Township has consistently been in the top 50 grossing games for iPad and the top 100 for iPhone since its launch in all key markets.

Although, the game shared the same name with the one on Facebook, it was a completely different game, designed for mobile from scratch. In 2013, the company released Township globally on the iPhone. “That turned out to be a smart move,” Dmitri Bukhman said. It became one of the top 50 grossing games on Facebook.īut as early as 2010, the company started thinking about mobile, even as it continued doing games for Facebook, Dmitri Bukhman said. The town simulation game took off and grew to 350,000 daily active users. In 2012 the company shifted yet again and launched its first game on Facebook, dubbed Township. From 2006 to 2009, Playrix released award-winning games for the PC such as Fishdom, Gardenscapes, 4 Elements, and Royal Envoy.īy 2009, Playrix started working on free-to-play games, Igor Bukhman said. Their games were published on portals such as Big Fish Games, which was focused on casual PC downloadable games at the time. Then we started Playrix in 2004.”Īt first, they specialized in casual downloadable games. We did that for three years, working from home,” Igor Bukhman said. “At the time, that was a nice figure for us, and so we were very excited about this.

They created their first game, called Discovera, which made $70 in its first month. It’s been a long journey for the 12-year-old company, which competes with the likes of Zynga, Jam City, and King.Ībout 15 years ago, during high school, brothers Igor and Dmitri Bukhman started selling shareware programs on the internet in their hometown, Vologda, Russia.

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