“The GameCity Prize seeks to celebrate, explore and include video games as an important part of the mainstream cultural conversation. It seems like everybody’s playing, it’s time to get everybody talking.”

Looks like ilomilo has been nominated for the Gamecity prize award organized by the organizers behind “Gamecity festival”. Among other nominated games are titles such as “Portal 2″, “Minecraft”, and “Limbo”, which are all fantastic titles, making this really exciting for us.

Here’s a list of articles mentioning the prize.

Gamasutra

The guardian

Nintendolife

Wired

Digitalspy

ilo and milo

Great news everyone! ilomilo for Windows Phone has been nominated in the category “Excellence in Design” by imgawards (International Mobile Gaming Awards).

Fingers crossed! We just might win a neat prize and make our mothers proud!

Skipp from the Netherlands sent us a picture of those sweet looking ilomilos his girlfriend made.

Randy Bateman made this Milo out of clay. Neat!

One of the greatest things about doing something creative is to see what others think of it. It took a while, but here’s a nice list of ilomilo reviews:

Worth noting is that this is our highest rated game ever with a current 81 on Metacritic! :O

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1UP 10/10

“It’s an ingenious puzzle game that’s sure to challenge and please every type of gamer and comes highly recommended from this author.”

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IGN 8/10

“If you’re a fan of visual logic puzzles, definitely check it out. Not only will your brain get a workout, but the slightly-out-of-tune-elementary-school-band soundtrack is a delight and the whole package has a sense of humor that will have you grinning.”

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Eurogamer 9/10

“It’s perhaps the most beautiful puzzle game you’ve ever seen, and an astonishingly rich world for an 800-point downloadable game.”

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Also, Eurogamer made ilomilo “game of the week”, horray!

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Destructoid 8/10

“It’s one of those games that makes you nod in appreciation over how well the developers thought each challenge through. “

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The Sixthaxis 9/10

“Some sublime puzzles, coupled with a striking visual style, should shoot this game to the top of wishlists of anyone with even a passing interest in the genre.”

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Gamespot 7.5/10

“The hardest aspect of Ilomilo is pulling yourself away once you’ve become invested in this simple tale.”

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Digitalspy 4/5

“Overall, ilomilo is a beautifully presented and well designed Xbox Live Arcade game that is a joy to play from start to finish.”

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XBOX666

“El juego viene acompañado de una exquisita puesta en escena tanto visual como musical que nos envolverá en la tierna historia de estos dos simpáticos personajes.”
(Roughly translated: The game comes with an exquisite presentation both visually and musically that is wrapped in the tender story of two likeable characters.)

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Strike Games 9/10

“Sin duda una magnífica elección para los amantes de los rompecabezas y para todos aquellos que quieran estrenar el año nuevo con una sonrisa.”
(Roughly translated: Without doubt a great choice for puzzle lovers and anyone who wants to begin the new year with a smile.)

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Game Reactor 8/10

“Trotzdem ist Ilomilo ein kleines Juwel für Puzzlefans, egal von welcher der sechs Seiten aus man es betrachtet.”
(Roughly translated: Nevertheless, ilomilo is a little jewel for puzzle fans, no matter which of the six sides you look at it from)

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The Original Gathering

“ilomilo is a very enjoyable and carefree title with a little something for everyone.”

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pnosker

“Every now and again an independent game comes along that totally reshapes your perceptions of what video games are capable of.”

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Sticktwiddlers 8/10

“Overall, ilomilo is one of the best multi-dimensional and visually delightful puzzlers out there on XBLA.”

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SFX-360 4.3/5

“The graphics look astonishing and will often make some of its gamers stop mid-game to appreciate the scenes and layout of the level.”

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Girl gamers 9/10

“ilomilo offers dreamy, puzzle solving fun that proves real friendship can overcome any obstacle.”

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TQ cast 4/5

“This game will be fun for people of all ages and gamers of all types.”

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The Married Gamers

“ilomilo is by far one of the best games on the XBLA that I have played and in the gaming release lull this holiday season it had me coming back to my 360 over and over again.”

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The Gaming Liberty 8/10

“And so here we have a wonderful Scandinavian storybook video game, that will treat you kindly should you put down your guns, grab a good friend and pick up your knitting needles!”

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Since ilomilo has been released and everything, here’s the official release trailer.

Enjoy!

Happy new year everybody!

We’re back from the holidays, and ready for another year filled with whatever it may bring us. Oh and check your calendar because tomorrow it’s ilomilo time! That’s right, ilomilo is being officially released on Xbox Live Arcade! No more codes, no more sneaky sneak, nope, right there for you to download! How about that?

WPcentral has written a nice review of ilomilo WP7 and it got a nice 8.5 in score! We are humbly proud over the result. Like a Buddhist monk who just won the lottery.

While you could be disappointed at how quickly it’s over you may only reach that conclusion after realizing you couldn’t put Ilomilo down.
- WP central

Our friends over at Simogo here in Malmö have just announced their first game “Kosmo Spin”, a nifty game about space, toast, footballs and alien invaders.

Why not head over there and check it out? Their site is really cool and I heard visitors get free muffins!

On the bright side we currently have 983 members on our Facebook-page! We’re getting closer to the magic number folks!