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Airborne Entertainment Publishes Award-Winning Lemonade Tycoon for QUALCOMM’s BREW™ Platform
Pocket PC Magazine’s 2002 Strategy Game of the Year Will Satisfy Wireless Subscribers and Their Growing Thirst for Fun Content
New York, N.Y. and Montreal, Canada – Airborne Entertainment Inc., leading publisher of top-flight branded wireless entertainment, today announced that it is bringing the hit Pocket PC game Lemonade Tycoon to QUALCOMM’s Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless™ (BREW) platform. Lemonade Tycoon is the first in a series of premium branded titles Airborne plans to bring to BREW operators in the coming months.
Lemonade Tycoon is a unique, cheeky business simulation game that allows players to flex their entrepreneurial muscles and turn a sidewalk lemonade stand into a global mega-corporation. Loaded with features and full-color animated graphics, Lemonade Tycoon leads players through the ups and downs of the business world. Players must rent the best location, monitor their recipes, keep an eye on the weather and other trends, set prices, advertise, manage inventory, buy equipment, and then watch as the results of their decisions play out on their mobile phone screens.
“We absolutely love Lemonade Tycoon,” said Garner Bornstein, chief executive officer, Airborne Entertainment. “You'd never believe a mobile phone could provide such rich game play and graphics until you actually have it in front of you. Developing for the BREW platform has enabled us to bring the challenge and fun of Lemonade Tycoon to BREW operators and their wireless subscribers – creating an entirely new group of users that we expect to grow rapidly.”
“It's a small miracle,” agreed Andy Nulman, president, Airborne Entertainment. “When you consider the relatively limited real-estate on a mobile phone compared to a Pocket PC, it’s truly amazing how well this game ported to the wireless space. There's absolutely nothing like it out there in terms of playability and re-playability!”
“Airborne’s Lemonade Tycoon is a perfect example of the tremendously robust and entertaining content being developed for BREW-enabled handsets,” said Mike Yuen, director, BREW Developer Relations, QUALCOMM Internet Services. “We are pleased to provide Airborne with the business and technical solution enabling them to generate revenue by delivering compelling content to mobile users.”
Developed by Montreal-based Hexacto Games Inc., Lemonade Tycoon has already taken the Pocket PC and Palm gaming world by storm, winning Pocket PC Magazine's 2002 “Strategy Game of the Year” award and “Game of the Month” on WorldofPPC.com, while PDA Buyer's Guide gushed, “The design is so creative that the game can keep you hooked for hours.”
QUALCOMM's BREW solution is a complete product and business system for the development and over-the-air deployment of data services on wireless devices. The BREW solution provides the necessary tools and value-added services to developers, device manufacturers and wireless operators for application development and distribution, device configuration, and billing and payment.
About Airborne Entertainment
Airborne Entertainment is the leading turnkey mobile channel management company, creating, deploying, distributing and managing the most compelling mobile games and entertainment for the world's most recognizable media and consumer brands. Airborne Entertainment distributes its specialty channels and programs to all top-tier wireless carriers, reaching nearly 100% of all enabled mobile subscribers in North America. A privately held company, Airborne Entertainment was founded by Internet industry pioneer Garner Bornstein and Andy Nulman, the long-time CEO of the world-renowned Just For Laughs Comedy Festival. For more information, please visit www.airborne-e.com.
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