Lokapala has been the latest breakthrough coming from the nation. As we already know, MOBA games have been ever so popular for recent years in Indonesia. From the emergence of AOV, VainGlory, and the most popular, Mobile Legends. Mobile Legends has proven itself by making a record of 100 million downloads on Play Store with a rating of 4.1 per this year.

With that in mind, Lokapala, the game made by the nation’s brightest young minds in Anantarupa Studio, is designed to meet the demand of many people in Indonesia, especially the gamers who are into the MOBA genre. Anantarupa Studio became the only game developer who managed to create a MOBA and E-sports game in Southeast Asia.

Lokapala features an original Indonesia theme, ranging from the creation of the characters and their names to other aspects. All of them were inspired by the traditional culture of wayang, myths, and mythical creatures from Indonesian culture.

After going through the beta phase, Lokapala was finally getting its official release on May 20, 2020. Whereas the grand launching for Lokapala was streamed on Lokapala MOBA YouTube channel, featured Ivan Chen, the CEO of Anantarupa Studio, Diana Paskarina (COO Anantarupa Studio), Dedi Suherman (CEO PT. Melon Indonesia) and Faizal Rochmad Djoemadi (Digital Business Director of Telkomgroup) with an introductory speech from Jerry Sambuaga, Deputy Minister of Trade of the Republic of Indonesia, and Hilman Farid, Director General of Cultural Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia.

Telkom Group Fully Supports Lokapala

Melon Indonesia and Telkom Group gave their total support for the development of Lokapala, as the form of its support, PT. Melon Indonesia has been taken the role of the publisher of the game.

Lokapala is also planned to be included as one of the games which hold some value and benefits in the IndiHome “Paket Gamer” service. It’s highly likely that there will be Lokapala free items among other benefits to be given to the customers to attract gamers to use the IndiHome “Paket Gamer” service.

“Since the last two years we got into the gaming business, we’ve been on a hunt. And on this hunt, we stumbled upon one particular game that seemed to be quite ready, Lokapala. Why Lokapala? First off, it’s of the MOBA genre,” explained Dedi.

Dedi stated that Melon Indonesia had recognized which games could be monetized and which games that would endure.

“And we’ve noticed that MOBA games, one of the best MOBA games, in particular, Mobile Legend, had secured its place in the top three in Indonesia since 2017, di across every telecommunication operators and platforms,” said Dedi. 

In addition to all of that, Dedi sees that the development of E-sports has a huge potential in Indonesia. “With these facts as our reasons, we find that Lokapala is the suitable game, of the MOBA genre, and secondly, the first locally-made game that suits well within the E-sports scene.”

Another reason is that the characters in Lokapala derived from the domestic culture. “Since it’s of the domestic culture, we can give a feel of nationalism. Next, why did we choose Lokapala? Because we want our local developers to have a game to feel proud of and be able to generate revenue and monetizing from the game.”

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Ksatriya Choose to Fight! First MOBA Game Developer E-sports in Southeast Asia

Indonesians are well known for their “gotong royong” (cooperative) nature. Therefore, with Lokapala, Anantarupa Studio along with its creative industry partners are committed to supporting Indonesians to fight against COVID-19 by creating the Bela Negara (Defending the Country) mission.

In this campaign, Lokapala fight with the Gotong Royong Team, which includes:

1. Asosiasi Cipta Karya Adikarsa (CAKRA)
2. Anantarupa Studio
3. Telkom Group
4. Caravan Studio
5. Yayasan Jagoan Indonesia
6. Elwin Hendrijanto
7. Ryan Gozali (Lima)
8. Dennis Adishwara

Ksatriya Pilih Tanding has the slogan “Tetap di Rumah, Bermain di Rumah dan Menolong dari Rumah” (Stay at Home, Play at Home, and Help from Home).

All Lokapala Ksatriyas are called to support and partake in this Bela Negara mission, by participating in an online tournament from their homes. This tournament is to be held in 20 cities, participated by each of their communities’ representatives.

As for the funds collected from the tournament will be used 100% to help provide every requirement needed by health workers during this pandemic, as well as the goods needed to prevent the virus itself, such as Personal Protective Equipments, supplements, hand sanitizers, and others.

How Does “Ksatriya Pilih Tanding” Work in Bela Negara?

Their value proposition to the brand is to provide a CSR in the form of medical masks and medical equipment, and vouchers that are redeemable for daily needs, internet vouchers, etc.

For instance:

So, what do you think? Be a Ksatriya Pilih Tanding in the Bela Negara campaign! Let’s help our brothers and sisters in the country.

“Tetap di Rumah, Bermain di Rumah dan Menolong dari Rumah”.

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