MScMET alumni's project received PolyU POC Funding Scheme 2022

The Master of Science in Multimedia and Entertainment Technology (*MScMET) programme alumni’s project “Codename: Apocalypse” has been awarded PolyU Student Entrepreneurial Proof-of-concept (POC) Funding Scheme 2022 and participated in INDIE Live Expo 2022 (an online broadcast event). 

Codename: Apocalypse, a rogue-like deck-building game that combines role-playing and deck-building elements as one, won POC Fund 2022 for its innovative gameplay design. The Fund offered the production team HKD 5000 scholarship and the POC Bootcamp with Dedicated Team Coach. 

POC Funding Scheme is one of the key entrepreneurship education components at PolyU aiming to instil a problem-driven innovation mindset into young talents through experiential learning and student-initiated research and development.

“The Fund offered us financial support and encouragement as well as the opportunity to get advice from professionals, which has helped us to consolidate our idea for improvements and further development. We really appreciate having the opportunity to participate in the POC Fund,” said Rank B, the production team. 

In May 2022, Codename: Apocalypse entered INDIE Live Expo 2022—a biannual live digital showcase connecting global indie fans with more than 57.5 million views—to broadcast a 15-second promotion video of the creation to international audiences on an online live stream. The event was broadcasted in 3 languages (English, Chinese, and Japanese), featuring a large number of Indie games. 

The gameplay project was launched as a game demo on itch.io in August 2022, providing a short version of the full game to deliver the core ideas to players. Although the team has not had a concrete plan to launch the full game by far, they will continue the developing progress and explore possibilities to launch the game in full. 

“Game development will always be our passion despite the tough journey taken on,” said the team. 

Apart from being a POC awardee, the project is also a semi-finalist of PolyU Micro Fund and is shortlisted at Cyberport Creative Micro Fund – Hong Kong Young Entrepreneur Programme. 

(*MscMET offers four constantly adapting streams: Game Media; Media Design Psychology; Social, Mobile and Internet Media; and Media Art Technology.)

Team members of Rank B: Ronald Wu, Anthony Sze, Nicole Ho, Kenis Lee, Borease He

Supervisors: Chou Ka Seng, Lam Wai Man

Watch the game’s full trailer here.