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We have launched Age of Lords on Google Play today

March 26, 2015 //
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Age_of_Lords_marketing2 After over 1 year of loving craftsmanship and hard work by a great team, we launched Age of Lords today. Age of Lords is a Medieval strategy MMO designed for mobiles. The team used a lot of the things we learned with our first game eRepublik.com, one of the first hit MMO strategy games back in 2007 (and still going). But the team also used what we learned from failed projects and, some of the more recent successes we had on mobile as we pivoted eRepublik Labs from browser games only to mobile games. This game is really the result of learning and tenacity and I’m really proud of the result, of the team behind it and of what it took to get us to a point where we can release such a game. You can try the game on Google Play here and you can get the press kit info here

Check out the launch trailer here:  I will update you on how things are doing in a future post, but we are off to a good start! Age of Lords has been featured by Google as one of the top 3 new games this week 🙂 Screenshot_2015-03-26-12-19-56 o7 Alexis

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Categories erepublik, games industry

“Let’s start gaming” South Summit Fireside chat with Social Point CFO Joaquim Lecha (video)

November 4, 2014 //
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I had a bit of an improvised Fireside chat with Joaquim Lecha of Social Point at the South Summit in Madrid a few weeks ago. I say it was improvised because Mike Butcher from TechCrunch was supposed to be the moderator and did not make it in the end. I think the conversation with Joaquim ended up being quite interesting, I did not know him before and was impressed by his knowledge and understanding of the mobile games market. We ended up covering a lot of the challenges that developers of mobile games go trough at the moment and the different approaches that companies like Wooga, King, Social Point or my own eRepublik Labs are taking to face these challenges.  I hope you find the chat interesting its about 30 minutes long.

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Our new game Tactical Heroes is launching worldwide tomorrow October 16

October 15, 2014 //
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I’m really excited that we are launching Tactical Heroes worldwide on the iOS App Store tomorrow after close to 2 years of hard work. The game has been available in what we call soft launch in selected countries for about 4 months now and we have received great feedback from over 36.000 players that have helped us to fine tune it for this big launch.

We have had great reviews from the players about the game so far, as you can see its average rating is 4,4/5 from over 140 reviews in the past 30 days.

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Still you never know until you have fully launched so fingers and toes crossed. You can find the new launch trailer below as well as a link to the full press release. You can also install the game for free from this link.

If you like strategy games and in particular XCOM or are looking for a a game for your iPad that gives you a really interesting challenge, then you will like Tactical Heroes and I would be super thankful if you could try it and let me know what you think either here in the comments or on twitter @alexisbonte

If you are a friend from the press, you have full contacts and resources in the press release link and I’m happy to answer any questions you may have directly as well, just use this blog’s contact form to reach me.

You can see the Full press release and access marketing materials such as logos, screenshots etc from the eRepublik Labs webiste, here.

 

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Categories erepublik, games industry, Uncategorized

Building Success from Failure: The story of failing often and fast

May 30, 2014 //
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This is a presentation I did this morning at ICEX, the Spanish government org that helps Spanish companies develop abroad. My friend Isaac Martin Barbero who basically ambushed me last night at dinner into doing this to replace another speaker asked me if I could center it around failure. It is something I had already covered in a previous talk I do “building upon an idea”, but as I was doing this I realized that although I have had many failures over 17 years of being in start ups, many times I simply did not fail fast enough. One to remember and learn to do better.

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Chief Commercial Officer for Zonga,

July 22, 2013 //
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As some of you know one of my most recent investments is Zonga, the leading streaming music service in Romania a spin off company of Trilulilu.

Zonga launched in October of last year and in less than one year it has already become the streaming music service for Vodafone Romania and received an investment from the same company. It also won several awards and as you can see from this info-graphic it is gaining some nice traction.

Zonga also recently launched a much-improved Android version (the previous version was its weakest point) a few weeks ago that I really invite you to try if you have an Android device. Being an avid user of both Spotify and Zonga, I was impressed to see that the Zonga Android version actually feels much better than that of Spotify. But then again Zonga also had a browser version well before Spotify.

Now that Sergiu Biris and his team have gotten the Zonga overall experience to the quality level that they wanted, its time to expand. The quality of the Zonga platform and its full service for the lowest cost approach has generated lots of interest not only in Romania but also abroad.

This is why we are looking for a chief commercial officer to join the Zonga team and fully run the commercial side of the business so that Zonga can capitalize on these opportunities.

So if you are a senior results oriented commercial person with experience in doing large business development deals at the highest levels with multinationals as well as capable of working with the operational teams of these same companies and account manage these relationships for maximum results, please get in touch.

We can build a very good package including stock options for the right candidate.

You are results oriented, entrepreneurial, pro-active, and super driven, a “closer” with great account management skills and understand the opportunities as well as risks of working in a start up (this is a hands on role and fast results are expected), get in touch, this is an incredible opportunity for the right candidate.

The job will be based in Bucharest with frequent travel to Cluj (where the product team is based) and abroad for business development.

Tks,

Alexis

To apply, please send your CV and a short motivation letter of why you would be perfect for the role via email to: jobs@zonga.ro

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Categories investments, trilulilu

eRepublik.com 5 year anniversary info-graphic and summit video

December 18, 2012 //
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eRepublik recently celebrated its 5 year anniversary in style with a players summit that gathered 350 players from around the world in Bucharest. The summit was also followed by over 14.000 players via a live streaming supplied by one of the players! You can see more details about the summit in one of the info-graphics below.

sumit infographic

And finally to celebrate our 5 years, the team came up with this other cool info-graphic comparing the new world of eRepublik with the real world. Personally what is most impressive for me is the fact that the eRepublik.com community wrote in 5 years over 1,1 million articles. That is equivalent to 10% of the complete New York Times articles archive. The New York Times is 161 years old.

erepublik 5 year anniversary

If interested you can also see my video address to the summit attendees below. The production values have nothing to envy the famous kixeye recruitment video, we even managed to get 2 helicopters vs their 1 helicopter.

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