Nokia’s Top 10 Mobile Game
Developers
Nokia
has announced the top 10 developers of its Mobile Games Innovation
Challenge. The winners will take home a total prize value of EUR 70,000.
The three most innovative game concepts will be offered Nokia Publishing
pre-production contracts. In addition, the first winner will be awarded
EUR 40,000, the second EUR 20,000, and the third EUR 10,000 to enable
further development of the chosen concept.
According
to Nokia, an independent panel of industry experts from across the globe
has spent the past few weeks deliberating through over a hundred entries
to come up with a shortlist of the most innovative mobile games concepts.
Entries
were judged on game innovation, fun, feasibility of execution, and market
potential. The top three developers who best meet these requirements will
be invited to present their concepts at the upcoming Nokia Games Summit in
Rome, Italy on October 29, 2008.
Top
10 developers and their concepts are:
-
Active Tecnologia e Consultoria Ltda. (Brazil) - Cinemarena - set in
a movie theatre, controlling avatars on the big screen
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CreatePlayShare
(India) - Ball - play any ball game on your mobile device or even create
your own new game
-
A
Different Game (Sweden) - Ghost Wire - use your mobile device to
communicate with ghosts
-
Eclipse Interactive (UK) - Watchers - conspiracy adventure game that
uses Nokia Maps and other real world tools to find locations
-
Int13 (France) - Kweekies - augmented reality virtual pet game that
allows players to interact with their pet by utilizing the embedded
camera of their mobile device
-
Jadestone (Sweden) and C4M (France) - Melokey - a music game for
mobile devices where you learn to master songs and play them against
other in-game characters to win the hearts of your fans
-
LemonQuest
(Spain) - Wave Pirates - a fun action game where players turn into a
pirate navigating the seven seas, looking for gold and glory
-
Onur
Yazilim (Turkey) - Comet Hunter - a 2-D shooting game, which combines
the excitement of shooting with natural sound effects made by players
themselves
-
Simlife
(China) - XDancery - a music game where players can touch the screen,
draw patterns on the screen, shake the device or sing into it to hit the
music tempo notes
-
TechnoBubble
(Spain) - Fun Cam - a mixed reality game that connects your camera on
your mobile device to the TV
The
Mobile Games Innovation Challenge, sponsored by Nokia Games Publishing,
called for mobile game developers to submit concepts that will help drive
mobile gaming to the next level, relying on the advanced features and
functionalities of N-Gage-compatible devices, and Java- or Symbian-based
Series 40 or S60 devices from Nokia.
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