Back in 2010, Sony Computer Entertainment Asia collaborated with Nanyang Polytechnic Singapore to launch the School of Interactive & Digital Media PlayStation Development Community that allowed students from the school to use PlayStation development kits to create their own games for school projects. In lieu of this partnership, SCEA decided to further their partnership with the school with a five-year Memorandum of Understanding.
This will enable students to continue developing games as final year projects using the development kit which, at this point in time, is still the only PlayStation development and training centre in South-East Asia. This also allows them to gain access to tools to make games for the upcoming portable PlayStation Vita. According to Sony Computer Entertainment Asia's president Tetsuhiko Yasuda, the reason for this continued partnership is because SCEA wishes to train more developers and help contribute to Singapore's video game industry via Sony-sanctioned development kits.
The two notable titles that benefit from this partnership are PhaseShift: Threat Beyond the Network and Spell Weaver (working title). The former is a 2D shooter by Dark Potato Studios and is the brainchild of Hoong Boon Wai. The latter is a 2D platformer with emphasis on seven-word spelling developed by Red Hare Studio. PhaseShift has yet to settle on an official release date due to the game still being a prototype, while Spell Weaver is slated for a 2012 release on the PlayStation Network.
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