industry video games entertainment industry founded 2003 headquarters malaysia products alpha kimori pc website www.sherman3d.com sherman3d is an independently owned video game developer company incorporated in 2003 by sherman chin which develops bright and colorful anime inspired video games . 1 contents 1 sherman chin 2 overview 3 history 4 original intellectual property titles 5 partner intellectual property titles 6 references 7 external links sherman chin edit sherman chin company founder sherman chin is the founder game producer and chief information officer of sherman3d . sherman graduated with a bsc hons in computing from the university of portsmouth uk and was the recipient of the 2002 international game developers association scholarship . 2 after graduating sherman won in venture 2002 malaysia s first nationwide business plan competition organized by mckinsey & company . 3 the award was presented to sherman by then malaysia s prime minister yang amat berhormat datuk seri abdullah ahmad badawi and then malaysia s deputy prime minister now prime minister yang amat berhormat najib razak . 4 while in college sherman was a partner of the founder of 5th cell joseph tringali at epix interactive studios before being a founding a shareholder of 5th cell . 5 aside from being the founder of sherman3d sherman worked as a game producer in japan as a project manager in canada as a coo in malaysia and a game industry consultant for the gerson lehrman group providing advisory services for international investors . 6 sherman is appointed by limkokwing university of creative technology as its external examiner for its games design course 7 sherman was featured on the cover and center spread of the new straits times 8 newspapers tech pullout . the article was awarded best feature and best cover . sherman is interviewed as an authority in video game development by rpgamer 9 gameramble 10 and the astro awani satellite tv news channel . 11 sherman was invited to speak on the philosophy of great doubt at casual connect asia in singapore and was featured by the official casual connect gamesauce website . 12 sherman was selected by the tokyo game show management committee to represent malaysia at the indie game area of tokyo game show on the 17th 18th 19th and 20 september 2015 sponsored by sony playstation . 13 sherman was one of the main speakers at the cloud south east asia conference on 7 october 2015 covering pc game and cloud computing organized by informa plc london 14 and was interviewed by business cloud news . 15 sherman was one of the featured speakers at the mobile developer day 2015 conference on 22 october 2015 covering the 1337 game accelerator in cyberjaya malaysia . 16 sherman spoke about the 1337 ventures game pre accelerator at the closed door cio asia summit organized by gds international attended by 30 international cios from the 27th until the 29th of october 2015 at the le meridien hotel kuala lumpur . 17 overview edit sherman3d started as an independent game development community but was incorporated in april 2003 in malaysia . sherman3d s has online developers from across the globe from countries such as japan new zealand united kingdom and america . sherman3d specializes in pixel art outsourcing and has worked on over 20 internationally recognized games including drawn to life published by thq in 2007 scribblenauts published by warner bros. interactive entertainment in 2009 nickelodeon diego s build & rescue published by 2k play in 2010 . 18 in 2011 sherman3d created its own story and trademarked intellectual property in the form of a sci fi fantasy pc role playing game entitled alpha kimori great doubt episode one which was distributed by big fish games 19 ign entertainment 20 and gamehouse 21 in the us ign 22 in the uk gamersgate 23 in sweden and dlsite 24 in japan . sherman3d is an authorized nintendo ds developer and provides pixel art partner studio outsourcing services to other game development companies such as 5th cell . 25 sherman3d and its services is also listed in the game developer s market guide book 26 history edit sherman3d worked on a mmorpg prototype entitled vibeforce on ibm s butterfly supercomputing grid 27 for sony s playstation 2 28 which was showcased at e3 2003 . 29 sherman3d was mentioned in the new york times 30 the wall street journal 31 and usa today . 32 the sherman3d 3d bsp 33 game engine and documentation has been used as university research paper reference . 