Dev Required - Nice Hair Essential

Hiya,

Let's cut to the chase. We're an awesome games studio in Canterbury, Kent. We specialise in producing games for brands but also publish our own games. We rock.

We need an equally rocking PHP & MySQL developer with cool hair and skills in:

• PHP
• MySQL

As well as being hardcore in PHP/MySQL we'll give you bonus points if you can show us skills or knowledge of:

• Facebook API
• Linux administration
• Java
• HTML5
• C++
• AS3
• Playing music, particularly drums... we've got guitar, bass and keyboards nailed.

Interested? Great, drop us a line! (We don't really give a shit what your hair looks like though.)

Another Nice Story on Kempt

Thanks to the peeps at "This is Kent" for the nice story on us today (and probably the geniuses at Maxim for liaising with them, cheers!)

TBH though, "Staff Move to Kent to Keep Boss Happy" would probably have been just as accurate!

Kempt at Digibury on Weds 9th May

As some of you will know, we’ve been planning to have a “housewarming party” for Kempt since we moved to Canterbury back in Feb.

Sadly, time got away from me so I decided that – rather than re-inventing the wheel – it would be better to support something cool that’s already going on here and I chose Digibury - a fantastic Canterbury event that has impressed me massively over the last few months.

So, the next Digibury is this Weds the 9th and I’m buying a few drinks to get things started and so that Kempt can officially say hello to East Kent.

Please do pop along if you can make it, the content will be great (apart from my bit…) the beer will flow and the company will be awesome.

Check it out at: http://www.digibury.co.uk/

Warm Your Engines...

For those of you who have had the opportunity to sample the Kempt GP you'll know that it's one of the best ways to spend a day's networking. We take some cars, some like-minded people and encourage everyone to release their inner Mika Hakkinen (or Kimi Raikkonen. Or Keke Rosberg...). Quite simply, it's brilliant fun.

We're in the process of planning this year's events and while the cars/cool people/fun quotient will stay the same you can expect something slightly different.

If you're interested in getting involved get in touch.

If you'd like to know more you can read up on the Kempt GP here.

50k'nth Job? What Do We Win?!

Very pleased to see this piece about us creating the 50,000th new job in Kent in Kentonline today, although it's quite disconcerting that it appears to have been published on the 23rd and yet mentions Sir Brandon Gough's sad passing on the 26th, quirk of the Internet or prescience? Spooky.

Anyway, thanks to Kent Online, Phil Last and everyone else at Locate in Kent for the name check, very pleased to be involved, we've been blown away by all the support they've given us.

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent_business/home/2012/april/23/locate_in_kent_helps_750_firms.aspx

Another Chart Hit For Red Bull!

Last week the latest iteration of Kart fighter (our hit racing game for Red Bull went live in the app-store, this time it's multi-language and has been released worldwide and so we were very excited to see what might happen.

I'm very pleased to report that Kart Fighter - World Tour is another mahoosive hit! It's already topping charts all over the world (several no. 1 app, 100s of no. 1 spots in the categories, top 25 app in 40+ stores).

So, the world appears to agree that Kart Fighter World Tour is cool, and why wouldn't they? It's Fun, free, features 13 locations with 3 tracks each, 3 different karts and awesome upgrades, it's available online, on iOS and on Android so what are you waiting for? Go play it!

Get it for iOS (iPhone, iPod, iPad).
Get it for Android (phones and tablets).
Or play now online!

IPC Rubber-Stamps Kempt?

In an interesting turn of events IPC have announced the launch of IPC Play which offers the production of bespoke Advergames to clients, primarily - by the look of it - large media agencies.

This is an interesting turn of events for Kempt, on the one hand it's not ideal to have a one of our media partners turn into a new competitor (particularly when backed by a very large publishing company) but on the other hand it's quite positive. It's yet further evidence that games as an advertising medium are being taken extremely seriously which can only be good for us and for our burgeoning little industry.

I wish them the very best of luck with the endeavour but (obviously) I would be very happy to speak to any agencies who want to get an alternative point of view on their briefs :o) I'm sure we can be extremely competitive with IPC Play for a number of reasons:

• Our 9 years of experience of using games as branded content means that we have a wealth of technology and knowledge to draw from allowing us to craft more sophisticated and robust solutions.
• Our creative standards are a lot higher than most and we aren't confined to a house style of any kind.
• Our business is not crippled by having to pay dividends to silent shareholders.
• We are not affiliated to any one media partner so, when it comes to promotion, we can shop around for the best provider and deal.
• We're really, really cool.

Anyway, i could go on but once again, good luck IPC and thanks for adding your seal of approval to our industry!

C