Five DTU students developed an app—Major League Wizardry—in
AppGarage DTU. The game went all the way to the final in a game competition held by
Global Mobile Internet Conference in Silicon Valley in November.
The project started back in January 2013 when Mikkel Lillelund and David Reeckmann (former Design and Innovation graduate from DTU) met Kristoffer la Cour, Phillip Morther Barth and Casper Paulsen—all DTU Software Technology students.
Based at AppGarage DTU, they formed the company—Game Made Studio—responsible for developing Major League Wizardry.
And the runner up is...
The competition was won by My Singing Monsters from Canada who have already developed over 100 games in the last 10-15 years. After the initial disappointment the magnitude and kudos of being voted runner up hit David Reeckmann: “Among the judges was the man behind the first Xbox and the guy who transformed Android Store into Google Play. One of the judges even told me he’d been rooting for us ever since he first saw the game. This was our first game ever. We’re a new start-up that qualified for the biggest mobile conference in Silicon Valley. We’d battled some of the giants of the games industry—and come second! That’s not half bad.”
Global Game Stars allows worthy mobile games the opportunity to connect with leading publishers, VCs and distributors in key markets worldwide. Global Game Stars is the Mobile Game Demo Contest with hundreds of contestants from around the world including 20 finalists will compete for prizes and a chance to pitch in front of 1,500+ professionals on the Thought Leader Stage at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC).