Fun Nugget just launched Ty Inc’s first iPhone game. It’s called Beanie Ballz Bounce. Tilt your iPhone, iPad or iTouch back and forth to help the Beanie Ballz bounce past the Monstaz and collect Ty hearts along the way. The fun and family friendly mobile app is only 99 cents (a cheap Christmas gift) and features cute animals and monsters and easy access to buy the toys too.
The site for Terra Nova, Fox’s new dinosaur themed show, launched http://www.liveterranova.com with a series of Facebook connected games. The four games mix gameplay mechanics inspired by titles like GeoWars, Finger Twister and even an augmented reality version of the classic Simon memory game. See if you’re chosen to enter the lottery.
Fox’s new Steven Spielberg produced dinosaur show launches next month but the Terra Nova website just went live. Take the quiz to enter the lottery and walk with the dinosaurs. More games and content are rolling out in the coming weeks in run up to the TV show’s 9/26 launch date so stay tuned.
Animax Entertainment has been working on a transmedia project for Scholastic called The 39 Clues. We’re in the midst of developing several new games to launch with the new book Medusa Plot series coming out at the end of the month. These 3D Flash games integrate into the rich story that takes kids from print to online to mobile and beyond.
The Fun Nugget games portal now has new games in lots of categories: puzzle, trivia, action, kids and more. There are Facebook Like buttons on all the content now too. You can also play Tic Tac Toe Trivia, our most popular game, right on Facebook – it’s our latest social game.
Sometimes Animax clients are a little shy and don’t want us talking about our work with them. So let’s just say we worked on another popular kids virtual world recently developing new features for it. We also worked on an iPad app for kids. Kids play with the “darndest” things these days.
Bravo’s Top Chef just got a new Facebook connected game called Basic Training. The new social game is a collection of cooking drills that gauge your skills in recipe recall, knife skills, and presentation. When you think you can cut the mustard, play in competition mode and play all three drills back to back. If you’re good enough you might be able to get ranked on the leaderboard, earn virtual goods in the form of medals and badges, brag to your friends by posting on your Facebook wall and maybe impress Padma and Tom. So, soldier, do you think you’re up to the Bravo Top Chef Basic Training challenge? Play now.
Animax has developed numerous social games lately with a mix of promotional marketing related ones as well as profit driven ones. Our initial experience in the social gaming space was with virtual worlds and we continue to be active in the space — we are currently developing three different ones in addition to a couple Facebook connected games.
http://www.bravotv.com/top-chef/games/basic-training
Animax Entertainment will be at Licensing Expo and E3 in the next few weeks. Need help producing your next online game, Facebook game, virtual world or MMO project? Let’s schedule a time to meet.
Animax Entertainment is working on a Facebook Connect game for NBC Universal’s Bravo TV called “Who is Top Chef?” Currently in the development stage, the social game is set to launch a few months from now. Players will be able to test their skills against their friends to see if they have what it takes to be a culinary master and earn the title of Top Chef.
Read the full press release here.
Animax Entertainment is at CTIA Wireless 2010 today talking on a panel entitled: Producing Mobile Animation and Games. The panel is sponsored by the Animation and Gaming Committees of the Producers Guild of America’s New Media Council.
Through case studies, this session will walk you through the relationship between the technology and execution of mobile animation. Learn from industry leading publishers, game developers, and brand marketers. We’re going to be reviewing some of our past work and lessons learned along the way as a producers of mobile and web-enabled interactive entertainment content. There is another panel as well in the program and a mixer so let’s meet up today.
Animax Entertainment is an Emmy Award winning studio that creates Flash animation, iphone apps, games, virtual worlds and fun stuff for all screens.
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