5 Questions for: Lamis, Web Development

While the IT industry is still quite male-dominated, more and more women choose to pursue a career in that field, and at Goodgame Studios, we now have a workforce that is over 30% female – which is well above industry standards. One of our female IT experts is Lamis, who started coding as a hobby when she was still a teenager living in Syria. Today, more than 13 years later, she is working as a backend developer at Goodgame Studios in Hamburg. We asked her what brought her here and what she is doing in her current role.

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Celebrating 300 million registered players

We’re pleased to announce a new milestone in the history of Goodgame Studios: over 300 million registered users from around the globe are now officially enjoying our games, almost the entire population of the United States of America. That’s not all! Every minute, another 90 new players join the fun.

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Why ownership is essential to foster growth

We’ve come a long way since Goodgame Studios was founded just about 6 years ago, catering to millions of people all over the world with our games made, created, and maintained by our more than 1200 employees. Each one of them contributes to this success. To enable everyone to make use of their talent, we believe that it is important to offer everyone creative freedom and opportunities to take ownership of tasks and projects. Read more

GOOD Studios – Classic Studio in Big Farm fever

It’s been almost seven years since Goodgame Studios developed and launched its first game. Thanks to the big success of Goodgame Poker, more titles followed, like Gangster, Disco, Café, Fashion, and Shadow Kings – now all under the care of our Classic Studio. The team works hard to keep these games running as although there is no longer any new content developed for these classic Goodgame titles, the games continue to have a huge fan base of around 60 million players worldwide! The Classic Studio’s main project is our beloved farm game, Goodgame Big Farm, which has more than 40 million fans alone competing to build up the biggest and most beautiful farm. We sat down with Dennis, the product owner, to ask him about the studio and his work leading the production of Big Farm.
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Why women are vital to the gaming industry

These days, more and more women are choosing a career in the gaming industry.  Compared to industry standards, Goodgame Studios stands at the forefront of equality with a workforce that’s a good 30% female. Since we focus on data and facts when making decisions, it’s only logical that we try to remain as objective as possible when selecting our talented employees. Software developers like Anika prove that it’s been a long time since the gaming industry and software development were a man’s world. As a member of our recently announced 4th Floor studio, she uses Unreal Engine to work on Goodgame Studios’ first client-based title for PC. Read more