Santa vs Jack - Another Christmas based Matmi game

Another festive game from Matmi’s archive….

Deliver the fancy dress costumes before the time runs out! Watch out for Jack Frost.

Our first of 2 Christmas games for 2007. This game was our second one for Joker’s Masquerade (www.joke.co.uk). Drop presents down the chimneys, delivering fancy dress costumes to all the kids. But look out for Jack Frost, he’ll pop up from time to time to give you grief! 

ENJOY!

PLAY

Matmi New Media Ltd presents Ho Ho Ho! Yellow Snow!

Our fastest ever moving viral / advergame! At one point this game was being played 5,000 times every minute! Its a game of join the dots, but it doesn’t involve a pen. A great festive game that really got everybody talking at Christmas 2007!

With the addition of a greetings card (where you can draw in the snow and email your message to a friend) this game has become an incredibly popular game. What a great use of adolescent humour! We’re all kids at heart. I dare you not to laugh at santa’s bum!

Play: http://www.matmi.com/games/HoHoHoYellowSnow/

OR get the iPhone version. Ho Ho Ho! Yellow Snow! DELUXE Edition: http://iphone.matmi.com/yellowsnow/

Matmi’s Elf iPhone App

Another MATMI classic:  

It’s Christmas morning and there’s magic in the air, enough to send an elf soaring into the stratosphere. While Santa’s away, Irving the Elf like nothing more than leaping skyward, stepping on stars and bouncing on baubles trying to get as high as he can! Build your boost and collect candy canes for a point bonus while you help Irving hit the heavens, but watch out for the twisted tinsel, its pointy prickles will put a real crimp on your day.  

With all the looks and charm you’d expect from a Matmi game, Elf is simple enough that anyone can pick it up and play it, but addictive enough that you’ll be hooked all year round. Aim skyward as you challenge your friends via Facebook Connect and see who can send Irving the highest!  

Elf Features:

• Amazing graphics and animations.
• Unique sound effects in stereo.
• Simple but addictive gameplay.
• Suitable for all ages.
• Local and Online scoreboards.
• Facebook Connect so you can challenge all your friends.
• Created specifically for the iPhone/iPod Touch by the wonderful minds of Matmi  

CHECK IT OUT: http://iphone.matmi.com/elf/

Via iphone.matmi.com

Check out a couple of our Senior Management getting their groove back :)

Get your groove on in 'DanceStar Party' time. Play through pumping tracks from the 80s, 90s and 00s. Check out the crazy outfits and dance!

You can also dance with your mates. Include their faces in Party Time mode and get them dancing the night away.
Prove you are the greatest dancer and pick up all the awards throughout the game.


Play: http://apps.facebook.com/dancestarpartytime

Philip’s toothbrushes go for the Cosmic Clean!

We’re used to surprising other people with the player stats for our releases, but it’s not often that we knock ourselves out.

Released in 2009, “Brilliant Brushers” is one of our simplest games, but has been a jaw-dropping success. Aimed at 4 – 11 year olds and their parents with a dental hygiene message wrapped up in a fun way, it has had over 18 million plays lasting almost 7 minutes each on average. Wow! That is simply breath-taking.

Created for Philips to promote its Sonicare range of toothbrushes for kids, “Brilliant Brushers” now has a sequel in this year’s release of “Cosmic Clean”. Featuring our hero of the pearly whites, Sonic Simon, and his sidekick Sonic Sophie, the daring dental duo take off for a 3 level game to spread good dental hygiene habits throughout the cosmos. The aliens of the Moons of Molar, Planet Plaque and Comet Canine are in for a toothy treat!

In all seriousness though, fun and simplicity are not to be sneezed at as successful game mechanics. And if Matmi helps spread the word about good dental hygiene for a few million kids and parents around the globe, we can live with that.

Celebrating Nivea’s centenary

There’s nothing old and wrinkly about this competition game release for Nivea!

Taking the brand’s “Feeling closer” theme, we developed a concept around mementos – objects with emotional value that we often associate with friends, places and good times. “Mementos of Closeness” is the result – a 5-level game set in various locations around the UK featuring short, fun Nivea advertising clips that subtlely reinforce the brand’s presence during play.

Players need to collect at least 10 mementos in each level to progress – everything from gas stoves and powder puffs to rubber ducks and guitars! You may find the odd Nivea product lurking in the scenery too… (we figured that was OK; it’s their game after all).

Nivea sponsors ITV’s “This Morning” show which is our 3rd encounter with the broadcaster (“Colour of Money” and “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!”). People are going to start talking soon…..

Talking of which: “Mementos of Closeness” is a competition game and closes on 30th November so get on there and get playing! You can win an exclusive tour of the “This Morning” studio or one of 50 Nivea goodie bags – which has got to be good on the run up to Christmas (ugh, sorry, did I really just say that word?)

Anyway! Over to you and if you like the game, don’t forget to pass it on to your friends through Facebook and twitter. Big thanks to the guys at Nivea and ITV – and good luck to all players! The marvellous Matmians can’t enter the competition – which is a shame for our girlfriends but good news for you.

Cosmic Log - Gamers solve molecular puzzle that baffled scientists

Video-game players have solved a molecular puzzle that stumped scientists for years, and those scientists say the accomplishment could point the way to crowdsourced cures for AIDS and other diseases. “This is one small piece of the puzzle in being able to help with AIDS,” Firas Khatib, a biochemist at the University of Washington, told me. Khatib is the lead author of a research paper on the project, published today by Nature Structural & MolecularBiology.

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