Mobile games news roundup

First image WKN Kickboxing, images two and three Yukiko.

DMAs Developer of the Year

Recently at Nephin Games won the ‘Digital Games Developer of the Year’ award at the Digital Media Awards 2005 in Dublin

The Galway based mobile games developer created a game for the World Kickboxing Network, 'WKN Kickboxing’. According to Nephin the award shows that they can deliver ‘top quality fun’, as well as a good branding tool.

“The final results were a fair reflection of the talent and hard work involved,” commented Tony Kelly, co-coordinator of the Irish Chapter of the International Games Developer Association, “The quality of WKN Kickboxing spoke for itself, and assured Nephin Games of top prize on the night. Congrats to Alan Duggan and associates for a job well done”.

The kickboxing game can be found on fonearcade.com, it is supported by the Nokia 3650, 3660, Nokia 6600, 7610, 6620, 6630, 6260, 7650, and the N-Gage.

First bite

Meanwhile the Dublin based mobile games developer BitRabbit has finished its first game, ‘Yukiko’. The developer has set it self up to put GBA quality games on Series 60 mobile phones (Nokia 7650, 6600, 6260, 6630, 7610, Ngage, Siemens SX-1, etc).

Yukiko is an arcade-like game where you control “a very cute character” that travels the world fighting monsters, with bosses at the end of each level. The game boosts ‘fifteen minutes of original digital music’.

Unfortunately, at this time, the game is only singed up with a French distributor.