{"id":111763,"date":"2020-04-16T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/361326"},"modified":"2020-04-16T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T15:24:00","slug":"superplus-games-nets-4-7-million-to-create-casual-pvp-titles-for-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/16\/superplus-games-nets-4-7-million-to-create-casual-pvp-titles-for-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Superplus Games nets $4.7 million to create casual PvP titles for mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finnish mobile studio Superplus Games has raised $4.7 million to create player-versus-player casual games.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2020\/04\/15\/superplus-raises-4-7-million-to-bring-player-versus-player-competition-to-casual-gamers\/\">As reported by VentureBeat<\/a>, the funding round was led by Makers Fund with additional financing from Business Finland and&nbsp;Sisu Game Ventures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2015 by a group of former Rovio and Digital Chocolate developers, Superplus&#8217; debut title, a physics-based tank battler called <em>Hills of Steel<\/em>, has amassed over 37 million downloads to date.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the studio has churned out a sequel in the form of<em>&nbsp;Hills of Steel 2<\/em> and diversified its portfolio with <em>Brawls of Steel<\/em>, an &#8220;instant battle royale&#8221; title set in a colorful arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finnish mobile studio Superplus Games has raised $4.7 million to create player-versus-player casual games.&nbsp; As reported by VentureBeat, the funding round was led by Makers Fund with additional financing from Business Finland and&nbsp;Sisu Game Ventures.&nbsp; Founded in 2015 by a group of former Rovio and Digital Chocolate developers, Superplus&#8217; debut title, a physics-based tank battler [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}