Social Point Blog

Archives: August 2013

Published: 5 years ago

THE BEST BITS OF GAME DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE 2013

GDC is one of those dates gaming pros are likely to have marked in their diary.

It’s a great opportunity for programmers, artists, producers, game designers – anyone involved in interactive games – to get together, share ideas and air problems. And to know that we are not all alone in this world.

So there’s no way a crack team of Social Pointers was going to miss out on the action in Cologne at GDC 2013.

And when Javi and Kaspar rolled into Social Point HQ this morning with smiles as wide as the Ramblas are long, we wanted to hear aaaaaalll about it.

So here you are. Without further ado.

THE BEST BITS OF GAME DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE 2013. (According to Javi and Kaspar.)

Published: 5 years ago

SOCIAL POINT: ONE OF FASTEST GROWING MOBILE STARTUPS

Startup analyst Mattermark has placed Social Point squarely in the top 20 fastest growing mobile startups in the world. The research is considered to be a benchmark by investors and industry pundits and factors out startups with sharp spikes followed by sharper declines. The news comes at point where we are going full-throttle for mobile – and working hard to ensure our games are seamlessly cross-platform so our players enjoy them on the go.

Published: 5 years ago

SOCIAL POINT PARTNERS WITH GSMA FOR EDUCATION

Being social means connecting with others. It means coming together and uniting around a common purpose. Here at Social Point that translates into giving back and connecting with our wider society.

That’s why we are proud and pleased as punch to announce that this year we’ll be partnering with the mSchools initiative, a multi-year, multi-faceted mEducation initiative led by the Mobile World Capital Barcelona.

The initiative aims to tackle dropout rates and low attainment in Spanish schools, and help kids gear up for higher education and jobs in the digital sector. And it’s estimated that in total it will positively impact as many as 1 million students in Catalonia alone.

Published: 5 years ago

PHOTOGRAPHERS INVADE SOCIAL POINT HEADQUARTERS!

What’s stirring at Social Point?
If you happened to stop by the Social Point headquarters here in sunny Barcelona yesterday, you might have been surprised to see a team of photographers snapping away at Social Pointers on every floor of the office. From the serene environs of Marketing here on the 10th Floor, right up to the live wires of game design on the 12th, the flashes were popping all day.