Connor Undercover online game launched

In the latest Canadian online TV extension, indie producer Heroic Interactive has launched the online multiplayer game Spy Alliance to complement the tween TV series Connor Undercover (pictured).

The espionage-themed online game series is aimed at tweens and teens, and follows the success of How to be Indie: A Day in the Life, for YTV.

Toronto-based Heroic co-produces Connor Undercover with Shaftesbury Films. Shaftesbury also distributes.

The kids TV series airs on Family Channel in Canada, ABC in Australia, Nickelodeon in Germany, Boomerang in Latin America, and has been acquired by Boomerang in the UK, Gulli in France, VRT in Belgium and Noga in Israel.

Spy Alliance includes eight spy-themed mini-games, featuring platform-style action in which players can build and customize their own spy agencies or infiltrate other players’ agencies.

The mini-games include classic arcade and paintball games, a parkour-style slider game, and camera-click shooter-style games.

Spy Alliance was produced by Karen Lee Hall, with interactive design by Scott Nihill, Karen Lee Hall, and Daniel Loach.

Financing to create the online games came from Ontario Media Development Corporation, the Canadian Media Fund and Family Channel. Development funding came from the Bell New Media Fund and Heroic Film.

This story was updated Wednesday, December 15 at 2:30.