Lithuanian Augmented Reality Action Game Wins Best App Award!

Lithuanian games and visual apps developers Tag of Joy with their game Bear Care won "AppCircus Best App Award" in the Mobile Premier Awards 2012!

Bear Care was selected from the best 20 global apps of AppCircus World Tour and took the stage yesterday at the 6th Annual Mobile Premier Awards in Barcelona. Bear Care won Best App of the Year, created by a team of four app developers, led by student developer Šarūnas who said moments after clutching the award, ”I’m overwhelmed and in awe – it feels so unexpected and totally great!”.

Best App of the Year award received by Tag of Joy

The game - Bear Care - is an augmented reality action game, in which you have to protect your beloved helpless Teddy Bear. You can also cuddle your bear to keep him happy. The fun part is that it takes place in a real environment, which is blended with lively and playful 3D bears.

The company - Tag of Joy (@TagOfJoy), created by two borthers Šarūnas Ledas (@Domino_One) and Žilvinas Ledas (@zledas) provides a professional game development for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, OS X, Windows and other platforms. Interactive visualizations, graphical applications, augmented reality solutions and mobile apps for various purposes. Brothers work from Hub Vilnius co-working center and recently organized LT Game Jam 2012 (part Global Game Jam) which also took place in Hub Vilnius:

• The event was the most successful and the biggest  LT Game Jam so far, with more than 40 participant, from whom youngest was only 12 y/o (check out his game The Run).
• 14 games were created, including: one board game, one MMO: SphereMoo and games like Lucifis. See photos of the creation process from the event here.

Congrats and good luck to Tag of Joy in their further work!

Eddy