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Zodal Develops Anika Odyssey Game for Trickysheep Publishing

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

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Today New Zealand game publisher Trickysheep Publishing released Zodal’s latest adventure game called “Anika’s Odyssey – Land of the Taniwha”.

Anika’s Odyssey is a magical adventure deep into a lush and enchanted land. Be Anika Greenfield and break through reality, to enter a mystical world inspired by Aotearoa, New Zealand. Throughout the adventure, Anika meets wild and curious creatures and exotic Taniwha spirits (New Zealand Maori word for spirits, pronounced ‘tah-nee-fah’) that inhabit this wondrous wilderness.

The game is an enchanting point and click adventure puzzle game, full of a myriad of surprises and charm. Help Anika Greenfield explore her colorful landscape as she searches to reclaim her beloved friend.

Anikas Odyssey is a free web game and was released on the internet today and launched through the USA Game portal Kongregate, “the YouTube of Online Gaming”. Kongregate a gaming and social networking website allows its members to chat while playing games and post comments about the games while bookmarking their favorites and rating the digital content.

In the first day alone the Anikas Odyssey – Land of the Taniwha has been played over 10,000 times, and fans are already demanding a sequel, with comments of praise and adoration being continually posted, such as this comment from a community member “superb game play, spot-on sound effects, nice puzzles, and much more make this an excellent game!”

As the game publisher Trickysheep hold the IP rights to the Anika’s Odyssey franchise and plan to release a sequel and a mobile portable version of the game in the first quarter of 2008. It is likely that Zodal, New Zealand’s Leading Adobe Flash Game and Mobile Game Digital Development Studio, will again be the assigned Game Developer for the follow up project. Trickysheep are reviewing considerations for game sponsorship opportunities. If you are interested in exclusive rights to the sequel please contact partners@trickysheep.co.nz

From the official Anikia Odyssey webpage here – you can link to the social networking sites and keep up with the community activities of Anika Greenfield with beautifully designed Anika pages on Bebo, MySpace and Facebook. To join the Anika Odyssey community and receive information updates go here.

Posted in Adobe, Adobe Flash, Chris Blair, Flash Games, Gaming, HOT, Interaction Design, Social Networking | 2 Comments »

Armageddon Pulp Expo – Art Prize

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

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Armageddon Pulp Expo is New Zealand’s leading expo for dedicated game, film and comic, animation fans. Earlier this year the expo came to Christchurch for the first time, and brought with it a huge buzz with special guest appearances by stars from Star Trek and Lord of the Rings to name afew.

International Comic, Film, & Animation Celebrities ( and Wrestling Stars of course) all turn out for what is the most fun on the planet, and it was true again for Auckland earlier this week, where the event is now 12 years old. The very first event was held in 1995 at the Avondale Raceway in Auckland, with no noted international special guests at all.

Auckland Pulp Expo Special guests this year included:
- Rodger Bumpass – Squidward Tentacles in SpongeBob Squarepants
- Billy West – Voice actor on Futurama, Ren and Stimpy and much more
- Amanda Connor – Power Girl – international comic artist
- Bruce Timm – Animation Legend

Special events run throughout the Armageddon expo to keep you on your toes – ranging from Streets Brain Freeze Ice-cream eating contests to Lazer tag and the infamous Art Contest.

Zodal are very pleased to announce that Tom Robinson, who leads Zodal’s game character development & character illustration has won the best art prize at Amageddon Pulp Expo Auckland 2007.

Tom is looking forward to enjoying his Nintendo DS prize, not to mention the honor of keeping in touch with some of the industries leading comic artists from the USA who formed the expert judging panel which chose Tom’s artwork, of what some may describe as “an eye ball on legs”, as the top piece of digital art at the Amageddon NZ Art Contest the year.

Keep an eye out for Zodal’s next online adventure game which is due to be released before Christmas 2007, the game features some of the most amazing creatures you have ever seen in Adobe Flash online gaming, all of which have been created specifically for the game by Tom and the Zodal team.

Posted in Adobe Flash, Animation-Art, Awards, Chris Blair, Flash Games, Gaming, New Zealand | 5 Comments »

Zodal Presents Live Adobe Webinar on Gaming

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

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There are already 400 people signed up for our Live Online Webinar on:
Mobile Gaming for Web2.0 & PSP.

If anyone is interested to learn how to take advantage of the new opportunities emerging in the casual game and mobile game markets you can sign up at Adobe here.

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We will be streaming over the “Adobe Live Connect” technology and the Webinar will cover best practices when designing games which require cross delivery; platforms such as for Web2.0, and mobile devices such as the PSP.

Adobe are organizing a raffle for a free Flash Professional CS3 Software or iRiver Clix (winners choice)

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The Webinar is free – Hope to see you there!
(unfortunately the Seminar time has been optimized for US timezone – so its an early start for us here in NZ: Thursday 27th morning 8.00am NZ time)

The Seminar Title is “Best Practices: Designing & Developing content for the Sony PSP using Adobe® Flash® software” and for US Pacific Time it will be live on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM US/Pacific.

Posted in Adobe, Adobe Flash, Chris Blair, Flash Games, Flash Lite, Gaming, Mobile, Mobile Games, Mobile-Devices, iPhone | 1 Comment »

New Adobe Dev Center Article From Zodal

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

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Today Zodal release a new Developer article titled Designing and developing Flash games for the Sony PSP cementing their position as one of the leading Flash and Flash Lite mobile development studios.

