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Whore of the Orient game to get $200,000

Eleven digital companies have been given a share of $879,379 in public funding, including one game called “Whore of the Orient” which will be produced by KMM Interactive Productions.

KMM Interactive Productions, a partnership between L.A Noir producers Team Bondi and Kennedy Miller Mitchell, was given $200,000 as part of the NSW Government’s Interactive Media Fund.

Other projects to be given funding include games companies looking to improve business strategy, and others creating games and apps for mobile devices.

The funds were distributed by Screen NSW.

The latest funding has been provided to the following companies and projects:

  • $200,000 to KMM Interactive Productions – a partnership between Team Bondi which created the internationally-acclaimed game LA Noire and Kennedy Miller Mitchell which developed some of NSW’s most successful screen productions including the Mad Max films and Happy Feet 1 & 2 – to help develop Whore of the Orient, an open world crime drama set in 1930’s Shanghai for next-generation video game consoles.
  • $150,000 in enterprise funding each for Wasabi Productions and Nnooo to grow their businesses and develop projects across web, console and mobile games, including original children’s storytelling for touch screen technology.
  • Soap Creative ($45,000), Bubble Gum Interactive ($10,000) and Epiphany Games ($15,000) to engage high-level business and marketing expertise to enrich their business strategies.
  • $15,000 to Garoo Games to develop the mobile game Trainology, a multi-dimensional game in which players guide a train from one city to another through a challenging and beautiful landscape.
  • $161,928 to Elevator Entertainment for Habitat The Game, a web-based game that is part of a wider transmedia project to teach children and tweens about environmental sustainability through gameplay.
  • $30,451 to Intuitive Games Studios for Canonical Five, a thrilling interactive detective game.
  • $12,000 to Creative Nonfiction for mobile game Cockatoo Island Ghost Story, a geo-locative story app for smart phones that will lead users through a non-linear, dramatic story on the island’s history and local folklore.
  • $85,000 to Frosch Media for Touch Skate, a skateboarding game for mobile devices set inside famous real-world street courses and skate parks.
  • $5,000 to Blowfish Studios to attend the Games Development Conference in San Francisco held 27 – 29 March.
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