Sparkling Society

Sparkling Society is a game development company that creates games for mobile devices. It was founded in 2013 in the Netherlands. Mark Peeters (CEO) and Edwin Morren (CTO) are the two founders.

Sparkling Society
TypePrivate
IndustryMobile games
Founded2013
HeadquartersDelft, Netherlands
Key people
Mark Peeters (CEO). Edwin Morren (CTO)
ProductsFull list
Websitesparklingsociety.net

As of the beginning of May 2015 there were more than a million user sessions from all over the world who played a game from Sparkling Society, per day.[1]

History

Edwin Morren started developing games in his attic. His first (Android) app game was City Island. Mark Peeters joined him and together they started Sparkling Society.

City Island is a building game similar to the old SimCity games where you can create and manage the city of your dreams. At that time, City Island was only available for Android devices. Some Android users reviewed it as one of the best building tycoon games.[2][3]

After launching City Island, the company launched a Premium version (June, 2013) and a Winter Edition (September, 2013) of this game. (City Island: Winter Edition, City Island Premium). Because of great success, the Company decided to develop more games: City Island: Airport (May, 2013) and City Island Airport 2 (July, 2014).

Games and partnerships

Sparkling Society has grown fast and at the end of 2013 they started a partnership with Innovattic, another company from the Netherlands. Together they first brought City Island to iOS devices. Later, they developed more new games in Unity. Their current portfolio consists of the following games:[4]

  1. City Island 1 (2013)
  2. City Island: Winter Edition (2013)
  3. City Island (Premium) (2013)
  4. City Island: Airport (2013)
  5. City Island: Airport Asia (2013)
  6. City Island: Airport 2 (2014)
  7. City Island 2 (2013)
  8. City Island 3 (2014)
  9. Battle Empire: Roman Wars (2014)
  10. City Island 4 HD (2015)
  11. City Island 4 Basic (2016)
  12. Paradise Island Sim
  13. City Island 5

The game Battle Empire: Roman Wars is the first battle game of Sparkling Society which was intended as a tryout on matchmaking and scalability algorithms.

Since June 2015, a number of their games is also available on Windows Phone.

Currently, they are working on the next battle game.

In 2013, they also started a partnership with Smartions[5] to distribute their games in China. Through this partnership the Android versions of the games City Island 2 and City Island 3 are also available in the Chinese app stores.

To create all the game artwork, Sparkling Society make use of a worldwide network of passionate Freelancers. They select freelancers based on both passion and expertise, for example some freelancers only design the buildings in the City Island games and some freelancers design the UI elements such as icons and buttons.

References
  1. "Great news! More than a million user sessions from all over the world per day - Welcome To The Sparkling SocietyWelcome To The Sparkling Society". Sparklingsociety.net. Retrieved 2016-07-15.
  2. "City Island Review (Android)". Android Entity. Retrieved 2016-07-15.
  3. Wilks, Paul (2013-05-24). "City Island - casual tycoon game, build an empire on an island". AndroidTapp. Retrieved 2016-07-15.
  4. "Sparkling Society ™ - Android Apps on Google Play". Play.google.com. Retrieved 2016-07-15.
  5. "Sparkling Society Archives". Smartions.net. 2014-10-27. Retrieved 2016-07-15.
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