Company:GameEon
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| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Nikhil Malankar |
| Products | Android and iOS games |
| Website | www |
GameEon is an Indian game developer company having its office in Mumbai , India [1] and is one of India's upcoming game developer and publisher. It was founded in 2011 by Nikhil Malankar, Prasad Kajarekar, Swapnil Borkar, Harsh Sodi & Jimmy Palathingal.
GameEon was started in 2009 as just a simple idea. It was an idea in the minds of 10th-grade kids. The actualization started in 2011 when they started their research on how games were made.
Their first game Kyte - Kite Flying Game got over 250+ downloads on first day and went on to cross 10,000 downloads within its first week of launch. However, because of quality issues the game was taken off by GameEon in the month of August 2013 but shortly after was republished and till date has crossed over 100,000 downloads. GameEon, as of November 2014, consists of a 12-member team and has its office in Mumbai, India.
History
In 2009, Nikhil Malankar and Prasad Kajarekar were inspired by Rockstar Games Vice City. Back then, as kids they had visioned a virtual world like their dream game and decided to start a company when they grow up.[2] This dream was then shaped into reality in the coming years when they both started pursuing their passion for developing games and assembled a team in March, 2011. GameEon launched their first game 'Kyte - Kite Flying Game', a 2d kite flying game which consisted of 4 game play modes. The game was launched on PlayStore.
2009–2011
This was the time when both the founding members started taking efforts to assemble a good team of developers and finally found a good team with their college friends and a few industry professionals.
2011–2014
On 19 July 2013, GameEon launched their second kite flying game titled 'Kites: Mumbai'[3] which was way better than their previous game 'Kyte - Kite Flying Game'. They claim it to be the world's first 3d kite flying game.[4] After more than 6 months of this game's launch they re-launched the same game and titled it as 'Kites Surfers'. As of 5 December 2013 Kites Surfers is available on Android whereas Kites: Mumbai still continues on iOS.[5] On 1 August 2013 they launched their third game 'Ball: Infinite Challenge' which gained a modest response from the audience. This game used Kevin MacLeod's composition 'Cupids Revenge'.
'Kites Surfers', 'Kites: Mumbai' and 'Ball: Infinite Challenge' were developed in the Unity game engine.
After the launch of 'Ball: Infinite Challenge' the company's game 'Kites: Mumbai' was duplicated and posted on Google Play as 'Kite: Mumbai' by a spam developer account as mentioned on the official Facebook page of the company[6]
GameEon went on to publish 16 games on Android, iOS and Windows platform but in September 2014 started focusing on Special Ops which they claim to be the first high-quality first person shooter game from India.
2014–2016
GameEon announced their latest game in November 2014. Special Ops, was the title of the game that they announced and this became an instant hit in the Indian crowd. This game was also covered by Hyper local news of I am in DNA of India.[7]
Post Special Ops launch, GameEon has grown from strength to strength. In 2015 alone GameEon developed more than 60 plus games and plan to develop 100 by the end of the year.[8]
2016–2017
GameEon halted its operations for a year during which there were no announcements or products launched under the company.
2018–Present
GameEon rebooted its operations in 2018 by focusing on offering game development services to clients. Nikhil Malankar assumed back the role of CEO of the company while the rest of the other core members resigned.
Published games
- Kyte - Kite Flying Game
- Kites: Mumbai for Android
- Holi Water Wars Balloon Fight
- Love At First Arrow
References
- ↑ "GameEon Infotech Pvt. Ltd". ZombieHugs. 2013-07-27. http://www.zombiehugs.org/gameeon. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
- ↑ "Up and Close, with GameEon". newskatta.com. http://newskatta.com/up-and-close-with-gameeon/. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
- ↑ "Kites Surfers Mumbai - Android-apps op Google Play". https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gameeon.kitesmumbai. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
- ↑ "☆☆"[GAME] kites:mumbai" ☆★ - xda-developers". Forum.xda-developers.com. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2371183. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
- ↑ "Kites Surfers Mumbai Launched". Nikhil Malankar. 2013-12-04. http://nikhilmalankar.com/kites-surfers-launched/. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
- ↑ "GameEon - Now this is somewhat a great and a bad news for GameEon....". 2013-08-26. http://archive.today/uas21.
- ↑ "Borivali boys design first of its kind game for mobile phones". I am in DNA. 2014-12-31. http://www.iamin.in/en/mumbai-north/news/borivali-boys-design-first-its-kind-game-mobile-phones-49584. Retrieved 2014-12-31.
- ↑ Jaisinghani, Bella (15 Aug 2015). "Marathi millionaires club urges youth to dream big". The Times of India. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Marathi-millionaires-club-urges-youth-to-dream-big/articleshow/48488377.cms. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
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