Over this past weekend, local game development company Touch Dimensions was featured in an article in TODAYonline. The key part of the report:
Microsoft has commissioned Touch Dimensions to create some 20 free casual entertainment applications that run on the Windows Mobile operating system. These range from a digital sketchpad to a Whack-A-Mole-type game that lets you smack mosquitoes to oblivion.
This piece of news has gotten a fair bit of coverage over the weekend, and been picked up by both WMExperts and WMPoweruser.com.
(Incidentally, is it just me or does it feel like nowadays every article that appears on WMExperts will also appear on WMPoweruser.com, and vice versa?)
The TODAYonline report further states:
Apart from Microsoft-commissioned apps, Touch Dimensions also has two of its own game titles available for free on the Windows Mobile Marketplace.
One of them, Autumn Dynasty, a war-based strategy game where you draw the attack paths for your armies with brush strokes, won the best student game award at last year’s Game Developers Conference in Shanghai, and was also one of the Microsoft Code 7 contest winners at last year’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. The game has already garnered 48,000 downloads.
Here at the Microsoft Innovation Centre, we are particularly proud of Touch Dimensions and all that they have accomplished so far. And we also had the pleasure to see them grow and develop over these past couple of years.
The two founders at Touch Dimensions started out as students under Microsoft’s DreamSpark program. Later on when they decided to join forces and venture out on their own, they became a startup under our BizSpark program.
To help local startups like Touch Dimensions to open doors and to be successful is the reason why we run programs like DreamSpark, BizSpark, and WebsiteSpark – programs that provide free software, support, and visibility of varying degrees to local software developers and innovators. And every time we read a story like theirs in the tech press or the local papers, we are happy in knowing that our programs are contributing (however much or little) to the local software economy here in Singapore.
We are all looking forward to great things from Touch Dimensions in the future. And if you haven’t seen their flagship game, Autumn Dynasty, you have to check out these videos:
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