Using mobile games to create awareness for Ocean issues.

PLAY, LEARN and GIVE BACK with The Dolphin Ocean Rescue App as it promotes awareness for issues affecting our oceans while you play.

(April 12, 2012 –Vancouver) New Indigo Ventures, Inc. announces the immediate availability of The Dolphin Ocean Rescue game for the iPad and iPhone. This 3D mobile game entertains, raises awareness and gives back to organizations that protect marine habitats. Download here: http://goo.gl/USPPc

Players help Daniel Dolphin and his friends build and manage a virtual reef environment while bringing awareness to users about the issues surrounding our marine ecosystem. The objectives are all focused on balancing the species and maintaining the food chain, making good decisions about what to buy, plant and harvest. Managing fish population, coral growth and habitat balance form the basis of each of the 20 levels objectives. Over fishing, pollution, threats from humans and other stressors to the environment cause discord in the habitat.

As players make their way through the levels, they are provided with messages, developed in partnership with our Eco Partners, about each stressor affecting that level.  Achieving all the objectives is a proxy or a  “health barometer” for the reef as a whole.

While the Dolphin Ocean Rescue is FREE TO PLAY, there are inApp purchases that help users accelerate their play or unlock premium items. A portion of revenues collected are donated to our growing list of globally focused marine Eco-Partners, which include:

• Project Seahorse, http://seahorse.fisheries.ubc.ca/ , UBC, Vancouver, Canada
• Planeta Oceano http://www.planetaoceano.org/ Lima, Peru.

The Daniel Dolphin character is from a best selling book and award winning animated film series called The Dolphin, Story of a Dreamer, by Sergio Bambaren.

Game features:

• It is fun for all ages and suitable for the whole family!
• A bright, gorgeous undersea world in beautiful 3D
• Absorbing game play and simple navigation
• Learn about Ocean issues while you play.
• Give back while you play with a portion of revenues going back to marine conservation

Link to iTunes App Store:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-dolphin-ocean-rescue/id500558558?ls=1&mt=8
Game website: http://dolphin-games.com

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Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDolphin_OR
About Us:
NewIndigo Ventures, Inc is an independent new media publisher. Founded in early 2011 we are focused on family friendly titles for mobile platforms that encourage fun, sustainability and learning.

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Contact:

Robert Eisses

New Indigo Ventures, Inc.

Robert@newindigoventures.com

604-724-3719

Cheers..The Dolphin Team

For all you iPhone and iTouch users….stand by as we will be live soon there as well.

Please tell your friends and like us on Facebook, or follow us on twitter. Your comments and suggestions how to make it better will be welcome as we start this fabulous journey.

Project Seahorse is a marine conservation organisation committed to the conservation and sustainable use of the world’s coastal marine ecosystems. We generate cutting-edge research and turn our findings into highly effective conservation interventions. They collaborate with other researchers, governments, and local communities.

By working to protect seahorses, Project Seahorse supports marine conservation more broadly. Seahorses suffer from the same pressures and benefit from many of the same interventions as other marine life. They are threatened by overfishing and habitat loss. Action for seahorse conservation directly benefits other marine animals, particularly when it comes in the form of marine protected areas or improved governance.

We look forward to working with Project Seahorse as they continue to do great work!!

Mundo Azul contributes to the conservation of biological diversity and nature, to sustainable development, to poverty reduction and to an improved human and animal welfare. Their objectives include:

• Support, strengthen and implement all necessary measures for the conservation of nature and biodiversity, due to field work, research and environmental education and media work, as well as advocacy.
• Support, strengthen and implement environmentally sustainable economic activities and fight poverty.
• Improve human and animal welfare due to field work, by raising public awareness and by taking political action.

The creator of The Dolphin series books, film and characters is Sergio Bambaren, who is also a co-founder of Mundo Azul and has continued to contribute to it and other causes globally. His passion for Dolphins and the sustainability of the Oceans continues to inspire us all.

The Dolphin Team