Love & Pies developer Trailmix has opened up its second studio, increasing its presence exterior of London with a brand new location in Berlin.
Having acquired Supercell’s backing for the launch of Love & Pies, Trailmix’s debut sport, the studio has grown from a staff of 10 to at least one greater than 60 sturdy in recent times.
Now, Trailmix has introduced its newest hires in Annelie Biernat and Christopher Parschat, who’ve joined the staff and opened the Berlin studio.
The path continues
Each Biernat and Parschat convey years of expertise from German cell developer Wooga, which specialises in informal video games.
Biernat spent a decade working at Wooga and led quite a few groups in that point by the event of Pearl’s Peril, Switchcraft and extra. At Trailmix’s new locale, she is taking over the position of studio director.
Parschat, in the meantime, had labored for Wooga since 2009. He additionally supported the expansion of Switchcraft, in addition to Diamond Sprint and varied different titles. At Trailmix, he’s now artistic director in Berlin.
“We’re past excited to announce that now we have opened a second Trailmix studio in Berlin with the purpose of rising our household of video games!” Trailmix stated.
“One of many issues we learnt is that our success to date is all all the way down to the wonderful individuals right here at Trailmix. And to proceed to construct on that success it’s all about discovering (extra) wonderful individuals — individuals who share the identical goal, values, and beliefs as ourselves. Nicely, we discovered a few of these wonderful individuals and knew we needed to work with them.”
Love & Pies has been a hit for Trailmix to date, and the corporate is already engaged on quite a few new video games with hopes of reaching tens of millions of gamers. The Berlin studio will assist this technique.
“In right now’s cell gaming panorama it’s extra vital than ever to seek out an edge in relation to distributing your video games to the tens of millions of gamers you wish to attain,” Trailmix added. “In opening a second studio in Berlin to work on new video games we enhance our capacity to discover novel methods to please our gamers.”
Supercell did actually purchase Trailmix final yr, claiming a majority stake within the developer by a $60 million funding. Each corporations had been featured in our High 50 Cell Sport Makers 2023 record.
