US callers dizzy over Qld game
Thousands of North American subway commuters appear to be enamoured by a weird-looking red guy wearing a cone hat – and he comes from Queensland.
Dizzy Zub Zub is the pixelated hero of a new mobile phone game created in the Smart State and available to customers of the United States’ second largest mobile operator, Verizon Wireless.
Brisbane-based Moket Pty Ltd are the creative brains behind the latest thumb-tapping phenomenon, which is proving a very popular way for mobile phone users to fill in time while commuting to work or standing in line.
The company’s chief executive officer Dale Rankine said Dizzy Zub Zub was designed with the Adobe Flash Lite platform, which allows the creation of mobile content that is compact in file size and highly flexible, with high-quality interactive animation.
“This is the first game we are releasing to the US, with another four or five already in production,” Mr Rankine said.
“We have a key distribution contract with leading US-based content publisher, Smashing Ideas. Dizzy Zub Zub is a featured title in their games catalogue which is available to Verizon Wireless customers through their Smashing Games application.”
Moket is the leading Adobe Flash Lite developer in Australia and considered one of the top 10 developers worldwide.
The company began two years ago and operates from within the Toowong-based i.lab Incubator, a Smart State initiative established in 2000 to nurture high-tech companies looking to turn their bright ideas into marketable products.
“So far Moket has produced a number of made-to-order mobile software solutions, but we are focused on growing an extensive catalogue for export, so this is the first of our releases to the global mass market,” Mr Rankine said.
The premise of the game is that Dizzy Zub Zub is an undersea explorer searching for jewels across various landscapes.
“It is fairly addictive and you can get something out of it no matter how long you play,” Mr Rankine said.
Last reviewed 5 September 2007