Animentals is a cross-platform videogame created by Foof Productions and Fluid Pixel from Gateshead.
It’s impressed Nokia and Adobe who added their funds to the £65, 000 additional funding from North East Finance and Gateshead Council. They claim it’s the first videogame that moves seamlessly from gamers' mobile phones to their PCs and back again.
The game involves rehabilitating insane cyberpets nursing them back to health.
The concept of the game is simple, claims says Fluid Pixel's founder Stuart Varrall. “Cyberspace is filling up with glitched-out cyberpets that have been abandoned by their previous owners. Broken, and often having behavioural problems, these Animentals are rescued and given sanctuary by the eccentric Dr Foof in his clinic,” he says.
By downloading your chosen Animental to your phone, you can nurse it back to full health, rehabilitate it and release it back into a safe and suitable environment.
Animentals isn’t just a mobile game, plans are currently underway for a full online virtual world, the Asylum where players can interact real time with other carers from around the world. Scripts have also been written for a animated series expanding on this world with the intention to begin production next year.
Fluid Pixel specialises in developing games and applications for mobile devices. Previous games include Revolve and KamiCrazy, which was downloaded more than 600,000 times from iTunes earlier this year.
The first instalment of Animentals is available to download from the Nokia Ovi store for £3 and the beginnings of the online world at the animentals.com website.