Jam City, Inc

Jam City
Private
Industry Interactive entertainment, Social network service, Video Games
Headquarters Los Angeles, USA
Number of locations
 6
Key people
 Chris DeWolfe (CEO)
Aber Whitcomb (CTO)
Joshua Yguado (President & COO)
Products Cookie Jam, Panda Pop, Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff, Book of Life: Sugar Smash, Juice Jam, Marvel Avengers Academy, Genies & Gems, Panda Jam, Paint Monsters, Naughty Monster Story, Ninja Jam (coming soon) and Mindjolt Games
Number of employees
 500 (September 2016)[1]
Subsidiaries TinyCo[2]
Website JamCity.com

Jam City (formerly SGN) is a Los Angeles-based casual gaming company with studios in Carlsbad, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Seattle, and Buenos Aires.[3][4] The company was founded in 2011 by Chris DeWolfe, Aber Whitcomb, Colin Digiaro, and Joshua Yguado. Its flagship application (also called MindJolt) was formerly a top-20 application on Facebook. It has about 1,300 games from 1,000 developers.[5]

Jam City is one of the major developers and publishers of games on Facebook, iOS, and Android. With a focus on using advertisements and selling virtual goods in-game.[6]

History and Timeline

September 22, 2016: SGN rebrands as Jam City[7]

July 2016: Acquires mobile game developer TinyCo,[8] maker of 'Marvel Avengers Academy' and 'Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff' mobile game.

December 2015: SGN buys game development studios Fat Rascal and Kiwi[9]

July 2015: SGN raised $130 million funding round from Korean gaming giant Netmarble. The funding round will make Netmarble the largest shareholder in SGN, and create a (according to the company) "strategic partnership" through which SGN will help increase Netmarble’s footprint in North America, and Netmarble will assist SGN within several international markets.[10]

December 2014: Chinese gaming and technology company, NetEase, announced an exclusive agreement to license the popular match-3 mobile puzzle game, Cookie Jam, across all major app stores in China.[11]

December 2014: Game title “Cookie Jam” was named Facebook Game of the Year.[12][13]

October 2014: SGN announced a partnership with Fox to release the companion game to the theatrical film release The Book of Life (2014 film). The mobile game, called "Book of Life: Sugar Smash" features the artwork and storyline from the film, in addition to audio from the celebrities in the film, including Zoe Saldana, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, and Christina Applegate.[14]

June 2013: SGN acquired Mob Science, a game studio based in Carlsbad, CA.[15]

2011: SGN, then called MindJolt,[16] was founded and was funded by Austin Ventures[17] and led by a team of Internet pioneers, with the CEO being Chris DeWolfe[18] and CTO being Aber Whitcomb, both co-founders of MySpace.[19]

Operations

Jam City utilizes MasterKey—a technology that allows the company to develop the game once and then quickly port it to all major platforms.[6] Jam City has totaled over 800 million game downloads,[3] which have also been installed on leading mobile and social platforms, making Jam City one of the largest cross-platform gaming companies in the world.[20] Jam City is responsible for more than a dozen Top 10 titles on the iTunes App Store and three #1 titles on the Amazon Appstore.[21] Jam City's most popular games to date include Cookie Jam and Panda Pop.

Games and Platforms

A matching puzzle game. Match and Flip fruit to trigger boosters to beat levels.
Blend vibrant paint monsters in colorful strokes to defeat the Ink King and restore color to the world!
Swap sugar candies to master this fun and challenging match-3 puzzle adventure inspired by the animated feature, THE BOOK OF LIFE!
A match-3 puzzle game set in a traveling bakery that bakes pastries from around the world.
Save baby pandas from an evil baboon while strategically bursting matching bubbles to help beat him.
Match and break colored cubes to bring Baby Pandas back down to Mama Panda.

Social Media

  • Panda Pop
  • Panda Pop Game[30]
  • Juice Jam App Page[31]
  • Panda Pop Club[32]
  • Panda Pop Adventures[33]
  • Cookie Jam
  • Cookie Jam Game[34]
  • Cookie Jam App Page[35]
  • Cookie Jam Club[36]
  • Cookie Jam Adventures[37]
  • Juice Jam
  • Juice Jam Game[38]
  • Juice Jam App Page[39]
  • Juice Jam Club[40]
  • Juice Jam Adventures[41]
  • Sugar Smash: Book of Life
  • Sugar Smash: Book of Life Game[42]
  • Sugar Smash: Book of Life App Page[43]
  • Sugar Smash: Book of Life Club[44]
  • Sugar Smash: Book of Life Adventures[45]
  • Paint Monsters
  • Paint Monsters Game[46]
  • Paint Monsters App Page[47]
  • Paint Monsters Club[48]
  • Paint Monsters Adventures[49]

References

  1. ↑ http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/sgn-jam-city-peanuts-mobile-game-1201867364/
  2. ↑ http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/sgn-tinyco-marvel-avengers-academy-1201809201/
  3. 1 2 Hsu, Dan (June 13, 2013). "Social Gaming Network acquires Mob Science, shares its strategy for growth". VentureBeat. Retrieved November 2, 2013.
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  5. ↑ Michael Arrington (March 3, 2010). "Chris DeWolfe Makes His Move – Raises Big Round, Acquires Gaming Platform MindJolt". TechCrunch. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  6. 1 2 Kozlowski, Lori (June 12, 2013). "The Science of Social Games". Forbes. New York City: Forbes, Inc. Retrieved January 5, 2014.
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  10. ↑ "Netmarble Takes Stake in SGN, Extending Asia's Reach Into U.S. Mobile Games". The New York Times. 23 July 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
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  12. ↑ "Facebook's best games of 2014 include Cookie Jam, Cower Defense, Bubble Witch 2 Saga, and more - GamesBeat - Games - by Dean Takahashi". VentureBeat. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  13. ↑ "Facebook Names 'Cookie Jam' The New 'Candy Crush' - Business Insider". Business Insider. 9 December 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
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  15. ↑ Faughnder, Ryan (June 13, 2013). "Chris DeWolfe's SGN gaming company acquires Mob Science". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles: Tribune Company. Retrieved January 5, 2014.
  16. ↑ Staff writer (February 28, 2012). "MindJolt Becomes Social Gaming Network". SocalTech. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
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  20. ↑ Dean Takahashi (September 14, 2011). "MindJolt gets a third of its revenues from social mobile games". VentureBeat. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  21. ↑ Leena Rao (June 23, 2011). "MindJolt's SGN Studio Launches Social iOS Game Mini Cafe". TechCrunch. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
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