Tidy Tools team wins the Reaktor App Challenge grand prize: trip to Silicon Valley hosted by Google

 
HELSINKI - April 16, 2014 - PRLog -- Berlin, Germany / Tokyo, Japan – The puzzle game Tidy Tools was selected as the winner of the Reaktor App Challenge, hosted by the design and software house Reaktor. The winner was announced in the grand final gala, held in Berlin on Sunday the 13th of April. Out of the five-person development team (Mari Halla-aho, Tuomas Huhtanen, Aapo, Kojo, Mikko Multanen and Tuomas Nikkinen) Halla-aho, Huhtanen and Kojo were present in the gala to receive the grand prize of the challenge – a trip to the entire team to Silicon Valley, hosted by Google.

“Really? This is supercool!”, commented Nikkinen, the musician of the team who was reached from Tokyo to hear the news. The team is stunned how well the game was received by the general public. Tidy Tools was developed on the members’ free time and advertised by various small zero-budget marketing campaigns in Google and Facebook. In less than one month the game already gained over 8000 downloads from Google Play from all around the world. The game was also voted as the public’s favorite in the App Challenge.

Once the download numbers started growing during the challenge the team got cautiously excited about the thought of winning. “Download number is still just one criterium for the grand prize and there are plenty of great apps in the challenge – so nothing is certain yet”, said Halla-aho, the Graphic Designer of the team. Only a moment later Tidy Tools was announced as the winner and the trophy was handed to the team. The whole team has now returned back to Helsinki with the trophy and the members of the team are finally realizing the fact: “We are going to California!”

Tidy Tools is available for Android and can be downloaded from Google Play for free.

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