‘Pitch ‘N’ Toss’ invites players to throw coins against a wall in a modern re-creation of the popular gambling game originating in the 18th century. Players are taken through 40 levels of increasing difficulty that require a combination of skill, guile and puzzle solving.

Developed by Newcastle-based DarlingDash, Pitch ‘N’ Toss has already been labelled as “the most addictive game I’ve ever played” by Channel 4 newsman Nick Martin.

Tim Allison, Producer at DarlingDash, said the product was developed with the iPad in mind, maximising the screen real estate and rich media environment.

“Pitch n Toss is a game I used to play as a kid”, he said.

“It’s very much an old school concept with new rules for the 21st century.  I hope people get as much fun out of playing it as we did developing it.”

Launched exclusively for the Apple iPad, Pitch ‘N’ Toss is available to download through the iTunes store at £2.99.

Those wanting to test before buying can download a Lite version of the game for free.

The game includes a soundtrack of original music commissioned by Ed Carter of Winter North Atlantic – who was recently featured on BBC Radio 6.

Northern Film & Media’s (NFM) iPad Fund is supported by the ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007-13. The ERDF programme is bringing over £300m into the North East to support innovation, enterprise and business support across the region.

According to Tom Harvey, CEO of Northern Film & Media, the rapidly growing apps market offers a ‘fantastic’ opportunity for the North East’s talented digital media companies.

“We are keen to hear from developers in the region with commercial ideas for all platforms and look forward to Darling Dash tapping into the commercial potential of retro gaming on the iPad”, he said.

The next NFM funded iPad app is expected to be launched early December.

Description:

Our Client is an award winning digital creative marketing agency in Newcastle and they are currently looking for an exceptional New Business Development Manager.

You’ll be responsible for securing business by gaining new customers and impressive accounts based upon existing customer profiling information and identified targets.

As time goes on, you will develop new profiles and targets together with the MD.

You will also learn about their sister businesses handling SEO and Hosting services and you will communicate them brilliantly to potential customers too.

This is very much a senior post and we’ll need you to be effective immediately please.

Expectations are very high.

You will

* Source the ‘right’ kinds of businesses.
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Follow up new business opportunities and set up meetings.
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Plan and prepare presentations that will win business.
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Write proposals that will win business.
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Learn our pricing policy in great detail.
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Establish and maintain profitable working relationships alongside the Marketing Director and Managing Director.
* You’ll need to be able to drive and will have your own car.
* 
Hours can possibly flex to suit you.

A little more about you

* You’ll have great business and marketing sense.
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You’ll have the ability to engage and enthuse those you talk to, getting them to believe in what we are and what we can do for them.
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You’ll understand the wider market in which we operate and compete.
You’ll know our business extremely well.
* You’ll have great communications skills, both in writing and verbally.
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You’ll be enthusiastic and self-motivated and be able to work as part of a team.
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You’ll have great organisational and time-management skills.
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You’ll have a positive ‘can do’ attitude.
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You’ll have great negotiation skills and persuasiveness skills.
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You’ll be confident and capable presenting to groups of people of any size.
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You’ll display initiative and enterprise.
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You’ll be trustworthy and discrete when handling confidential information.
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You’ll have a smart appearance and professional manner.
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You’ll enjoy networking and meeting new people.
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You’ll be honourable and likeable and you’ll be committed to and loyal to our brands.
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You’ll be a winner.

Qualifications, training and experience

* Personal qualities, particularly the ability to communicate, plus sales experience and market knowledge are more important than formal qualifications.
* However a degree in finance, marketing (CIM, perhaps) and/or business management and/or marketing would be desirable.
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Training is essentially completed on the job, observing and supporting colleagues.
* Experience of our sector is desirable, including a great record of success.

Summary, package and prospects

* We are looking for you to build relationships and acquire more profitable business.
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Ultimately your personal success will depend on the success and profitability of your accounts.
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With a starting salary of £25k + plus excellent commission, earning potential is unlimited.

Sharpe Recruitment is a North East based consultancy, dedicated to placing professionals in rewarding jobs throughout the region across a variety of disciplines including Digital Media, Creative Advertising, Sales & Marketing, PR, IT and Business Operations.

If you’re interested in the advertised position please apply by contacting Sharpe Recruitment.

