Sparkling Society

Last updated
Sparkling Society
Type Private
Industry Mobile games
Founded2013
Headquarters Delft, Netherlands
Key people
Mark Peeters (CEO). Edwin Morren (CTO)
Products Full list
Website sparklingsociety.net

Sparkling Society is a game development company that creates games for mobile devices. It was founded in 2013 in the Netherlands by Mark Peters (CEO) and Edwin Moren (CTO).

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As of the beginning of May 2015, there were more than a million daily user sessions for Sparkling Society games. [1]

History

Edwin Morren started developing games in his attic. His first (Android) app game was called: "City Island". Mark Peters joined with him and they started Sparkling Society together.

When it was first released, City Island was only available for Android devices.

After launching City Island, the company launched further versions - a premium version, City Island Premium (June, 2013) and City Island Winter Edition (September, 2013). Further releases followed based on the airport: City Island: Airport (May, 2013) and City Island Airport 2 (July, 2014).

Games and partnerships

In late 2013, Sparkling Society started a partnership with Innovatic, another company from the Netherlands. Together, they brought City Island to iOS devices and developed more new games in Unity. They have currently published these games: [2]

  1. City Island 1 (2013)
  2. City Island: Winter Edition (2013)
  3. City Island (Premium) (2013)
  4. City Island: Airport (2013)
  5. City Island: Airport Asia (2013)
  6. City Island: Airport 2 (2014)
  7. City Island 2 (2013)
  8. City Island 3 (2014)
  9. Battle Empire: Roman Wars (2014)
  10. City Island 4 HD (2015)
  11. City Island 4 Basic (2016)
  12. Paradise Island Sim
  13. City Island 5
  14. Zoo Life:Animal Park Game

Since June 2015, a number of their games have been made available on Windows Phones.[ citation needed ]

In 2013, they also started a partnership with Smartion [3] to distribute their games in China.

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References

  1. "Great news! More than a million user sessions from all over the world per day - Welcome To The Sparkling SocietyWelcome To The Sparkling Society". Sparklingsociety.net. Retrieved 2016-07-15.
  2. "Sparkling Society ™ - Android Apps on Google Play". Play.google.com. Retrieved 2016-07-15.
  3. "Sparkling Society Archives". Smartions.net. 2014-10-27. Retrieved 2016-07-15.