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The Knowit Game

Knowit

To promote the ongoing re-branding process of Swedish IT consultancy firm Knowit, Hello There developed The Knowit Game. Based on Knowit’s new values, a colorful world of creativity and problem solving emerged.

Players control a cute character among cushion-like platforms, and need to be fast, creative and strategically smart to have a chance at the iPad prize that is handed out every two weeks. Play The Knowit Game for free for a chance to win!

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 Category: Campaign, Portfolio No Comments

Kompisspelet

Majblomman

To help The Mayflower Charity Foundation shine a light upon the situation of underprivileged children, Hello There and ad agency Sturm & Drang teamed up with esteemed illustrator Magnus Carlsson and created Kompisspelet (The Friend Game). The game can be played either alone or in school class, providing great opportunities to use Kompisspelet as an educational tool.

Throughout the game, players come in contact with several school situations. Some of the children come from families who unfortunately cannot afford things that most people take for granted; glasses, soccer shoes or bus fare. While the player chooses between different courses of action, she or he receives an ever-deeper knowledge through feedback and statistics, which can be used to compare with their friends’ actions.

Play Kompisspelet for free (In Swedish only)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 Category: Education, Portfolio No Comments

What's In the Truck?

Volvo Trucks

To help Volvo Trucks send Christmas greetings to present and future clients, as well as truckers with families all over the world, Hello There and LBI both pitched and developed “What’s In The Truck?”. The player takes the role of a charming kid, dressed in a trucker outfit, entering a winter wonderland with evil snowmen.

The player will have to dodge snowballs and falling ice, manoeuvre across fragile platforms and make both quick as strategic decisions to reach the end of each level. There awaits a huge gift – as well as the opportunity to send a greeting card to friends and family. Play “What’s In The Truck for free!

Thursday, January 26th, 2012 Category: Campaign, Portfolio No Comments

FABIAN PRISJÄGAREN

SIBA

As a part of SIBA’s Christmas-campaign Hello There developed Fabian Prisjägaren. Playing as Fabian Bengtsson (SIBA’s CEO), you make your way through a semi-realistic Gothenburg by using your price marker-gun to shoot down overpriced products posing as robotic enemies. All while delivering humoristic punchlines recorded by Fabian Bengtsson himself.

Launched together with, and appearing in, a new series of TV-commercials signed add agency Valentin & Byhr, the game counted 20 000 plays during its first week online. By the deadline of the player contest, the amount was twice that number – with SIBA-prizes to the top 10 pricehunters.

Play the game

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 Category: Blog, Campaign, gallery, Portfolio 1Comment

MAYA & THE SPICE MEDALLION

Santa Maria

With Maya & The Tex Mex Adventure released in seven languages and played by more than 100 000 unique players, Santa Maria wanted a sequel to the successful adventure. In The Spice Medallion the charming superhero chef Maya visits a new kitchen in search of the Spice Medallion, a magical artifact that was stolen and broken up into three pieces by the nemesis Pyro.

Alongside the new Santa Maria products, the game contains fresh features like spice cloud teleporters, locked gates opened by hidden levers and a brand new enemy – the shooting corn! With this new approach to level design and a darker soundtrack as well as graphic style, the game becomes a new experience for those who played the Tex Mex Adventure earlier and first-time players.

Play Maya & the Tex Mex Adventure: The Spice Medallion for free
in Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian.

Monday, November 28th, 2011 Category: Blog, Campaign, gallery, Portfolio No Comments

EQUALIZE: DEPENDENCY

Eli Lilly

After the international response and success of the award-winning children’s game Equalize, Eli Lilly and Hello There focused on creating a learning game for teenage diabetics – in English. Facing an adventure based on handling the condition of his or her diabetes, the player learns important facts focusing on the lifestyle of young adults like traveling, driving, or consuming alcohol.

The gameplay and the game story address more mature players. In the style of classic film-noir, Dependency brings the player on a hunt to save both a kidnapped beloved partner and the great city. As the player faces puzzles, car chases and shooting enemies, the story unfolds through dramatic cut scenes with great artwork. As in the original game Equalize, Hello There co-operated with senior pediatricians specialized in diabetes.

Published articles about Dependency. All in Swedish, so far:

Nytt spel för diabetessjuka by GP
Nytt datorspel ska hjälpa diabetiker by SvD
Nytt spel om diabetes för unga vuxna by IT i Vården
Nytt spel om diabetes för tonåringar och yngre vuxna by dagensdiabetes.se

Play Dependency in English for free at: www.equalize.se

The site includes the original Equalize game, the Equalize Junior version and the Equalize apps for iPhone and iPad.

Monday, November 21st, 2011 Category: Blog, Education, gallery, Portfolio No Comments

BREACH

Sony Ericsson Sweden

Sony Ericsson turned to Hello There for help in marketing the new Xperia Play phone. We gave them BREACH, an action-packed havoc-wreaking platform game, where players head out to intercept villains on a rampage trying to escape from an Xperia phone so filled with games that it can’t hold them back.

A number of competitions where launched in connection with the game; a single-player challenge and a team-based competition, both connected to Facebook. Prizes consisted of Xperia phones, 10 tickets to the Way Out West-festival and other Sony Ericsson devices. Play the game

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Category: Campaign, gallery, Portfolio 1Comment

CHALLENGER BRAND

COOPERVISION

CooperVision is one of the world’s largest contact lens companies. Due to several international mergers and acquisitions, the company faced different cultures internally. Thus, CooperVision came to Hello There for a new perspective on re-branding in order to unify these cultures.

Hello There gave them “Challenger Brand”, a game with a mix of tower defense gameplay and story- telling. Through a series of office levels, the player worked with and learned about CooperVision’s new values and tone of voice. The game is not available to the public.

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 Category: Education, Portfolio No Comments

COMPLETE

PUMA

When PUMA released a new series of running shoes in the Nordic countries,
Hello There pitched an idea on how to use games to enhance the level of fun
and interaction – both in sales training and the product marketing.

The result was a series of mini-games where players traveled into the actual shoe. Players could compete against each other on a high score list, while learning sales arguments and facts about the shoe’s different features.

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011 Category: Campaign, Education, Portfolio 1Comment

KULTURBANKEN

Tillväxtverket

In this web-based game you take the role as a bank employee. You visit offices in Lebanon, Russia and Chile, collecting information and handling financial meetings. By the end of your travels, you’ll have learned about cultural differences and how to deal with these differences when faced with expatriates.

With an increased internationalization in the business community, Kulturbanken was developed as one part in a national program aimed at strengthening the financial opportunities for expatriates that want to start or develop business in Sweden. Hello There was also entrusted by Tillväxtverket* to produce a web-based game aimed directly towards the expatriate entrepreneurs.

*The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 Category: Blog, Education, HeroBanner, Portfolio No Comments