06-14-2019, 09:22 AM
AppOnboard Acquire Buildbox
<div><p><a href="https://apponboard.com/">AppOnboard</a>, perhaps most famous for the technology powering the Google App Store “Try Now” functionality have just acquired <a href="https://www.buildbox.com/">BuildBox</a>. BuildBox is a nocode or codeless game engine that just released version 3.0 and <a href="https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/05/22/BuildBox-Pricing-Changes.aspx">announced a pricing change</a>. The acquisition will not change the management or structure of the BuildBox team.</p>
<p>Details from the BuildBox <a href="https://www.buildbox.com/apponboard-acquires-buildbox/">blog announcement</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I’m extremely excited to announce the next chapter for Buildbox, and explain how we’re going to vastly expand our product, ability, and community going forward, but before I do that I believe it’s most important to discuss what is not changing.</p>
<p>With this acquisition, every single employee is staying with Buildbox, including myself and Nik. Buildbox will run independently — as it always has — while being able to grow much more quickly, and tap into the great resources that AppOnboard provides. Nik and I will still be focused 100% on vision and additions to complete line of our products. We will not be making any changes in product, besides improvements and additions we already have planned.</p>
<p>What we will have access too, that we did not before, is resources to help us hire more developers, content creators and more for Buildbox. You’ll see our development times vastly improve, and content creation for Buildbox speed up drastically.</p>
<p>AppOnboard is amazingly dedicated to not changing our vision, but helping us see it through to its largest potential.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>AppOnboard have also released a statement <a href="https://apponboard.com/blog/apponboard-and-buildbox/">available here</a>. BuildBox also released an email to all developers with the following details (thanks J.P for the heads-up!):</p>
<blockquote>
<p>A lot of changes are underfoot and all of them positive! Every employee from Buildbox that you know and love are all still here and will definitely be here for a long time. We’re the same Buildbox team that you know and love; it’s just that we have much more resources now to hire more developers, content creators, etc!<br />So what’s next for us?</p>
<ul>
<li>a FREE version of Buildbox</li>
<li>much better Android, ad network, and export support</li>
<li>new nodes and smart assets</li>
<li>a new smart asset store</li>
<li>roadmapping expansions for the MasterCollection software</li>
<li>lots and lots of Buildbox 3 Upgrades</li>
<li>… and so much more!</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>At face value, this development seems like a pure win for existing BuildBox developers.</p>
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<div><p><a href="https://apponboard.com/">AppOnboard</a>, perhaps most famous for the technology powering the Google App Store “Try Now” functionality have just acquired <a href="https://www.buildbox.com/">BuildBox</a>. BuildBox is a nocode or codeless game engine that just released version 3.0 and <a href="https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/05/22/BuildBox-Pricing-Changes.aspx">announced a pricing change</a>. The acquisition will not change the management or structure of the BuildBox team.</p>
<p>Details from the BuildBox <a href="https://www.buildbox.com/apponboard-acquires-buildbox/">blog announcement</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I’m extremely excited to announce the next chapter for Buildbox, and explain how we’re going to vastly expand our product, ability, and community going forward, but before I do that I believe it’s most important to discuss what is not changing.</p>
<p>With this acquisition, every single employee is staying with Buildbox, including myself and Nik. Buildbox will run independently — as it always has — while being able to grow much more quickly, and tap into the great resources that AppOnboard provides. Nik and I will still be focused 100% on vision and additions to complete line of our products. We will not be making any changes in product, besides improvements and additions we already have planned.</p>
<p>What we will have access too, that we did not before, is resources to help us hire more developers, content creators and more for Buildbox. You’ll see our development times vastly improve, and content creation for Buildbox speed up drastically.</p>
<p>AppOnboard is amazingly dedicated to not changing our vision, but helping us see it through to its largest potential.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>AppOnboard have also released a statement <a href="https://apponboard.com/blog/apponboard-and-buildbox/">available here</a>. BuildBox also released an email to all developers with the following details (thanks J.P for the heads-up!):</p>
<blockquote>
<p>A lot of changes are underfoot and all of them positive! Every employee from Buildbox that you know and love are all still here and will definitely be here for a long time. We’re the same Buildbox team that you know and love; it’s just that we have much more resources now to hire more developers, content creators, etc!<br />So what’s next for us?</p>
<ul>
<li>a FREE version of Buildbox</li>
<li>much better Android, ad network, and export support</li>
<li>new nodes and smart assets</li>
<li>a new smart asset store</li>
<li>roadmapping expansions for the MasterCollection software</li>
<li>lots and lots of Buildbox 3 Upgrades</li>
<li>… and so much more!</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>At face value, this development seems like a pure win for existing BuildBox developers.</p>
<p align="center"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='853' height='480' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/SfI_xVvJhTs?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe></p>
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