Booyah (company)
| Type | Corporation |
|---|---|
| Founded | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people |
Brian Morrisroe, Chief Creative Officer and Co-founder Keith Lee, CEO and Co-founder Sam Christiansen, CTO and Co-founder |
| Employees | 50 |
| Website | booyah.com |
| Type of site | Social networking |
| Registration | Recommended |
| Users | 3.1 million[1] |
| Available in | English |
| Current status | Active |
Booyah is a social web and mobile entertainment company. The development team draws its experience from the consumer web and social gaming space and entertainment studios such as Blizzard Entertainment, Activision, EA, and Insomniac Games. Booyah is financed by Accel Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers iFund.
Booyah currently has five games, all of which are apps, in production: MyTown 2, the sequel to MyTown with similar gameplay, MyTown Animals, a location based game in which animals live, No Zombies Allowed, a town building game in which Zombies attack which have to be deafened, Early Bird, and its sequel, Early Bird and Friends. Booyah also has two other games that aren't in production: MyTown, a location-based game available on the iPhone and iPod Touch with over 3.1 million users, and Nightclub City, a music-themed Facebook app, with over 7.9 monthly active users.[2] Booyah recently announced InCrowd, an app designed to utilize Facebook Places.
In March 2014, Booyah went out of business and shut down it's website.
References
- ↑ Rusli, Evelyn (2010-08-17). "Booyah’s MyTown Hits 3.1 Million Users". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
- ↑ Chris Morrison (2010-09-06). "Steady Progress From Smaller Developers on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU". InsideSocialGames.com. Retrieved 2010-09-09.