Vol. 2 , No. 2 - May 2007
Gaming competition picks just one winner, but entire industry comes out ahead
Telefilm’s Great Canadian Video Game Competition has whittled its Top 10 competitors to four. Connected. asked some of the other six companies for project updates and asked observers about the Competition’s industry impact.
Create-A-Date standalone game goes multiplatform
Hop To It Productions, Toronto, says its “post-competition” Create-A-Date proposal is better than ever. Without the $250,000 available to finalists, HTIP couldn’t develop “a standalone subscription model game/community,” says President Susan Nation. But after reviewing expert feedback from round one, HTIP revised its business model and approached “broadcasters, potential on-line partners and angel investors (with)…an innovative TV series with a big… community/site including the game and (their proprietary online game engine) S4Tek. We are also finalists in iPitch at (the) Banff (World Television Festival) with Cupid’s Café/Create-A-Date.”
