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Company
Skilladdiction
Bio
Skilladdiction 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. We have some extremely engaged users on the website, and as a result, we are able to monetize them at a very high rate. Lifetime value of a user on SkillAddiction is $90. We are currently working on an Android version of our gaming tournament platform.
Company
BitPollen
Bio
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 summery 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 engage with, share and monetize on.
Company
Bushi-go
Bio
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.
Company
Gabagool Games
Bio
Gabagool Games is focused on making quality midcore mobile games with a focus on retro and humor. Our 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.
Company
Viroxoty
Bio
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.
Company
Kid Replay
Bio
Kid Replay is the next generation gaming company focused on creating casual and social gaming experiences with high replay value. Founded by a core group of gamers out of San Francisco, Kid Replay's goal is to win the hearts of non-gamers and core-gamers alike with games that boast high-quality, compelling art and simple mechanics. Our passion drives us to create unique titles that are oozing with character and excitement. Be on the look out as Kid Replay is close to releasing our first feature title in late Fall 2011!