to do video games projects, she had no idea how this made me happy, what i thought was small and useless turned up to be a starting point for videogames industry in Indonesia.

I know, this might sound very "retarded" for many countries, that we are still at this stage of the industry. But we are moving, slowly but sure.

Marlin Sugama