Description:

Digital tools play a key role in driving innovation in today’s creative industries. But what new tools are on the horizon and how will creative businesses harness them to drive exciting new business opportunities?

What will creative professionals – from architects to fashion designers to games developers and others – be using to create and produce content in the future? How can digital tools cut production costs and improve efficiencies? What can the different creative sectors learn from each other?

The Creative Industries KTN would like to invite you to contribute and influence their latest Beacon Project, Exploiting Digital Tools, which will examine the potential these tools have to transform the creative and production processes.

A workshop is being held at Cornerhouse on Thursday 8th of July. This is a unique opportunity to share your expertise and to influence this exciting project along with other innovators from across the creative and technology sectors. Working with leading innovation company Whatif they will be carrying out some initial research including an online survey and expert interviews. The workshops will then create and validate a number of future scenarios.

The event is also a great networking opportunity to meet people from across the creative industries. They will show you some of the digital tools and how they are being used in different creative sectors. This work will link closely with future funding opportunities from the Technology Strategy Board. If you would like to help shape the future of digital tools in the UK by attending this workshop click here to join the Exploiting Digital Tools community and register for this event.

via Vision+Media Events calendar.

Description:

Digital tools play a key role in driving innovation in today’s creative industries. But what new tools are on the horizon and how will creative businesses harness them to drive exciting new business opportunities? What will creative professionals – from architects to fashion designers to games developers and others – be using to create and produce content in the future? How can digital tools cut production costs and improve efficiencies? What can the different creative sectors learn from each other?

The Creative Industries KTN would like to invite you to contribute and influence their latest Beacon Project, Exploiting Digital Tools, which will examine the potential these tools have to transform the creative and production processes.

A workshop is being held at Cornerhouse on Thursday 8th of July. This is a unique opportunity to share your expertise and to influence this exciting project along with other innovators from across the creative and technology sectors. Working with leading innovation company Whatif they will be carrying out some initial research including an online survey and expert interviews. The workshops will then create and validate a number of future scenarios.

The event is also a great networking opportunity to meet people from across the creative industries. They will show you some of the digital tools and how they are being used in different creative sectors. This work will link closely with future funding opportunities from the Technology Strategy Board. If you would like to help shape the future of digital tools in the UK by attending this workshop click here to join the Exploiting Digital Tools community and register for this event.

via Vision+Media Events calendar.

Description:

GDS (Gateshead Digital Summer) Bitesize and gives you access to training and development in manageable, bitesize portions.

GDS Bitesize is taking place in The Marriott, Gateshead, next to the Metrocentre, on the 24th June and will give you the chance to sign up for some fully subsidised workshops covering a range of topics including sales and PR.

Places on GDS Bitesize are fully subsidised for North East digital companies, meaning you don’t need to pay to attend these high value workshops. We are working with  some of the best talent around including Mike Southon, the bGroup, Engleby Associates and App North.

How to sign up

It’s easy to sign up – just click here and follow the instructions.

The 24th June is also the day of our always popular Summer Net-Together, and we will be putting on a bus from The Marriott at the end of the day to take you straight there. But don’t forget to tell us that you need a seat on the bus when you book your GDS Bitesize place!

Further information

If you have any queries please contact Dan Cook (daniel.cook@codeworks.net), or to book just follow this link.

Sales on a Beermat
Date and time: 24th June, 9.00 – 17.00, lunch included
Venue: The Marriott, Gateshead
Deliverer: Mike Southon
Cost: Fully subsidised for NE Digital companies

PR – the power of PR and spotting a good story
Date and time: 24th June, 9.00 – 11.00
Venue: The Marriott, Gateshead
Deliverer: the bGroup
Cost: Fully subsidised for NE Digital companies

Solutions not Services – getting client buy-in at an early stage
Date and time: 24th June, 12.00 – 14.00
Venue: The Marriott, Gateshead
Deliverer: Richard Lane, Engleby Associates
Cost: Fully subsidised for NE Digital companies

Marketing Apps in conjunction with App North
Date and time: 24th June, 15.00 – 17.00
Venue: The Marriott, Gateshead
Deliverer: App North
Cost: Fully subsidised for NE Digital companies

Description:

We are looking for an experienced programmer to join our Client’s platform development team in Sunderland. This is a new role within a fast-growing technologically advanced business, where there will be guaranteed opportunities for quick progression for the right developers. Our Client’s platform is written mainly in C++ using OpenGL and there are API bindings in Flash/Flex and server based elements written in a combination of PHP and shell scripts.

