The Japanese company GMO Cloud has acquired exclusive rights to use the Marmalade game development toolkit.
The purchased license allows GMO Cloud to sell, maintain and develop the engine, including adding new functionality.
The amount of the transaction is not specified.
Previously, GMO Cloud has already collaborated with the authors of Marmalade. Since 2015, the company has been selling the engine among Japanese developers.
GMO Cloud specializes in hosting and cloud technologies. The company positions itself as the largest hosting provider in Japan. GMO Cloud data centers are located in Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur and San Jose.
Marmalade at the beginning of the tenth was one of the most popular tools for developing mobile games. The solution is a wrapper that allows you to run native applications on different operating systems with minimal modification. With his help, Cut the Rope, Doodle Jump, Plants vs. Zombies, “Planet of Gems” and other games were developed.
In September 2016, the developer company Marmalade Technologies announced plans to stop supporting the Marmalade Game Platform development platform, of which the engine is a part.