Youdagames receives top honor at second annual Gamehouse Great Game Awards!July 21, 10
Dutch based online game company, Youdagames, was awarded for their creativity, ingenuity and quality games at the 2010 Gamehouse Great Game Awards. Hilversum, July 20, 2010 – Dutch based online game company, Youdagames, was awarded for their creativity, ingenuity and quality games at the 2010 Gamehouse Great Game Awards. In receiving acclaim for “Up-and-Coming Developer” (Youda Farmer, Youda Marina and Youda Sushi Chef), Youdagames is now acknowledged professionally for its game development success. Games developer and publisher, Youdagames, was awarded as Up-and-Coming Developer for three titles released in 2009, Youda Farmer, Youda Marina and Youda Sushi Chef. GameHouse®, a division of RealNetworks®, Inc., announced the winners for the second annual GameHouse Great Game Awards™ (GG's) during an exclusive event held last night at Experience Music Project in Seattle. The judging panel included representatives from leading independent developers across the casual games industry. GameHouse introduced the GG's in 2009 as a way to showcase the most talented and creative casual games developers in the industry. “Of course recognition from our players is of main importance, but being awarded for our creativity and innovation by such a partner as GameHouse adds to the enjoyment of being a Casual Game developer. It’s good to see that the hard work of our talented employees pays off,” says Jurriaan van Teunenbroek, COO at Youdagames. "The key to the casual games industry's booming success is the creativity of game developers who are devoted to bringing fun games to players everywhere," said John Barbour, president of GameHouse. "We're honored to work with talented developers from all over the world, and the winners of this year's Great Game Awards represent the top talent in the business. Youda Farmer With the release of Youda Farmer in January 2009 I Sioux Game Productions was fully accepted as casual game developer within the casual games industry. The game was released on almost every casual game platform and turned out to be very successful. As a result Youda Farmer 2 will be released in the summer of 2010. In Youda Farmer you have to run your farm, grow your crops and provide all shops with the supplies they need. It’s up to you to keep all retailers in this little village happy with your beautiful farm products. Numerous combo’s, upgrades and specials and beautiful design make Youda Farmer very addictive and a lot of fun to play. Youda Marina Youda Marina was released in May 2009. The game shows a wonderful mix of simulation and time management elements. In this game you have to manage your own harbor ‘Marina’. Your goal is to either focus on creating an efficient working harbor or produce the most beautiful marina in the world! Small goals need to be achieved in order to reach your major final goal. Youda Marina brings together all the creativity of landscape design with some great management action. Youda Sushi Chef Youda Sushi Chef was developed in corporation with the world’s biggest online game website, Miniclip.com. Following their highly successful free to play online game, Sushi-Go-Round, Miniclip has licensed the rights to Youdagames to develop the sequel to the game that will play both online and will also have a premium PC version available for download. This game was released in July 2009. Your main goal is to keep your customers happy and serve them the right dishes in time to reach your daily target. You really have to rely on your memory skills. The game consists of six beautifully designed restaurants, a great choice of different sushi recipes, lots of bonuses, combo’s and upgrades. Youda Sushi Chef outshines by beautiful design and a challenging game play. Governor of Poker 2July 21, 10
Meet and play against colourful, funny characters in Wild West based, Governor of Poker 2 Meet and play against colourful, funny characters in Wild West based, Governor of Poker 2 Hull, UK/ Youda Games are proud to announce the worldwide release of Governor of Poker 2, the anticipated sequel to 2008's unique, award winning Governor of Poker – the world's only casual poker game.
Youda Games have finally unleashed Governor of Poker 2, packed with a full tilt of exciting features. This is both a Wild West and poker game like no other, challenging players to conquer cities, meet and defeat colourful opponents, take on challenges and prove once and for all that this Governor is not be trifled with - all while learning and using the core principles of Texas Hold 'Em, one of the world's most popular and fastest growing games.
The first and only casual poker game suitable for the whole family, 2008's Governor of Poker wowed the critics and was a huge commercial success, winning the recognition of “Best Online Game” at the Dutch Game Awards. The 2009 iPhone version was also a smash hit, securing the coveted #1 spot on the Apple App charts.
