{"id":2197,"date":"2017-10-12T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/307511"},"modified":"2017-10-12T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T15:12:00","slug":"mobile-developer-supersolid-nets-4m-to-expand-london-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/12\/mobile-developer-supersolid-nets-4m-to-expand-london-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile developer Supersolid nets $4M to expand London team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile game developer Supersolid has netted $4 million in funding to ramp up production and expand its London team.<\/p>\n<p>The studio has\u00a0worked on a variety of titles including infinite runner,\u00a0<em>Super Penguin,\u00a0<\/em>and city-building RPG,\u00a0<em>Adventure Town<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2017\/10\/11\/supersolid-raises-4-million-as-it-preps-to-launch-home-street-mobile-game\/\">As reported by VentureBeat<\/a>, the company&#8217;s\u00a0growing roster has racked up over 50 million downloads to date.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Supersolid CEO and co-founder Ed Chin believes\u00a0the studio&#8217;s knack for creating engaging social and casual free-to-play titles is the secret to its success.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think a big part of our success comes from the long experience we have in the team for developing engaging social and casual free-to-play games,&#8221; explained\u00a0Chin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Much of our senior team have worked together for many years prior to the founding of Supersolid, and together we created some of the most successful early free-to-play games, which happened to be on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mobile games market has seen high saturation in particular game genres, but there remains a lot of opportunity in mastering new genres. We believe this to be especially the case for several under-served genres with a wider casual audience.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile game developer Supersolid has netted $4 million in funding to ramp up production and expand its London team. The studio has\u00a0worked on a variety of titles including infinite runner,\u00a0Super Penguin,\u00a0and city-building RPG,\u00a0Adventure Town.\u00a0 As reported by VentureBeat, the company&#8217;s\u00a0growing roster has racked up over 50 million downloads to date.\u00a0 Supersolid CEO and co-founder Ed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197","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\/2197","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=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}