Nokia has recently launched Mobile Games Innovation Challenge with 70,000 EUR in prizes, designed to “encourage development of innovative game concepts with the power to positively disrupt the global mobile gaming industry and to help propel mobile gaming with handheld devices into a new and exciting future.”
Nokia Publishing is sponsoring the contest and they’re inviting developers to submit mobile gaming concepts, relying either on NGage or Java ME platform. Developers can submit more than a single concept and the winners will be selected by an external panel of mobile gaming industry experts on the criteria of innovation, fun, feasibility of execution and market potential.
The first winner will be awarded with 40,000 EUR, the second 20,000 EUR, while the third takes 10,000 EUR home. In addition, first three companies/developers will be offered pre-production contracts with Nokia Publishing.
Deadline for submission is August 20, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. GMT and more information is available from here.