A few months ago, we started work on a new action/puzzle game for the iPhone and iPad.

The main character in the game is Bruno Anaconda, a goofy and extremely over-confident explorer on a secret mission in a slightly twisted version of the Amazonian jungle.

We are currently testing a few new game mechanics and playing around with the artwork a bit. The main focus is on Bruno himself – we want a combination of goofiness and macho appeal, as well as a character that people can relate to and remember.

As this is an internal project with (currently) no deadline, we are using some of our spare time to work on it. We are aiming to get a working demo out there soon.

In December, we were part of a very exciting project for LG in New York (with North Kingdom and Y&R).

Instead of doing what everyone else is doing in Times Square (rolling video), LG decided to use their huge 84 feet high LED billboard to host a dynamic and interactive character named Gil.

His role is to spread good news in Times Square in the form of tweets, SMS messages, RSS and later other media. People in Times Square are able to interact by sending SMS messages or Tweets to the board.

In order to ensure that all content falls under the category of good news, a moderation company was hired to moderate every message entering the system.

To make this possible, we built a special content management system. As it was tailor-made for this specific purpose, the moderators were quite excited about its ease of use.

Our team worked mostly in Slovenia, and we spent the last three weeks before launch in New York finalizing the details.

It was by no means an easy ride, but in the end, we are happy with the results, and we managed to pull off an amazing launch!

It was great being part of such a fantastic project!

We are giving a presentation on building casual and social games with Unity this Friday at the ITShowOff conference in Zagreb.

You can preview the slides below.

For people interested in Unity development, here are a few links to help you get started.

• Download Unity (free)
• Official Unity.com Tutorials
• Amir’s shader programming course
• Unity Forum

Motiviti is hiring!

If you have experience with Unity and/or Flash and are interested in landing a cool part-time game development job or just looking to publish your games, let us know! We are also interested in great web developers. Everyone is a potential full-time hire .

We are skipping the usual greeting card this year and would instead like to invite you to play our 3-minute holiday game.

Play the game online (requires Unity) or download the full resolution version for free!

There is a special offer hidden in the game for you if you collect 5 presents in the online version .