News in Short: Goodgame Studios (deutsche startups, 04/05/2011)
Rapid growth: The online game factory Goodgame Studios (www.goodgamestudios.com) from Hamburg has released its latest figures: The number of registrations has rocketed fifty-fold to 25 million players in 2010. “Goodgame Studios’ success is first and foremost based on our awesome team, who promotes our company with intelligence, teamwork and passion,” says co-manager Christian Wawrzinek. This year, Goodgame Studios will expand its game portfolio to include the genre of strategy games.
Continue (in German): www.deutsche-startups.de/2011/04/05/kurzmitteilungen…/
Into Independence with the Pedal to the Medal (Wirtschaftswoche, 03/28/11)
Whoever wants to be a successful entrepreneur should take a close look at the fields of environmental technology, medicine, mobile services and social games. Since Kai and Christian Wawrzinek published their first online game in the summer of 2009 the founders of Goodgame Studios have hired 100 employees. The Hamburg based company has already developed eight social games.
Continue (in German): wiwo_11.03.28.pdf
Saturday App Fever: Goodgame Studios (netzwertig, 03/19/11)
Goodgame Studios – a further developer of social games from Germany – has now made all games accessible via a portal as well. The portfolio contains the usual suspects, but the decoupling from Facebook definitely opens up a new dimension, especially since the games can be accessed immediately, without prior registration, and tested in full screen mode.
Continue (in German): http://netzwertig.com/2011/03/19/samstag-app-fieber…
Goodgame Draws Positive Balance after a Successful Initial Phase (gamesmarkt, 02/22/11)
As the booming browser game industry’s European epicenter, Hamburg is a great place for game start-ups. Goodgame Studios’ first stock-taking after being in business one and a half years is another proof for that. In June 2009 the company started out with its product “Goodgame Poker”, 20 employees and 500,000 registered users.
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Interesting Alternatives (Internet World Business, 02/21/11)
Game and app developers often forgo Facebook, too. “There’s too much competition among social games there,“ says Christian Wawrzinek from Hamburg based Goodgame Studios. “The costs for reaching an individual player are much higher, the marketing budget exceeds the development costs for a lot of games on Facebook.“ Goodgame has partnered with several networks in order to avoid being dependent on a single channel of distribution.
Continue (in German): www.internetworld.de/Heftarchiv/2011/Ausgabe-04-2011/…
Meet “Goodgame Hercules”! (GamingXP, 02/21/11)
After we already introduced you to the two games “Goodgame Fashion” and “Goodgame Magic City”, we would like to introduce you to another title from Goodgame Studios: ”Goodgame Hercules”.
Continue (in German): www.gamingxp.com/newsview-32705-goodgame_hercules…
“Goodgame Magic City”: New Online Role Playing Game! (GamingXP, 02/21/11)
Starting in March, the online role playing game “Goodgame Magic City” will allow you to have many adventures and discover the mysteries of a magical gaming world. You choose your own magician at the beginning of the game and are free to combine his looks and type of magic (ice, fire or nature).
Continue (in German): www.gamingxp.com/newsview-32623-goodgame_magic_city…
Meet “Goodgame Fashion”! (GamingXP, 02/21/11)
You’ve been dreaming of opening your own fashion store? How about giving it a try in virtual reality? “Goodgame Fashion”, an online game by Goodgame Studios, turns you into a hip fashion designer, who constantly sets new trends.
Continue (in German): www.gamingxp.com/newsview-32704-goodgame_fashion…
Erhard’s Great-Grandchildren (Handelsblatt, 02/18/11)
Without the 500,000 Euros that the Hamburger Sparkasse and the KfW Banking Group (two public credit institutions) granted as a loan, Christian and Kai Wawrzinek might have become a dentist and lawyer after all. Christian Wawrzinek earned a doctorate in orthodontia, his brother Kai passed the German law exam. Instead of a lab coat and a robe they now wear pullovers and sneakers to work – in Hamburg’s “Westend Village“, where British American Tobacco used to produce cigarettes and where agencies have now found a home. Here about 100 employees, mostly software engineers and graphic artists, develop internet games that are being played more than 70 million times a month according to company information.
Continue (in German): handelsblatt_11.02.18.pdf
Special: Foreseeing the Future: That’s What 2011 Will Be Like (gamesdynamite, 02/17/11)
Dr. Christian Wawrzinek on the Future of Browser Games on Gamesdynamite
The positive development of the industry is mirrored in Goodgame Studios‘ development. Since our foundation in June 2009 we grew to employing 100 people – and we want to at least double that number in 2011.
Continue (in German): http://bgs.gdynamite.de/specials_1441_site_1.html
deutsche-startups.de Pays Goodgame Studios a Visit (deutsche-startups.de, 02/10/11)
House Call at Goodgame Studios
This startup, which specializes in social games, underwent an impressive development last year: 20 employees became 100, and the office space was quadrupled to now 1000 square meters. deutsche-startup.de paid the game developers a visit in their home in the Hamburg “Westend Village”.
