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Secret Location took home two awards at the Digi Awards, Canada’s premier showcase for the digital media industry.
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Film, television and web series now have an easy and inexpensive way to create an engaging, robust marketing page on Facebook with the launch of FanViewr from Secret Location.
GreenHAT Digital interactive clients Secret Location and iThentic/3′oclock.tv are at the Banff World Media Festival, the annual meeting of television and digital media professionals.
Team Human has reigned victorious, winning by more than 800,000 points over their fanged opponents in the stereoscopic 3D online game, Humans VS Vampires. A fast and fun spin on classic arcade games Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, Humans VS Vampires is the companion game to the TV series, My Babysitter’s a Vampire.
Congratulations to James, Pietro, Ryan, CJ and the entire team at Secret Location for winning a Digital Emmy® Award for Endgame Interactive: Facebook Episode. The award was presented by Bruce L. Paisner, President & CEO of The International Academy to Secret Location’s President and Executive Producer James Milward at MIPTV’s opening night festivities in Cannes, France.
Toronto interactive agency, Secret Location, has a new website — a showcase for all those awards and nominations it keep collecting, including the most recent, an International Digital Emmy® Nomination for the “choose your own adventure” mystery, ENDGAME INTERACTIVE.
KING CASE FILES is a polished docu-trailer video series developed by Secret Location for the crime drama, King. The series delivers first-hand accounts of the criminal worlds that homicide detective, Jessica King (Amy Price-Francis), and her team infiltrate, providing context to the cases and building interest in advance of upcoming episodes on Showcase.
Fun, fangs and fights await fans of the tween TV series My Babysitter’s a Vampire! with the launch of Humans VS Vampires, an action-packed 3D online game.
Developed by Secret Location, Humans VS Vampires pits the show’s human characters against their blood-sucking counterparts in an arcade-style duel that ends with the winning side deciding the Season 1 finale.
The game launches in advance of the Canadian premiere of My Babysitter’s a Vampire!, January 5, 2012, on TELETOON. Season 1 has already aired on Disney Channel (US, UK & Ireland, Germany).
Humans VS Vampires is a modern, fast and fun spin on the classic arcade games Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. Players decide whether they want to be one of the good guys (humans) or if theyʼd rather join the dark side (vampires).
In the best two out of three rounds between one human and one vampire character, players rack up points for their collective team. The team with the most points determines which of two endings will air when the season concludes.
The game uses stereoscopic 3D technology and features photorealistic game avatars, modeled from videos of the actual TV series actors. Players can switch from 3D back to 2D instantly, as they battle it out against fantastical backgrounds painted to look like settings from the show.
Each avatar has nearly 30 battle moves controlled using the computer keyboard, including three special moves unique to each character. Multiplayer functionality is included and players can send invite codes to their friend by IM, text, or email to play live remotely.
Since its soft launch in October, Humans VS Vampires has reached 1.5 million page views with over 1 million points scored. Humans are currently leading the challenge by 24,000 points.
My Babysitter’s a Vampire! is a special effects enhanced live-action adventure comedy for tweens. It follows the heroics of three geeky, sci-fi loving best friends and their smoking hot vampire babysitter as they defend their town against an avalanche of scary supernatural phenomena.
Downloads:
Humans VS Vampires screen grabs (JPEG, 2MB Zip)
Links:
Website & game: http://www.mybabysittersavampire.com
Official Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/248513655196077/
Trailer: http://youtu.be/efqZfvphqkU
A Flash website and 3D game developed by Secret Location for the YTV series In Real Life has been shortlisted as a finalist in the 2012 KidScreen Awards in the Best Tweens/Teens Companion Website category.
The website has received over 5.1 million views since it first launched in October 2010. “Race to the Finish”, the site’s standalone game, is among the top three of YTV.com’s most played games.
Anyone can play the game as a “visitor” to the site, but kids can also sign-in and choose to “partner” with one of the on-air competitors. The points they earn during the game are put towards bringing back an on-air competitor for one final webisode challenge. Two of the top 50 fan players on the leader board are also brought back to compete with the two top challengers in the webisode. Additionally, kids can build their own customized levels on the site for others to play, comment on and “like.”
For the current season, In Real Life: Race to the Finish was developed into an iOS mobile game app, playable on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. By playing the mobile and website game, users help affect the outcome of a final exclusive webisode, which launches on the web, December 12, 2012 and airs on YTV December 29, 2012 at 11 PM ET/PT.
In Real Life follows 18 young competitors as they compete against one another in a series of real-life “jobs” for the chance to win a grand cash prize and a trip to the Caribbean.
The Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund has awarded $3.35 million to 27 applicants in production, low-budget production, development and professional development project categories.
The latest round of funding was announced yesterday.
Projects and productions include: Eat St., Mr. Young, Time Tremors, The Listener, Canada’s Smartest Person, Cross Country Fun Hunt, Vivi, Rock tes bas, The Guide and King.
Forty percent of the funded projects are kids and youth-targeted, forty percent are documentaries and twenty percent are geared to adults.
Three GreenHAT clients qualified for funding, including Smiley Guy Productions (Canada’s Smartest Person), iThentic (Real Therapy Interactive) and Secret Location (King and Groj Band).
Full list can be viewed at the Bell Fund Website.
