TIGA, the trade association
representing the UK games industry, today
announced that Nellyvision
have become their newest members.
Nellyvision are a boutique media and games company based in
Brighton who work in many fields including Commercial, Education, Games, QA,
and many technologies across the Web, Mobile and Desktop. The company was
established in August 2010, when starting the business their aim was to create
interesting and useful products in the web-media, arts and games spaces.
Current and future projects for the team at Nellyvision include
'Heads' – an online editor to create interactive films for the iPhone / iPad.
This project has been enabled by Screen South and the RIFE lottery funding programme.
This is due to go into close beta at the beginning of September.
Within the entertainment space Nellyvision have created several iPhone
Apps including Fruitilicious, Armed offensive, Baby Train and are currently
working on About Time, an iOS conversion of the popular board game (http://www.abouttimeboardgame.com/),
and a Snoopy Facebook game. These are both due for release pre Christmas 2011.
Nellyvision have many exciting projects due for release later this year
and early next year under NDA, They also intend to employ more people to join
the team to expand the Nellyvision brand.
Elaine Green, Director of Nellyvision said:
“With TIGA's support we believe we can build strong foundations for our
brand. We straddle the divide between 'media' and 'games', so it's often easy
to lose touch with the games side of things, joining TIGA will help us
strengthen in the games sector while continuing our digital media and arts work.”
Dr Richard Wilson, TIGA CEO, said:
“In recent years TIGA’s membership has grown to embrace a
wide range of games developers and digital businesses and we are really pleased
to welcome Nellyvision to TIGA. At TIGA we are working to make the UK the best
place in the world to do games business. By bringing games developers and
digital media businesses together we are disseminating knowledge and fostering
new business opportunities for all of our members. We look forward to working
with Nellyvision in the months and years ahead.”
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Notes to editors:
About TIGA:
TIGA is the trade association representing the UK’s
games industry. The majority of our members are either independent games
developers or in-house publisher owned developers. We also have games
publishers, outsourcing companies, technology businesses and universities
amongst our membership. TIGA was awarded ‘Trade Association of the Year’ and
the ‘Member Recruitment Award’ at the Trade Association Forum Best Practice
Awards 2010. In 2011, TIGA won a further
four awards at the Trade Association Forum Best Practice Awards, including
‘Trade Association of the Year’ for the second consecutive year.
TIGA has been voted a finalist in the CMI
Management and Leadership Awards 2011 in the ‘Outstanding Organisation (SME)’ category.
Dr Richard Wilson, TIGA CEO, has been voted a finalist in the ‘Outstanding
Leader’ category. TIGA was also named as a finalist in the 2010 Chartered
Management Institute (CMI) National Management and Leadership Awards in the
category of ‘The Outstanding Organisation of the Year Award (SME)’. TIGA is an
‘Investors in People’ accredited organisation.
TIGA is the trade association
representing the UK’s games industry.
Our vision is to make the UK the best place in the world to do games
business. Our mission is to fight for the interests of game developers. To
achieve our vision and mission we focus on the delivery of three strategic
objectives: effective political representation, profile raising and helping our
members commercially. This means that TIGA members are effectively represented
in the corridors of power, their voice is heard in the media and they receive
benefits that make a material difference to their businesses, including a
reduction in costs and improved commercial opportunities.
For further information, please contact Dr Richard Wilson, TIGA CEO on:
07875 939 643, or email richard.wilson@tiga.org.