Bigger Games raises $25M to grow its mobile gaming business

Turkish mobile game studio Bigger games announced today that he had collected $ 25 million in her series A series of financing, that she will devote to the growth of her game portfolio. Goodwater Capital led the Tour, with Arcadia Gaming Partners and Existing Index Ventures and Play Ventures which also participate. Coddy Johnson, former president of Activision and current partner at Goodwater Capital, joined the Bigger Board of Directors. The studio plans to use funding to continue to build its team and set its last title to scale, Kitchen Masters, for a global audience.

The Istanbul -based team was launched in 2019 on the booming Turkish games scene and specialized in occasional puzzle games. Its most recent title, Kitchen Masters, is a title match-3 that the larger reports show strong retention and early commitment. With the financing of the series A, larger plans to launch cooking masters to other markets, including the United States, as well as the refinement of the gameplay.

Gamesbeat spoke with Hakan Ulvan, CEO and co-founder of Bigger Games, fundraising, and the vision of the studio for the future. He said: “Our belief is simple but daring: pleasure is a feeling, not a functionality. Farming games exist to create emotionally impactful experiences: games where each scan, the tap and the decision seems significant. We obsess an emotional flow, the small gusts of mastery, surprise and joy that keep the players committed. Our mission is to redefine the pleasure for the mobile generation, and we make the creation of intuitive games in which each action is rejoicing.

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Hakan said about funding: “We are not only looking for capital, we wanted people who believed in the emotional power of the games and the potential of Turkey as a global creative center … Welcoming the founder of Arcadia, Akın Babayiğit, who also co -founded Tripledot Studio Nuct Next, as Akın Delighted to make this relationship official now. »»

Babayiğit said in a statement: “Hakan and the largest team embody all the qualities that make the Turkish game ecosystem what it is today: frightening, very hungry, uncrowded to settle or compromise, and incredibly creative and analytical. I had the pleasure of being on this trip with Hakan from the start, and looking at the really exceptional team (and the person) that it is today. See what they will do.

Regarding the future, Hakan stressed that Kitchen Masters is the main priority of the studio at the moment, alongside the growth of his marketing team in the next 12 to 24 months. “We are also really enthusiastic about what this investment unlocks: the ability to test and learn what brings joy to players in different countries. As data lords, on the scale of our user acquisition efforts and learning the behavior of players on more markets is something on which we really prospere. With the right product, the game that funny joy, we work to transform cooking.