MELOKEY: MOBILE MUSIC GAME

Saturday, November 01, 2008

Melokey won second prize in the Mobile Games Innovation Challenge for its potential to bring music and games to mobile with advanced social networking features.

The Mobile Games Innovation Challenge is designed to encourage the development of innovative game concepts with the power to positively disrupt the global mobile gaming industry and to help propel mobile gaming with handheld devices into a new and exciting future.

Nokia just revealed that Ghostwire, by A Different Game from Sweden, is the winner of the Mobile Games Innovation Challenge. Sweden's Jadestone and France's C4M, came in second place with music game Melokey to win 20,000 EUR. Eclipse Interactive from the United Kingdom claimed third place and 10,000 EUR with Watchers.

As well as the prize money, each of the winners will be given pre-production contracts with Nokia Games Publishing. The winning three titles were chosen by a panel of independent industry experts, selected from a final shortlist of ten concepts from around the globe.

Check page 2 for the Melokey pitch and trailer.

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