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Warner Bros. Animation and Mochi Media Announce Winners of Developer Contest to Create New Flash Games as Promotional Brand Extensions for Animated Series "Batman: The Brave and the Bold"
First Prize Winner -- WeirdBeard's "Batman: Gotham Rush" -- and Seven Other Games to Be Showcased on DCBeyond.com
| Source: Mochi Media
BURBANK, CA and SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - August 12, 2009) - Warner Bros. Animation
and Mochi Media, in association
with DC Comics, today announced the winners of a developer casting call
seeking submissions for a new Flash game to be created as a promotional
brand extension for Warner Bros. Animation's hit animated series "Batman:
The Brave and the Bold" (www.braveandthebold.com), in advance of its second
season premiere this fall on Cartoon Network.
The contest's top winner -- "Batman: Gotham Rush," from developer
WeirdBeard -- is now available for fans to play on DCBeyond.com, the DC Super Heroes
destination within KidsWB.com, Warner
Bros. Television Group's premium, ad-supported destination built around an
immersive entertainment experience.
The casting call announced in March gave developers from around the world
the opportunity to design and develop unique games themed around the
"Batman: The Brave and the Bold" animated series, which is based on the
classic DC Super Hero. Developers were invited to submit their unique game
design ideas, mockups and portfolios to Warner Bros. Animation and Mochi
Media for evaluation by experts from the two companies, as well as DC
Comics. From these submissions, 10 finalists were selected to develop their
game idea and have them evaluated by judges.
Seven additional games from the group of 10 finalists will roll out on
DCBeyond.com each week on Thursdays, through September 24.
"This contest really challenged our developer community to stretch their
creative muscles," said Justin Wong, Vice President of Business Development
at Mochi Media. "It was great to give them a blank canvas to create a fun
and original interpretation of familiar and well-liked characters. It's
evident by the diversity and quality of the games developed over just a few
months that the Flash games community is an extraordinary resource for
talent and innovation."
"We're very pleased with the results of this contest and the creativity
showed by all the developers who participated," said Sam Ades, Vice
President, Digital Animation, Warner Bros. Animation, and General Manager,
KidsWB.com. "Flash gaming is a wide-open market that's growing so fast, so
combining the reach that Flash games have with the creativity of Mochi
Media's development community and a beloved character like Batman is a
great opportunity for us to reach new audiences."
In addition to the first prize winner, the other nine finalists included
"Batman: The Rooftop Caper," from James Greb; "Game Over for Owl Man," from
Difference Games; "Batman: Countdown to Conflict," by MegaDev; "Plastic
Attack," from Will Hankinson; "Batman: Scarecrow's Revenge," by Let's
Design; "Batman: Bat Brawl!," by Michael Lapinski; "Batman: In the Heat of
the Night," by Liquid Interactive; "Batman: The New Recruit," by Mouse Hog;
and "Batman: Jumper," by Evil Rat Studios.
"Batman: Gotham Rush" can be found at
http://www.dcbeyond.com/batmangamecontest.
About Warner Bros. Animation
Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) has been producing award-winning original
animation since 1930, when it released its first cartoon, "Sinkin' in the
Bathtub." Since then, WBA's characters have set the standard for
innovative, quality animation. Producing for network and cable television,
online, home entertainment and feature films both domestically and
internationally, WBA is highly respected for its creative and technical
excellence, as well as for maintaining the Studio's rich cartoon heritage.
WBA also oversees the creative use and production of animated programming
based on classic animated characters from the Hanna-Barbera and DC Comics
libraries. WBA is one of the most-honored animation studios in history,
garnering a grand total of six Academy Awards®, 35 Emmy® Awards, the
George Foster Peabody Award, an Environmental Media Award, a Parents'
Choice Award, the HUMANITAS Prize, two Prism Awards and 20 Annie Awards.
About DC Comics
DC Comics, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, is the largest
English-language publisher of comics in the world and home to such iconic
characters as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the Sandman. These DC
Super Heroes and others have starred in comic books, movies, television
series (both animated and live-action) and cyberspace, thrilling audiences
of all ages for generations. DC Comics' web site is located at
www.dccomics.com.
About Mochi Media
Mochi Media is the world's largest casual online game network, serving the
needs of thousands of Flash developers, reaching over 100 million unique
users each month with a library of over 14,000 games, and enabling
advertisers to reach engaged consumers with targeted display, text, and
video ads. The company's Flash game development products and services
provide developers with tools to track distribution and usage analytics,
enable version control and live updates to distributed games, and provide
monetization via micro-transactions and real-time insertion of pre-game and
in-game ads. Mochi Media's developers gain distribution opportunities to
over 30,000 Web sites, as well as monetization opportunities by sharing in
the ad and micro-transaction revenue generated by their games. Mochi Media
is headquartered in downtown San Francisco.