Summer has finally arrived – so has the first Rails Girls Summer of Code

June 17, 2013 -

Inspired by Google’s Summer of Code the organizers and coaches of Rails Girls have worked on their own worldwide Rails Girls Summer of Code.

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School interns adventures at Wooga

June 11, 2013 -

At Wooga we try and encourage the next generation of game makers and what better way to do that than by giving hands on experience. In the last few weeks we’ve been very lucky to have two student interns from a local Berlin school work here at Wooga. They’ve been working in various teams as part of their 9th grade work experience program.

Here are their thoughts on their experiences at Wooga.
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Hacking around the World – The Paypal Battle Hack at Wooga

June 9, 2013 -



Ten cities – ten different hacks – one goal: winning 100,000 USD at the finals in San Jose, California. That is the Paypal Battle Hack in numbers. This weekend the first showdown took place in Berlin – hosted at the Wooga offices. The task: 24 hours time for the developers, who came from Germany, the Netherlands and Belarus to build awesome apps that help people relocate, live or found in Berlin.

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Make some frenemies: Kingsbridge Out Today on Facebook.com

May 28, 2013 -

  • Town attack and defence game now available worldwide
  • Making deep gameplay accessible for all
  • Build a medieval town, recruit an army and conquer the world!

Batten the hatches and sharpen those swords, Kingsbridge is out today! Hop on over to Facebook.com and get ready for a game that will please new and veteran gamers alike.

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Wooga Releases ‘Fantastic Forest’ On Facebook Today

May 21, 2013 -

  • Fantastic Forest now available worldwide on Facebook.com
  • Humorous pop-culture references abound in this character driven simulation game
  • 3-year old hit, Monster World, rolling out massive expansion on May 28th

Buckle up and prepare for an all new adventure! Fantastic Forest, Wooga’s latest game for Facebook.com, is now available to play worldwide.

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The Art of HR: Hiring The Right People

May 15, 2013 -

Yesterday, the Heureka Conference opened its doors in Berlin for the second time. Entrepreneurs, investors and people interested in the striving start-up scene came together to attend keynote speeches, panels and workshops. Among many other prominent speakers, Wooga’s Head of HR, Gitta Blatt, was invited to hold a keynote. In “The art of HR: Hiring the right people”, Gitta gladly shared our approach on how to attract, find and keep the right talent, because hiring them is essential for a company’s success.
Feel free to download & share the slides!
Gründerszene ran a live-ticker, you can see some nice impressions from the event here:

Shed Sweat & Raise Awareness: The Berlin Women’s Run

May 6, 2013 -

This past weekend, the German capital saw the 30th edition of the Berlin Women’s Run – Germany’s biggest breast cancer awareness-run. For a huge group of sporty Wooga women and their frenetic supporters this event offered a great opportunity to raise awareness for an important cause, while participating in a fun athletic activity and get-together (which we obviously enjoy here at Wooga).

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From Keyboards to Fingertips – Rethink Game Design! @QuoVadis 2013

April 30, 2013 -

We visited Quo Vadis last week to meet and exchange with other representatives where the games industry is headed. Besides an interesting panel, Wooga’s Founder & CEO, Jens Begemann, also shared his views on the future of game design in his presentation “From Keyboards to Fingertips – Rethink Game Design!”.

 

Summary:

One thing has become clear in the computer industry over the past four decades: UI, not technology, governs large leaps in adoption. In the first age of personal computing, keyboard-centric character-based UI’s limited access to only those sufficiently motivated (and antisocial) to suffer such dramatic abstraction of the world we live in. In the 2nd age, GUI’s and a “Mouse” opened the usage of personal computers to a much broader audience and enabled a first change in game genres. Today, we are poised on the brink of the 3rd age. With touchscreen devices, the mouse has been replaced by our fingertips and games can be played by everyone, anytime, anywhere. Join Jens Begemann, CEO and Founder of Wooga, as he beholds this new age in game genres and proposes why this new UI standard is a revolutionary, not evolutionary, influence on our industry.

You can find many more presentations on Wooga’s official SlideShare account. Feel free to dowload and share!

With Kit and Caboodle: Families @Wooga

April 24, 2013 -

Sometimes, out in the mean wide world, employees can be afraid to tell their colleagues that they are expecting a child. They think this might run them into a little trouble, or at the least might complicate their work. Quite the opposite happens here at Wooga. As soon as an employee brings up that he/she has a child or is expecting one, our Wooga S.T.O.R.K. (Super-Talented-Organizer-Regarding-Kids) is there to help and guide them through any support they might require as well as all those haphazard offices.

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Wooga Office Tour!

April 22, 2013 -

Ever wanted to see what walking through our office really feels like? Looked at the pictures, but still need something more lively? Well, finally you can get more than a quick impression thanks to this sweet behind-the-scenes video of our Woogalicious office.

What do you think?

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