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德丰杰等参与手机游戏公司Z2Live第二轮融资

发布时间:2011-03-23 08:44:41 Tags:,,,

继Rovio、TinyCo和Pocket Gems之后,位于西雅图的Z2Live成了又一家受到风险投资者眷顾的新兴手机游戏公司。

游戏邦获悉,该公司最近的第二轮融资,获得了德丰杰(Draper Fisher Jurvetson)、Madrona Venture Group等风险投资者的支持,但尚未公布具体融资数额。

Ed Fries曾是微软游戏发行副总裁,并负责监管Xbox项目,他和德丰杰的William Bryant一起加入了Z2Live公司董事会。

TradeNations

TradeNations

Z2Live曾向iOS平台推出中世纪城市建设游戏《TradeNations》,这款免费游戏的微交易营收相当可观。该游戏是App Store综合游戏前50强之一,目前在榜单位列第31名,通常情况下均在第10至40名之间浮动。

关于这款游戏还有一个有趣的小插曲,Z2Live声称这款游戏主要是自主开发而成,但雇佣了加拿大外包商Bight Games帮助完成美工和游戏机制设置等部分的工作。但后者却坚称,他们才是这款游戏的知识产权合法所有人,Z2Live在这个过程中只扮演了发行商的角色,同时还表示他们将摆脱Z2Live,不久将推出该游戏的Facebook版本。但迄今为目,两家公司都没有对外界的评论作出回应。

游戏邦还了解道,Z2Live曾在本月初宣布《TradeNations》在发行四个月以来,其用户访问达到2亿次。游戏邦认为,因为用户下载后就不再访问游戏的情况并不鲜见,所以用户访问次数的考核方法比下载量更可取。2亿次的访问量意味着,该游戏在过去四个月中,平均每天的访问量是160万次。(本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译,转载请注明来源:游戏邦)

Z2Live Becomes Yet Another Mobile Gaming Startup to Scoop Up More Venture Funding

After Rovio, TinyCo and Pocket Gems, the streak of mobile gaming startup venture rounds continues.

Seattle-based Z2Live, which brought the lucrative Medieval city-building game Trade Nations to iOS, said today that it raised a second round of funding led by Draper

Fisher Jurvetson. Madrona Venture Group, which invested in Z2Live’s first round, also joins in. The amount of the funding was not specified.

Ed Fries, who was Microsoft’s vice president of game publishing and oversaw the Xbox project from its infancy, and DFJ’s William Bryant, join the company’s board.

With its free-to-play model and aggressive sales of in-app purchases, TradeNations is a fixture among the iOS app store’s top 50 highest-grossing games. Today it sits at #31; it’s usually ranked between 10th and 40th place.

There is an interesting twist to this story, though. Z2Live says that it’s the creator of TradeNations and that it hired a Canadian Studio, Bight Games, to develop some of the artwork and mechanics on contract. However, Bight Games says that it is the rightful owner of the intellectual property, that Z2Live is merely the publisher and that the company is bringing TradeNations to the Facebook platform on its own without Z2Live’s help in the near future. Neither company has replied for comment.

Earlier this month, Z2Live said Trade Nations passed 200 million sessions in four months. While that’s a metric we often don’t hear about from developers, it’s a better data point than downloads. With downloads, a user might install an app and then never play it or throw it away. Two hundred million sessions implies that the game has been opened an average of 1.6 million times each day over the past four month.(source:insidemobileapps)


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