SMK Sg Tapang wins 2nd Tabletop Competition
KUCHING: Team Uchiha from SMK Sungai Tapang IB Word School won the coveted Tabletop 2018 trophy and cash prize of RM2,000 as the champion of 2nd Tabletop ( board game creation) Competition Kuching 2018 at SMK St Joseph last weekend.
“Jointly organised by MyGameDev, KDU University College and EduQuest Education Services, this is largest board game creation competition in East Malaysia,” according to a media release yesterday.
Team Random Seed from SMK Green Road and SMK St. Teresa’s Team Ex-X were placed second and third, earning a trophy each with cash prize of RM1,000 and RM500 respectively.
Themed ‘Cat’, participants had to ‘shop’ for materials to form the board or cards, playing pieces or tokens for their games. At the end of the second day, they were given 15 minutes to present their ideas and explain their rules and game-play mechanics to a panel of judges.
“We see a significant increase in the number of participating teams this year. This competition has opened a lot opportunities for students who were not exposed to board games to be involved as well,” said Michael Yii education manager of EduQuest Education Services.
“Monopoly, UNO and Chinese chess are some common board games. It is truly encouraging to witness young and creative talents invent new board games in this competition,” he said.
He added that one of the organisers’ objectives is to link the universities and school students.
MyGameDev is an Entry Point Project ( EPP14) spearheaded by KDU University College under the Performance Management and Delivery Unit’s ( Pemandu) National Key Economics Area for Education ( NKEA- Education).
The game development cluster represents the start of a strategic collaboration between educational institutions, industry sector and relevant government agencies to create a high income, sustainable creative economy in the area of game development.