Marseille, France–26 January 2012–The nominees for the International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGAs) were announced today with 30 games in six categories moving on to the final round of judging. Close to 500 games from all over the world were submitted for review by the international panel of experts: a record for the competition. The 30 nominees are:
BEST CASUAL GAME
CreaVures Muse Games United States
HECTOR Episodes 1-3 Telltale Games United States
Jetpack Joyride Halfbrick Australia
Sprinkle Mediocre AB Sweden
The Blocks Cometh Halfbot Canada
BEST REAL WORLD GAME
CityRace Cityrace.me Poland
FLATMATES Flaregames Germany
Meatspace Invasion C4MProd France
NBA: King of the Court Ogemnto United States
Shadow Cities Grey Area Finland
BEST SPORTS GAME
Bike Baron Mountain Sheep, Inc. /
Qwiboo (London) Finland
Flick Tennis: College Wars Rolocule Games India
Sports Car Challenge Fish Labs Schade
Touchgrind BMX Illusion Labs AB Sweden
Trial Xtreme 2 Deemedya M.S. LTD. Israel
BEST MOBILE SOCIAL GAME
Charadium II On5 Lithuania
Funpark Friends Tagplay UK
Poker Pals Aspyr Media, Inc. USA
SpellCraft School of Magic Appy Entertainment United States
The Pirate King Bulkypix France
EXCELLENCE IN GAMEPLAY
Battleheart Mika Mobile, Inc. USA
Contre Jour HD Mokus Games LLP Ukraine
Death Rally Remedy Entertainment Finland
DrawRace 2 HD RedLynx Finland
Infinity Blade
II
Chair Entertainment
USA
MOST INNOVATIVE GAME
Forever Drive Tak Fung UK
Kodo Fabrication Games Europe AB Sweden
KuraKuraMaze Yoshimi Kurihara Japan
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP Capy Canada
WildChords Ovelin Finland
“We have had an unprecedented response for the year’s awards”, said Maarten Noyons, CEO and Founder of the IMGA. “We see a trend of very high quality, big productions coming to the mobile platform and on the other hand a lot of fresh innovative casual games. I think the jury has made a very interesting choice. The 8 th IMGA shows a wealth of new ideas and ground-breaking quality coming from studios all over the world. I would like to congratulate each of the developers that have games nominated and thank everyone who submitted games to the awards.”
On the 1 st March the IMGA will announce the winners during the IMGA Summit and Awards ceremony, a conference held at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
During the last seven years the IMGA has reviewed more than 2,000 mobile games from more than 52 countries including the USA, Ukraine, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, China, the Czech Republic, Brazil and Belgium. Participants include PhD students, researchers, artists, individual developers and the top ten mobile games publishers and developers in the world. The winners in each category for this year’s awards will be announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February.
The winners will receive €100,000 of free publicity from ProSieben Sat1 Games, one of the IMGA's Platinum sponsors, with the overall winner receiving €400,000 of free publicity.
About IMGA
The International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA), launched in 2004 is the leading platform for Innovation in Mobile Entertainment worldwide. Each year mobile gaming studios, individual developers, students and researchers are challenged to come up with the most innovative concepts for tomorrow's mobile games. The IMGA brings together Industry leaders and top talent in Mobile Entertainment and displays the most innovative Mobile Entertainment Games and Applications to a broad worldwide audience.
For more information on the International Mobile Gaming awards, check out their website: http://www.imgawards.com/index.php
