We are delighted to announce that Nextwave Multimedia’s ‘Comics Creator’ has won the first prize in ‘Nokia’s 2010 Calling All Innovators’ contest in the Entertainment Category. The winners and runner-ups were declared on 15 September, 2010 at the ‘Nokia Developer Summit 2010′ held in London.

‘Nokia’s Calling All Innovators’ is a global app development contest presenting developers with the task of creating apps that make a difference in people’s everyday lives, and enhance the use of Nokia mobile devices in real-world scenarios.

For its third consecutive year, Nokia challenged developers worldwide to create mobile apps in any of four categories: Life Improvement, Eco/Being Green, Productivity and Entertainment.

More than 1,500 developers from all over the world responded to Nokia’s challenges. In all, Nokia received over 7,700 submissions.

The winners and finalists were adjudged based on the following criteria: Quality/Functionality, Uniqueness, Novelty Value and Innovativeness, Usability/Creativity, and Commercial Viability/Market Potential.

All the shortlisted developers were invited to London for the ‘Nokia Developer Summit 2010.’ The grand event saw some big-name guest speakers, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web.

‘Comics Creator’ is an easy-to-use mobile application that allows you to create your own comics, cartoon strips, photo journals, etc — even if you’re not an artist. With this application, you can turn your ideas into a comic format that you like, and share it with your friends.

If you haven’t tried it out yet, download the application from: http://store.ovi.com/content/42786

The links below have more information about the event:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS175361+15-Sep-2010+HUG20100915

http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/nokia-developer-news/2010/09/15/winners-announced-in-calling-all-innovators-competition

Screenshots from the comic series

Rambow Ramu, India’s first mobile comic series, is now available for download on the Samsung App Store. To download the comic series using Samsung mobile phones,  click here.

The comic series can also be downloaded from Nokia’s OVI, Apple’s iTunes and Android Market Place.

Webcomics Contest

Do you love to doodle, create comic strips, draw cartoons or write comic stories? Then, here is a chance to exhibit your creative prowess to the world, and win prizes.

Comicshead.com, Nextwave’s digital comics venture, and Animation Focuz, South India’s first monthly animation magazine, jointly present ‘Are you a Comicshead?’ webcomics contest, beginning from April 10th to May 31st, 2010.

All you have to do is create comics of your own, and submit them at Comicshead.com. The concept/idea could be anything…so let your imagination run wild.

The competition is open to all. The only criteria is you should be registered with Comicshead.com.

Not an Artist? Not a Problem!
With Comicshead, you can either use your own skills or the easy-to-use ‘Comics Creator‘ tool to create your comics.

‘Comics Creator’ has a large library of backgrounds, characters in various emotive states, and in different styles of illustrations, dialog bubbles, etc. The library is being upgraded, continually. So that, you will never have to use the same thing twice, unless you choose to.

There are many tutorials, including a video, to help you create comics using the ‘Comics Creator’.

If you’re an artist, then you can upload your comics, right away!

Exciting Prizes Await
There are prizes for different categories, including ‘Best Comic’, ‘Best Illustrator’, ‘Best Writer’, and ‘Best Concept’. The most popular comic in the site also wins prizes.

What’s more! There could be more than one winner in each category.

So, what are you waiting for? Log on to Comicshead.com, and unleash the creative side in you.

To know more about the contest, visit http://www.comicshead.com/webcomicscontest

With two new games added, we have renamed and re-launched our carnival games.

‘Nextwave’s Carnival Blast’ is a set of exciting all time classic games, re-visualized and richly animated. From exhibiting your shooting prowess to testing your luck, there are 5 games for you to choose and play :

Puzzle Cups, Smash the Pumpkins, Jackpot, Shoot the Duck, and Darts.

The comic series will soon be available on Samsung Corby devices, Nokia E Series and Windows Mobile.
We are working to cover many more devices.

The second episode of ‘Rambow Ramu’ will also be launched soon.The first episode was received with rave reviews.

Two freely down loadable Mobile Content

‘The Story of ‘Valentine’s Day’ in Comics form and ‘Tips for Valentine’s Day’ will be available on Nokia’s OVI,Apple’s Itunes and Android Market Place in the next few days.

‘Valentine’s 3 Game Pack’ for mobiles,the 3 fun games are

1.Connect the Pairs(Valentine Theme)

2.Battle of Cupid and

3.Petals do Tell

The games will be available for download on Nokia’s OVI,Apple’s Itunes and Android Market Place in a few days.

We are working to get our games on Samsung and Windows Mobile Devices.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FI8CxFiofQ

Comicshead, a Nextwave Multimedia venture, has launched Rambow Ramu, India’s first and probably among the first mobile comic series in the world . For the first time a complete comic series will be published in the mobile medium.

Rambow Ramu is available for free download in Ovi Store from Nokia, iTunes Store from Apple, and Android Store. The Rambow Ramu series will also soon be available for Windows mobile.

Rambow Ramu is a comic series about the misadventures (read dreams) of a village lad, who lives, breathes, eats and sleeps to be the next ‘King Of Bollywood’. The series, which was launched  recently, is receiving an overwhelming response from all over the world. Ninety-eight percent of the reviews received are very very positive.

Every few weeks new volumes of the comics are to be released.

Nextwave has already launched  ‘The Story of Gandhi’, ‘Thomas Alva Edison’ and ‘Panchatantra Tales’ on various mobile app stores.
To download the comic series free search for Rambow Ramu in the App stores of Nokia ,Apple and Android .