From gamer to creator: How a Malaysian founded an award-winning game design company behind Postknight (VIDEO)

GEORGE TOWN, Nov 9 — P’ng Yi Wei always enjoyed playing computer games, and his father used to tease him that he might be better off creating games.

That playful suggestion planted a seed, and today, the 35-year-old is the founder of award-winning independent game studio Kurechii.

P’ng studied multimedia design at The One Academy, where he often incorporated interactive game elements into his web design assignments.

“I tend to gamify my websites to make them more fun and interactive for users,” he said.

After graduating in 2009, P’ng and two friends transformed a college project into a full online flash game, also known as a browser game, which can be played using only a web browser.

They created an arcade game called Reachin’ Pichin, which they submitted to a Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) …