Nevosoft

Nevosoft
Private
Industry Development and Distribution of Casual games
Founded St. Petersburg, Russia (2002)
Headquarters St. Petersburg, Russia
Key people
 Pavel Ryaykkonen, Vitaly Romanov, Alexandra Ryabchikova, Alexey Serebrov
Number of employees
 50+ (2009)
Website http://www.nevosoft.ru; http://www.nevosoft.com

Nevosoft is a casual game developer, publisher, distributor, and portal headquartered in St. Petersburg, Russia. Nevosoft was founded in 2002. The company has four development studios situated in St. Petersburg and Moscow, which together deliver downloadable and online entertainment software for various platforms (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, etc.) Nevosoft makes its games available in Russian and English via its official websites.[1][2] Besides Nevosoft's titles are translated into more than 10 languages and are distributed worldwide through both online and offline channels.

Nevosoft has developed games like My Kingdom for the Princess I & II, Mushroom Age, Mysteryville 1 & 2, Christmasville, Supercow and about 25 more. Nevosoft’s titles are distributed in a try before you buy format. They can be played free for the first 60 minutes, with the full version available for a fee.

Game Development

Nevosoft has developed more than 30 games.[3] Most of the games have been localized into more than 10 languages including English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, etc.

Game Distribution

The official website is a Russian portal devoted to casual games with four new titles released each week. Nevosoft.ru, was launched in 2006 and since has become the biggest social network of casual players. It won the Best Website of the Year award in 2010 from the Russian Entertainment Awards.[4] The website has about 1.5 million unique visitors monthly with 600 000 active users (who leave more than 30 thousand comments and write 300 full game reviews every month).

Nevosoft also has a broad partner network called GameBoss, which enables other websites to sell games from Nevosoft’s catalogue and take commission for each game sold.[5] The network has been in place since 2007. It was the first open partner network for game distributors in Russia with free registration. Nevosoft maintains an English distribution page as a means to distribute its English catalogue directly to the company's fans.

Innovations

Nevosoft was one of the first developers that used character dialogues to create a plot that linked mini-games and the mechanics of locating hidden objects on the screen. Mysteryville, released in 2006, was one of the first hidden object casual games to utilize an engaging plot and appealing characters. Mysteryville remained in RealArcade’s Top 10 of for 153 days.[6] RealArcade at the time was the world's largest distribution portal for casual games.

In 2006 Nevosoft started selling its content via SMS payments. As of 2009 more than 90% of casual game purchases in Russia are made with the help of SMS payment.[7][8]

In 2007 Nevosoft launched Game Boss, the first open partner network for game distributors in Russian with free registration and provides Nevosoft with a broad distribution network.

Nevosoft was the first casual game portal that started 24/7 technical support, thus providing the most extensive customer support in Russian in the casual game industry. The company launched a Technical Support Department, equipped with programs developed by Nevosoft.[9]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.nevosoft.com
  2. ↑ http://www.nevosoft.ru
  3. ↑ http://www.nevosoft.com/top100/
  4. ↑ http://www.reawards.ru/vote.php
  5. ↑ http://www.zamango.com/gameboss-affiliate-program.html
  6. ↑ http://www.casualcharts.com/games/detail/mysteryville.html
  7. ↑ http://rbth.ru/articles/2008/11/23/231108_games.html
  8. ↑ http://blog.quintura.com/2009/10/26/russian-online-games-market-to-hit-238-million-in-2009/
  9. ↑ http://www.casualconnect.org/newscontent/02-2010/nevosoftsupport.html

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