MobileXtreme: Your Game, Your Mobile
Create your own mobile game and win cash prizes by joining MobileXtreme!
Okay, so you’re a huge gamer. But have you ever thought about making YOUR OWN GAME?
Here’s a chance to turn that idea into a real-world mobile game and have millions of gamers play it.
Join MobileXtreme! The Big Apps Competition, an idea competition to come up with the next big thing in mobile applications.
Now is your chance to bring your extreme ideas for innovative Java-based mobile apps to life! Show us you have what it takes to create mobile applications in any – or all! – of the competition categories:
Category 1: Games and Entertainment
- Entertainment, fun and games
Category 2: Enterprise and Productivity
- Enterprise and productivity solutions; applications that address business needs as well as home and work productivity needs of individuals
Category 3: Cause-oriented
- Cause-oriented applications, news and public service, applications that address needs of underserved and marginal sectors of society (ex: farmers, fishermen)
The competition is open to students, professionals, and 3rd-party developers who want to showcase original applications. The best entries will receive development support from IPVG, the parent company of E-Games, who will help turn the best ideas into full blown mobile games and applications, plus a chance to have their products launched commercially through IPVG and MegaMobile. Category winners will also receive a bonus cash prize of Php 50,000 each.
To kick off the competition and issue the official call for entries, a one-day free admission event dubbed as MobileXtreme! The Big Apps Competition – Opening Forum will be held on November 7, 2009 at the UP-AyalaLand TechnoHub Conference Room in Quezon City, from 1PM to 6 PM. Meet gaming and IT experts from Game Developers Association of the Philippines (GDAP), IPVG, MegaMobile, and Ayala Foundation and learn firsthand what the board of judges will be looking for in the entries and what the experts’ insights are on current and emerging mobile trends.
Everyone can go Xtreme! Even without joining the competition, you can still be part of MobileXtreme by joining the forums, voting for your favorite mobile games which will be uploaded in the portal, and taking part in on-going discussions on what’s hot and current in mobile applications. Members of the forum can link up with MobileXtreme Mentors and get advice on how to get your developer career going.
MobileXtreme! The Big Apps Competition is organized by IPVG and MegaMobile, in partnership with Ayala Foundation, Ayala Technology Business Incubator, and GlobeLabs. For more information, visit www.ayalatbi.org.
