Abstrak
Perencanaan dan perancangan Pusat Pengembang Game dan Otaku di Yogyakarta dilatarbelakangi oleh kemajuan industri pengembangan game lokal di Indonesia termasuk di Yogyakarta yang tidak diikuti dengan ketersediaan fasilitas penunjang pengembangan game secara profesional serta ketidaktersediaan penanda eksistensi industri pengembangan game. Pusat pengembang game dan Otaku merupakan ruang kerja pengembang game dan wadah berkumpul Otaku yang menyediakan fasilitas penunjang industri pengembangan game serta melibatkan peran Otaku sebagai pengguna dan pembuat game. Dalam perencanaan dan perancangan pusat pengembang game dan Otaku, terdapat masalah desain yaitu (1) bagaimana konsep pemrograman ruang yang dapat menunjang kegiatan pengembang game dan menstimulasi munculnya ide kreatif dan (2) bagaimana konsep penampilan bangunan dapat menjadi penanda keberadaan pengembang game lokal dan karakter game. Pendekatan yang digunakan dalam perencanaan dan perancangan adalah Estetika Idiomatik Camp dengan menggunakan Rubic sebagai penganalogian karakter game yang digubah melalui proses deformasi bentuk, distorsi, dan duplikasi bahan. Keputusan desain yang didapat melalui proses analisis adalah desain ruang kerja pengembang game, ruang kerja pengembang game pemula, ruang pertemuan komunitas, ruang pemasaran game lokal, dan area hiburan yang diwadahi dalam kompleks bangunan berskala monumental dan bentuk dinamis.
Kata Kunci : Estetika Idiomatik, Pusat Pengembang Game, Otaku,.
Abstract
The planning and designing of Game Developer and Otaku Centre in Yogyakarta is caused by local game development industry progress in Indonesia, including in Yogyakarta, which is not followed by availabilty of supporting facilities in professional game development as well as the unavailability of game development industry existence signifier. Game developer and Otaku centre is game developers workspace and Otaku gathering space that provides game development industry supporting facilities and involves Otaku as game player and game creator. There are several design issues in planning and designing of game developer and Otaku centre, (1) how the space programming concept of game developer and Otaku centre could support the game developers activities and stimulate the emergence of creative ideas, and (2) how the building appearance concept could be a signifier of local game developers existence and game characters. The approach used in planning and designing is Camp idiomatic aesthetic by using rubic cube as analogy of game characters that composed through the process of deformation, distortion, and duplication of material, in this case are rubic cube and game characters. Design decisions obtained through the analysis process are the design of game developers workspaces, co-working areas for game developers beginners, community meeting rooms, local game marketing rooms, and entertainment areas accommodated in a building complex with monumental scale and dynamic form. Keywords : Idiomatic Aesthetic, Game Developer Centre, Otaku.