2006 student nominees

     


the list of the 21 students :
Panda Park by Andreas Zecher, Germany, Pet Racers ,by Leo Yaik, Singapore, Ants by Carl Peters , UK, Celebs Mobile Gaming by Neil, UK, Puzzle Box by Zhuo Baoyoun, Singapore, Crazy Balls by Meena C , India, Pong-Man by Edward Catchpole, UK, Project Tap by Allesio Pierluigi Placitelli, Italy, M.U.N Psycho clown by, Dimitry V, , The Crusher by Mark Goodman, USA, Final Siege by Andreas Pongs, Germany, Generals: The Road to War by Nazim Mohammed, UK, Cathar's Quest by Romza Pellejero Costa, Spain, City mlistery by Arno Kamphuis, The Netherlands, Fighters challenge byVictor Hall, Germany, Mole Hunt by Arno Kamphuis, The Netherlands, Moon Quest Arena by Kessili Samir, France, Time Crash by Arno Kamphuis, The Netherlands, Ubitros by Loiis Kratz , USA, Revenge of the BBQ by Chung-Ming Chang, USA, Flunker World byJoao Afonso , Portugal

entry #15 : Panda Park
Panda Park is a fast-paced casual game with fresh and unique gameplay ideas: A set of different rules and goals that can be changed by the players to their own advantage while the game is actually running.The main characters of Panda Park are a little girl and her cuddly toy Panda, which is brought alive in her imagination. Prior to the start of a match, the little girl (the player) chooses the goal while the Panda (CPU) thereupon defines a rule for reaching that goal. The player directly controls his character into four directions using the buttons or an in-built joystick of the device. The game offers five predefined rules and goals each, giving a myriad of different possibilities to play the game.

Category - Best Use of Connectivity

   


entry # 40 : Pet racers
Pet Racers is a 2D top view racing game. The game world revolves around the perspective of our various house pets. There will be different maps ranging from underwater to space for the cartoon pet characters to race in the annual championship prix to determine the winner. Choose from a range of 4 different cute pets, each with their own special abilities, to compete in a total of 6 unique racing courses. Mixable orbs spawned randomly on the map can also be used to your advantage to change the tide of the race. However, if the orbs are used wrongly, they may aid your opponents indirectly. To advance to the next stage of the game, you have to end up in the top 3 positions after the race ends.

Category - Most Innovative Game, Best Interactive Experience, Best Use of Connectivity

   


entry #48 : Ants
Players use mobile phone number keys and direction pad to control an army of ants using scent markings. In the miniature ant world, players have to protect the colony from other insects, avoid monstrous threats such as birds and garden sprinklers and gather food for the colony. Control an army of ants to feed, protect and expand your colony in a dangerous land of giants.

Category - Best Use of Flash

   

entry #49 : celebs mobile gaming
“Celebs Mobile Gaming is a series of mobile phone games that can be collected through multiplayer gaming over a Bluetooth connection. Each celebrity, as well as having their own individual game unique to themselves has a set of statistics that are used to battle in “Play For Keeps” (think Top Trumps‘ style game-play).”

Category - Best Interactive Experience

   

entry #62 : Puzzle box
Puzzle Box is a mobile game which base on an original type of puzzle solving concepts. Players need the combination of experience, logical thinking and memory to master the game. Players will be moving solving puzzles via relocating cubes which are the basic makeup of each puzzle box for the level. Players are given the choice of three modes available. The three modes are of Normal, Challenge, and Puzzle. Normal mode is whereby player will be required to solve random puzzles of 24 different stages. The challenge mode where by the player will be playing an endless survival mode. Puzzle mode whereby the puzzles of different stages are preset and the player will need to solve individual puzzle.



   

entry #66 : Crazy balls
It is a new form of mobile gaming utilizing the mobie phone camera has its game input.No use of mobile keypads or No use of pressing the buttons to play games.Just tilt/move the mobile phone to play the game.By the help of mobile phone camera, the game play is implemented. · The aim of the player is to place all the balls in the centre of the Board.

