network service mobile games games development social games facebook games founded 2009 headquarters berlin germany key people jens begemann philipp moeser website http www.wooga.com wooga is a mobile first game developer located in berlin germany . 1 2 the company develops free to play mobile and social games for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets and social networks like facebook . it is the world s 5th biggest game developer by monthly active users on the facebook platform as of march 2014 . 3 the wooga offices in berlin germany . at gdc 2014 ceo jens begemann presented the company s new development approach which he calls the hit filter . the focus of this new approach is to create 2 hits per year . 4 contents 1 company structure 2 history 3 figures 4 facebook games 5 smartphone games 6 references 7 external links company structure edit wooga s company structure is non traditional . game development is decentralized and dealt with by autonomous teams working under separate studios within the company . business functions such as hr pr and marketing are dealt with centrally . 5 history edit wooga was founded in january 2009 by jens begemann ceo patrick paulisch co founder and philipp moeser cto . 6 patrick paulisch has since left wooga . 7 in july 2009 wooga launched its first game brain buddies . the game reached 5 million monthly players 3 months after launch . 8 the company received 5 million in a round of funding led by balderton capital in november 2009 . 9 holtzbrinck ventures which had provided funding earlier that year also participated in this round . 10 in february 2010 wooga launched its second game bubble island which reached 4 million monthly players in 8 weeks . in may 2010 wooga launched its third game monster world 11 wooga announced in july 2016 that monster world would be shut down on august 31st after 6 years due to a decline in the number of players citation needed . in november 2010 wooga launched happy hospital . 12 in march 2011 wooga launched diamond dash . wooga raised a series b round of 24 m funding in may 2011 . 13 magic land was launched during the gdc europe in august 2011 in cologne . in december 2011 wooga presented diamond dash for iphone and ipad in paris and consequently announced its global launch on the ios app store . in march 2012 wooga announced that diamond dash had been downloaded over 11 million times since launch . 14 in march 2013 wooga launched both monster world mobile for ios and pearl s peril . pearl s peril became the company s fastest selling game . 15 in april 2013 wooga launched pocket village . in may 2013 wooga launched fantastic forest and kingsbridge . 12 in february 2014 fantastic forest was relaunched as farm tales . in august 2013 jelly splash launched on ios . 16 the game was subsequently released on the facebook.com platform in september 2013 and on android in october 2013 . 17 wooga also launched jelly splash as a test title for the korean kakaotalk platform in november 2013 . 18 in december 2013 jelly splash reported monthly active users of 8.2 million . 19 in may 2015 wooga launched crazy kings developed by ticbits figures edit according to metrics monk in february 2014 wooga has a total of ca. 35 million monthly active users and 7.7 million daily active users on the facebook platform . 20 as of 24 february 2014 wooga was the 43rd highest grossing app developer on the apple itunes store 21 and 78th highest grossing on the google play platform 21 according to app annie . facebook games edit diamond dash 15.5 million monthly active users and 2.4 million daily active users 20 bubble island 3.3 million monthly active users and 0.5 million daily active users 20 monster world 3.0 million monthly active users and 0.7 million daily active users 20 wooga reported in july 2016 that monsterworld would be closing down after six years due to a decline in the number of people playing the game . see facebook or contact wooga support for more info . magic land 0.3 million monthly active users and 61k daily active users 20 happy hospital 0.1 million monthly active users and 7k daily active users 20 brain buddies 0.2 million monthly active users and 9k daily active users 20 kingsbridge 0.3 million monthly active users and 36k daily active users 20 farm tales 0.7 million monthly active users and 89k daily active users 20 pearl s peril 4 million monthly active users and 1.4 million daily active users 20 jelly splash 8.4 million monthly active users and 2.1 million daily active users 20 smartphone games edit diamond dash bubble island jelly splash pearl s peril crazy kings agent alice futurama game of drones 23 references edit http www.pocketgamer.biz r pg.biz wooga news news.asp c 54495 1 . retrieved on june 9 2010 . appdata top developers leaderboard by mau . retrieved on february 21 2014 . takahashi dean 22 march 2014 . jens begemann on making the transition from social to mobile . retrieved 24 march 2014 . http thenextweb.com entrepreneur 2013 09 08 using independent teams to scale a small company a look at how games company wooga works a6qkv http venturevillage.eu video wooga jens begemann http www.xing.com profile patrick paulisch facebook game brain buddies five million monthly users . retrieved on june 9 2010 . following the playfish exit social games developer wooga secures a further 5 million funding . techcrunch . wooga secures 5m 7.5 m in funding led by balderton . wooga.com wooga goes facebook farming with monster world . inside social games . a b 2 wooga.com games page 3 . techcrunch http www.wooga.com 2012 03 social success http www.insidesocialgames.com 2013 05 13 pearls peril is woogas fastest growing game to date http appadvice.com appnn 2013 08 the next candy crush saga colorful match three game jelly splash launches on ios http www.appsgoer.com 2013 10 26 jelly splash soft launched on android http www.pocketgamer.biz r pg.biz the charticle feature.asp c 55523 & territory asia http www.insidesocialgames.com 2013 12 11 woogas jelly splash crosses eight million mau across facebook mobile a b c d e f g h i j k http www.metricsmonk.com dashboard a b https www.appannie.com intelligence apps google play top publisher worldwide overall device google play & granularity daily 4 . retrieved on 24 march 2014 . appdata.com wooga . retrieved on 20 may 2011 . external links edit official wooga website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wooga & oldid 728863242 categories video game development companiesvideo game companies of germanycompanies based in berlinsocial networking servicesinternet companies of germanyhidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from july 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to 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