They want to expand this platform to include a number of web based services, including remote application deployment, electronic point of sale integration, processing transactions, remote administration among other things. You will need to be a self-starter with the necessary skills to learn new technologies quickly in order to achieve our goals.

Responsibilities will include:
Being an integral part of designing, coding and testing the platform.
Provide technology insights and creative ideas to solve problems.
Provide high level documentation materials with comprehensive technical specifications.

Requirements:
LAMP stack knowledge (or a convincing argument for a different stack)
Ability to quickly learn appropriate new technologies
Ability to effectively communicate with the team.
Must be able to work under tight timeframes.
Enthusiasm for what is really quite a cool project.
Project management skills.
System architecture experience.

If you are interested in the advertised position please apply by contacting Sharpe Recruitment.

Sharpe Recruitment is a North East based consultancy, dedicated to placing professionals in rewarding jobs throughout the region across a variety of disciplines including Digital Media, Creative Advertising, Sales & Marketing, PR, IT and Business Operations.

Description:

Applaud are looking for a talented Marketing Graduate to join our expanding team. Think you’ve got what it takes to shine in this award winning company? We’d love to hear from you.

Marketing Executive

This diverse role will take an active day-to-day role in developing and delivering our marketing strategy, working closely with the management to dovetail sales & product strategy.

Ideally you graduated in the last two years. You should have a positive outlook, be enthusiastic and innovative in your ideas and approach. You must be well organised and capable of working on your own initiative without constant supervision. The responsibilities of the role are varied from regular activities to projects such as event organisation, branding and design related work for our marketing collateral.

This is a role with great potential to expand and your success will have a direct influence on company growth, and longer term your rewards can grow tethered to your success.

Candidates with experience of using creative tools like Adobe Creative Suite & Camtasia will be at an additional advantage. We also see great potential in networking and in our online presence, including through social networking techniques, so people with some experience in these areas would also be at an advantage.

The company:

Applaud are a successful 8 year old software development company with offices in Newcastle and Middlesbrough. Middlesbrough is the technical and creative centre where we develop our range of off-the-shelf web based applications, and design and develop customer solutions. We’re Microsoft ISV partners and all our solutions utilise Microsoft technologies including .NET & SQL Server.

Our flagship web application platform “Vestri” was a recent award winner at the North East Digital Awards, and is the basis of all our current and foreseeable products, covering content & document management, extranets, intranets, enterprise social networking, electronic forms & workflow, KPI reporting and risk management tools.

Key responsibilities will include:

* Market research – identifying competition, niche markets

* Assist in further developing strategy

* Manage our online presence – regularly updating our website (not programming), issuing press releases, stimulation of our online networking, online campaigns

* Working with other staff to organisation events – including shows, social events, seminars etc

* Able to speak to an audience and present our message

* Investigating and developing ideas for innovative ways to get our name and products exposure – not just through paid advertising

* Organise and produce marketing collateral

* Produce white papers

* Produce public announcements and press releases

* Research partnership opportunities, develop & deliver partner strategy, and monitor partner recruitment

* Research and enter the company into relevant accreditations & awards

* Produce standard templates and ensure that all our output is of high quality, from letterheads and business cards, through any media coverage, web, collateral and USPs etc.

This is a challenging role in a fast moving industry, but we think we can offer you the chance to really shine.

You should be self motivated, able to work to deadlines, be flexible and adaptable, presentable and able to speak to customers. We’re a close team and expect everyone to take ownership for what they do, showing initiative and to contribute to improving the way we do things. We offer flexibility in working hours and expect it in return when deadlines call – this isn’t always a 9 to 5 job. If we all do well, we all share in the rewards.

The position is primarily based at our Middlesbrough offices, with occasional travel required to customer sites or our Newcastle office.

Initial salary is £14,000 p.a. which will be reviewed after 6 months.

Please send CVs and a short cover letter, together with some example work to:

Paul Sheperia
Technical Director
Applaud Web Solutions
South Tees Business Centre
Enterprise Court
Middlesbrough
TS6 6TL

Or email psheperia@applaud.uk.com

Twitter.com/paulsheperia

No agencies or recruitment consultants thank-you.

via Jobs in Digital – Codeworks Connect.