Discreet : Premier concours de jeux 3D pour mobiles

Discreet annonce le lancement du premier concours de développement de jeux 3D pour téléphones portables. Ce concours intervient à l'occasion du salon Imagina qui se déroule actuellement à Monaco. De nombreux acteurs du monde de la 3D, de l'Informatique et des Télécoms apportent leur soutien à cette initiative.

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Discreet and Partners Announce the First International 3D Mobile Gaming Competition to Drive 3D Mobile Game Development

Together with Nokia, Orange, Intel, IBM, In-Fusio, Criterion, Fathammer, NVIDIA, Kaolink and Ideaworks3D, Discreet Kicks-off Competition at IMAGINA 2004, Feb 2-5, Monaco.

Monaco, February 3, 2004—Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc, and Mobile Game partners today announced the launch of the first international 3D mobile gaming competition. With more than US $50,000 worth value in prizes to be awarded, this contest will enable independent mobile gaming artists or developers, traditional PC/Console Game developers and 3D freelance to carry out their creative concepts for mobile games. For existing mobile game developers it could help to showcase their popular mobile game titles—already in development or available.

This international competition is supported by some of the most important mobile gaming players in their respective areas:

• Discreet, a world leader in 3D content creation, including 2,5D and 3D Mobile Games with 3ds max® and character studio® professional animation softwares;
• Nokia, the world leader in Mobile communications;
• Orange, one of the world's largest mobile communications operators, known as innovator, driving new mobile applications by supporting world-wide 3rd party developers;
• In-fusio, a leading Mobile Games service provider;
• Fathammer, a world’s leading game development tools provider for the Advanced Mobile Games industry;
• IBM, a world leading digital content creation solution for media and entertainment;
• Intel, a world leading player in technology for content creation;
• NVIDIA, the market-leading provider of professional graphics, as well as innovative products for the handheld and mobile market;
• Criterion, a leading provider of Middleware for the Games industry; and Hybrid, a leading provider of embedded graphics Middleware to the Mobile market.
• Ideaworks3D and Kaolink, 2 fast growing mobile game development service providers.

Targeting 3D as well as 2,5D mobile gaming, the contest is divided into two main categories—Downloadable or Non-Downloadable mobile games—that will focus on exploiting the newest, cutting-edge technologies and gaming hardware handsets—from current phones to the Nokia N-Gage platform, high-end next generation phones and Java phones.

The 3D Mobile Gaming contest, launched at the IMAGINA 2004 tradeshow, will also be highlighted during such major international industry events as 3GSM in Cannes, France, February 23-26; and GDC 2004, in San Jose, California, March 22-26; as well as during the European Discreet Games Tour that will run until the end of July, 2004. Winners will be announced this summer.

The deadline for registration is set on March 31st.

Dependent on specific needs, winning entries will receive prizes that will assist in co-development and co-production of their project. In addition, the best concept developers will receive tool kits for their development.

“This competition is a huge opportunity for talented mobile games developers and artists to showcase their skills to the world, and can give a major boost to their future success. Developers can also benefit in developing and promoting their businesses from the industry-related prizes from Discreet and its technology partners,” says Martin Vann, vice president, worldwide Sales and Marketing for Discreet. “With this contest, Discreet clearly commits itself to this emerging market and reaffirms its position as leader in the creation of cutting-edge 3D content,” added Vann.

Game developers and freelancers across Europe and World are invited to register and get more information for the competition at www.3dmobilegamingcontest.com