Digital Chocolate Buys Gaming Studios In India and Spain
Mobile gaming company Digital Chocolate has bought operations and studios in Bangalore, India, and Barcelona, Spain, from Small Device Mobile Technologies and Microjocs Mobile, respectively. These buys will give the company expertise to develop localized content for consumers in southern Europe and Asia, it said. The terms were not disclosed.
Small Devices is a mobile apps porting expert, and will be merged with DigiChoc’s Catapult porting technology. Microjocs is a mobile games production studio. DigiChoc is based in San Mateo, CA and was founded in 2003 by EA founder Trip Hawkins. More here.
Dayanidhi is coming this February to India’s first and independent annual summit for the game development ecosystem – India Game Developer Summit (gamedevelopersummit dot com) to share the experience he gained while meeting the challenges in building a team (from scratch to the current size of 150), setting up processes, building and maintaining automation tools to achieve best possible productivity giving benefit of optimised time-to-market to the organisation operating in the worldwide market.