Sportzarena

Sunday, 23 November 2003 07:49

Sportzarena
Multiplayer game for EBU

SportzArena was an international multiuser game and chat aimed at European children in the age 8 to 14, boys and girls.

It was launched by 11 broadcasters in 10 European countries in November 2004.
The broadcasters were:

  1. BBC, England
  2. DR, Denmark
  3. RTVSlo, Slovenia
  4. TROS, Holland
  5. TSR, Switzerland
  6. TVRo, Romania
  7. VRT, Belgium
  8. YLE, Finland
  9. ZDF, Germany
  10. WDR, Germany
  11. ORF, Austria

Sportzarena provided a fun environment for the children enabling them to play multiuser games and chat with other european children. This without any given language barrieres being a problem. The reason was a unique visual chat using icons instead of words. That way there were a single and uniform language for all users of Sportzarena.

SportzArena was the first major New Media coproduction in the EBU. The coproduction involved BBC, DR, RTVSlo, TROS (NPB), TSR, TVRo, VRT, YLE and ZDF

Read the comments on EBU's webiste:
http://www.ebu.ch/news/press_archive/2004/press_breves_004_SportzArena.php
http://www.ebu.ch/departments/television/new_media/online/online_game.php

SportzArena was and still is a unique dynamic flash solution! Unfortunately the game is not online anylonger.

Illustrations by Mads Berg

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View of the Island
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Miniature golf
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