Telefim Canada has just announced that Mindhabits has won the ‘Great Canadian Video Game Competition’. Mindhabits wins a $500 000 prize from Telefilm Canada and an equal amount from private investors, to help them develop and launch their game.
The competition was started to support and highlight independent video games companies from Canada. It was started by Telefilm, along with the support of various governmental agencies and established industry players like Ubisoft or Electronic Arts. Competitors had to display original content, with each of them tested during the competition’s previous 10 months.
MindHabits is based in Montreal and was spun off from original McGill medical and science research. They plan to build a ‘serious’ video game to help minds manage social stress, much alike the Brain Age series, which reminds me a lot of the Coué method. Overall, this is a very curious video game, although the prospect of getting social happinness from a video game doesn’t seem ‘right’ to me.
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Heri September 27, 2007
Thanks for passing by, by the way
Philippe Denis November 08, 2007
I know, we don’t always update as much as we should… busy industry, busy Telefilm. :)
Anyways, if you want to stay on top of things for anything related to Telefilm, make sure to sign up to our Website if you haven’t already done so:
https://www.telefilm.gc.ca/profile
You should also check what is coming up for the Game Developpers Conference. Very interesting workshops for Canadian developpers are about to begin. We will soon be announcing which companies will get to participate:
http://www.telefilm.gc.ca/05/519/appel.asp?lang=en&idappel=78
And thanks for the great post.
Telefilm (or at least, one of them)
Heri November 08, 2007
you should definetely think about opening up your website. it’s very simple to use a CMS like wordpress and post about recent news. I find that subscribing to email newsletters is akward these days, when companies and organizations have open communication policies
Frederic Feingold March 26, 2008
I was initially attracted by the cortisol lowering benefits to be derived from this exercise as mentioned in a Public Radio show, Marketplace, on 26 March 2008.
After a few rounds I realized that exposure to this exercise may have a strong negative effect on individual and species survival. Is it not more important to notice threats?
Imagine the RCMP or local police using this exercise to lower their stress levels. Would this not also lower their ability to perceive threats and push up their casualty rate?
Dana Mayzes January 24, 2011