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Bleacher League Entertainment Inc.
Bleacher League is a live sport betting social game that allows sports fans to experience the rush of live sports by wagering virtual dollars (and cash where permitted). Players can bet on who will win tonight’s game, or what will happen in real-time as their favorite player steps up to the plate or walks up to the line of scrimmage. As Bleacher Leaguers build or lose their bank their status adjusts from peewee to all star with the ability to earn special status for everything they do in the game from being the biggest trash talker to having the longest win streak.
Bleacher League is built upon a proprietary real-time sports data server that is the fastest in the market. The company also has approved patents on its core live data and predictions platform.
Currently available on the iPhone, Android, and Facebook. Bet on your sport now!
Casualing
Casualing is the first ever competitive network for social and mobile games. It connects different game players playing the game across different devices and social networks to compete against each other in elimination tournaments to win virtual currency and gift-cards.
Spyra Games
Spyra Games is focused on providing social casual strategy games for the male mobile gamer. Collectively they have the experience of Zynga, Playdom, Playfirst, Proctor & Gamble, and are focused on making a dent in the untapped Social RTS market. In their first game Army Cities, the player embarks on a journey towards World Domination through the creation of armed forces, engaging in social battles, and unlocking new territories.
BitPollen
BitPollen makes products to help developers deliver a personalized gaming experience to their players. By identifying and evaluating individual player behaviors, BitPollen builds an ifactor for each player. The ifactor is a summary of scores across key metrics like Life Time Value, Virality and Engagement. A developer can use the ifactor to tailor in-game content to each player, for example a developer can now focus monetization efforts on players that have shown to monetize on other games. BitPollen uses the ifactor to help players discover games that they will find engaging and worth sharing and spending money on.
Skillville
Skillville is a competitive casual gaming tournament platform for players to connect and compete for cash and prizes in fun and easy-to-learn casual games. The platform is a hybrid of a casual gaming portal and a casino website with social elements because players not only compete on individual casual games to win real cash and prizes but also get emotional rewards from the gamified meta layer on top of the portal.
Since the official launch in April 2010, over 1 million tournaments have been played and over $500,000 in prizes have been won by players in the community. They have some extremely engaged users on the website, and as a result, are able to monetize them at a very high rate. Lifetime value of a user on Skillville is $90. They are currently working on an Android version of our gaming tournament platform.
Shinobi Labs
Shinobi Labs creates fun games that make people more active. Their first game, Mobile Adventure Walks, a free-to-play iPhone game, is a cross between Geocaching and FourSquare. Players are set on a walking adventure as they solve clues one at a time that unlock their next stop on the route. Players can design their own walks, enabling growth as they share their creations with friends. Mobile Adventure Walks will launch on October 11th. Their monetization strategy includes in-game sponsorships, local deals, and in-app purchases. The founding team has a knack for building fun games that get people exercising by accident.
DreamsLair Entertainment
DreamsLair Entertainment is a social gaming startup focused on developing mid to hard core games for Facebook and mobile. DreamsLair Entertainment’s vision is to create digital entertainment that that will become synonymous with innovation and social interaction. To do this they are focusing on three main areas: exceptional MMO quality visual experiences; innovative social interactions; and a close bond with their players. Underlying these is their proprietary behavioral analytics platform.
Their first game, Ashtaria, is a fantasy based, social, RPG for the Facebook platform. In Ashtaria, players grow and strengthen their character, enhance their skills and make new connections while following the storyline quests and exciting challenges.
Pontaba
Pontaba is building Starlogic, the next generation 2D and 2.5D HTML5 cloud-based Games engine that will cut development time in half or more, deployed once, across multiple mobile platforms and the open web for game developers.
Starlogic is the only web-based (HTML5) engine to come with real-time multiplayer, single code base on client and server, persistent world storage, highly optimized canvas and networking out-of-the-box. Starlogic requires no plugins to run which means players can run theirr game without Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight, straight from their web browser or mobile device.
Starlogic includes an advanced realtime networking system that abstracts away the complex details of multiplayer / networked game programming while allowing you to maintain low-level control when it is desirable to do so.
The Starlogic Game Engine is a modern web-based game engine that allows you to rapidly develop multi-platform / multi-device games utilizing the open web stack. Starlogic supports both 2D and isometric games and utilizes a high-speed canvas-based renderer. Our programmers and user interface experts leverage the latest development trends and the freshest techniques.
Bushi-go
Bushi-go is a new media company developing long-format, episodic games for iOS and Android based devices. There is a convergence underway between the videogame, web and broadcast industries. Episodic videogames have already proven to be profitable under the right conditions, and Bushi-go is the company that will take this new media to the next, inevitable level.
Viroxoty Studios
Founded by Joel Goodrich and Damion Matthews, leaders in the glamourous worlds of fashion and entertainment, Viroxoty Studios is a social mobile game studio focused on creating games revolving around the world of Fashion and dressing up. Viroxoty Studios launched their first game, “Fashionista FaceOff” in January 2011 to rave reviews in the fashion world. Described in one article as “Tech-obsessed meets fashion-obsessed”, this a very addicting fashion game with beautiful graphics, a fun story line, exciting social and competitive elements and has a highly engaged fan base. It was also recently featured at a major Neiman Marcus event and has been demo’d at other events in Silicon Valley.
Gabagool Games
Gabagool Games is focused on making quality midcore mobile games with a focus on retro and humor. Their first IP titled 「Ghost Ninja: Zombie Beatdown”, (GNZB) a side scroller Zombie slasher game that has been positively received on the iPhone market and has reached 200,000 downloads with very limited marketing