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SILVERBIRCH STUDIOS & BREAKTHROUGH NEW MEDIA Announce Start of Production on Two Games Based on the Upcoming Animated Kids Television Series "Jimmy Two Shoes"
TORONTO, Jan. 9 /CNW/ - SilverBirch Studios, a member of the SilverBirch Inc. (TSX-V: SVB) group ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nTORONTO, Jan. 9 /CNW/ - SilverBirch Studios, a member of the SilverBirch\nInc. (TSX-V: SVB) group of companies, and Breakthrough New Media announced\ntoday that they have signed an agreement to develop two games based on the\nupcoming animated kids television series, Jimmy Two Shoes to be broadcast on\nTeletoon Canada and Jetix Europe.\n\n\nJimmy is an enthusiastic 14 year-old kid who, through a series of\nmissteps, falls into the weird world of Miseryville, where everything is\ndesigned to inflict torment onto its inhabitants. Always irrepressible, Jimmy\nstirs up the fun in his new bizarre home much to the chagrin of Miseryville's\nBig Cheese - Lucius Heinous the Seventh.\n\n\nAs part of the agreement SilverBirch Studios will develop a mobile game,\nwhich will be distributed through Swedish based Global Fun and an online flash\ngame that will be housed on the official website at Teletoon.com. Both games\nwill concurrently launch when the Jimmy Two Shoes series debuts in early 2009.\n\n\n"I'm very excited about the opportunity to work on games based on this\nanimated property", said Wojtek Kawczynski, SVP & GM of SilverBirch Studios,\n"Breakthrough is an accomplished Canadian multiplatform game producer and to\nbe able to work on a concept developed by them is great way to start our\nrelationship."\n\n\n"We are very confident that SilverBirch will deliver top quality games on\nboth platforms" adds Dorothy Vreeker, Creative Director/Producer of\nBreakthrough New Media.\n\n\nThe Jimmy Two Shoes interactive project (both mobile and online) has been\ngenerously funded through the Telefilm Canada New Media Fund and the Bell\nBroadcast and New Media Fund.\n\n\nIn other news, SilverBirch Inc. announced today that it had reached\nagreement with a small group of senior staff and contracted personnel to\nconvert $28,500 of outstanding debt into common shares of the corporation at a\nprice per share of $0.30. This results in the issue of a total of 95,000 new\ncommon shares, subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.\n\n\nAbout SilverBirch Studios Inc.\n\n\nSilverBirch Studios is a leading developer, based in Toronto,\nspecializing in premium handheld and mobile games. The Company is focused on\nend-to-end game development with leading publishers for projects based on its\nown proprietar...