Governor of Poker 2 picks up where the original ended, only this time a new Dallas government has entered the Wild West and put a ban on all poker games. What's worse..you have lost your coveted “Governor of Poker” crown because of it! It's up to you to fight the ban and convince the minister of the Texas gambling committee that poker is all about skills.
Your mission will take you across 19 saloon-filled cities and 27 poker-playing locations, coming face-to-face with a huge variety of smart, funny characters in poker tournaments, learning how to best judge their moves thanks to all-new player emotions; including steamy, nervous and on fire!
You'll travel the in-game world using train, river casino boat or stage coach, even indulging in a game while on the move. Taking advantage of each city will reap huge rewards, from getting loans from the local banks, to securing special locations like oilfields and mines. You can even purchase new, outlandish hats to gain entry to different tournaments - or arrange your very own poker tournaments for others to join.
Professional and non-poker players alike will find a full house of reasons to enjoy Governor of Poker 2, thanks to a slick poker-tutorial, renewed poker engine and intuitive opponent AI. Governor of Poker 2 offers: -A whole new Wild West story -19 cities and 27 poker locations to play -Large tournaments with up to 120
players in lots of new places -A renewed poker engine -More variety in opponents -A poker tutorial -Dozens of new hats
to show off -Options to organize your own tournaments -Lots
of new achievements and awards -Unique interactive wallpaper
(Windows) and downloadable theme music -An exciting challenge to reclaim the title of Governor
The premium version of Governor of Poker 2 is available now, just $19.95 from the official Youda Games website - http://www.youdagames.com/Governor-of-Poker-2-game-info-4817
Governor of Poker 2 is also available on major game portals: Boonty, iWin and Shockwave; and will be available across all gaming websites, such as Gamehouse, Miniclip and Addicitinggames next week with an online version.
From next month, you will also be able to purchase a basic version for $9.95, which comes without the unique wallpapers and downloadable theme music, and features shorter gameplay than the premium release.
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Youdagames nominated for Gamehouse Great Game AwardsJuly 05, 10
Youdagames, is nominated with three of its games for the 2nd annual
GameHouse Great Game Awards. In the Up-and-Coming Developer category,
Youdagames has been nominated for its recent releases Youda Farmer,
Youda Sushi Chef and Youda Marina.
The GameHouse Great Game Awards recognize creativity, innovation and commercial success of casual games released in 2009. The awards ceremony will occur July 19, prior to the Casual Connect 2010 conference in Seattle.
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Youdagames is very proud to be nominated for Up-and-Coming Developer based on three out of five games released in 2009. In this year the company has grown fast which resulted in some high quality casual games on different platforms and a lot more to come in 2010. With this nomination, the efforts made in 2009 are now also acknowledged by the industry, which is a great honor. “Of course recognition from the market itself is of main importance, but being nominated for our creativity and innovation by such a good partner as GameHouse adds to the enjoyment of being a Casual Game developer. It is good to see that the hard work of our talented employees pays off,” says Jurriaan van Teunenbroek, COO at Youdagames. “All of these games are special to us for various reasons, I like to believe that they are all unique. In particular, Youda Marina’s inclusion in the nomination is a big compliment for our Macedonian Studio, that developed this unique game on its own strength,” adds Horst Streck, CEO at Youdagames With the Great Game Awards, also called the GG’s, GameHouse celebrates innovation and creativity across the casual games industry. The awards recognize casual game developer partners for their contributions to the industry. In July 2009, the first GG’s were organized with 14 winners across a range of categories. This year again the company recognizes both the craftsmanship and the commercial success of games released in 2009. 'Best of Craft' award nominees will be voted on by a panel of representatives from leading independent developers across the casual games industry, while 'Best of Genre' awards will be based on sales performance on the GameHouse network. This year, GameHouse is also launching a new category, Player’s Choice – Game of the Year, with voting now open at www.GameHouse.com/promotions. Release of Youda SafariMay 03, 10
