Nokia Announces Developer Finalists
Nokia has announced the top ten finalists in this year’s Mobile Games Innovation Challenge.
On October 29th, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive prizes of EURO40,000, Euro20,000 and EURO 10,000 respectively, an be invited to the Nokia Games Summit in Rome to collect their prize. The list of finalists is below, with a description of each developer’s idea:
Active Technologia e Consultoria Ltda. (Brazil) – Cinemarena: You control film stars’ Avatars in a movie theatre.
CreatePlayShare (India) – Ball: Play any ball game on your mobile, with the option of building your own game.
Different Game (Sweden) – Ghost Wire: Communicate with ghosts via your mobile
Eclipse Interactive (UK) – Watchers: Adventure game that uses Nokia Maps and tools to find real world locations.
Int13 (France) – Kweekies: virtual pet game
Jadestone (Sweden) and C4M (France) – Melokey: music title that has you learning songs, and playing against computer controlled opponents to win over fans.
LemonQuest (Spain) – Wave Pirates: Navigate the oceans looking for treasure, and fights
Onur Yazilim (Turkey) – Comet Hunter: 2-D shooting game that uses sound effects made by the user.
SimLife (China) – Xdancery: Touchscreen Music game. Shake the handset to hit the right 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 has demonstrated the huge potential of this industry on a global level, and the innovation that can be applied to mobile games,” said Dr Mark Ollila, director of games publishing at Nokia.
“We’ve seen some groundbreaking ideas and some really unique concepts. It just goes to show how many creative minds there are out there and it really looks like we’re going to set out what we wanted to achieve with this Challenge - to rock the industry.”
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