Star Arcade

Star Arcade Oy
Private
Industry Video games
Founded 2010[1]
Founder Harri Myllylä (Co-Founder) Jonne Castren (Co-Founder)[2]
Headquarters Jyväskylä, Finland[1]
Key people
 Remco Smit (CEO)
Products Diamonds Paradise, King of Words, Jelly Wars
Number of employees
 26[3]
Slogan Never Play Alone.
Website www.star-arcade.com

Star Arcade is a mobile social video game company established in 2010 in Jyväskylä, Finland, by serial entrepreneurs Harri Myllylä and Jonne Castrén. The company offers wide range of mobile games for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Symbian, S40, Meego, Maemo, BB10, Bada, as well as Facebook.[4] All the games are so called freemium titles, which means they are available to download for free, but users have the choice of making various in-game purchases to gain premium features, level upgrades and virtual goods.[5]

The company aims to engage “the next billion gamers” from developing markets such as Latin America, Africa, Southeast Asia and India.[2][6] Roughly half a year after their first launches, the company’s games had acquired total more than 5 million downloads from over 180 countries around the world.[7][8] In 28th of November 2011 Star Arcade became the first company in the world to develop and launch Facebook-to-mobile multiplayer game Diamonds Capture.[9] Since then all their games have shared the same basic concept of real-time/synchronous cross-platform multiplayer gaming.[4][10] This means that users can play against each other regardless of their device, network or location.[11]

Despite being a relatively young business, Star Arcade has received several acknowledgements from the industry. In February 2012 the company was chosen as a runner-up at Mobile Application Week Helsinki.[12] Later that year in October they were nominated in “The Best Growth Stage Start-up Category” of the G Start-up awards at the Global Mobile Internet Conference, and at the same time they were also selected to the Mobile Entertainment Magazine Awards in the “Best Social Games Service Provider” category.[13][14] More recently, in March 2013 the company was also selected as a finalist in Red Herring's Top 100 Europe Award.[15]

Games developed

Star Arcade currently supports and distributes eight of all the games they have developed.[3] Currently they're working on the new Jelly Wars 2.0, which is set to be released sometime during 2014. [16] Note that the order of the listed platforms does not represent the publishing order of the particular game on those platforms.

Year Title Platform
2011 TicTacToe iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Facebook, Symbian, Meego, Maemo
2011 Mancala iOS, Android, Symbian, Maemo, Meego
2011 Ayo Android
2011 Diamonds Capture iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Facebook, Symbian, Maemo, Meego, S40
2011 Reversi iOS, Android, Symbian, Maemo, Meego
2011 Jelly wars iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BB10, Symbian, Maemo, Meego
2011 Rock Paper Scissors Android
2011 Diamonds Paradise 1 iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Symbian, Maemo, Meego
2012 Memory Game iOS, Android, Symbian, Maemo, Meego
2012 BattleShips iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BB10, Symbian, Maemo, Meego
2012 Crazy Gardens iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Symbian, Maemo, Meego
2012 Spawned iOS, Android, Symbian, Maemo, Meego
2012 Diamonds Paradise iOS, Android
2013 King Of Words iOS, Android
2014 (TBA) Jelly Wars 2.0 TBA

References

  1. 1 2 "Star Arcade company profile". CrunchBase. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Star Arcade Launches Mobile Social Gaming Platform". Mobile Marketing Magazine. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Finnish game developer bets on the Arab region - and wins". Wamda. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  4. 1 2 "Real-time multi-player games with Star Arcade". All About Windows Phone. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  5. ↑ "Star Arcade Is The Gaming Community For "The Next Billion"". Arctic Startup. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
  6. ↑ "Star Arcade: targeting the next billion gamers". Mobile World Live. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  7. ↑ "Star Arcade notches 5m game downloads". Mobile Entertainment. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  8. ↑ "Social mobile network Star Arcade does 5 million downloads". Pocket Gamer. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  9. ↑ "Star Arcade launches world’s first Facebook-to-Mobile multi player game". WirelessDuniya. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  10. ↑ Daniel Gumble. "Interview: Harri Myllyla on the future of multi-player gaming". Mobile Entertainment. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
  11. ↑ "Star Arcade – A New Mobile Social Gaming Community (Also Free Games!)". The Average Gamer. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  12. ↑ "And The Winner Is….". Brian Hoskins. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  13. ↑ "Finalists confirmed for ME Awards 2012". Mobile Entertainment. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  14. ↑ "Star Arcade nominated for the Mobile Entertainment and Global Mobile Internet Start-up awards" (PDF). Star Arcade Press Release. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  15. ↑ "2013 Red Herring Europe Finalists". Red Herring. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  16. ↑ "Jelly Wars 2.0 Developer blog". Star Arcade. Retrieved 23 May 2014.

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