Melon Indonesia as publisher games Lokapala officially collaborates with Bumilangit Entertainment to present characters The Blind from the Cave of Ghosts as one of the knights in games Lokapala.
Lokapala is games genre Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) native to Indonesia produced by Anantarupa Studio and published by PT. Indonesian melon. Games Lokapala is a game online battle 5 v 5 with an arena called Svaka Lokapala.
Different from games another MOBA, games Lokapala puts forward local elements and Indonesian culture. Many of the characters are taken from Indonesian historical figures. Therefore, a champion character like The Blind Man from the Ghost Cave is very suitable to be brought into the games this.
Ivan Chen as the CEO of PT Anantarupa explained, “Since the beginning Anantarupa developed the concept universe Lokapala in order to collaborate with local IPs, our goal is how IP (intellectual property) local can grow together and strengthen each other, in the midst of the bombardment of the foreign IP industry which is increasingly being bombarded.
The presence of the Blind from the Ghost Cave into Svaka Lokapala is one manifestation of our vision. Hopefully with this the IP/content industry ecosystem in Indonesia will grow so that the local IP industry can become the master in their own country.”
The presence of the Blind Man character from the Ghost Cave received an enthusiastic welcome from lovers games homeland. This is because this cooperation itself is an effort to meet demand gamers Indonesia will be appointed the original character of Indonesia into the games digital.
Dedi Suherman as CEO of PT Melon Indonesia stated, “Many request from the community gamers, that they really want Indonesian characters to enter games Lokapala and we see this as a potential slick collaboration with Bumilangit because the Blind Man from the Ghost Cave himself has never been used as a character from games anywhere.”
This collaboration is carried out in order to develop Indonesian intellectual property and as a form of commitment to create ksatriyas based on Indonesian history and mythology.
Bismarka Kurniawanas the Founder and CEO of Bumilangit Entertainment said, “The appointment of Si Buta from the Ghost Cave in the original Indonesian game, Lokapala, is a momentum that local Indonesian characters such as Si Buta from the Ghost Cave can be used by the audience. fans lovers in the form of cutting-edge digital games.”
In addition, the appointment of the Blind Man character from the Ghost Cave also aims to introduce this original Indonesian superhero character to the younger generation.
“Si Buta from Gua Hantu has been born and known for more than 5 decades, and in this digital era, it is the right time for Bumilangit to collaborate with Melon Indonesia as one of the providers of digital platform Indonesian leader, to introduce and present this legendary character to the younger generation of the nation’s successors,” said Bismarka.
In the future, this collaboration will not be limited to publishing games only but also other digital content. This was stated by Dedi Suherman as CEO of PT. Indonesian melon.
“This cooperation is not limited to just business game publishing only, but is open to other businesses in Melon Indonesia as Digital Content and Entertainment Company such as music and OTT Video,” he said.
The Blind from the Cave of Ghosts
Si Buta dari Gua Hantu is a comic character published by Bumilangit which was first released in 1967. Bumilangit is a family for many creative artists from the early generation to the present, as well as for loyal fans who always appreciate the works of artists.
Now Bumilangit is a leading character-based entertainment company in Indonesia that manages the largest character library of more than 1,200 comic characters that have been published over the last sixty years. The strength of these characters is not only based on popularity alone, but also on the rich story of each comic.
After more than 50 years since its first release, Si Buta dari Gua Hantu has been continued and appointed by young creators who have been active in the international world to include, among others, feature films included in the Bumilangit Cinematic Universe, digital comics, and games.
Coinciding with the birthday celebration Ganes TH as the creator of the comic Si Buta from Gua Hantu this July, the character Si Buta from Gua Hantu as the champion figure is summoned by the Ancient Ones to fight with other knights in the Lokapala world.
The story of the Blind from the Ghost Cave itself is motivated by a man named Barda Mandrawata who was forced to blind his eyes in order to defeat Angel Eyesthe blind criminal Mandraguna who has caused the death of his father and Marni, his fiancé.
Accompanied by his faithful monkey, WanaraBarda traveled to various corners of the archipelago and was involved in various historical events.
He is armed with a stone stick, wears a fighting robe made of the giant snake scales of the guardian of the Ghost Cave, and has the ability to “see” with sound and heart. Barda came to be known as a mighty warrior with a legendary name, “The Blind from the Cave of Ghosts“.
Why is the Blind from the Cave a ghost?
One of the questions that arose in online events Creator Talk Lokapala x Bumilangit is, why is the Blind from the Ghost Cave the chosen character to be a ksatriya in Lokapala?
The Melon Indonesia party explained that the Blind Man character from the Ghost Cave is not only in accordance with the local nuances of Lokapala, but is also legendary and known by the Indonesian people.
The popularity of the character Si Buta from the Ghost Cave can be proven by having made 7 wide-screen adaptations and two television series that aired in the 90s. This makes the character of Si Buta from Gua Hantu known even to people who are not comic readers.
Apart from the Blind from the Ghost Cave, Bumilangit and Lokapala confirmed that there will be other IPs from Bumilangit which will later be appointed as characters. games in Lokapala.
Bumilangit has a character library of approximately 1,200 characters so there is great potential to develop these characters into characters gamesespecially from the Jawara series.
However, Lokapala acknowledged that there were challenge separately when developing the character of the Blind from the Ghost Cave into a character games. One of them was because of the appearance of the Blind from the Ghost Cave which was very simple without armors luxury like character games in general.
In addition, Lokapala is also trying to translate Si Buta’s mainstay moves from the Ghost Cave into skills in games adapted to the original story in the comics. However, the challenge was successfully passed and resulted in an interesting character design to play.
In the future, both Bumilangit and Melon Indonesia hope that this collaboration will last for the long term and the possibility to include other characters is very wide open. This is not only aimed at developing local IP, but also brings hope so games made by the nation’s children go international.
This was conveyed by Dedi Suherman as CEO of PT. Indonesian melon. “We hope that the extraordinary collaboration between Bumilangit, Melon Indonesia, and Anantarupa presenting this character can bring not only games locally based, but also brings games Indonesian for go global,” he said.
