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{{Short description|Indonesian video game developer}}
{{Infobox company
| name          = Agate
| logo          = Agate Logo.png
| logo_caption  = Agate's logo after rebranding
| type          = 
| foundation    = 2009
| num_employees = ± 300
| location      = [[Bandung]], [[Indonesia]]
| products      = ''Valthirian Arc''<br>''Code Atma''<br>''Memories''
| homepage      = {{url|agate.id}}
}}

'''Agate''' is an Indonesian video game development company based in [[Bandung]], [[West Java]], Indonesia. It was founded on April 1, 2009. It has worked with publishers such as [[Square Enix]] and [[Electronic Arts]].

The company produces [[serious game]]s, providing gamified applications to companies either via [[gamification]] of systems, [[Advertising in video games|advertisement games]] or [[Simulation#Simulation games|training games]] meant to simulate the work environment. Agate had worked for [[Microsoft]], [[Samsung]] and [[Coca-Cola]].

In October 2011, Agate together with Kummara and AnimartDigi held ''Indonesia Bermain'' in Bandung.<ref>Hidayat, Wicak (October 22nd, 2011) [http://www.detikinet.com/read/2011/10/22/142402/1750027/654/indonesia-bermain-sebarkan-semangat-positif-game/ Indonesia Bermain Sebarkan Semangat Positif Game] Detikinet. Retrieved January 13, 2012.</ref> 7000 people attended.

==History==
The founders of Agate met in October 2007 as college students when they decided to make a game with no budget. With no experience on making games beforehand, the game only made it to a playable state before being scrapped. Learning from this experience, the team moved on to make a game for [[Microsoft]]'s [[Dream Build Play]] competition, titled ''Ponporon!''. The title was showcased on Indonesia Game Show in 2008 and gave new hope to the team which drove them to start a video game company, which was founded on April 1, 2009.

Seeing market condition at the time, Agate focused in [[Browser game|flash games]] for a while before venturing to make [[Advertising in video games|advergames]] and service games in 2010. In addition, within that year, the company merged with another game studio named Lucidrine a fellow game studio that had previously worked at several popular flash games such as ''Valthirian Arc'' which continues to be an ongoing serial project, now worked on by Agate.

The company expanded once more in 2011 with the establishment of Agate Jogja in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, along with the addition of a publishing division and attaining partnership with [[Electronic Arts#Chillingo|Chillingo]]. Within the same year, Agate had begun developing [[console game]]s for the first time in its history, along with venturing into the creation of browser-based social games.

In 2012, Agate started a [[Video game developer#Third-party developers|third-party publishing]] business while their game ''Football Saga'' reached its peak of 58.000 monthly users and 10.000 active daily users. Within the year, was also the first ever representative of Indonesia in the annual [[Tokyo Game Show]] to appear in its Asia New Stars, an exhibition geared towards introducing emerging game developers from Asia.

In 2013, the company helped co-found [[Video gaming in Indonesia|AGI]] (Indonesia Gaming Association) while, in the same year, establishing a partnership with [[Square Enix]] to publish and localize ''Sengoku IXA'' in Indonesia. In 2014, formed a partnership with Les' Copaque Productions to develop a game for ''[[Upin & Ipin]]''.

By 2015, Agate's serious game business expanded outside of Indonesia and South East Asia.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}

In 2016, scored a US$1,000,000 pre-series A round led by a local venture firm known as Maloekoe Ventures.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/indonesian-gaming-dev-agate-studios-raises-1m-from-maloekoe-ventures-36274/|title=Agate Studios raises $1m from Maloekoe Ventures|work=DealStreetAsia|access-date=2018-07-19|language=en-US}}</ref> The company also expanded their serious game business further to the company training games business.

In 2017, Agate secured another partnership, this time with the biggest telecommunications company in Indonesia, [[Telkom Indonesia]]. They a growth spurt of over 45% the number of employees than 2016 and achieved the title as the leading game company in Indonesia.

In 2018, Agate released the third installment to their signature franchise, ''Valthirian Arc'', ''[[Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story]]''. Working together with the UK based publisher, PQube, the game was released for the [[PlayStation 4|PS4]], [[Nintendo Switch]] and [[Personal computer|PC]].

In 2019, Agate worked together yet again with [[Telkom Indonesia]] to create Oolean. A partnership that was announced at [[Telkom Digisummit]] of 2019 with the goal of nurturing and sharpening the Indonesian game industry to be more competitive. To date, Agate had created over 250 games and [[gamification]] projects. In the same year, Agate also collaborated with CIAYO Stories to present the visual novel game titled Memories.

In 2021, Agate acquired Freemergency, the studio behind Retrograde Arena.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-23|title=Indonesian Game Company Agate Acquires 'Retrograde Arena' Developers Freemergency|url=https://sea.ign.com/sea-indie-games/173442/news/indonesian-game-company-agate-acquires-retrograde-arena-developers-freemergency|website=sea.ign.com|language=en-EN|access-date=2022-04-11}}</ref>

In 2022, Agate launched a revamped version of their website,<ref>{{Cite web|date=2022-04-11|title=Indonesian Game Developer - Agate Live the Fun Way!|url=https://agate.id/|website=agate.id|language=en-EN|access-date=2022-04-11}}</ref> which positions themselves as 'Metaverse designers, developers, creators'.

== Developed games ==
{| class="wikitable" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"
! Title 
! Platform(s) 
! Year
|-
| Code Atma<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-06-25|title=Agate Studio luncurkan gim idle RPG berbasis hantu, Code Atma|url=https://www.tek.id/tek/agate-studio-luncurkan-gim-idle-rpg-berbasis-hantu-code-atma-b1ZON9is5/|website=tek.id|language=id-ID|access-date=2022-04-11}}</ref>
|[[Android (operating system)|Android]]
|2020
|-
| Memories (previously Ciayo Stories)
|[[Android (operating system)|Android]]
| 2019
|-
|''[[Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story]]''
|[[Windows]], [[PlayStation 4|PS4]], [[Nintendo Switch]]
| 2018
|-
| Onet Asli
|[[Android (operating system)|Android]]
| 2018
|-
| Teka Teki Santai
|[[Android (operating system)|Android]]
| 2018
|-
| Bumbu Cinta: Love Spice
|[[iOS]], [[Android (operating system)|Android]]
| 2017
|-
| Dungeon Chef
|[[iOS]], [[Android (operating system)|Android]]
| 2017
|-
| Game Anak Sholeh
|[[iOS]], [[Android (operating system)|Android]]
| 2017
|-
| Fantasista
|[[iOS]], [[Android (operating system)|Android]]
| 2016
|-
| Upin & Ipin: Demi Metromillenium
|[[iOS]], [[Android (operating system)|Android]]
| 2016
|-
| Sengoku Ixa
|[[Browser game|Browser-based Game]]
| 2013
|-
| Football Saga 2
|[[Browser game|Browser-based Game]]
| 2012
|-
| Earl Grey and this Rupert Guy
| [[Adobe Flash|Flash]] 
| 2010
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{official website|https://agate.id/}}

[[Category:Companies based in Bandung]]
[[Category:Video game publishers]]
[[Category:Video game development companies]]
[[Category:Video game companies of Indonesia]]
[[Category:Indonesian companies established in 2009]]
[[Category:Video game companies established in 2009]]