34 sherman3d was invited to speak on the philosophy of great doubt in alpha kimori 35 at the defense science & research conference 2011 organized by the national university of singapore in singapore in august 2011 . 36 sherman3d also worked on all the in game pixel art graphics of scribblenauts 37 lock s quest 38 and drawn to life 39 which were rated at 8.5 40 8.5 41 and 8.0 out of 10 42 respectively by ign entertainment . sherman3d s alpha kimori game was selected as the first and only commercial flagship rpg maker game sold by degica co. ltd. japan the official sole distributor of the rpg maker game engine internationally on august 5 2012 . 43 sherman3d showcased alpha kimori at the tokyo game show in japan on september 20 and 21 2012 44 45 and was highlighted by the japanese media as a tribute to classic japanese role playing games . 46 sherman3d s alpha kimori was put up on valve corporation s steam software greenlight 47 and was featured on tech in asia 48 and gamezebo . 49 the following is a chronology of alpha kimori event on valve corporation s steam platform 2013 may 21 alpha kimori jrpg and philosophy lecture by sherman chin at casual connect asia in singapore at the tower ballroom of shangri la hotel . 50 2013 december 9 alpha kimori greenlit on steam . 51 2014 march 17 alpha kimori launches on valve s steam after being greenlit . 52 2014 april 1 alpha kimori launches on big fish games japan . 53 2014 june 17 alpha kimori sold over 29 000 copies in the groupees be mine 13 game and charity bundle sponsored by machinima . 54 55 2014 december 25 alpha kimori sold 31 657 copies in the humble weekly bundle rpg edition book 1 bundle in the list of humble bundles . 56 original intellectual property titles edit 2011 alpha kimori pc published and distributed by big fish games 57 gamehouse 58 gamefly 59 realarcade japan 60 direct2drive uk 61 direct2drive us 62 gamersgate sweden 63 dlsite japan 64 gamefools 65 about.com 66 at & t 67 aol games.com 68 i play 69 iwin 70 msn 71 shockwave 72 mumbojumbo 73 encyclopedia britannica 74 asus 75 ea s pogo.com 76 yahoo 77 virgin media 78 paltalk 79 oberon 80 2012 alpha kimori 2 pc published by sherman3d partner intellectual property titles edit 2003 in game art for seal team 6 mobile published by thq wireless 2003 in game art for siege mobile published by thq wireless 2003 in game art for mini poccha mobile published by thq wireless 2004 in game art for lemony snicket s a series of unfortunate events mobile published by ea mobile 2005 in game art for darts pro mobile published by thq wireless 2005 game port programming for ministry of sound club manager mobile published by thq wireless 2006 game port programming for moto gp manager mobile published by thq wireless 2006 game port programming for full spectrum warrior mobile mobile published by thq wireless 2006 in game art for d.n.a. pc published by merscom 2007 in game art for drawn to life ds published by thq 2007 in game art for aveyond 2 pc published by big fish games 2008 in game art for lock s quest ds published by thq 2008 in game art for majestic forest pc published by ign entertainment 2009 in game art for drawn to life the next chapter ds published by thq 2009 in game art for scribblenauts ds published by warner bros. interactive entertainment 2009 chat code programming for tradewars rising pc published by sylien games 2009 in game art for aveyond 3 pc published by big fish games 2010 in game art for nickelodeon diego s build & rescue ds published by 2k play 2011 in game art for good luck charlie bug be gone pc published by disney 2011 in game art for zeke and luther trick challenge 2 pc published by disney 2011 in game art for dagedar ds published by gamemill entertainment 2011 in game art for moshi monsters moshling zoo ds published by activision references edit sherman3d official website . sherman3d . 2003 05 01 . retrieved 2011 06 06 . igda former scholars . igda . 2002 05 16 . retrieved 2015 09 21 . net value winning ideas . the edge . malaysia . 2003 01 20 . sherman3d official website . sherman3d . 2003 05 01 . retrieved 2015 10 06 . 5th cell describes their art creating processes for ds . go nintendo . 2011 05 01 . retrieved 2015 10 07 . sherman chin linkedin profile . linkedin . 2012 05 01 . retrieved 2015 09 21 . games students receive feedback from industry experts in games industry review . limkokwing university . 2014 12 29 . retrieved 2015 10 06 . tech in love and at war . new straits 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