Bounce Boing Battle and Ovi Maps Challenge now available from Store

We are very excited to tell you about two new awesome games by Nokia that have hit the Store today: Bounce Boing Battle and Ovi Maps Challenge. These games are the result of a collaboration with Nokia and Rovio, one of the world’s leading developers of mobile games (and the ...

We are very excited to tell you about two new awesome games by Nokia that have hit the Store today: Bounce Boing Battle and Ovi Maps Challenge. These games are the result of a collaboration with Nokia and Rovio, one of the world’s leading developers of mobile games (and the creator of the popular Angry Birds game). We here at the Ovi Blog are huge fans of Angry Birds so it’s only appropriate that we highlight these new creations a bit!

First off, let’s look at Bounce Boing Battle (we call it BBB for short) Bounce Boing Battle is a fast-paced duel game where your get to confront your friends on four different battle fields with two devices and one ball. Each of the four levels in the game include unique features that make the it a colourful and exciting experience. Players bounce a ball back and forth between two devices by drawing collision lines into the game area, scoring points by delivering the ball into their opponent’s goal.

“Bounce Boing Battle is a completely new ‘Bounce’ experience. You can connect with different Nokia devices via Bluetooth and challenge your friends in a head-to-head battle,” says Raine Mäki, Producer at Rovio.“Touch screen controls make beating your friends intuitive and satisfying, and the team enjoyed a battle or two with Bounce during the development of the game.”

This exclusive game is available for free only from Store. Bounce Boing Battle is supported by Nokia smartphones based on Symbian^1 and Symbian^3, including the Nokia 5230, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia X6 and Nokia N8 (once available). Also, remember that the game will be showcased at Nokia World 2010 in London!

Then, let’s take a look at Ovi Maps Challenge. It’s a map-based geography trivia game where you can take part in quizzes and collect stamps in your passport while hopping from continent to continent. The game is a perfect pastime when commuting or traveling and it basically offers you an exciting learning journey around the world!

The game has two game modes: action mode and quiz mode. In ‘action’ mode players compete against the clock when trying to get correct answers and score the highest points. ‘Quiz’ mode, in turn, allows more time for solving quizzes while players earn stars for correct answers and upgrade to higher levels.

“Ovi Maps Challenge is the first Flash Lite game from Rovio”, says Raine Mäki. “Both game modes require skills and knowledge, and the steady learning curve means you’ll be enjoying Ovi Maps Challenge for a long time to come. Developing the game was quite a trip in itself, and we learned a lot about places we didn’t even know existed!”

With 16 different quiz types players get to arrange cities and countries by size of population and area, match correct flags with countries, and locate places and famous sights on the world map. To keep up the challenge, travelers can purchase four additional country packs from Store, Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia/Oceania, and collect stamps from every new country they visit.

Ovi Maps Challenge is available for free (excluding the additional country packs) for all Nokia touch screen devices based on Symbian^1 and Symbian^3, including the Nokia X6, Nokia N97 mini and Nokia N8 (once available). Just like Bounce Boing Battle, the game will be showcased at Nokia World 2010 in London!

What do you think? Are you guys as excited about these new games as we are?

Source : http://blog.ovi.com/2010/09/09/bounce-boing-battle...