Large Animal Games Partners with Competitive Eating Champ to Promote Nomsters

NEW YORK, June 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Large Animal Games, independent developer of unique social and mobile games, has partnered with competitive eating champion Takeru Kobayashi on a promotional effort for their Nomsters mobile game: a competitive eating challenge, to be held when Nomsters players worldwide collect a set amount of in-game virtual fruit. The game, currently the focus of a Kickstarter campaign to be concluded on June 6, 2012, will be released next month on iOS and Android devices.

Nomsters is a fast-paced arcade puzzle game that combines elements of pinball and pool with innovative new gameplay mechanics. Players help a team of Nomsters save their supply of fresh fruit from an invading alien army, by guiding them through levels full of bumpers, gates, evil Fruit Flies, and other obstacles. In addition to a core single-player campaign, Nomsters also features a multiplayer challenge system for one-on-one showdowns with Facebook friends, as well as a robust in-game marketplace that allows players to purchase a variety of power-ups.

A Kickstarter campaign has been launched for Nomsters, set to be concluded on June 6, 2012; the proceeds will support additional levels, retina-display support, and enhanced character animations, among other features. In addition to this campaign, Large Animal and Takeru Kobayashi are collaborating on an event that will draw players to Nomsters even after the game's launch. Once the global Nomsters-playing audience collects a total of 100 million virtual fruit items within the game, Large Animal will host an eating challenge in New York City, featuring the world-famous competitive eater himself.

"I am very proud to be associated with both Nomsters and Large Animal," says Kobayashi. "As an athlete and a New York resident, I look forward to bringing the spirit of competition to the city I call home, and hope that gamers around the world will feel just as eager as I do about this event."

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"Nomsters is our first independently published and funded mobile game, and an exciting new addition to the mobile marketplace," adds Wade Tinney, CEO of Large Animal. "We are very pleased to be hosting this event with Mr. Kobayashi, and expect that it will spur the Nomsters-playing community to engage all the more deeply with our title."

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About Large Animal Games

Large Animal has been developing and publishing unique casual games for over 11 years. Their focus is on social games for networks such as Facebook and Google+, and mobile games for iOS and Android. Their Spartacus: The Game™, Picturiffic™, and Lucky Cruise™ games garner hundreds of thousands of monthly users and are powered by Toga™, their advanced social application platform. More information is available at http://www.largeanimal.com.

About Takeru Kobayashi

Apart from his time on the competitive eating circuit, Kobayashi has appeared in commercials for such companies as Nike, ESPN, MasterCard PayPass, and Coors Light, as well as on numerous television programs and at other public events. The current world record holder in multiple competitive eating categories, he is regarded as one of the leaders in this 21st Century sport.

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PR Contact:

Wade Tinney
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212-989-4312

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SOURCE Large Animal Games