The Team Behind This Year’s Pivot East Top App

Gaming application developers, Planet Rackus, emerged as the winners of Pivot East 2012, the tech conference that awards the top mobile and Web applications with grants to boost their apps. This edition was totally different from last year’s where an app entered in the Mobile Health Category, MedAfrica (Shimba Technologies), won. This year, the panelists awarded an entertainment app.

Planet Rackus consists of Mwaura Kirore, the Lead Game Designer and Artist, Duncan Aidoh Onyango, Mobile Game Developer and Joe Murithi Njeru, Platform Developer. Others in the team are 3-D and Motion Designer, Roger Tenenmberger, Fred Kioko acting as a Producer and User Experience Designer, Philip Ranja. Jimmy Gitonga is the Content Developer and Kevin Maina is the Writer.

The teams plans to make money from the game by selling branded merchandize, wallpapers and advertising space to marketers. Ma3Racer is supported on all Nokia phones on the S40 platform that can support FlashLite and is available for free download on the Nokia Ovi Store.