Category - Most Innovative Game, Best Interactive Experience, Best Use of Connectivity

   

entry #74 : Pong man
Pong-Man is a simple action game based upon the two classics; Pong, and Pac-Man.
For example, the idea of the ‘super-star’ is derived from that of a similar power-up in the original Pac-Man where the enemies would turn blue and become edible.
The game is very simple in its rules: It cannot be beaten. The true enemy is the player, he is his own challenge. To get a high score, either eat stars ( ), or balls ( ). However, if Pac-Man eats a ball, it dies, game over, try harder next time. But, if Pac-Man has consumed an almighty blue star ( ), he need no longer be afraid of the nasty grey balls as they are now blue ( ) and very edible. for a short time. After 6 seconds they will return to their evil, grey state and must once again be avoided at all costs. As the game progresses, more balls get introduced making the game harder. Progression to the next ‘level’ occurs when a yellow star is eaten. During the progression, a new ball is added to the play zone, a new yellow star appears, on occasion, along with a blue star. Progression to the next ‘level’ occurs when a yellow star is eaten. During the progression, a new ball is added to the play zone, a new yellow star appears, on occasion, along with a blue star


Category - Most Innovative Game

   


entry #155 : Project Tap
Project Tap (PT; working title) is a two-player game based on multi-tap challenges that put to test speed and accuracy of opponents’ fingers. Every match consists of a preset number of rounds, each represented by a single or a string of words and the associated picture uncovered over the term of match. The host player (P1) initiates a new match using either the default or a custom preset. Presets, created with the internal editor, can be shared with others upon established connection. Whenever the guest player (P2) accepts an invitation extended to him/her by P1, the match begins with a 30s warm-up Round Counter (RC).

Category - Excellence in 3D

   

entry #159 : M.U.N Psycho clown
M.U.N. is a station almost totally operated by computer, floating somewhere on the edge of known space. It was build as a prison for most wicked criminals in the universe. Their conscience was downloaded to a matrix on board. The goal of the creators was to research and compare motives and patterns of the criminals, what will allow human race to get rid of the evil structures of the mind forever. Station computer is maintained by tech specialist Eve. Cosmic parasites extermination and some low tech tasks on the shell was assigned to Adam - ex crimrinal, who avoided downloading to the criminal database by taking assignment on the board of the station. The progress with the criminal database lead to strange changes in main computer. At the end he became totally uncontrollable. Adam and Eve are in great danger.


Category - Most Innovative Game, Best Interactive Experience, Best Use of Connectivity

   


entry #177 :The crusher
GAME OBJECT: Try to get THE CRUSHER out of the maze before it gets crushed by other mechanical machines or before the maze moves you off the screen. The background maze will constantly be moving from the starting point on the left to the ending goal on the right. As the levels get harder the maze will move faster. If you get pushed of the sreen you get crushed. You can collect POWER ZAPS to make the crusher move faster. This can help the crusher backtrack throught the maze incase it runs into a dead end.
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Category - Most Innovative Game, Best Interactive Experience, Excellence in 3D

   


entry #179 :Final siege
The gameplay is a (fairly) unique combination of action, puzzle and strategy elements. The game can be played with up to four players simulaneously over any internet connection. A singleplayer mode is also included. Final Siege features a global multiplayer league, a chat phrase system, buddylist, instant player invitations, random matchmaking, skill based matchmaking, a global singleplayer highscore table, and save slots for player profiles and for the player's progress in the singleplayer mode.

Category - Most Innovative Game, Excellence in 3D, Best Interactive Experience

   


entry #234 :generals the road to war
Generals: The Road to War Genre: Board Game Players: Multi-Player Generals: The Road to War is an innovative and ambitious new Birdseye View/ Isometric turn based board game. Choose from famous generals and war heroes from around the world and lead him and three soldiers through key stages of the Characters timeline. Use the Generals unique skills and advantages i.e. Stealth (Ho Chi Minh) or Weapons Specialists (General Eisenhower) to plan ahead with strategic tactics to complete your missions or levels. Pickup great and powerful weapons on the board and use them to setup traps or to plan your moves to take out the enemy. But be careful as all eyes are on you, so cover your tracks and be careful as even the slightest disturbance will lead the enemy to your location.

Category - Most Innovative Game, Excellence in 3D,Best Interactive Experience, Best Use of Connectivity

   


entry #245 :Cathar's Quest
At the beginning, the player must choose a character to play. The game is developed throughout different tests that the player must surpass, gathering objectes who is going to need in the final test, the definitive one to find the lost treasure of the Cathars. The character travels through diferents places from the southern France, mainly by castles and the places next to them. They hide arcane secrets,even that special one, something the alchemists called the filosofal stone, a lost emerald from the forehead of Lucifer. The player must fight against living undeads (old Cathars who were judged by heresy and were burned in the bonfire), ghost and skeletons from catacombs of the ruined castles, and an armed band that are under the orders them a fanatical Chinese, studious millionaire of the Cathars'myths and who wants to find the lost treasure of the Cathars. When they hurt the player, he loses energy that can be recovered by medicines,found in the country, visiting hospitals or old healers. Even the fatigue affects the player, slowly losing energy, but in a minor grade. In order to recover part of the energy,the player can hunt or buy food.cfed with food. There are the possibility of saving game whenever a phase of the quest is surpassed.

