Play Tree Story, A Mobile Game that Plants Real Trees

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Play Tree Story, A Mobile Game that Plants Real Trees

LOS ANGELES, April 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Have you ever played a mobile game that literally changed the world?  You can with Zig Zag Zoom's mobile game Tree Story.  Founded by former Disney Interactive executives, Zig Zag Zoom is dedicated to the mission of engaging mobile gamers to have fun and do good.  Supporting this mission, the company is launching Tree Story, a groundbreaking experience where nurturing "virtual pet" trees results in planting Real Trees. A Tree Story trailer, with voice over from Ed Begley, Jr. can be seen here.

News Facts

    --  Tree Story, the first mobile game release from Zig Zag Zoom, is
        available today on the iTunes App Store.
    --  Tree Story introduces Seedling, Sapling and Treeling...the starring
        characters of Tree Story brought to life as adorable tree pets by former
        Disney artists and animators.
    --  The game is a fun and highly captivating "virtual pet" game for your
        smartphone, where players nurture tree seedlings with water, sun, food
        and love to grow them into fully grown trees...while playing exciting
        action and puzzle games.  Once grown, the virtual trees are sent to
        virtual forests and then Real World trees get planted!
    --  The game was developed in partnership with Tree Planet, a successful
        game in South Korea that won multiple social innovation awards and has
        resulted to date in the planting of more than 500,000 trees in 73
        forests across 10 countries.
    --  Trees will be planted by leading organizations including the U.S. Forest
        Service, Alliance for Community Trees, the Arbor Day Foundation, Project
        Learning Tree, and The Nature Conservancy.
Tree Story Gameplay

    --  You start by choosing where you want to plant your Real Tree - an urban
        forest, a school,  or featured plantings like the Jimi Hendrix Park in
        Seattle.
    --  Then you choose from a variety of tree types - elm, pine or
        magnolia...Raise your tree from Seedling to full-grown Treeling, and
        then send it off to be planted!
    --  While nurturing your tree, you play a variety of action and puzzle games
        that entertain you and your tree - everything from match-3 games to
        physic-based games to platform games, and more!
    --  When your trees are all grown up, our expert tree-planting partners will
        help turn your virtual trees into real trees to be planted!
    --  With your help, we can plant trees all over the country, and all over
        the world!
Tree Story Features

    --  PLANT REAL TREES AS YOU PLAY:  Make a difference! When you raise virtual
        trees in Tree Story, our partners plant REAL trees in forests and urban
        groves!
    --  MEET SEEDLING, SAPLING, TREELING:  Tree Story introduces new tree
        characters that you can collect as you play the game.
    --  CARE FOR YOUR TREES:  Look after your trees by feeding, watering,
        pruning, and giving them love and sunshine.
    --  CHOOSE AMONG LOADS OF GAMES & ACTIVITIES:  Choose from a variety of
        forest-themed action and puzzle games that will keep you and your trees
        entertained. Play them to have fun and to earn in-game coins that you
        use to buy food to feed your tree and to buy plushies to keep them
        happy.
    --  PROTECT YOUR TREES:  Fend off nasty harmful pests to keep your trees
        safe and happy.
    --  CUSTOMIZE YOUR ANIMATED TREES:  Animated in a cute and unique 2D style,
        all of our huggable tree characters are based on real trees, but unlike
        real trees you can dress Tree Story trees up in tons of fun and stylish
        outfits!
    --  TALK TO YOUR TREES;  Talk with your device's mic and listen while your
        trees talk back.
    --  EXPERIMENT WITH POTIONS:  Earn in-game coins to buy potions that will
        speed up your game, so you can grow and plant EVEN MORE trees!
    --  LEARN TREE FACTS:  Trees are amazing! Impress your friends with cool
        tree facts found in the game!
    --  HELP REFORESTATION EFFORTS:  Help our partners (U.S. Forest Service,
        Alliance for Community Trees,  Arbor Day Foundation, Project Learning
        Tree and The Nature Conservancy) by sending your trees to reforest areas
        affected by wildfires, to repopulate endangered tree species, to create
        more habitat for animals and birds and to improve and beautify our
        schools and our neighborhoods!
Zig Zag Zoom's Mobiliz3 platform

    --  Tree Story is the first game on Zig Zag Zoom's mobiliz3 platform.
    --  Enormous amounts of time and energy are invested in playing mobile
        games.  Americans spend 2 hours and 38 minutes on their phones everyday
        with 32% dedicated to playing games - the single largest category of
        apps. (Source:  Flurry).  mobiliz3 channels this energy to Do Good!
    --  mobiliz3 is a publishing platform that invites mobile gamers,
        developers, cause organizations and corporations to make a difference
        through mobile games.
    --  mobiliz3 has a unique engine that empowers game players to support
        causes they care about.  Players earn mobiliz3 points while playing fun
        mobile games. Players then direct mobiliz3 points to causes of their
        choice directly through the mobiliz3 platform. These mobiliz3 points
        translate to dollars and fund real world activity.
Quotes:

Thomas Kang, CEO of Zig Zag Zoom:  "Our game is the perfect blend of having fun, feeling good and doing good.  We are excited to be launching our first game to show that playing mobile games can literally change the world.  We make it easy and fun in Tree Story."

Resources:

Tree Story web site
Tree Planet web site
U.S.Forest Services web site
Alliance for Community Trees web site
Arbor Day Foundation web site
Project Learning Tree web site
The Nature Conservancy web site

About Zig Zag Zoom
Based in Los Angeles, CA, Zig Zag Zoom (Z3) is a mobile game publisher built on the principle that people want to both Have Fun and Do Good.  Z3's mission is to be a world-leading network for mobile games that Entertains, Connects, and Empowers millions of daily users to support the causes they care about by simply playing fun mobile games. Founded by a team of former senior Disney executives and partnered with China's largest independent mobile gaming platform iDreamSky, Z3 has decades of combined game development and publishing experience, as well as exceptional access to the Chinese market.  Along with a slate of games releasing in 2015, Z3 is launching mobiliz3, a proprietary platform that empowers gamers to support their favorite causes while playing their favorite games. Z3 seeks to change the world for good...one game at a time. The company can be found online at http://www.zigzagzoom.com

Video - https://youtu.be/uibLwZJT53M

SOURCE  Zig Zag Zoom

Video:http://youtu.be/uibLwZJT53M
Zig Zag Zoom

CONTACT: Susan Lusty, Zig Zag Zoom PR and Social Media, 415-269-0226, susan@zigzagzoom.com

Web Site: http://www.zigzagzoom.com

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