Anino Mobile receives sponsorship for game convention

By Alex Villafania, hackenslash Reporter INQUIRER.net PHILIPPINE mobile game developer Anino Mobile recently became one of the only five companies to be sponsored for the upcoming Game Connection Europe (), a business networking event for the video game industry. Anino Mobile was accepted into Game Connection's Level Up program (not to be confused with the Philippine online game publisher Level Up!), which aims to help promising developers from different countries meet up with other game developers, publishers, distributors, investors and other entrepreneurs in the video game business. In an interview, Anino Games director for Business Development Jeremiah Chow said the event will help bring the company closer to its goal of becoming a premier game development studio in Southeast Asia. Chow, who will be the only one attending the event in behalf of Anino Mobile, will focus on looking for publishers for their games, introducing their company to other publishers and other developers, and discussing trends in the game development business. Anino Mobile, which is a subsidiary of game development firm Anino Entertainment, will be joined by four game companies from the US, France and Croatia. These are AGE Studio, Arkedo, Big Rooster and Ocean Media LLC. About 40 companies from 17 countries applied for the Level Up program, which was implemented only this year. The five winning companies will receive free access to all the forums during the three-day event. The attendance fee for the event is valued at 3,000 euros (P190,000). The winners will still pay for their airfare and hotel accommodation. This is the first time that the Philippines will be represented in the Game Connection convention. The event will be held in Lyon, France from Dec. 4 to 6 and will be attended by developers from at least 35 countries.