Anino Games is a Philippine third-party game developer for different platforms founded by Niel Nagondon who is often acknowledged as the pioneer of the gaming industry in the Philippines. It is composed of two sister companies – Anino Entertainment, which focuses on
PC, console, and virtual reality games, and Anino Mobile, which develops mobile games. The company takes its name from ''anino'', a Tagalog word meaning "shadow".
Anino is often credited to be the first game development company in the Philippines. Among their award-winning original IPs are ''
Anito: Defend a Land Enraged'' (IGF 2004), ''Anima Wars'' (IMGA 2006), ''Anito: Tersiago’s Wrath'' (Nokia Series60 challenge, Singapore 2003), ''Deep Interactive Pursuit'' (Best Casual Game nominee, IMGA 2007), and ''Word Archery'' (Indie Game Showcase 2007).
Anino Games is now known as Anino Inc. It currently focuses on developing a range of Social Casino Slots for mobile and PC.
In August 2014, Anino Games was acquired by
Bangkok-based developer Pocket PlayLab and was renamed as Anino PlayLab.
List of games
*''Grave Mania: Pandemic Pandemonium''
* ''Grave Mania: Undead Fever''
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Dream Inn: Driftwood''
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Cake Mania 4: Main Street''
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Deal or No Deal: Vegas Gold''
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Despicable Me: Minion Mania''
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Pet Resort''
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Mind's Eye: Secrets of the Forgotten''
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Shutter Island''
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Littlest Pet Shop''
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Mysteries of Cleopatra''
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Dream Day Wedding iPhone''
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Turbo Subs iPhone''
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Jumble Classic iPhone''
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Flipper Deluxe''
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Jumble Madness
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Moorhuhn Star Karts''
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Pat Sajak’s Linked Letters''
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ESPN’s Winter X Mobile''
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Timothy and Titus''
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Anito: Defend a Land Enraged''
Anino Entertainment
Established in November 2001, Anino Entertainment is a third-party game developer of PC and console games. In 2003, Anino released the first Filipino-made game, ''Anito: Defend A Land Enraged'', a single-player
role-playing game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within ...
for the PC.
Anito
''Anito'', also spelled ''anitu'', refers to ancestor spirits, nature spirits, and deities in the indigenous Philippine folk religions from the precolonial age to the present, although the term itself may have other meanings and associati ...
placed the Philippines on the
video game industry world map and won two international awards: 2003 Gametunnel Role-Playing Game of the Year, and Innovation in Audio at the
Independent Games Festival 2004 (also a finalist in all categories),.
Anino Entertainment has also created numerous titles for various platforms including PDAs, TV games, and
serious games for business applications such as virtual reality and industrial design. They finished production on their second PC game, ''
Timothy and Titus'', a
Christian-themed casual game for children, which was released internationally at the end of 2006.
Anino Entertainment’s first casual game for PC called Word Archery won 2nd place at the Indie Game Developers Showcase in 2017.
Anino Mobile
Anino Mobile was established in April 2005 by Anino Entertainment and develops games for
mobile phones
A mobile phone, cellular phone, cell phone, cellphone, handphone, hand phone or pocket phone, sometimes shortened to simply mobile, cell, or just phone, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link whil ...
. Their games include ''Black Ops'', ''Anito: Call of the Land'', ''The One Hope'', and ''Snakes On A Plane''.
In October 2006, Anino Mobile was named a finalist in the International Mobile Gaming Awards. Their game ''Anima Wars'' was one of 25 finalists, chosen out of 400 studios from 42 countries around the world.
See also
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Anito: Defend a Land Enraged''
References
External links
Anino Games- Official website of Anino Entertainment and Anino Mobile
Timothy and Titus- Official website of Timothy and Titus
IMGA- International Mobile Gaming Awards
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Video game companies of the Philippines
Video game development companies
Companies based in Makati
Video game companies established in 2001