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ilomilo nominated for Gamecity prize 2011!

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Gamecity prize

“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

ilomilo nominated by European Game Awards!

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

European game awards

As if it wasn’t great enough the sun is shining outside, it seems ilomilo has been nominated by “European games awards” in four, yes, FOUR categories! Oh gee jolly miss Molly!

“The European Games Award is the first award exclusively for European video and computer game developers, which lets professionals and gamers from all over Europe participate in the voting for the best games.”

The categories we are nominated in are *drumroll*:

“Best Gamedesign”
“Best Game world”
“Best Sound”
“Best Indie Game”

If you want to give us a hand, why don’t you head over to their site and vote for us?

ilomilo wins Nordic game award!

Monday, May 16th, 2011

Hello everyone! ilomilo was nominated in the category “Best children’s game” at Nordic game this year… and we WON! Horray! The team was on the scene to claim the prize and we got a neat plaque and some champagne to go with it. Oh, glorious day!

plaque
The artifact of glory

Southend int.
Jensen and the producers

Southend int.
Me (and Björn in the background)

Southend int.
First person view

ilomilo wins 3 pocket gamer awards!

Friday, March 4th, 2011

pga

ilomilo WP7 won three pocket gamer awards this year! One for “Best Casual/Puzzle Game”, one for “Most Innovative Game” and also the “Windows Phone 7 Game of the Year” award!

Oh, glorious day!

On a different note, I’m going on vacation for 3 weeks now, so the blog updates won’t be so frequent during that time. My colleague Daniel take over the blog-writing while I take some time in the sun.

See you around people! :)

ilomilo nominated for imgawards!

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

imga

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!

Daniel Olsén on indiegames.com!

Friday, December 17th, 2010

Daniel olsén

Daniel Olsén, the mastermind behind the music of ilomilo was recently interviewed by indiegames.com!

XBOXED review!

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

XBOXED

German gamesblog XBOXED reviewed ilomilo and gave it a stellar 9.5 rating and a “Recommended Arcade-Game”-Badge! Holy smokes!

“Thanks to the creative design and beautiful music, ilomilo is not just a game, but also a bit of art. Clearly, my new favorite arcade game!”
- XBOXED

ilomilo review in Game informer!

Monday, December 13th, 2010

Game informer

ilomilo has been reviewed in the latest issue of Game informer! Should you live in a place where you can buy it, then go ahead and do so!

Unfortunately we were unable to get our hands on a magazine ourselves since we live in Sweden, but based on the actual result, here’s a short version of how I imagine the review went!

“ilomilo! Daww! ^_^

Puzzly levels! @_@

Sebastian! Oh my! =D

Fun! Sweden!” \o/

Rating:

8.5

ilomilo announced as part of Games for the Holidays!

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

games for the holidays

Charming puzzle-platformer coming January 5th for 800 Microsoft Points.

December 2, 2010 (Malmö, Sweden) – Southend Interactive is happy to announce that ilomilo (ilomilo.com) is one of the up-coming titles for “Games for the Holidays”, a line-up of three Xbox LIVE Arcade games coming this holiday season. As a part of this trio, ilomilo will be released on January 5th 2011, at the price of 800 MS points.

In ilomilo, the two friends ilo and milo always seem to get separated from each other and it’s your task to help them reunite! It’s a world of cubes out there, where up is down and down is up. Some cubes are friendly and can be picked up, while others are more rebellious and walk about on their own accord. The two friends need to find ways to cooperate to be able to finally unite again!

You can also play ilomilo together with a special someone in cooperative mode. Cozy up on your couch with your friend, girlfriend, mom or someone else that you like and help guide each other through the puzzles! The journey of ilomilo will take you through four unique and twisted worlds filled with strange animals and cube-creatures.

Features
• Singleplayer Story taking you through 4 different environments in the world of ilomilo
• Cooperative Gameplay mode for two players, controlling one character each!
• Unlockable Raskulls and Keflings costumes for ilo and milo
• Two cool Avatar awards, including ilo and milo toys!
• Famous cameo characters from other games are hidden in the world for players to find
• Online Leaderboards: Compare online who has completed the levels in the cleverest way
• Unlockable mini game: Play the ingenious retro 2D mini game “ilomilo shuffle” with its own competitive leaderboard

The featured Games for the Holidays are ilomilo, A World of Keflings and Raskulls. All three games will feature their own unique cross title functionality, meaning if you’ve earned an achievement in more than one of these other games, you get a little extra something in each of the games! In ilomilo, you will be able to unlock awesome Raskulls and Keflings costumes for ilo and milo.

Together, these three games inspire creativity, competition, and collaboration and feature vibrant art styles, dynamic storylines, and unique gameplay for gamers of any level. This is the perfect collection of social and cooperative games to share on the couch with friends and family over the holidays. There’s no better way to spend the Microsoft Points you’ll receive this holiday than to purchase these three games!

About SouthEnd
Southend Interactive is a Swedish game development studio founded in 1998. Southend focuses on creating downloadable console games and games for next generation mobile platforms.

ilomilo in Game Informer

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

If you can get your hands on the latest issue (Volume XX * Number 11 * Issue 211) of Game Informer, you should buy it and read the ilomilo interview.

GameInformer