The developer conference code.talks took place on October 9th and 10th right here in Hamburg. Goodgame Studios attended the event as a platinum sponsor with a large stand including a foosball table, sitting area, and iPads for playing Empire: Four Kingdoms. There was also a GGS raffle which awarded a Playstation 4 to one lucky winner.
This September, Cologne was visited by dmexco, an expo for marketing experts and those looking to follow in their footsteps. Since Goodgame Studios wants to expand its online marketing team, we kept an eye out for talented people at the event who feel at home in mobile or online marketing. We develop international campaigns to make our products even more famous around the world, so we are always looking to strengthen our team.
Once a year, all computer and video game fans have their eyes on Cologne when the gaming industry has a date with gamescom to present their innovations in the historic city. Although last year’s visitor record was not quite met, 335,000 people again flocked to the convention between 13th- 17th August – even though there were no new consoles to admire this year.
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This time the good news comes from Asia, as our Business Development and Rollout teams have achieved a great success: an agreement for cooperation with Qihoo 360, China’s biggest Android app store. Goodgame Studios is the first German gaming company to work with Qihoo 360. Thanks to the agreement, Empire: Four Kingdoms will be available to the app store’s 300 million users from October 2014. Caglar and Michael, who are in charge of the project, traveled to Shanghai to attend ChinaJoy, Asia’s biggest gaming trade show, from July 31st until August 3rd, and revealed the upcoming collaboration in a joint announcement with our new partners.
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For the first time, a games category was added for the prize for young talent in the international animation industry. It was an honor for us to provide the €4000 worth of prize money. Encouraging young talent is essential for the gaming industry, as we are always in need of qualified and talented personnel in the art department.
A speech was given at the ceremony by GameOne legend and Games TV pioneer Daniel Budiman. He gave an impassioned but also very amusing talk on the importance of the flourishing gaming industry, especially in Hamburg, and how it has been ignored and stigmatized for years. Only slowly, said Budiman, are people realizing how important games are as a basic need, and how many jobs and unusual career opportunities are offered by the industry. People are also coming round to the fact that video games do not mean scams, dependency and killing sprees, he added.
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The Wedel University of Applied Sciences recently held their biannual programming competition, which is open to all students of the university. Goodgame Studios sponsored the event and donated prizes totaling €1000.
The task for the competition concerned artificial intelligence. Two computers had to be programmed to play the number game 2048 against each other. The program had to run on Linux. Students worked together in small groups, and the results were presented at the end to be judged. Before the ceremony, while the judges were weighing up the teams’ efforts, our Chief Technical Officer Stefan gave a short presentation about Goodgame Studios. We are always looking for well-qualified specialist staff to join our team of 200 programmers. The competition was a good opportunity to introduce ourselves as a company and to discover coding talent.
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