Aerial & Drone
Cinematic aerial capture, survey flights, permit-cleared operations across archipelago and desert terrain.
A digital production house built in Cebu. Drones, photogrammetry, newsrooms and generative AI — shipped across the Philippines, the Gulf, Southeast Asia and Europe.
NEW GAME · FREE
ISDA — THE GAME
Take a bangka out, fish the reef, sell your catch at the Mercado. On your phone or computer, nothing to install.
Uwi muna sa isla, kabayan.
PLAY NOW →
Free games made in Cebu, in your browser: on a phone or a computer, nothing to install.
FREEIsdaTake a bangka out, fish the reef, sell your catch at the Mercado.PLAY →
NEW · 4 LEVELSLapu-Lapu: The Battle of MactanMactan, 1521, the rice terraces, raiders of the Sulu Sea and the junk trade.PLAY →
FREEPH WatersportsDragon boat, OC6, SUP and kayak races off Hadsan beach, Mactan.PLAY →
KIDS 4+Jollibee Island RunRun from the CCLEX across 22 places in the Philippines, spelling as you go.PLAY →
FREEJollibee Go-KartMakati, Mayon, Puerto Princesa's fireflies, Apo Island and Lapu-Lapu.PLAY →
FREEFreediving Ocean LabDive the reef's edge on long carbon fins, one breath at a time.DIVE →
A fishing game set in a Philippine barangay, in your browser. Take a bangka out, fish the reef and the pier, sell your catch at the Mercado, and dance budots at the fiesta.
Now on your phone too: a stick for your left thumb, drag with your right to look, and buttons for casting, striking and reeling. Puwede na sa cellphone.
Para sa mga kabayan, saan man sa mundo: for Filipinos at home and OFWs abroad who miss the dagat. Free, with nothing to install.
By Bart Sakwerda, founder of Budots Media.
PLAY ISDA →The real Jollibee in 3D, painted and rigged from a sculpt, in games you can play right now in your browser: an endless run across the Philippines, a go-kart race from Makati to Mactan, a fiesta dance-off, and an arcade of twenty little games.
Island RunEndless runner across 22 places · kids 4+
Go-KartMakati, Mayon, Puerto Princesa, Apo Island, jet skis at Lapu-Lapu
FiestaBudots, tinikling, cha-cha and more, on the plaza stage
ArcadeTwenty small games, ten looks, easy to hard
The storyThree years chasing the real Jollibee in 3D
Jollibee is a trademark of Jollibee Foods Corporation. These are unofficial games by Budots Media, not made, sponsored or endorsed by Jollibee Foods Corporation.
Dragon boats, outrigger canoes and stand-up paddle boards off Mactan: the people and clubs we paddle with, Marbago Tours, and PH Watersports, a dragon boat race on the real shore of Hadsan beach in Maribago.
Play it now, free in your browser: dragon boat crews race off Hadsan beach, and a freediver on carbon Alchemy fins dives the reef’s edge.
Freediving spot sponsored by alchemy
What we make at home, grouped under Philippines: games, watersports, freediving, drone & 3D, MICE and GenAI.
SPONSORED BY ALCHEMY
Freediving
The Alchemy freediving spot at Hadsan, and the freedivers, spearfishers and finswimmers in our games.
AERIAL · PHOTOGRAMMETRY
Drone & 3D
Drone and reality capture across the islands, 3D maps of Cebu, and the captures that became game worlds.
MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
GenAI
Filipino-context LLM finetuning, synthetic data, and AI in real production pipelines.
Lapu-Lapu on screen: why the next telling is a game →
FILM · 2026
The First Defender
A Lapu Lapu Story. The BisayaFlix film by Elcid Camacho, with Aljur Abrenica as Datu Lapu-Lapu. Stills and behind the scenes.
GAME · PLAY NOW
LapuLapu – The Game
The Battle of Mactan, 27 April 1521, and three more levels: the rice terraces, raiders of the Sulu Sea and the junk trade. Play now in your browser; the full game is in the making in Unreal Engine 5.
FOR ADVERTISERS
Why games, now
In the age of AI slop, a generated video proves nothing. A game people choose to play earns minutes, trust and data.
GAME CONCEPT · NOW PLAYABLE
Go-kart in Cebu
How a much-loved mascot could star in a browser game that opens from a Facebook post. Now you can play it.
AI & 3D
Bart Sakwerda
World models, 3D generations, Filipino language models, drone scans and Gaussian splats.
Eleven years of production work, now pointed at the intersection of media and machine intelligence. We fly, we scan, we publish, we finetune.
Cinematic aerial capture, survey flights, permit-cleared operations across archipelago and desert terrain.
Reality capture into 3D meshes and point clouds. Heritage sites, construction progress, terrain models.
Field crews, edit pipelines and syndication for Philippine and regional news output.
Destination films, campaign assets and location libraries for boards, resorts and operators.
Filipino-context LLM finetuning, synthetic data pipelines, and AI-assisted post workflows.
Balita.ph news aggregation and Hulà prediction markets — products, not just campaigns.
Isda is our test of what a browser can do today: a real-time 3D island with its sea, weather, people and music, running in a tab on a laptop or a phone with nothing to install. It is also the direction of the studio. Flat video is filling up with AI slop and propaganda, its value is falling and its margins with it. A world you can walk into, built from scans of real places and real people, is hard to fake and worth more to the people who spend time in it. So we are moving from making video to building games and interactive content. After our recent production LapuLapu: First Defender, we are making LapuLapu – The Game, coming to computer and mobile; its Battle of Mactan is already playable in your browser. More in why games matter to advertisers now.
Headquartered in Lapu-Lapu City. Delivered in the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Singapore, Malaysia and the United Kingdom.