NihongoUp - Serious Games Showcase & Challenge Winner

Orlando, FL, December 14, 2009 --(PR.com)-- divita (http://divita.eu/) is proud to announce that the final results of the Serious Games Showcase & Challenge (SGS&C) were announced and NihongoUp (http://nihongoup.com/) was chosen as the Best Game in the Student category. The game was selected among many other entries including the finalist games submitted by teams from the Queens University and the University of Miami.

NihongoUp is a Japanese educational game and reviewing tool that can help one learn hiragana & katakana, improve one's IME typing speed, review JLPT kanji, vocabulary & grammar in context. NihongoUp was designed and developed by Philip Seyfi, a Russian New Media Developer & Designer. You can visit his portfolio at http://divita.eu or contact him at seifip@gmail.com.

The Serious Games Showcase & Challenge is a competition and a showcase event that was created to encourage game developers to create game designed for a primary purpose other than pure entertainment. The annual event was held from Nov 30 - 3 Dec, 2009 at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) in Orlando, Florida.

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