From Virtual World To Mobile Gaming

The site Clickable Culture has a piece on a game coming soon to a mobile device near you. The game, Tringo, comes from an unusual source: the virtual world Second Life. From the article: "Tringo, invented by SL resident Kermitt Quirk over his Christmas holidays, blends the sensibilites of Tetris and Bingo. It's a game of skill, but the stakes can be quite high. Not only is Tringo well-designed, taking Second Life's technical parameters into consideration, but its popularity is growing."

Tring licensed in the real world!

[Critter92]

What the Clickable Culture story missed is that today's Wall Street Journal reported that the Second Life [secondlife.com] resident has sold the real world publishing rights of Tringo to Sean Ryan's Donnerwood Media [donnerwood.com] for "low five figures." They plan to publish Tringo for mobile phones and on the web. Also mentioned over at Terra Nova [blogs.com].

Original story.

[DaveKap]

The original story of Tringo getting purchased is with the Wall Street Journal. This link [wsj.com] doesn't require membership either (but you do have to scroll down). It also covers another thing missed by the Clickable Culture story: The publishing rights go to Donnerwood in the real world but the developer, Keir, keeps his rights to the game within Second Life.