Manifest Games News

Game Development:

Madagascar 2 site wins Gold Davey Award!
The 2008 Davey Award winners were recently announced, and our Madagascar 2 interactive site won gold in the WS33 category. The site has gotten record-breaking traffic and was a collaboration with our long time design partner - Curious Oranj.
See more here: http://www.daveyawards.com


Taco Bell launches Multiplayer Silverlight 2.0 Multiplayer Game
On November 10th, Manifest Games in collaboration with our toy design partner, By George, launched the first and largest multiplayer Silverlight 2.0 experience. Children can purchase a kids meal which includes a Mushniks Alien plushy at any participating Taco Bell site, and then go online to create their own customizable robot in order to play games and build their own Alien Biosphere.
See more here: http://www.mushniks.com


Madagascar 2: Escape to Africa is the #1 movie in America
"We're baaaack!" Manifest Games and Curious Oranj has launched the Madagascar 2 Passport experience for the movie site. The Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa online campaign helped drive the movie to a #1 box office slot this weekend! The site features an exciting social networking feature where players collect and trade passport stamps to unlock gifts and pokes that they can exchange with their friends.
See more here: http://www.madagascarthemovie.com


Po's Kung Fu Challenge: Online Multiplayer Game Launches
Manifest Games launched the online game for Kung Fu Panda on May 12th. The game allows kids to create their own Kung Fu decks with moves they collect from five different styles in order to battle their friends online. This is the second title to use Manifest's custom TDV engine to push 3D content to the user's desktop.
See more here: http://battle.kungfupanda.com


Mattel leaps forward with Max Steel TDV
Mattel, Manifest Games, and Curious-Oranj have relaunched the Max Steel toy franchise in Latin America using Manifest's custom TDV engine. Using Mattel's regular advertising web budget, we were able to deliver a system that allows consumers to experience toy brands like never before.
Toy products contain unique codes that can be redeemed for points, and a downloadable desktop application allows players to use those points to obtain high end 3D games.
See more here: http://www.maxsteel.com

Online Development:

There's no need to fear! Underdog: Citysweep
In preparation for the August '07 release of Disney Picture's new Underdog movie, Manifest Games created the Shockwave 3D Citysweep game.
Players can fly through three different cities racing against the clock, capturing criminals, and slamming into buildings.
Play here: http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/underdog


Bandai's Online Toy
Manifest Games created the backend technology that drives Bandai's new Tamagotchi Version 3 website.
Bandai's new Tamagotchi toyline generates codes that can be entered into the website to connect with the online world of Tamatown and interact. Games and events on the website generate codes that can be entered back into the Tamagotchi toy to unlock rewards.

Windows Mobile Development:


Ogre 3D for PocketPC

Matthew Scott and Manifest Games has ported the open source Ogre engine to the PocketPC platform. Click here to read the Full White Paper
May 2-5 2006 White paper and results premiered at SVR 2006 (VIII Symposium on Virtual Reality) thanks to Joao Paulo Lima and his Branzilian team for writing the paper.
August 1-3 2006 SIGGRAPH 2006 will feature a couple sessions on Ogre PocketPC. Thanks to Vincent author Hans-Martin Will for presenting.

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