Zodal worked closely with Bill Perry who manages global developer relations for mobile and devices, and other key members of the Adobe Mobile and Devices team to develop a rich new article for Adobe’s Developer Center.

Since firmware update 2.70, Adobe Flash content has been viewable on Sony’s Playstation Portable (PSP) game console.

Like any device, the PSP has strengths, limitations, and unique quirks that game designers and developers need to understand before creating content for it.

Jeff Nusz, Zodal’s lead developer has created this clear step by step tutorial article to help stimulate new knowledge and wealth in the mobile and device Flash developer community. The article takes you through the boundaries of the PSP and looks at how to optimize your Flash programming techniques and graphic design approaches; with hints and tips coming from real life examples and techniques Zodal use as part of their inhouse game development process.

The article is targeted at Flash developers who have built games for desktop computers or mobile devices, and are interested in new opportunities developing for the PSP.

Posted in Adobe, Adobe Flash, Chris Blair, Flash Games, Flash Lite, Gadgets, Gaming, Innovation, Jeff Nusz, Mobile, Mobile Games, Mobile-Devices, Sony PSP, Trends | No Comments »

ADOBE Flexes & Apollo takes to the AIR

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Adobe® AIR™, formerly code-named Apollo, is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.

Adobe Labs also features articles that discuss how developers already using HTML, Javascript, CSS, Ajax, Flash, or Flex can start using Adobe AIR to build desktop-based rich Internet applications.

Thus now with the right technical specifics Flash Developers such as Zodal can deliver content and applications not just across devices such as Mobile Phones and the Internet but Build Rich Desktop applications for Mac and Windows computers.

The convergence of Rich Internet applications, better enabled with the new release of Adobe® Flex™ 3, which is a cross platform open source framework for creating rich Internet applications that run identically in all major browsers and operating systems, combined with Adobe AIR means there are some interesting niches and new markets to be captured at the intersections of these methodologies.

There is a great list of showcase apps built in the beta release of AIR – My personal favorites are TWITTER, yourminis.com and Finetune Desktop.

As a side also keep an eye our for the new Flash Player 9 now available and coming soon for Solaris too!

Posted in AIR, Adobe, Ajax, Apollo, Chris Blair, Desktop, Flash Games, Innovation, Web 2.0 | No Comments »

Numbers Tell Of A New Picture for The Mobile Future

Monday, May 21st, 2007

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Adobe have now shipped over 200 Million Flash-enabled devices. Adobe’s Flash Lite is fast being recognized as the most pervasive and cross device platform for developing Mobile Games and Rich Graphic Mobile content, giving end users a more engaging user experience.

Flash Lite is supported by Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Windows Mobile and all other leading handset and device manufacturers, so it is not surprising to find majority of consumers are now beginning to possess a mobile device which can support the exciting software and entertainment which Zodal develops.

Zodal’s latest games for MTV skateboard stars “Rob and Big” was developed for Flash enabled device the Sony PSP. Zodal are currently developing three new mobile games in Adobe Flash Lite from right here in New Zealand to be launched across the Flash Lite supported Nokia range of handsets.

All the supporting figures outlining the growth of Flash Lite for mobile devices can be found at Visionmobile, a think tank for mobile strategists. These facts are very interesting to our team here at Zodal, as we continue to develop premium Flash Lite mobile games for the international market with the original fun and excitement of our custom developed Zodal flash phone games leading the way for a more engaging mobile user experience.

Posted in Adobe, Adobe Flash, Flash Games, Flash Lite, Gaming, Mobile Games | No Comments »

Flash Lite programming for PSP

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

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Posted in Adobe, Adobe Flash, Chris Blair, Flash Games, Flash Lite, Gadgets, Gaming, HOT, Mobile Games | 2 Comments »

How to Install Rob And Big

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

Some people have been wondering how to install the new Rob and Big Black game Zodal has just developed for the DC Shoe skateboard stars.

You can find the game files here.

Its a great deal more fun playing the game on the Train or Bus on your PSP – so if you are having trouble getting the game onto your PSP then read these instructions here.

Enjoy!

Posted in Adobe Flash, Chris Blair, Flash Games, Flash Lite, Gadgets, Gaming, HOT, Music, New Zealand, Sony PSP | 5 Comments »

Rob and Big Game by Zodal

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

Zodal has created one of the first PSP Flash games integrated with a corporate brand.

The game is receiving good feedback. You can read some interesting feed back on Scott’s blog.

and also on these two blogs:
http://bloggy.kuneri.net/2007/02/02/in-the-crib-from-zodal/
http://www.scriptamanentgroup.net/byte/?p=146

The sound is also extremely funky – developed specially for the game by Sam Trevethic and Nick Robinson who form part of the well known new zealand drum and base band shapeshifter.

Check it out – its a really exciting game – and the Zodal team is very excited about this one !!

Posted in Adobe, Chris Blair, Flash Games, Flash Lite, Gaming, Music, Sony PSP | 3 Comments »

Zodal biggest Mobile Game development company in New Zealand

Friday, November 10th, 2006

Just caught up with Mario Wynands up in Wellington, at Sidhe Interactive. He’s a great guy and doing some very cool PlayStation games, specially their new title for Jackass MTV.

Its interesting to think however – Zodal is now New Zealand’s biggest Mobile Game Development Company, New Zealand’s Biggest Adobe Flash Lite Development Company, and New Zealand’s 4th Largest Game Development Company in general.
Worth a thought !

Posted in Adobe, Flash Games, Flash Lite, Mobile Games, New Zealand | No Comments »

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