an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . july 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message funplus industry video game industry founder andy zhong and yitao guan headquarters beijing china key people andy zhong ceo yitao guan cto chen qi coo dan fiden cso products family farm family farm seaside royal story happy acres number of employees 200 2014 400 2016 website www.funplus.com funplus is a chinese video and mobile game development company founded in 2010 by ceo andy zhong and yitao guan with headquarters in beijing china . 1 specializing on social gaming development and distribution funplus has also offices in san francisco u.s.a and has developed and published several games on facebook as well as on apple google and amazon store . 1 2 some titles developed and published by funplus on facebook are family farm and royal story as well as family farm seaside for mobile devices . the success of these games contributed to raising 12 million in series a in 2012 and 74 million in series b in 2014 . 3 according to an interview in 2014 to chief strategy officer dan fiden since its founding in 2010 funplus has achieved a yearly double revenue and to date continued to grow in revenue . 4 the company also doubled in size in 2 years reporting 200 employees in beijing and 10 in san francisco in 2014 and 400 employees in beijing and san francisco in 2016 . 3 5 funplus appeared on the british media in 2016 after releasing a video made in collaboration with dutch youtubers alexander spoor and sacha harland where the 2 famous youtubers let people try organic food without mentioning it is food for birds dogs and cats the results of this social experiment showed that people would prefer to eat organic pet food rather than food made for humans and several people also decided to eat more pet food after being told that it was not food for humans . 6 after its success developing and publishing its own games on facebook and mobile funplus decided to invest on publishing games for game startups and so in 2015 announced the opening of publishingplus . its strategy is to provide game startups with a transparent system for publishing their games worldwide and full support on game conceptualization and development . 7 contents 1 games 1.1 family farm 1.2 family farm seaside 1.3 royal story 1.4 happy acres 2 publishingplus 2.1 indieplus 2015 2.2 indieplus 2016 3 external links 4 references games edit family farm edit one of the first funplus titles family farm is a farming gaming published on facebook . 8 players start their game with a small farm and through planting and harvesting crops and trees feeding animals and acquiring new machines and buildings they can gain on experience points and level up to unlock new features missions and game items . family farm has collected to date more than 3 million likes on its facebook fanpage and is available in several languages including french spanish italian german thai dutch portuguese turkish polish and arabic 9 family farm seaside edit another farming game published for mobile devices on apple amazon and google store and available in 18 languages english german french italian spanish portuguese swedish norwegian korean dutch turkish thai indonesian russian and traditional and simplified chinese family farm seaside is not a mobile version of the aforementioned game family farm but rather a standalone mobile version . 10 royal story edit with its combination of farming and rpg fantasy game royal story differentiates itself from family farm and family farm seaside by introducing an element of fantasy into its farming world . starting the game with a small castle and the help from a gnome named max and a turtle named tortare players have to complete quests where they fight the evil forces of the sorceress altessa while expanding their kingdoms and unlocking new lands and game characters . available on facebook royal story can be played in 11 languages arabic english french german dutch portuguese italian spanish polish turkish and thai . in 2014 the studio lead of the time gu ji reported in an interview that since its launch in 2012 royal story reached by 2013 2 million facebook likes and by 2014 2 million dau daily active users . 11 happy acres edit fourth farm simulation game of funplus happy acres is also published on facebook and can be played in 12 languages including arabic english dutch french german portuguese polish italian spanish traditional chinese thai and turkish . while the core elements of the game resemble those of the games previously mentioned happy acres prides itself of having a bigger expansion system available as well as comprehensive achievement system and a social system for trading raw resources with other neighbors . 12 13 publishingplus edit established in may 2015 publishingplus has at its core encouraging independent game makers to contact funplus for development and or publishing support . there is no requirements for team location or size all free to play publishers are encouraged to apply to the resources provided by funplus . one the most attractive characteristics of collaborating with funplus is that startups retain their ip intellectual property as well as a 50 % split of net revenue . 14 15 cso dan fiden reports that funplus will continue to make and publish games and in 2016 funplus announced partnership with xii braves a mobile game developer based in singapore and maker of valiant force a japanese style strategy game where players use their heroes to fight against evil characters . 16 17 funplus will work on publishing valiant force worldwide as well as manage the game localization marketing player engagement customer support . 17 funplus has also repeatedly appeared on the media due to another deal . in 2016 funplus announced a deal with jimmy buffett s margaritaville funplus is cooperating with margaritaville to release a mobile game for the latter on july 2016 during comic con . 18 this will be margaritaville s first casual game ever released and will target the existing 15 million physical visitors and 5 million online fans of the brand while another game for margaritaville was released in 2012 on facebook called margaritaville online and closed after 2 years . 19 20 moreover in order to bring game makers out and encourage them to showcase their games publishingplus has organized since 2015 a yearly competition called indieplus a mobile game contest for developers to compete for a money prize of 10 000 and the fame of winning best indie game of the year . 21 indieplus 2015 edit winner of the 2015 indieplus competition is progress by tim garbos . progress a puzzle game winner of several other competitions namely pocket gamer s vbip 2015 ign s the mix 2015 and eig showcase 2015 can be downloaded on the apple store and requires the latest ios version . 22 1st runner up is dwelp by alex blaj . dwelp is another puzzle game where players have to connect dots of the same color to progress in the game . dwelp is available on several stores such as the apple store and the microsoft store . 23 24 2nd runner up of indieplus 2015 is prune by joel mcddonald . available on the apple store google store and amazon store prune also won time game of the year in 2015 and best of 2015 by the apple store . 25 26 indieplus 2016 edit after the success of indieplus in 2015 publishingplus organized the second indieplus in january 2016 and followed the same patter as the year before to award the winners during the gcd . 27 winner of the 2016 indieplus competition is rodeo stampede by featherweight games . as of may 2016 the game is not available yet on any stores but is expected to be released on ios and android . 28 1st runner up is crashlands by butterscotch shenanigans . crashlands is an adventure game available on ios android and steam . 29 2nd runner up is plug & play by etter studio . plug & play is short surreal game that can be downloaded on ios android or steam . 30 external links edit funplus official website . funplus indieplus website . references edit a b crunchbase 2016 . funplus . crunchbase . retrieved 20 may 2016 amazon 2016 . aws case study funplus game . amazon web services . retrieved 20 may 2016 a b johnson eric 18 march 2014 . with global ambitions chinese gaming company funplus raises 74 million . recode . retrieved 9 may 2016 gdc february 2014 . game network newsletter february 2014 . amazon web services . retrieved 5 april 2016 takahashi dean february 17 2016 . after the gold rush funplus is starting a 50m game investment fund . venturebeat . retrieved 29 january 2016 logan ross february 6 2016 . youtube stars trick public into eating organic produce that s actually pet food mirror . retrieved 25 may 2016 business wire may 11 2015 . funplus set to change role of mobile games publisher via 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