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Fork, golf and win for EuRuKo

posted on May 3, 2012 comments
Wooga has a very special relationship with EuRuKo. Four of the organizers from last year’s conference work here at Wooga. We love EuRuKo, we love Ruby and we love open source. The tickets to this year’s conference in Amsterdam went like hot cakes. However, if you weren’t lucky enough to get your hands on aRead the Rest…

Planting Ideas: Urban Seed

posted on April 25, 2012 comments
How do you raise awareness for climate change without raising a finger? That was the key question Game Design students had to ask themselves after their professors approached them with the idea to create a game for the Climate Media Factory. A few months later those students and the Mediadesign Hochschule can proudly present ‘Urban Seed’ – a cooperative game project worked on in collaboration with Wooga.

A Pirate’s Life For Me: Students Present Game Project at Wooga

posted on March 20, 2012 comments
When Wooga met five students from the Centre for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM) in Munich, the result was not as you might have expected; sugar, rum and pirates. Borne out of Wooga’s university initiative, where it seeks out promising up and comers to learn what it is like working in the industry, the world may soon have a new social games developer.

Diamonds Are Forever: Diamond Dash Turns One

posted on March 15, 2012 comments
Today marks the one year anniversary of Diamond Dash on Facebook! Wooga’s 5th game launched on March 15th 2011 and has since gone on to excite players from all over the world with it’s addictive 60 second gem rush gameplay.

Growing Out of Europe: Social Games Around the World

posted on March 5, 2012 comments
San Francisco, 05 March 2012: Wooga, the world’s third biggest developer of social games, will be attending this week’s Games Developers Conference in San Fransisco, with a team of over 20 employees attending in search of new industry talent.

Wooga Goes to GDC

posted on March 2, 2012 comments
The excitement level has reached a fever pitch. Throughout the Wooga office there are bags packed, people huddled about, and the words“GDC” and “San Francisco” can be frequently be heard amongst the hustle and bustle. The Game Developers Conference kicks off in San Francisco next week, and there’s a huge flock of Woogas attending!

Diamond Dash goes mobile – Wooga launches popular social game for iOS

posted on December 7, 2011 comments
Diamond Dash, the most popular arcade game on Facebook, is now available as a free download in the App Store. As of today, Wooga, the world’s third largest developer of social games, is offering Diamond Dash for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. This exciting game first launched on Facebook, where it has fascinated over 10 million people per month. Today, the company introduced the new mobile version live on stage at Europe’s largest Internet conference, Le Web in Paris.

Ich bin ein Berliner Monster

posted on November 2, 2011 comments
It shouldn’t be a big secret that wooga and our 120 employees from all over the world really love Berlin. Living and working in this vibrant city feels so great that is was only a matter of time until we had to share our appreciation virtually.

Magic Land: Island – A Behind the Scenes Look

posted on October 14, 2011 comments
A few months ago, we secretly began a collaborative project with Facebook that would later be leaked as ‘Project Spartan’. The project’s goal was to develop a mobile platform game that could work inside of a browser and, also, be embedded into the new iPhone and iPad applications from Facebook. The details we were given appeared quite vague but the gist of it was this: Develop a game that runs on mobile browsers.

Magic Land Island: Wooga sets sail for mobile social games

posted on October 10, 2011 comments
Today, wooga launches its first mobile game Magic Land Island on Facebook’s mobile apps and mobile site (m.facebook.com). Magic Land Island is an HTML5 game, which is now accessible on all smartphones and tablets, allowing users to play wherever and whenever they want with their friends.

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