#30 goSupermodel
The player starts out as a newbie model and must work her way to the top in a world of fame and fashion to become a true Supermodel. It requires skills like being able to follow the constantly changing fashion and winning photo shoots to earn fame and money. Luckily, she makes a lot of new friends that help her out by sending her gifts and giving her big hugs to boost her popularity. goSupermodel is a community game developed for girls. The photo shoots allow for endless hours of exciting game play while the huge community gives the player the means to interact and have fun with all the other players.

Category - Most Innovative Game, Best Interactive Experience, Best Use of Connectivity

   

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ABOUT WATAGAME
The Danish cross media community developer watAgame ApS was founded by Henrik Riis in 2003. watAgame launched its first community game series Era of Eidolon™ early 2004. Today it holds seven titles and serves more than 70,000 mobile and web users worldwide. Moving forward watAgame recently successfully launched its new goSupermodel concept targeting the attractive teenage girls segment. The concept includes features like advertisement, product placement and in-game billing.

Henrik Riis, aged 32, is CEO at watAgame ApS. In 1996 he obtained a degree as a Mechanical Engineer specialized in IT and started to work as a R&D engineer at “Bang & Olufsen A/S”. Two years later he decided to move on to “Ambu International A/S”, a developer of medical devices, where he completed a certified education as Project Manager. Seeing a huge potential in the market of MMOGs for mobile phones, Henrik left his position at Ambu in 2003 to create watAgame along with four partners.

Henrik has been working exclusively with mobile and web communities for more than three years and is today a self pronounced specialist in the field of cross media communities.


Søren Ammundsen is 33 and Executive Vice President for watAgame ApS. He joined the company in 2003 and is responsible for business development activities.

Søren holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from the Copenhagen Business School and has a total of 8 years professional experience within the wireless entertainment industry.

Prior to joining watAgame Søren was in charge of wireless community services for Realtime A/S (now Atchik-Realtime). Positions in other companies include Telia and Emerge (now EmergeWunderman). In the early 90s Søren co-founded a company providing online and wireless community services in the life-style segment.

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