Best Homegrown Award

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    Best BC Based Venture - The Homegrown Award

    ChangeEverything.ca is an online community where people in Vancouver, Victoria and the Lower Mainland can find information, tools and connections to inspire and support change in their own lives, their communities and the world. Vancity plugged in to the arena of social media by launching a website intended to inspire personal, community and global change.

     
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    Best BC Based Venture - The Homegrown Award

    Venture through a pop-up book come to life as the screen fills with beautiful 3D illustrations, music, sounds and activities at the touch of any key.
    In The Meadow a peaceful meadow scene is recreated with movie like quality featuring familiar animals in their natural habitat complimented by melodic original music.

     
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    Best BC Based Venture - The Homegrown Award

    Dare2BDigital: The Online Learning Challenge is an innovative approach to learning that combines the features of games and reality television shows and that promotes the wide variety of online courses, programs, technologies and other resources available at B.C.'s twenty-five public post-secondary institutions.

     
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    Best BC Based Venture - The Homegrown Award

    Humanature is a new BC-based development studio that opened its doors in Vancouver in 2006. As a part of the world-wide Nexon family, Humanature is pioneering a new type of entertainment space that gives players free-to-play games within a dynamic social community.

     
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    Best BC Based Venture - The Homegrown Award

    Krabbit Online is a free to play 3D, 3rd person, beat em' up action, family oriented, multiplayer video game based in unique fantasy world. It was developed by Dean Wadsworth and Teri Thom and released online April 30th 2008.

     
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    Best BC Based Venture - The Homegrown Award

    Lost Cause is an interactive online film built in flash. The film’s split-screen interface and smooth interactions attempts to immerse the viewer as he or she interacts to uncover the narrative. The film shows the perspectives of three characters who live in an apartment complex.

     
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    Best BC Based Venture - The Homegrown Award

    MakeFive is a social network that connects people through opinions and ideas. The site lets users pick their top choices on almost any topic, from sports and movies to current events and life experience.

     

     
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    Best BC Based Venture - The Homegrown Award

    ROCKETMEN®: AXIS OF EVIL

    Blast Off with Rocketmen®!

     
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    Best BC Based Venture - The Homegrown Award

    Based on the top-rated series Storm Hawks, airing on YTV, www.Stormhawks.com is a virtual community and game where fans can create their own virtual identities (avatars), and collect crystal points through playing different online games, answering trivia questions, and performing an assortment of other tasks.

     
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    Best BC Based Venture - The Homegrown Award

    From hosting Free Geek Drives to organizing the popular tech event Launch Party Vancouver, Strutta is a BC based venture that is very involved in and promotes the province's burgeoning Tech Community at home and abroad.

    About Strutta

     
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    Best BC Based Venture - The Homegrown Award

    In 2007, Vivity Labs (creator of FitBrains.com) was formed by an unusually diverse team of seasoned veterans from the following industries: Casual & Triple-A Games, Web, Brain Fitness & Neuroscience, Visual Analytics and Adaptive Intelligence.