YOUDAGAMES RELEASES NEW TIME MANAGEMENT GAME: YOUDA SAFARI YOUDAGAMES RELEASES NEW TIME MANAGEMENT GAME: YOUDA SAFARIHilversum, April 29, 2010 – Youdagames announces the release of a new time management game: Youda Safari. The game has been exclusively released on Youdagames.com and will be available for partners from may 14th 2010.Youda Safari is the third Youda game released in 2010. The game shows all of Youdagames’ skills to develop high quality time management games. An original concept with fun graphics, lots of challenges, nice unique features and very addictive game play, will keep all time management game lovers busy for hours! In Youda Safari your goal is to give all the tourists a once in their lifetime holiday experience! Guide your visitors past crazy monkeys, rebellious rhinos and hilarious hippos, mind the lions in the way and look for many more wicked wildlife animals in this lovely game park game! You are in charge of the safari parks all over the world. It’s up to you to take care of these wildlife enthusiasts and eager safari tourists and give them a holiday experience they will never forget! Choose the best photo moments, find these special rare and shy animals and upgrade your parks with new vehicles, bigger tourist facilities, restaurants and other services. Provide your guests with the best guidance tour and the best wildlife adventure they could wish for! Finally a new time management game again! Challenge yourself in this very charming and highly addictive time management game. It offers you funny cartoon animals, great fun and excitement and challenging game play. Experience the beautiful wildlife parks all around the globe and make sure all visitors enjoy it as much as you do! Youda Safari offers 6 safari parks with 10 levels each, lots of upgrades, strategic decision making and great action, a great mix of fast paced action and great fun, nice surprises and miraculous moments, beautiful scenery, funny, charming and enjoyable animals and above all… a challenging wild adventure! Want to try the game? Click here Want to download artwork? Click here Release of Youda FairyMarch 16, 10
YOUDAGAMES RELEASES NEW TIME MANAGEMENT GAME: YOUDA FAIRY YOUDAGAMES RELEASES NEW TIME MANAGEMENT GAME: YOUDA FAIRYHilversum, February 18, 2010 – Youdagames announces the release of a new time management game: Youda Fairy. The game has been exclusively released on Youdagames.com and will be available for worldwide release on February 25th. Youda Fairy is the second game of Youdagames released in 2010. With the last two games being hidden object games, it was time to have a new time management game. Youda Fairy brings a new refreshing game play and is absolutely different from other time management games released in the last couple of months. The wise old forest wizard has provided a watchful eye over the kingdom for over 1000 years. Together with his fairies he has been protecting the innocent villagers from the strange and dark forces controlled by the evil witch. This epic battle between the forces of good and evil is as old as time itself, yet now the kingdom is danger. The Forest Wizard must leave the kingdom and he is now seeking a replacement. He wants you to become the new forest wizard and guard the kingdom against the wicked enchantments and spells of the evil witch. "deep within the forest there are enchanted animals and evil spells..."The forest wizard relies on fairies to help guard the kingdom and to begin your new life, you must first learn how to create them in the magical pond. Using lilies, fireflies and a bit of special magic you will create the special fairies and learn to send them to protect the villager’s houses. The old wizard will also teach you the secrets of wizardry instructing you on the spells and potions you will need to defeat the dark forces. But beyond the magical pond the peaceful kingdom is not what is seems, deep within the forest there are enchanted animals and evil spells. The witch is a potent opponent who is willing to go to any lengths to battle with you for the reigns of the kingdom. She will make the animals eat your fireflies and cast spells over the villager’s houses which you will have to learn how to break. You will need to use all of your wisdom and powerful spells you have learnt from the forest wizard to help you on your quest. Prove you are a worthy opponent of the evil witch and defeat her to become the new forest wizard. About Youdagames Youdagames is the publishers brand of Dutch casual game developer I Sioux Game Productions. The company has been developing games since 2003 and has a full focus on casual games since 2006. All games are published on the own game portal www.youdagames.com and the games can also be found on most important (casual) game websites worldwide. Youdagames focuses on a high quality standard with an original game play and high-end 3D design. The portfolio now states 17 download games and one iPhone game in total. For 2010 a couple of games are already in development, including games for Nintendo DS and iPhone. This year Youdagames is aiming at releasing one game a month. More information: | |||||||||||||||
