Jun Shen Chia’s Post

As of this Sunday, I will be 2 years at #Xbox. I’m super proud of all the work we’ve done for the Southeast Asia, Taiwan and Hong Kong game dev communities to date. Here’s the Year 2 scorecard: 🎮 Actively tracking over 200+ new titles from SEA, TW, HK, ANZ; a 50% increase of titles from Year 1. We are a highly productive region. 📢 Launched and marketed awesome games on Xbox like A Space for the Unbound, Coffee Talk Chapter 2, Alina of the Arena, Gigabash, Coral Island, Knights vs Giant, and more. ✅ New, exciting upcoming Xbox titles like Fallen Tear: The Ascension, My Lovely Empress, Altheia and more. 🤝 We signed more funding deals for titles from SEA and TW in Year 2 vs Year 1. This means helping more devs build more amazing games. 🌆 Showed up, supported and sponsored over 20+ industry events over the last year, 2x the number of events in Year 1. I especially love events like SarawakGDC, SGGA Industry Day, Brunei DevFest - all vitally important at building local communities. 💬 Continue to progress meaningful discussions and collaborations with dev communities and associations across SEA and TW. I hosted several roundtables with game devs to gather valuable feedback. 🏫 We launched the first ever Game Camp Asia, a 2-month long learning and mentorship program for student and early-in-career devs. 12 teams represented from SG, PH, ID and MY; with 11 of the 12 teams featuring women devs, which I’m very proud of. ✈ We hosted some game devs from SEA and TW at Korea Xbox Dev Days, all of whom flew in for special days of learning, game sharing, and quality time together. 💪 In Year 2, DE&I remains a top priority for me: we participated and partnered with regional initiatives and groups like YSEALI Game Changers, Women in Games Asia and Indonesia Women in Games. Overall, I’m proud of our wins in Year 2, and was objectively faster and more productive in the impact we made vs Year 1. Despite the ongoing challenges in the industry and the world at large, I’m grateful for our amazing community across SEA and TW, all rallying together to raise our ecosystem for everyone in it. I want to thank my amazing colleagues at ID@Xbox and the wider org, all who demonstrate passion and empathy for the devs, games and industry we participate in. A lot of what I can do in region is thanks in a large part to the support of the wider team across Global Expansion, Biz Ops, our funding programs, Marketing, PR/Comms, Production, etc. Thank you to my boss Agnes, who continues to lead from the front every single day - clearing blockers and opening doors for me, and advocating for my region just as hard as I do. I can go fast as I have because of her support. Lastly, thanks to all of Global Expansion’s executive sponsors - Chris, Leo, Christopher, Lori, Sarah - for your continued support for the impact we’re making in Southeast Asia, Taiwan and other GX regions. The work continues, and I can’t wait to show you all what we’ve got in store for Year 3. 

Am honored to put my hand up to be on the Singapore Games Association (SGGA) Exco for its '24-26 term. The Singapore game dev community is full of amazing games and people, from students and early-in-career, to the long-time vets. My professional and personal lives have benefited greatly from being a part of this community. And so, it is critical I do my part to give back. Ultimately, I'm keen to help grow Singapore's game dev scene locally, but also as part of the broader Southeast Asia games ecosystem. Thank you for taking the time to read through all the amazing candidates and to cast your vote. There's a lot of wonderful people running for the Exco.

Thank you so much Kakuchopurei for the lovely write-up and letting me share how much I'm excited by the Southeast Asia indie games development scene. The future is bright indeed! 💚

The people leading this initiative at Women in Games Asia including Nissie Arcega and Samantha Low are all incredible. Take a look and lend your support to uplift the women in Asian games industry ❤️

I just want to take a quick moment to thank all the game developers that spent last week with us at our Korea #Xbox Dev Days event on Thursday and Friday. We had over 160+ developers from Korea, Southeast Asia and India registered for two days of business and platform learnings as well as meetings with Team Xbox. I'm so grateful especially to all the developers and friends who gave generously of their time, energy and resources to travel from across other parts of Asia to be here with us in Seoul. Thank you for meeting with us, hearing our updates, discussing incredible ideas and future plans, giving us feedback, and most importantly sharing your amazing games. And thank you to everyone from Team Xbox who made the event so amazing. It's days like these that make the job so meaningful. I'll have a longer post on the Korea event, after the numbers have been crunched, feedback received and official photos collated. For now, thank you 💚

Thank you so much Hollie for making the time to join us in Seoul, and to share Springloaded PTE. Ltd ‘s awesome work with us. But it was also good we got to just hang out - even if I did get an entire group of devs lost for a tiny bit 🤣💚

Happy to share that I had the privilege and honor to participate as jury for this year’s BAFTA Games Awards for the New Intellectual Property Award. Thanks to the organisers and Anisa for this fun opportunity to contribute. Shoutout also to my fellow jurors on the New IP Award panel. Was lovely to meet with you all, discuss games and hear all sorts of wonderful perspectives and insights. Looking forward to seeing the results with the rest of the world very soon!