The creators of Empire: Four Kingdoms have hired the former executive director of the King Studio in Malmo, Daniel Persson, as the head of the casual direction. This is reported by the resource Develop Online with reference to information from the heads of Goodgame Studios.
In the Swedish studio King, Persson led the creation of projects such as Pet Rescue Saga. He came to Goodgame Studios together with his development team, which he headed. The specialization of Persson’s department will be casual games. He will release his first project, puzzle, this year. According to Develop Online, the department is simultaneously working on several other titles.
Persson, according to the management of Goodgame Studios, was hired as part of the company’s expansion strategy. In addition, the studio is going to actively “move towards casual games.”
Goodgame Studios is a German game company, the author of the game Empire: Four Kingdoms. In 2014, she won the title of the largest game developer in Germany. The audience of the company’s games is more than 200 million registered users.
A source: http://www.develop-online.net
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