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Company Profile
Traplight Games
Website traplightgames.com/
About
Traplight Games, based in Tampere, Finland is a mobile game studio of 12 people established in 2010.
Currently developing their debut iOS title What on Earth!, the company aims to revolutionize the way players – and the game industry – conceive and experience user-generated content. The company has collaborated with big game companies such as Redlynx/Ubisoft and Supercell.
The core team Riku Rakkola, Jari Paananen, Sami Kalliokoski and Seppo Santapukki share years of experience in game development, and prior to founding Traplight worked with companies such as Disney, Warner, Sega and LucasArts.
Articles featuring Traplight Games
Case Study
Securing fair play in mobile games: Traplight and Battle Legion
Check out how Denuvo’s Mobile Protection technology helps games combat cheaters and hacks
The Iap Inspector
How does Battle Legion monetise?
Does Traplight's new strategy title fight fair or are its tactics medieval?
Making Money
Traplight secures $9 million in funding as it launches Battle Legion worldwide
"We now have a game with huge potential and are proud to be partnering with EQT Ventures"
Player Creativity
Why you should consider developing user-generated content-based mobile games
Traplight creative director on the benefits of letting users be creative
Company Culture
What makes Traplight a great place to work?
Community and marketing manager Veera Rouvinen on life at the Finnish developer
User-generated Content
Can you merge social media and free-to-play games in a monetisable way?
Two approaches to user-generated content
Ugc Future
Big Bang Racing developer Traplight raises $2.7 million to create games for the Minecraft generation
Two new projects in the works
Bigger Bang
Traplight Games on turning Big Bang Racing into a user-generated content focused racer
Creative Director Sami Kalliokoski talks us through it
Bigger Bang
Big Bang Racing races past three million downloads in its first month
One million user generated levels too
Blowing Up
Big Bang Racing hits one million downloads in its first week
100,000 user-generated levels already available
Cash Up
Finnish dev Traplight raises $1.4 million for its user-generated-focused debut Big Bang Racing
Second round closed
Investment
Traplight Games raises $500,000 to launch user-generated social racer What on Earth!
Serial investors Nikolaj Nyholm and Henric Suuronen involved