

There are quite a few, but so far no luck for them. We had a casual game Happy Chef on the PC. “We realized if we had it dynamic, and monetize in different things like upgrades and new ingredients, it would be a big success. “Free-to-play was mostly about paying to speed things up,” Trofimova said. Cooking Fever now has 22 locations within the game and 880 levels. Then Cooking Fever rose to the top of the cooking genre and it has stayed in the top 100 grossing games.

101-in-1, re-released as free-to-play, showed Nordcurrent that was the way to go. That game was a paid version, Trofimova said, “And we saw that was not the way forward.”įive years ago, the company shifted to free-to-play mobile games, with the occasional PC casual game. Then it moved to self publishing, with titles such as 101-in-1, which the company licensed to Atlus for publication. At its height, it was making Wii and PlayStation 2 titles for Activision in the Shrek and Barbie franchises. Trofimova said in an interview with GamesBeat at the Game Developers Conference that the company worked more many years as a developer-for-hire in the console business.