Category - Best Use of Flash

   

entry #246 :City mistry
In City Mystery the player has to solve a mystery by looking for clues in a city. These clues consist of stickers with barcodes which your phone uses to show videos or to start a minigame. The player wanders around the city looking for gametags. These gametags are stickers with a barcode. It will be easy to automatically recognize these barcodes from pictures taken by the mobile phone and sent to the game server. The gameserver uses these barcodes to keep track of the player’s position in the storyline. Depending on what the player has seen and where he is, the server will feed him bits of information in the form of a movie, a webpage or a minigame. With this information the player has to decide where to go next.

Category - Most Innovative Game, Best Interactive Experience, Best Use of Flash

  



entry #247 :Fighters challenge
ighters Challenge” is a fast-paced 3D action game about jetfighter air combat. The player takes seat in one of several available fighters based on real-life planes. He or she then engages in a variety of missions ( interception, escort, ground strike,… ). The game can be played in a campaign or quick game mode. Human players can fly dogfights against each other via “Bluetooth”.

Category - Most Innovative Game, Best Interactive Experience, Best Use of Connectivity

   


entry #250 :Mole Hunt
Game using mobile internet and bluetooth Hunters hunt one or more moles (each player either gets the hunter role or mole roll assigned) Uses GSM antenna ID’s and a serverside database to allow for estimate direction and distance When a hunter gets near the mole (same GSM antenna) bluetooth is activated and the hunters’ phone scans for the moles’ phone. When the mole is found both the mole and hunter get points according to the time the mole was “hunted”

Category - Most Innovative Game

   



entry #254 :Moon quest arena
A multi player game for cell phones using bluetooh or a server connexion. the game is a 2 players struggle between 2 mythic animals and their masters.In order to win players have to take care of their animal (food, teach him how to fight)

Category - Most Innovative Game, Best Interactive Experience, Best Use of Connectivity

   


entry #264 :Time crash
The game will be a turn based strategy game specifically developed for a mobile platform. Bringing such a genre to a mobile platform will mean it has to be greatly optimized so gameplay has sufficient speed. The unique thing about such a genre on a mobile platform is that quickly multiplayer connections via bluetooth can be established. This will allow players to easily and quickly play such a game while they are for example in a train travelling to their work. Therefore it will be of great importance to have simple, effective and staightforwards gameplay.

Category - Most Innovative Game

   


entry #269 :ubitros
Ubitros is a real time, real world pervasive strategy game. Players must take over a city by capturing all of the wireless access points which serve as bases. Players defend wireless access points by training their soldiers, or solimaths, to play checkers. Players must defeat other players solimaths to conquer their base.

Category - Excellence in 3D, Best Use of Connectivity

   

entry #338 : Revenge of the BBQ
You are fired by your boss in a BBQ restaurant. You felt unfair and angrily said to your boss that "I want to defeat you in one month". Your boss snubbed, "Please try your best. I am waiting for your failure." To earn money and revenge your ex-boss, you use all your savings to buy a BBQ cart and all the relevant material. You begin your BBQ business just in front of your ex-boss's BBQ restaurant. In order to avoid getting tickets from the police, you only can run your business one hour per day. Nevertheless, many people like to eat BBQ, and there is always quite a long line waiting for your delicious BBQ...



   

entry #343 : Flunker World
Flunker world is a 3d multiplayer game, based on bluetooth for communication. It's action is passed on a sphered world that increases or decreases size according to the number of players. The main objective is to hit everyone around you. The game connects to any person around that is running the game.

Category - Most Innovative Game, Excellence in 3D, Best Interactive Experience

   


















































Anima Wars/Anino Mobile /PHL
PuzzleBobbleOnLine!/Taito Corp. /JPN
goSupermodel /Watagame /DNK
Street Duel /Mobitween /FRA
Sketcher/Zio Interactive /KOR
IMO(I on Mobile Online)/Com2Us/KOR
3D TiltaWorld /SuperHappyFunFun/US
Blades & Magic /Fishlabs /DE
Neopets Mobile/In-Fusio /FRA
Bruce Lee/Indiagames /IND
Mega Monster/Firemint /AUS
Drakulin/RTZ Interactive /ESP
Time Noodle/Comic Factory /JPN
KooZac/Ben Cusack /UK
Wireless West/Zinkia Entert /ESP
SIL/Fathammer /UK
Triangler/TNO /NL
Dance Star/Lanetro Zed /ESP
Raging Thunder /Polarbit AB /SWE
Crazy Matches /IKS Mobile /POL
Lament Island/Sim Life /CHN
Dance Arena/Flamix Co Ltd/THA
Synchro/Sai Chung Tam /CHN
TornadoMania!/DigitalChocolate/US
RollercoasterRush/DigitalChocolate/US

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