It’s just 2 more days to Asia’s biggest tech event.

Play at Echelon 2011! Earn points and badges for interacting with startup booths, and attending talks or workshops at the event. All the ongoing activity at Echelon 2011 will be displayed on a live feed at our booth, where you can check out what everyone’s been up to and who the top 10 players are!

What’s even better? You can add your own challenges too! Simply create a challenge and include the #echelon2011 hashtag. Fill the event with your wild and crazy ideas.

Managed to earn special Echelon 2011 badges on GameMaki? Show us your achievement thru’ your mobile phone and you get to redeem a real badge to show off!

Redeem your badges at GameMaki‘s booth!

What badges are there?

The original GameMaki badge (Black)
It’s the simplest to get this one. You’ll just have to register at GameMaki. Easy peasy. Then, redeem this badge to prove you’re now a happy GameMaki-ian.

Echelon 2011 Explorer (Blue)
Join any one of the Echelon 2011 Makis – a Maki is our terminology for a ‘mini-game’ which comprises a group of challenges – and claim at least one challenge to redeem this badge.

** We will be rolling out two Makis during Echelon 2011. One for Day 1, and another for Day 2.

Echelon 2011 Conquerer (Orange)
Already earned the Echelon 2011 Explorer badge? Well, you can still go on and conquer the event! We’re not gonna’ reveal how many more challenges you’ll have to do to earn this badge. But rest assured, it ain’t difficult. As soon as that badge pops up on your screen, pop by our booth to redeem it. Ultimate boasting rights in an instant!

Psssst, badges come in limited quantities. So redeem them while stocks last!

Our final shipment of badges arrived yesterday, and they look real awesome.

Our badges are here!

We are still in the midst of finalizing the challenges, and they’d be gradually rolled out from tomorrow.

GameMaki will be at booth 15. We’re nearest to the entrance when you first walk in, just beside the spiral staircase on your right. Come and find us!

It’s so easy to locate us. (;

Until then, see you all at Echelon 2011!

The team is extremely excited right now. We’ve been gearing up for Echelon 2011 later next week and loads of things have been going on behind the scenes.

What is Echelon?
Echelon is Asia’s best startup launchpad event, organized by e27. Echelon 2011 is a two-day, double-track event held from June 16-17 with over 1,000 delegates, a demo pit of up to 50 startups per day and various workshops. Echelon 2011 will be the biggest ever edition of Asia’s best startup launchpad event. It will discover Southeast Asia’s best startups on an all new scale.
Adapted from Echelon 2011′s official website.

GameMaki will be exhibiting at the above event. We will be at booth #15. Do drop by our booth on both days to talk to us, or just to say hello!

And wait … there’s more!

We will be rolling out challenges related to ongoing events and other startup companies present at Echelon 2011 during the two-day period. Turn Echelon 2011 into your personal playground by doing challenges, and stand to earn points and badges while exploring the activities and booths at the event.

There are two special badges you can earn exclusively at this event – the Echelon 2011 Explorer and Echelon 2011 Conquerer badges.

Completing at least one Echelon-related challenge will earn you the Echelon 2011 Explorer badge. Earning the Echelon 2011 Conquerer badge will be a little harder … you’ll need to complete at least 20 Echelon-related challenges!

Here’s a sneak preview.

Badges you can earn at Echelon 2011.

More details on the challenges and how you can earn badges will be revealed next week, closer to the event date. (; Everything’s still a secret for now.

Is that all? Nuh uh, no way.

What good is earning a badge if you can’t show it off in real life?

Well, at Echelon 2011, you can!

Earned the badges on our platform? Hop by our booth (booth #15) to redeem them for real badges! Our badges come in limited quantities. Be the lucky few to own the badge, exclusively available only at the event.

Redeem your virtual badges for real badges at Echelon 2011. Ooh, la la.

Are you excited yet? Well, we definitely are.

All Echelon 2011-related claims, comments and photos uploaded during the event will also be screened on a live feed at our booth. What’s a better way to check out the goings-on around you while at the event!

If you are an exhibiting startup at the event and want to contribute your own challenges too, please email Brenda directly and she’ll be in touch with you pronto!

Meanwhile, stay tuned for more updates. Dum dee dum …