Continue (in German): www.deutsche-startups.de/2011/02/10/hausbesuch-bei-goodgame-studios/
Special Offer: Fountain for Goodgame Café (Computer Bild Spiele, 02/02/11 )
15 € Voucher for Goodgame Café in Computer Bild Spiele
In the latest issue you can find a €15 voucher for 150 Gold premium currency and an exclusive fish fountain for your Goodgame Café – only available for readers of Computer Bild Spiele.
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Career Goal Game Developer (Neue Westfälische, 01/31/11)
Goodgame Studios Interviewed by the Neue Westfälische
Robert Schmidt and Tim Schrader work as programmers at the Hamburg games studio „Goodgame Studios“. The studio produces so-called browser games: Free games with rather simple graphics for the internet. „According to the stereotypes we should be working in dark cellar rooms,” says Schmidt laughing. In reality they sit in bright offices – the developers can even use a swimming pool.
Continue (in German): www.nw-news.de/owl/4210750_Berufsziel…/
The Hot Streets of Boomtown (text intern, 01/26/11)
text intern on Hamburg Based Startup Goodgame Studios
The Number of Hanseatic Online Startups Increases Again
Hamburg is, besides Berlin and Munich, the biggest location for German startups. text intern reports on the newcomer Goodgame Studios from Hamburg.
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The Five Most Widely Read Articles in 2010 (seedfinance, 01/17/11)
Pole Position for the Interview with Goodgame Studios on seedfinance
First Place
Interview with the Wawrzinek brothers, founders and CEOs of Goodgame Studios
Topic: On the future of online gaming
Continue (in German): www.seedfinance.de/2011/01/17/die-funf…/
Goodgame Studios publishes “Goodgame Disco” (GamingXP, 01/11/11)
GOODGAME DISCO is a multiplayer management game in which you can run your own club. This does not only require DJing, procuring drinks and going off to the beat, no, also the interior has to be designed and barkeepers and bouncers have to be supervised. The guests also have demands like free drinks, a more luxurious interior and music requests. You can visit other players’ clubs, compile friend lists and chat within the game.
Continue (in German): www.gamingxp.com/newsview-31733…/
Interview with infographics: The Playmakers (wiwo.de, 01/11/11)
The Founders of Goodgame Studios in the „Gründerraum“ Column of the Wirtschaftswoche
Without a doubt brothers Christian and Kai Wawrzinek have got what it takes to become a well-paid health professional and an in-demand lawyer. Both of them hold doctoral degrees in their fields. Christian’s dissertation was graded „magna cum laude“, whereas Kai graduated from law school with distinction. Christian is a popular public speaker and a published academic author. Kai held several scholarships and won prizes and is a member of the international high-IQ society Mensa. Both résumés are almost Nobel-Prize-winning material.
Continue (in German): www.wiwo.de/blogs/gruenderraum/2011/01/11/
Great opportunities for creative newcomers (Hamburger Abendblatt, 12/14/10)
14.12.10. Goodgame Studios in Hamburger Abendblatt
Great opportunities for creative newcomers
More and more musicians, philosophers and lawyers start a career in the game industry. The companies from Hamburg are seeking more than 400 qualified employees.
Hamburg. According to their parents’ vision, Kai und Christian Wawrzinek should have become happy owners of a law firm and of a dentist office respectively. Both of Wawrzineks even hold doctoral degrees in their fields. Nevertheless, they are currently making a living with development of computer games at their company Goodgame Studios which has recently moved to a new location in the high-end offices of Westend Village in Altona. The relocation was urgent: the company expanded drastically from 20 up to 100 employees during a period of seven months. Within the next year the functional capacity of the company must double up welcoming even more crew members sticking at online games development at long wooden tables. […]
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Prizes by Goodgame Studios at Christmas special (OGLabs, 12/12/10)
12.12.10. Prizes by Goodgame Studios at Christmas special on the oglabs.de
The OGLabs’ Christmas special
This year’s come-back of the big OGLabs‘ Christmas special
As in 2009, OGLabs is bringing out a nice Christmas surprise for you in cooperation with the leading developers of browser games. From today onward you have a chance to win a Christmas gift by a browser game forge of your preference.
Read more: http://www.oglabs.de/oglabs.php?s=bericht&b=2923-oglabs-weihnachtsspecial-2010
Hidden game delight – your Appvent calendar by lokalisten (lokalisten.de, 12/01/10)
01.12.10. Prizes by Goodgame Studios in the Advent calendar on the lokalisten.de
Hidden game delight – your Appvent calendar by lokalisten
The crafting of an Advent calendar is a tradition which we cherish. But this time we are going to sweeten up your pre-Christmas time with an Advent calendar unseen before! For all the friends of online gaming we hid prizes for your favorite online games Goodgame Mafia and Goodgame Café behind each wicket of the calendar.
Read more: http://sprechblase.lokalisten.de/2010/12/01/…/
