The Mobile Game Innovation Hunt will give 12-15 mobile developers and publishers the opportunity to pitch their most innovative game to a panel of expert judges (U.S. and international operators) and the audience in three-minutes!

Winners:

Judges' Award 2007

Sil - The SilhouetteGame (Telcogames Limited) Nino Ceraolo

Tornado Mania (Digital Chocolate) Jami Laes

Audience Award 2007

Sil - The SilhouetteGame (Telcogames Limited) Nino Ceraolo

Finalists:

- Barcode War (GameVisionMobile)
Ding Ye
- Blades & Magic (FISHLABS Entertainment)
Michael Schade
- Decimate (Freelance Developer)
Lee Dowthwaite
- Duke Nukem Arena (Machineworks)
Andreas Vasen
- Gainers n'Drainers (Roskilde University / Denmark)
Jacob Sparre Andersen
- Llama Country (Bight Games)
Stuart Duncan
- Mega Monster (Firemint)
Robert Murray
- Prehistoric Fun Park (Gear Games)
Boris Karpichev
- SiL - The Silhouette Game (Telcogames Limited)
Nino Ceraolo
- Super Boom Boom (GAMEVIL)
Allen Lee
- Tornado Mania! (Digital Chocolate)
Jami Laes
- Turbo Camels: Circus Extreme (RealNetworks)
Wilhelm Taht
- Wall Street Fighter (YDreams S.A.)
Marta Vieira
- ZeeWalls (Zeetoo, Inc.)
Rob Podoloff

Judges:

- Joe Ariganello, Product Manager of Games, Sprint Nextel
- Jrme Le Feuvre, Head of Mobile Multimedia Marketing - Personalisation, Games and Search, Orange France
- Mr. Yong Bo Cho, Head of Games, SK Telecom
- Levi Buchanan, Editor, IGN Wireless
- Neil Trevett, President, Khronos Group

By taking part, you get direct feedback from these market leaders and decision makers about your work, and a chance to establish better communication with those who can get your game(s) distributed throughout the U.S. You also get your game in front of an expert audience who will be on the look out for the next great mobile game. Showcasing your mobile game will give it broad exposure and critical feedback.

The session will be held on Monday, March 5 from 5-6PM in Room 134 at Moscone North and will be hosted by Matthew Bellows and David Collier.

Submit your game today to be one of the lucky finalists to participate in the Mobile Game Innovation Hunt and take home cool prizes, prestige, and the recognition from your colleagues! This session promises to be loads of fun, you won't want to miss it!

You can submit up to three games per company. The game(s) does not need to be completed in order for it to be considered, you can submit a partially completed project as long as it meets the following criteria:

• Innovative
• Creative
• Thought-provoking
• Fun
• Cool
• Wacky

Even if your game is completed and/or if it has been made commercially available during the last 12 months, you can still submit. Your game can be developed for J2ME, BREW, Symbian, and Windows Mobile platforms.

Complete the online submission form between Dec. 7 and Feb. 2, 2007. The submissions will be reviewed and 12-15 games will be selected in early February to participate in the Mobile Game Innovation Hunt session.

WINNERS

The Judges' Selection will receive:

• A personalized trophy
• $1,500 prize
• An O2 Xda Flame, powered by the NVIDIA GoForce 5500 with Premier Developer Support
• Two conference passes to GDC Mobile 2008 (Approx. $2,100 value)
• A year subscription to Game Developer magazine
• Announcement of the winner on the GDC Mobile web site
  
  Extra Prizes from the Khronos Group:
• Act as Honorary Chair of the "Khronos OpenKEG Work Group" for one year; commemorated on a plaque with your name to pass on to the next Honorary Chairman at GDC 2008
• A whole Keg of imported beer served in your honor at the Khronos Booth #160 Beer Crawl on Wednesday, March 7 at 4:30 pm.*
• A group photo of you, the winner, and your friends making a toast with the Khronos Group founders at our Booth at the Beer Crawl
• Winner's name, story, and demo clip on the Khronos.org Web site
• A Khronos shirt of your choice - all styles and sizes available

The Audience Selection will receive:

• A personalized trophy
• $500 prize
• Two conference passes to GDC Mobile 2008 (Approx. $2,100 value)
• A year subscription to Game Developer magazine
• Announcement of the winner on the GDC Mobile web site
  
  Extra Prizes from the Khronos Group:
• A whole case of imported beer served in your honor at the Khronos Booth #160 Beer Crawl on Wednesday, March 7 at 4:30 pm.*
• A group photo of you, the winner, and your friends making a toast with the Khronos Group founders at our Booth at the Beer Crawl
• Winner's name, story, and demo clip on the Khronos.org Web site
• A Khronos shirt of your choice - all styles and sizes available

**Any finalist/winner under the legal drinking age of 21 will not be allowed to handle any alcohol, however, may designate a colleague or friend of legal drinking age to help. The Khronos Group will provide underage contestants (or non-drinking contestants) non-alcoholic beverages of their choice to enjoy the celebration.

NVIDIA is the Exclusive Mobile Game Innovation Hunt Sponsor:

Renowned for creating industry-changing products, VIDIA enhances mobile entertainment with the NVIDIA GoForce family of graphics processing units for handheld devices. NVIDIA is unique in that it dedicates more resource than any other company in the world to the games development and publishing community. With strategic relationships involving technical, marketing and business support, NVIDIA and its valued partners make it possible for consumers to enjoy leading-edge 3D content that is not only tuned for blistering performance, but also for rock-solid reliability and stability.

As the proud sponsor of the GDC Mobile Game Innovation Hunt, we look forward to seeing your creations!

About the Khronos Group:

The Khronos Group is a Not for Profit consortium founded in January 2000 by a number of leading media-centric companies, and is dedicated to creating open standard APIs to enable the authoring and playback of media on a wide variety of platforms and devices. We are donating these prizes to help encourage the development of innovative content on all platforms.

Email your questions to: gdcmobile_hunt@cmp.com