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London-based mobile game developer Space Ape Games raised $7 million during the investment round C. The amount of investments invested in the studio since its foundation in 2012 has reached $11 million, according to the Gamasutra resource.

The round was led by the Northzone venture capital fund. In addition, the funds came from investors Connect Ventures, Initial Capital and Accel Partners, which have already invested in the developer before.

The company, which is led by the former executive director of Electronic Arts John Earner, plans to spend money on staff expansion, as well as on further development of its new project Rival Kingdoms: Age of Ruin

The project was announced as a shareware strategy. The script for it is created with the participation of Rihanna Pratchett (Rhianna Pratchett). The daughter of the famous Terry Pratchett (Terry Pratchett) has already participated in the creation of games: she owns the authorship of the script for the game Tomb Raider.

Recall that the studio has already managed to mark itself in the mobile games market with the title Samurai Siege, – when creating which Clash of Clans was inspired.

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It was created in 2012 by John Earner, a native of the EA management team. The first project of the studio was the game Samurai Siege, a clone of the Finnish Clash of Clans.

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