Video games, smartphone apps approved for digital media incentives

Southeast Michigan continues its run on the video game and mobile app playing field with the latest round of incentives from the Michigan Film Office. Excerpt: "Scrap Yard is a 2D multiplayer combat video game that is being developed for Windows, and potentially other platforms. The game is being developed at Quantum Signal LLC (QS) in Saline, Michigan… Health Games for Kids is a mobile video game designed to entertain and engage young children with fun, active play…The mobile video game is being developed by Southfield-based PIXO Group and will be distributed through the Apple App store and the Google PLAY Mobile App marketplace… Santa & His Elves is a mobile smartphone and tablet application geared toward families with small children to enhance the enchantment of traditional folklore. Work on the app is being done at BELIEVE in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan by 15 new hires and a full time equivalent of two jobs." More here.