Creative Mobile

Creative Mobile OÜ
Private
Industry Interactive entertainment
Founded Tallinn, Estonia (2010)
Headquarters Tallinn, Estonia
Key people
Vladimir Funtikov (Co-founder)
Sergei Panfilov (Co-founder)
Serhiy Slyeptsov (Co-founder)
Products Drag Racing
Drag Racing: Bike Edition
Drag Racing 4x4
Drag Racing: Club Wars
Nitro Nation
Nitro Nation Stories
Fetty Wap: Nitro Nation Stories
Website www.creative-mobile.com

Creative Mobile is an independent video game developer and publisher[1] based in Tallinn, Estonia.[2][3]

Creative Mobile was founded in 2010 by 3 colleagues[4] interested in making games for the Android market.[5] The company quickly evolved into a leading game studio, consistently topping the Android and IOS game charts.[6] Creative Mobile has never raised any funds[7] and is still owned by the original founders.[8][9]

In 2012 Creative Mobile was named 'Startup of the Year' in Estonia[10][11] and a PocketGamer Top 50 Developer in 2013,[12] 2014[13] and 2015.[14] In 2014 Creative Mobile celebrated 200 million game installs on the Android platform.[15]

Creative Mobile is an investor of Gamefounders, a gaming accelerator based in Tallinn, Estonia They also are an organizer of the GameDev Days Conference[16] in cooperation with Tallinn University and GameFounders.[17]

Games developed and published

Creative Mobile is best known for the Drag Racing[18] and Nitro Nation[19] game franchises.

Drag Racing was listed by the New York Times as one of the 'Best Android Gaming Apps of 2011',[20] a 2012 Webby Award honree in the category of Mobile Sites & Apps Games[21] and is one of the most downloaded games on Google Play with over 100 million players worldwide.[22] In 2015 Nitro Nation Stories was awarded 'Best Mobile Game'[23] at the DevGamm conference in Hamburg. On April 26, 2016, it was announced that Creative Mobile and Moor Games were collaborating to release a mobile racing game featuring rapper Fetty Wap.[24] The game is offshoot of mobile game Nitro Nation Stories.

Year Title Platform(s)
2010 Basketball Shots 3D Android
Overkill Android
2011 Alchemy~Genetics Android
Drag Racing Android , IOS
Bad Blood Android
2012 Drag Racing: Bike Edition Android , IOS
Digger HD Android
Pocket Dragons Android
Clash of the Damned (Published) Android
2013
Drag Racing Java ME
Drag Racing 4x4 Android
Clash of the Damned (Published) Android , IOS
Mushroom Wars (Published) Android
War of Tanks (Published) Android
Basketball Shots 3D (Published) IOS
2014
Nitro Nation Online Android
Road Smash (Published) Android
Last Inua (Published) IOS
Snowboard Run (Published) Android
Zombie Harvest (Published) Android
Pinball Fantasy HD (Published) Android
War of Tanks: Clans (Published) Android
Hamster Balls (Published) Android, Facebook
Ambush! Tower Offense (Published) Android
2015 Nitro Nation Stories Android
Nitro Nation Online IOS, Windows Phone, Samsung
Stickman Trials (Published) Android, IOS
Drag Racing: Club Wars Android
2016
Fetty Wap: Nitro Nation Stories Android, IOS
Pocket Tower: Skyscraper (Published) Android, IOS
Cyberline Racing (Published) Android
Trigger Time (Published) Steam Greenlight

References

  1. "Creative Mobile Company Profile". pocketgamer.biz. Steel Media Ltd. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  2. Tammeorg, Brit. "Creative Mobile- ilma suure kärata Eestist maailma tippu!". directormeedia.ee. Ajakiri Director. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  3. "Funtikov: pole motivatsiooni Eestist ära kolida". aripaev.ee. AS Äripäev. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  4. Cheeseman, Gina-Marie. "Success Sometimes Comes After Failure". Nordic Business Report. Nordic Business Forum. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  5. "Insider Q&A: Creative Mobile CEO Vladimir Funtikov". Social Times. AdWeek.
  6. Huang, Elaine. "Creative Mobile CEO on Android-first, freemium and hiring". e27. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  7. "Creative Mobile : Success to Be Proud of". .ee Bubble.
  8. "26-летний русский — самый молодой среди ста самых богатых людей Эстонии". rus.delfi.ee. AS DELFI. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  9. "Mängutootja edu sai tagasilöögi". aripaev.ee. AS Äripäev. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  10. "Eesti aasta ettevõtted on PKC Eesti ja EMT". Enterprise Estonia. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  11. "Creative Mobile OÜ Start-up of the Year 2012". ettevotluskonkurss.ee. Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  12. "Top 50 Developers 2013". PocketGamer.biz. Steel Media. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  13. "Top 50 Developers 2014". PocketGamer.biz. Steel Media. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  14. "Top 50 Developers 2015". PocketGamer.biz. Steel Media. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  15. "Creative Mobile celebrates 200 million game installs on Android". Estonian World. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  16. "Game Dev Days 2015 Reveals Schedule Highlights". GamersFTW. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  17. "Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and Apple's share of the world experience the game in Tallinn". Postimees. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  18. Quinton, Catherine. "Creative Mobile - Drag Racers from Estonia". GameSauce. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  19. "Nitro Nation Speeds onto the App Store". Technology Tell.
  20. Bob, Tedeschi. "The Best Android Gaming Apps of 2011". The New York Times Blog. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  21. "2012 - MOBILE SITES & APPS Games (Handheld Devices)". The Webby Awards. The Webby Awards. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  22. Keith, Andrew. "Drag Racing dev: We expected players to abandon us for CSR Racing...but they didn't". pocketgamer.biz. Steel Media Ltd. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
  23. "DevGAMM Awards 2015". DevGamm Hamburg. Renatus Media. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  24. Low, Carver (April 26, 2016). "Fetty Wap Is Getting His Own Mobile Racing Game". HotNewHipHop.com. Retrieved 26 October 2016.

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