Happy New Year
Back into business, I was interviewed by the Nikkei Business Associe “Global samurai’s, setting our sights on a world challenge”.
It’s now 1 year since Istpika moved on from being a game company.
Looking back:
- Overseas Facebook has grown to 350M users, social applications have exploded and the leader in the field right now is Zynga garnering 100M users and reaping in massive profits.
- In the smartphone arena is the iPhone success story. Not only developers but individual successes have brought stories like this, Worldwide 300M downloads have been announced. Android has also finally joined the fray.
- In Japan Mixi has been opened up and implemented a new strategic business model which is receiving plenty of attention. Modage Town has also begun and there are now plenty of developers in Japan.
What have we produced,
- Facebook app development
- iPhone app development. This was mainly done in Australia.
- iPhone app that uses Facebook connect press release. We were selected as finalists in the Facebook competition.
- Mixi app release
- Contract development, social app dev and consulting.
etc, to tell the truth we haven’t really stood out as much as we should’ve this year.
Istpika foresaw the coming of social applications and began development on Facebook and an app that connected both platforms. We’ll look at Android next.
Android is a much broader platform, we will look at developing social android apps. We believe that thanks to smart phones, the mobile social era is about to arrive.
To achieve these goals we need,
- Facebook, social network app and Mixi app development experience
- iPhone / Smart phone / iPhone dev experience
- Flash app dev experience (for mobile also)
- Large scale infrastructure and operations
We gained a relative amount of experience in all of the above. Our market is global, we require the following skills,
- Skills of a global prodvider
So from inception, Istpika was a global company and worked on overseas support, setting up studios, recruiting and negotiation.
But more important for us is our game design skill.
The ability to analytically look at a game, it’s social aspects and enhance it.strong>
There is no question that future social apps and games will succeed.
This year we will use our dev experience to release some quality titles.
To this end, We are recruiting now!
Come join us in creating together social games for the world!
We look forward to working with you in 2010.
