ICE 2008 PRODUCT SHOWCASE

THE ICE08 DIGITAL PRODUCT SHOWCASE - SHOWING OFF WHAT ONTARIO IS MADE OF!

Stop by the Product Showcase to check out some of the most innovative interactive stuff coming out of Ontario.

The following select Ontario companies will engage you with their innovative products right in the grand foyer of the Carlu March 27 & 28:

• Capybara Games Inc.
• Echo Mobile
• Hop To It Productions
• The Nightingale Company
• OmniG Software Inc.
• Spongelab Interactive

CAPYBARA GAMES INC.
www.capybaragames.com

Capybara Games is an award-winning handheld game studio focused on the creation of immersive and innovative games.

What you'll play with:

You'll have the chance to play the award-winning Critter Crunch puzzle game for mobile devices. Critter Crunch most recently won an IGF Mobile Award for Best Game, in a long line of awards. The game emphasizes style, humor and quick thinking, offering players a fresh ‘food chain’ puzzle mechanic that stands out in a sea of match-three, block-based puzzles. As a player, you will open up four separate modes of play as you go, including adventure, puzzle, time trial and survival. With unique and intuitive gameplay, colourfull characters and lush environments, Critter Crunch gives mobile gamers an addictive puzzle experience like you've never seen before!

ECHO MOBILE
www.echomobile.ca  

Echo Mobile focuses on delivering custom mobile solutions for content producers. They look at the individual challenges and needs of each content producer, recognizing that the innovation required for each project will need to be tailored specifically to the project needs and the target audience.

What you'll play with:

Share your ICE08 experience with other delegates with The ICE 08 Mobile Photo Gallery - as an ICE 08 delegate, you'll be able to upload photos with comments from your cell phone to the Echo Mobile website for all delegates to view on a large screen. You'll be able to do this at any time, from any place during the conference. In addition to the ICE 08 Mobile Photo Gallery, they will also be showcasing some of their other products including demonstrations on uploading text, video or audio from the cell phone to a website, SMS based polls and quizzes, and QR Codes.

HOP TO IT PRODUCTIONS
www.hoptoitproductions.com 

Hop To It Productions produces relevant, compelling and unique content and products - projects that have the potential to work on multiple platforms.

What you'll play with:

S-Mash is an innovative new on-line mash-up tool powered by Hop To It Productions' proprietary S4Tek flashbased technology. S-Mash empowers NextGen storytellers to interact with content and each other. Users can easily produce and share vidoes and stories on-line with video clips, digital photos,sound, effects and animation. Create, Edit, Personalize, Share, Rate It allows multiple layers including green screen and clip import from a variety of sources and clip trimming-sophisticated but simple S-Mash is the hot new media creation and syndication application for the entertainment and advertising industries.

THE NIGHTINGALE COMPANY
www.thenightingalecompany.com  

The Nightingale Company is a television production company making headway in innovative forms of online entertainment. Specifically alternate reality gaming and video series.

What you'll play with:

'DO YOU BELIEVE ME' is a cross-platform, interactive story experience. One part online video series, one part alternate reality game. It's primary audience is teenaged users, but ICE08 delegates will be the first to try it out!

OMNIG SOFTWARE INC.
www.omnigsoft.com

OmniGSoft has been in mobile gaming business for 6 years and have 15 games released to worldwide market, especially to North America and Europe. Their products present top-notch quality and game playability; the technology they used in game development pushed the processing power of mobile devices to their limit. OmniGSoft’s games have been selected by Intel, nVidia, Imaginations Technologies to showcase the graphics rendering capability of their hardware graphics accelerators. 

What you'll play with:

A whole line-up of fun mobile games!
(1) 3D Snow Rally Canada and 3D Snow Rally City Stage for Windows Mobile and Java ME phones (produced with the assistance of Ontario Media Development Corporation and with the financial participation of Telefilm Canada.) Snow Rally Canada is a straightforward wild country rallying game featuring imaginary country rally courses based on splendid Canadian landscape from coast to coast. Snow Rally City Stage is a solid city racing game with the best 3D graphics on mobile and handheld devices offering breathtaking gaming experience and gorgeous city scenery.

(2) 3D Super-G Stunt for Windows Mobile phones. Super-G Stunt is a flight action game that takes you on a breathtaking aerobatic race through fun-filled fantasy environments! Players can choose from a variety of sports biplanes and environments. During each flight the player will maneuver the sports plane through many floating sky gates in an attempt to achieve both the shortest time and the best performance. Each fantasy game level and sky gate layout is elaborate in design to challenge the player’s concentration, accuracy and response. Get into the cockpit and show off your unbeatable stunts!

SPONGELAB INTERACTIVE

www.genomicsdigitallab.com 

Spongelab Interactive strives to inspire a generation of learners passionate about the world around them. In their immersive learning approach, they employ unique educational strategies, using 3D environments and game-based learning.

What you'll play with:

Genomics Digital Lab: Plant Cells is a game and an educational tool. It is one of the very few Canadian products that is designed and built to help bring games into the educational space and is currently being used in over 15 countries.  Your mission in this interactive game is to save the dying plant! Inside the lab you will be able to alter the environment (air, light & soil), and venture within the three main organelles to figure out the best conditions needed for our plant to survive and thrive. Good luck!

ABOUT THE ICE 2008 DIGITAL PRODUCT SHOWCASE

The ICE 2008 Ontario Product Showcase features 6 innovative recently, or soon-to-be-released, Ontario products on all platforms that will engage the entrepreneurs, executives and innovators attending ICE.

Companies selected for the Product Showcase are provided with floor space in the ICE Exhibit Hall free of charge.

This is a chance for ICE participants to interact with cool products - and HAVE FUN!

It's in the Grand Foyer, which means right in the middle of the conference, so you can't miss it!

The ICE 2008 Product Showcase is presented with the support of the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC).