Brisbane's Halfbrick Studios has landed a deal with YouTube to provide content for the internet giant's children's app.
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The game developer, most famous for Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, will be the first Australian partner to receive funding from YouTube to create an original series for its US YouTube Kids app.
The deal will see Halfbrick produce an initial 13 episodes of a new original animated series, which will be shown on its existing Fruit Ninja-themed YouTube channel.
"The show will be targeted at six-to-10 year olds, for co-viewing with their parents. It will also be accessible from within Halfbrick's Fruit Ninja games, which reach around 60 million users per month," Halfbrick's Sam White said in a statement.
"We will also be producing a new compilation playlist, 'Fruit Ninja Nation', for which we will be reaching out to the YouTube community and our players for user-generated content.
"It will be made up of Fruit Ninja-themed live-action shorts, documentaries, developer diaries and more."
Fruit Ninja has been downloaded more than one billion times since its launch in 2010, making it one of the most downloaded mobile phone games of all time.
YouTube Kids is currently only available in America, but the Google-owned company is planning on expanding it.
Deputy Premier Jackie Trad announced the deal as part of her first trade mission, having met with YouTube executives in Singapore to discuss further opportunities for the state.
Ms Trad is following on from the Premier's US trade mission, which was aimed at building research and development relationships between American institutions and Queensland.
Ms Trad will move on to London and Frankfurt in the coming days to investigate infrastructure funding options, with the government looking at ways it can kickstart work on major projects such as the cross-river rail, despite its budgetary situation.
As the deputy premier flies out of Singapore, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will be flying in, as part of the Prime Minister's northern Australia investment trade mission.
Ms Palaszczuk will spend two days in Singapore with Tony Abbott, Colin Barnett and Adam Giles.
Ms Trad will be forced to make nice with federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt in Bonn Germany just a few days later, with both representing Queensland's Great Barrier Reef at the UNESCO conference, which is expected to ratify the decision not to list the World Heritage icon as 'in danger'.
All Queensland's politicians should be back in the country by the time the first Palaszczuk budget is handed down next month.
