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Zodal's New Adventure Game Anika's Odyssey Launched to Rave Reviews
21 November 2007
Today New Zealand game publisher Trickysheep Publishing released Zodal’s latest adventure game called “Anika’s Odyssey - Land of the Taniwha”.
Anika’s Odyssey is a magical adventure deep into a lush and enchanted land. Be Anika Greenfield and break through reality, to enter a mystical world inspired by Aotearoa, New Zealand. Throughout the adventure, Anika meets wild and curious creatures and exotic Taniwha spirits (New Zealand Maori word for spirits, pronounced ‘tah-nee-fah’) that inhabit this wondrous wilderness.
The game is an enchanting point and click adventure puzzle game, full of a myriad of surprises and charm. Help Anika Greenfield explore her colorful landscape as she searches to reclaim her beloved friend.
Anikas Odyssey is a free web game and was released on the internet today and launched through the USA Game portal Kongregate, “the YouTube of Online Gaming”. Kongregate a gaming and social networking website allows its members to chat while playing games and post comments about the games while bookmarking their favorites and rating the digital content.
In the first day alone the Anikas Odyssey - Land of the Taniwha has been played over 10,000 times, and fans are already demanding a sequel, with comments of praise and adoration being continually posted, such as this comment from a community member “superb game play, spot-on sound effects, nice puzzles, and much more make this an excellent game!”
Visit the official Anikas Odyssey page here.
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Zodal Finalists At TUANZ Mobile Innovation Awards
11 September 2007
TUANZ announced today that Zodal is a finalist in the Mobile Application of the Year Category at the TUANZ Innovation Awards 2007.
The team is very excited and we feel that this is a testament not only to our hard work, but also to all of you that have in some way or another contributed to the development of LINKA mobile game server framework - whether through technical assistance, general feedback on the server and its associated Adobe Flash Lite games, mentoring, support, encouragement and your advice around the mobile industry as well as well as business and business governance in general.
We look forward to meeting with the judges in early October for a final presentation of the multi-player game server. The winner will be announced at a Gala Dinner in Auckland on October 11.
To find out more about the Awards as well as to see the tremendous competition that Zodal is up against, go to the TUANZ website for the mobile awards here.
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Zodal’s Lead Interactive Programmer Wins Internet Gaming Award
29 March 2007
Jeff Nusz, Zodal’s Lead Interactive Programmer has picked up first place in the international internet gaming awards held by Jay Is Games - Casual Gameplay Franchise.
“Sprout is a creative and original adventure puzzle game created by Jeff Nusz, of New Zealand, for our second Casual Gameplay Design Competition. From the moment you lay eyes on it you know it’s something special. The unique artwork for a Flash game has a paper-cut appearance that lends a storybook atmosphere to the game. This environment perfectly suits the role you play as a young seedling trying to find its way home. Sprout has everything we love to see in a Flash game: originality, a simple design, and a beautiful presentation.”
Go here to learn more about the desktop Sprout game by Jeff Nusz of Zodal which also took out the Audience award for the 2007 games competition!
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Sony Playstation Portable : Rob and Big MTV Game receiving good reviews
10 February 2007
The latest game developed by Zodal's game development team, Rob and Big - In the Crib is live and available for download for the Sony PSP mobile gaming console. The game is receiving good reviews - read more here at the Zodal blog.
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Zodal chosen for NZ Digital Directory
22 December 2006
Zodal has been chosen as one of the premiere New Zealand Digital Content Development Company's exporting out of New Zealand.
The Digital Directory website presents profile information and rich graphic content from a selection of the most exciting companies in the New Zealand gaming, animation, interactive, and 3-D spaces.
The Digital Directory will serve as a flexible marketing channel, displaying weekly news updates on the New Zealand industry as well as allowing for the incorporation of additional companies over time.
The success of the site will be built on the degree to which it is supported by both the local industry and the New Zealand government, who began the initiative.
The Directory is now live - you can visit it here
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Weyert de Boer joins Zodal & his new Flash Lite book now available
11 December 2006
The new book for Adobe Flash Lite Developers on the latest programming techniques for Mobile Devices has been launched by the Friends of Ed label. Co-Authored by some of the leading figures in Adobe Flash Lite research, Weyert de Boer, Scott Janousek and Richard Leggett.
Zodal is pleased to announce that Weyert will be joining the team in New Zealand for 2007 from the Netherlands in Europe, and we look forward to showing him around the wild side of Christchurch.
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Zodal joins the New Zealand Game Developers Association
16 November 2006
Zodal is invited to join the New Zealand Game Developers Association. Click here to view our member’s page.
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Official Sony Developer License granted to Zodal
07 November 2006
Zodal becomes an official licensed Sony Playstation Developer.
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MTV's Rob and Big to take on the Sony PSP
26 September 2006
Zodal wins the pitch with our partners The Shop, to design and develop an original Flash based PSP game for the MTV reality show Rob and Big. The technical requirements for the game are to have the same code base developed for deployment across both the internet and the Sony Playstation Portable console.
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Launch of Mobile:ImageTrack
21 May 2006
Zodal presents mobile:ImageTrack at AREC, the international Conference for Real Estate Agents in Sydney.
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Online Adobe Flash Mobile Presentation
16 March 2006
Zodal's mobile gaming technologies are introduced to the global Adobe Mobile and Devices Usergroup via online Adobe Breeze presentation.
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Presentation at WebDU
03 March 2006
Zodal's paper on 'Flash Lite mobile sensing and interaction with the physical world' was accepted for presentation at WebDu, the premiere Asia Pacific Technology Conference held yearly in Sydney. For more information visit the WebDU website.
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Rugby World a World’s First
07 February 2006
Zodal produces Rugby World, the first ever Flash Lite multiplayer game that is compliant with the java standard JAIN SLEE
 View the full Press Release
 Download PDF (1 MB)
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Haka Mania Receives International Recognition
01 October 2005
Zodal’s single play mobile rugby game places in the top 5 for the first ever Flash Lite game contest held by Italian group Actionscript.it.
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MacGuide Features Christchurch Flashers
01 October 2005
Zodal is featured in the MacGuide’s Sept/Oct 05 Issue for our innovative Flash applications and development of the Flash Usergroup to a base of over 60 members.
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Zodal major sponsor of KiwiFlash 2005
27 August 2005
In conjunction with ES Connectivity 05 and the New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards, Zodal brings Adobe back to Christchurch for the first time in over a decade for the KiwiFlash 2005 Conference. For more information visit the KiwiFlash 2005 website.
Read more about the event in The Herald and read Hon. Jim Anderton's opening speech for the event.
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Christchurch Arts Festival
16 July 2005
Zodal presents on Flash animation and development at the traveling OneDotZero Symposium.
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Game targets Lions tour
16 June 2005
World first: Chris Blair says ZoDAL's new game launches a new generation of mobile marketing.
View the Full Article
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Future of Mobile Applications
01 February 2005
Chris presents at HIT Lab’s Virtual Worlds Consortium meeting in Christchurch to an international audience.
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Zodal awarded Macromedia Site of the Day
06 May 2004
Within a month of launch, Chisnallwood website wins the Macromedia Site of the Day and is used as a promotion to the New Zealand Ministry of Education as to what Flash can do.
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New Zealand’s only Official Macromedia Flash Usergroup
01 February 2004
Zodal company Directors Ghada Vanderpool and Chris Blair are the founding Managers of the KiwiFlash Usergroup.
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