Wooga has announced that Hidden June’s Journey has crossed the $1 billion gross revenue milestone faster than any other German-developed mobile game. It took her six years.

Wooga released the Hidden June’s Journey storyline in 2017. According to the company with reference to the data data.ai , now it is the highest-grossing mobile game in the genre.

The analytical company Naavik, commissioned by Wooga Studio, conducted a study of the top 50 mobile puzzles in the Western market. The results showed that very few titles can boast of racial diversity and representation of LGBTQ+ representatives.

The developer of social casinos Playtika bought the German Wooga. Thanks to this deal, casual games will make up half of Playtika’s gaming portfolio.

German mobile developer Wooga ended 2017 with a profit, and the company’s revenues have increased by 40% over the past 12 months. The main source of revenue was the mobile “hidden object” June’s Journey, released in April last year.

Translation of an article by game designer Philipp Zupke, in which he analyzes in detail the game cycle and original solutions in the design of the June’s Journey casual game session.

In the German Wooga again layoffs. The company has decided to focus on the development of games with a plot and, in this regard, is conducting a complete restructuring.

Jan Miczaika, former chief operating officer of the German mobile casual developer studio Wooga, will support startups in the venture company Holtzbrinck Ventures.

A report by Elena Tsarkova from Wooga at White Nights St. Petersburg 2017.

The authors of Jelly Splash have not had the most successful year. After the dismissal of 40 employees and the dissolution of Black Anvil Games, the company closes the Tokyo office.

The German publisher and developer of mobile games Wooga announced a 10% reduction in staff. The company decided to stop creating midcore projects and focus on a casual audience.

Adam Telfer, product lead of Wooga, shared his experience of “soft launch” of his projects within the framework of the latest GDC. The Russian version of the report is on our pages.

The German company Wooga launches the studio Black Anvil Games. The division’s specialization will be midcore mobile games.

A mobile game based on the Futurama TV series is in development. The development is led by the authors of Diamond Dash and Jelly Splash – Germans from Wooga.

Wooga believes that wearable gadgets are more promising than VR. Therefore, the company will create a game development department for wearable devices.

As part of a round table at the Slush 2015 conference, which opened today in Helsinki, Wooga CEO Jens Begemann said that the company is not going to engage in VR development.

We continue to post videos of reports from White Nights 2015. The presentation is next Stefan Sandri (Stefano Sandri), a marketing specialist at Wooga, about how his team promoted hidden Agent Alice before the release.

Why Wooga released a game for watches; why do fritupley hiddens have a high retention; how the decision is made to publish third-party games – about this and more App2Top.ru I talked with the marketing specialist of the German company Stefan Sandri, who will perform in three weeks at White Nights 2015.

The German company Wooga, which previously produced exclusively games of its own design, acted for the first time as a publisher of a third-party title.