Forget your real-life allotment or vegetable patch. The future is virtual gardening on your phone. Well, that's the message from a competition organised by EA Mobile and Channel 4, which asked people to pitch their cool mobile game ideas to a panel of experts.
The winner was an idea called 'Let It Grow' by Tom Dowding, which involves nurturing a plant until it becomes a beautiful flower, then sharing it with your friends. The phone's camera is involved somewhere along the way too. He's won £2,500 and a work placement at EA for winning, although there's no guarantee that it will actually be turned into a game.
Other entries also made use of mobile phone features, including the camera but also GPS and connectivity. It seems the next generation of mobile game designers aren't content to just rehash Tetris and Pac-Man. Good work them!
(via Pocket Gamer)
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