founded 2000 headquarters denmark key people jacob moller simon moller number of employees 100 1 website http www.kiloo.com kiloo is a danish games development company . was founded in 2001 by the current jacob mouller 2 with a focus on developing wireless entertainment content for game console and handheld devices . in 2008 he was joined by his brother simon moller together with whom he now fully owns and runs kiloo . kiloo s best known game subway surfers was released in the spring of 2012 and was developed in cooperation with sybo games . a few weeks after its release the free running game for ios was named game of the week for 31 may 2012 by appadvice . 3 in september the game made its way to android and gathered even more enthusiastic players . 4 one month after the android release subway surfers made it into the top 20 growing facebook apps by monthly active users . 5 in july 2014 subway surfers exceeded five hundred million downloads across all platforms . in september 2015 the download numbers reached 1 billion . 6 contents 1 history 2 kiloo group 2.1 manatee 2.2 katoni 2.3 givingtales 3 games 4 media 5 references history edit kiloo was founded in 2000 in a small apartment in aarhus denmark as a two person company . in 2002 the partnership dissolved and kiloo changed into a private company . in the same year kiloo won the nokia mobile challenge in the games category 7 ahead of 500 competing companies with their game popstar build on a tamagotchi like concept of managing the career and basic needs of an upcoming pop music star . later on kiloo entered an agreement with thq wireless to develop the game worms for mobile . 8 kiloo also cooperated with ite on development and distribution of mobile content based on the tv and game character hugo . 9 by 2004 the hugo games were bought by 1 million people . between 2006 and 2009 kiloo had the exclusive mobile rights for lego worldwide . 10 in 2007 kiloo broke into b rsen s fast track 100 which placed kiloo in the league of denmark s fastest growing private companies . in the same year kiloo acquired the exclusive rights for whac a mole worldwide with reference to developing and selling whac a mole mobile content . 11 in 2008 kiloo raised capital from danish vc firmainvest for further growth . 12 in 2009 kiloo licensed the full suite of wham o rights for mobile hackysack superball frisbee and hula hoop which so far has resulted in frisbee forever and frisbee forever 2 . 13 2011 saw kiloo launch two games frisbee forever and bullet time hd and numerous apps . 14 15 in 2012 kiloo released two successful games subway surfers 16 and frisbee forever 2 a sequel to frisbee forever which launched one year before . in october 2014 kiloo released smash champs . in march 2015 kiloo released stormblades which was coproduced with the canadian developer emerald city games . in march 2016 kiloo released tesla tubes . kiloo group edit in 2013 kiloo group was founded by integrating three subsidiary companies in the kiloo family manatee baboon and givingtales . manatee edit the company was established in 2012 and focuses on apps development . customers include mcdonald s denmark 17 the mcdonald s coinoffers app has been developed in cooperation with ddb copenhagen . the campaign including the app won gold and silver in the categories integrated campaigns events & digital events digital campaigns og brand driven apps & utilities at the cca 2012 . 18 19 the campaign won also a bronze lion in the category best integrated campaign led by mobile at cannes lions 2012 and another bronze lion in the category best use of integrated media 20 21 katoni edit baboon aps was established in 2014 and specializes in the development of online shopping portals . in june 2014 baboon launched katoni 22 a shopping portal for fashion . givingtales edit givingtales is a cooperation between kiloo and evershift . the project was established in 2012 to develop an app withversions of popular hans christian andersen fairy tales for children . the tales are narrated by actors and celebrities . the app is developed in budapest hungary and it was released in june 2015 on app store google play store and windows phone 8 store with the following stories the princess and the pea by roger moore the ugly duckling by stephen fry the little match girl by ewan mcgregor the emperor s new clothes by joan collins the snow queen by joanna lumley little claus and big claus by michael caine the little mermaid by david walliams thumbelina by charlotte rampling it s quite true by paul mckenna . 23 games edit kiloo has created games licensed from brands and companies such as maya the bee and friends for mobile 2006 hugo black diamond fever for mobile 2004 happy tree friends 24 whac a mole for the iphone commodore 64 for the iphone subway surfers for the iphone and android operating system along with windows phone smash champs for the iphone and android operating system stormblades iphone and android operating system march 19 2015 tesla tubes iphone and android operating system march 17 2016 in 2010 kiloo games announced a new original ip called zoonies . the game is for nintendo dsi and 3ds . zoonies was sponsored by the new danish screen . 25 in 2011 kiloo releases frisbee forever 26 and bullettime hd . 27 in 2012 an endless running game subway surfers 28 is released in co production with sybo games and kiloo continues series with frisbee forever 2 . 29 media edit in 2008 kiloo started developing mobile applications alongside the game development . these include issuu mobile 30 a magazine reader for iphone joketoons animated videocontent for iphone games licensed from wham o 31 references edit kiloo.com interview ceo of kiloo maker of app store c64 emulator . osnews . osnews . 27 january 2013 . retrieved 27 january 2013 . chan christine . appadvice game of the week for may 31 2012 . appadvice . appadvice . retrieved 27 january 2013 . grush andrew . highly popular ios game subway surfers comes to android . mobile magazine . mobile magazine . retrieved 27 january 2013 . darwell brittany . farmville 2 instagram zuma blitz subway surfers and more on this week s top 20 growing facebook apps by mau . inside facebook . inside facebook . retrieved 27 january 2013 . http www.pocketgamer.biz interview 62038 subway surfers does 1 billion downloads boasts 27 million daily active players nokia mobile challenge awards winners for most innovative and useful java tm applications . press release . nokia . retrieved 27 january 2013 . worms game page . ign . retrieved 27 january 2013 . ite and kiloo expands agreement . press release . hugo troll.de . retrieved 27 january 2013 . thomsen casper . fodbold indleder millionsalg af lego mobilspil . computerworld . retrieved 27 january 2013 . whac a mole by kiloo exceeds 1 500 000 u.s. downloads on iphone over the 12 days of christmas . press release . prweb . retrieved 27 january 2013 . lubbe anne . mobile phone game developer kiloo raises fresh capital . ministry of foreign affairs of denmark . retrieved 27 january 2013 . jordan jon . kiloo and wham o link up for ios title frisbee forever . pocketgamer.co.uk . retrieved 27 january 2013 . wham o frisbee forever lands in apple app store today . press release . business wire . retrieved 27 january 2013 . kiloo games are proud to announce bullet time the next massive action adventure for ios . . press release . gamasutra . retrieved 27 january 2013 . lords of the underground . unity3d . retrieved 27 january 2013 . 1 2 3 4 5 6 roger moore backs children s fairytales app in aid of unicef . the guardian . 18 jun 2015 . kiloo happy tree friends spin new danish screen . touch arcade announce 03 25 2011 touch arcade announce 09 02 2011 touch arcade announce 04 20 2012 touch arcade announce 05 11 2012 issuu.com homepage kiloo licenses various wham o brands retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title kiloo & oldid 737091961 categories software companies of denmarkmobile game 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