Office Closure
Wooga closes Japan office as it moves localisation efforts back to Berlin
Berlin developer moves localisation efforts back to Germany
Company Profile
Wooga GmbH
Website
www.wooga.com
About
Wooga was founded in 2009 by Jens Begemann, Philipp Moeser, and Patrick Paulisch to create computer games for everyone.
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Principal UA Manager
Hermione McKee
Chief Financial Officer
Lenka Kaciakova
Director of Operations
Annelie Biernat
Lead Product Manager
Melanie Zimmermann
Head of Marketing at Wooga
Philipp Stelzer
Live Ops & Ads Lead
Sebastian Kriese
Partnerships & Corporate Development
Matt Roberts
Head of Studio
Marco Rizzotti
Senior 3D Character Artist
Rebecca Harwick
Lead Writer, Adventure Studio
Kaspar Hübener
Product Manager
Glenna Buford
Engineering Lead
Nai Chang
MD
Amanda Gicharu
Game Writer
Martin Müller
Vice president of games
Jan Miczaika
COO
Martin Rusev
Associate publishing director
Maike Steinweller
Head of Communications
Dennis Korf
Managing director
Jens Begemann
Founder & CEO
Matt Hood
Senior Talent Acquisition Manager
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Accolades
Articles featuring Wooga GmbH
Live And Kicking
Three years on: Wooga on the evolution of Jelly Splash
Product Lead Philipp Stelzer reflects on the game's life so far
Might And Magic On Mobile
Black Anvil's first and last game: the making of Warlords
Putting the 'core' back in midcore
Game Over
Midcore spin-off studio Black Anvil shut down as part of Wooga cuts
Warlords its last game, Studio Head departs
Iap Inspector
How does Wooga's midcore debut Warlords monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Wooga Job Cuts
Wooga cuts 40 jobs amid a restructuring of its casual games development
Black Anvil seemingly unaffected
The Time Is Soon
Wooga on establishing a scalable smartwatch gaming market ahead of Apple Watch 2 and watchOS 3
CEO Jens Begemann on Fish Time and experimenting with IAP
Wrist Quick
Wooga's debut Apple Watch game is retaining players twice as well as mobile games
A new way to play
Best Of The Best
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2016
The shakers, movers and moneymakers
Smart Time?
Paul Virapen on why smartwatch gaming, not VR, is the big, new opportunity for Wooga
Wrist over head
Never The Twain
Wooga on its tactical separation of core and casual development, and why wearables will trump VR
Jens Begemann and Wilhelm Oesterberg on the casual/midcore divide
Wooga Spin-off
Wooga spins off new core-focused studio, Black Anvil Games
Turn-based strategy Warlords coming soon from new studio
Iap Inspector
Standard delivery: the monetisation of Futurama: Game of Drones
IAPs from the players' perspective
Match That
FTUE: Futurama: Game of Drones
Wooga has Good News
Always Selling
How Wooga combines segmentation and monetisation along its players' lifecycle
Philipp Stelzer talks actionable strategies
Beyond Ltv
Video: Wooga on looking beyond your game's LTV
Not all installs are trackable
It's Bender Time
Wooga gets into the IP game with the announcement of Futurama: Game of Drones
Small screen heroes
Future Time
Wooga hires hires WearGa CEO Paul Virapen to kickstart its new wearable dev team
Cupcake Dungeon man now in Berlin
What’s Next
We’re ignoring VR to focus on smartwatches, says CEO of casual mobile dev Wooga
Slush’s Future of Games
Publisher Problems
Video: Wooga, GREE, Spil, Roadhouse and Playphone discuss publishing power
"There's always a good time to go to a publisher."
Berlin Calling
Berlin studio Wooga seeking experienced strategy game designer
Designer wanted to polish strategy game prototypes
Open The Floodgates
How to fire your boss, according to Wooga's Adam Telfer
GDC Europe sees some unusual advice
Get Hired
How to get a job at Berlin mobile developer Wooga
Head of HR Vera Termühlen reveals top tips
Overseeing Recruitment
Wooga appoints Vera Termuhlen as Head of Human Resources
Bringing 9 years' experience
Understanding market research helps your game become a hit says Wooga's marketing head
Eric Seufert on design and total addressable market
German developer Wooga appoints new head of finance
Money matters
Jobs Board
LINE man joins Wooga, Zynga's reshuffle continues, and Next Games looking for designers
Job lot
Jobs
Wooga hires ex-LINE game man to run new Japan office
Heading east
Video
Wooga's Sebastian Kriese says Inflate your player's ego. Don't crush it
I should be so lucky
The Global View
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2014
The shakers, makers and movers
Gdc 2014
Wooga on using the FUUU factor to hit the top of the App Store
May the force be with FUUU
Exclusive: Hit by Apple's clause 2.25, app discovery tool MagicSolver set to 'call it a day'
All staff to be let go
PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: Flappy Bird causes a flap, Dungeon Keeper creates a stir, and Puzzle & Dragons tops $1 billion
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
I wrote Freemium Economics to encourage better F2P games not more, says Eric Seufert
De-mystifing the principles
PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: Phablets explode, PlayRaven raises $2.3M, Linekong raises $80M, and lessons learned from PG Connects
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Over 550 signed up to PG Connects as we countdown to 20 January
Join them (and us) at London's Vinopolis
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The past 365 days in bite-sized portions
2013 In Review: Top 5 conference talks of 2013
Speakers who were half-bricking it
Hot Five: Less than 0.1% of App Store games succeed, Fishlabs sells up, and controversial comments from Game Connection
Last week's top five stories
Less than 0.1% of App Store games are successful, claims Wooga
And why you should 'celebrate' killing games in development
The Charticle: Jelly Splash for KakaoTalk
Can it match its US success in Korea?
Newbie Mobile Gamer on matching colours and spending money in Jelly Splash
Truth through inexperience
We're a mobile-first company, but Facebook is still half our revenue says Wooga CEO
Making the most of platforms' synergies
Make love, not metrics: Wooga on the importance of romancing the player
#GDCEurope Timo Dries talks Monster World
Prototyping at Wooga: How to find the needle in the haystack
Head of Studio Antti Hattara reveals its method
They're All Hot
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2013
The shakers, makers and movers
Wooga: 15 months ago, we made no money on mobile. Now it's half our revenue
Now making a move on midcore
Wooga: Mobile will be bigger than the web in 2013
Planning for a 'less important' PC market
Diamond Dash amassing 100,000 downloads a day on iOS, reveals Wooga CEO Begemann
Mobile and social strategy a no brainer
Wooga: We've not given up on the HTML5 revolution
May be part of mobile move, says Kaufmann