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The Microsoft future talent competition, also called IMAGINE CUP, has been won!! The Austrian team Zeppelin Studio captured the gold medal in the Games category.
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Game Schein takes gold
In the Games category, an Austrian team from Zeppelin Studio was in the running with the game Schein and was hoping for a spot on the winner’s rostrum. The four-member team was competing with five other teams in its category – and came out on top. The game took gold, edging out Indonesia (second place) and France (third place). The Austrians took home not only the medal, but also USD 50,000 in prize money. The award was presented by Tetris inventor Alexey Pajitnov.
The game Schein is about the myth of the will-o’-the-wisp. The will-o’-the-wisp sends the protagonist, a sad young man who has lost his son, on a fantastic journey. The game was originally designed for Windows with a total of twelve levels that would take between four and eight hours to complete. The designers are considering porting the game to Android consoles, as well.
Schein is to be officially launched at the end of the summer. After the Imagine Cup, the startup now wants to look for funding and then also find private investors. Schein is a platform game in which the player must solve puzzles, and is intended for players about 25 or older.
Wanna play the game? Play it here: http://shinegame.com/
The Microsoft Imagine Cup is part of the YouthSpark Initiative and was held for the eleventh time this year; the finals are hosted in a different city every year. The Imagine Cup will be hosted in Seattle next year, the first time that the event is coming to the city.
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