A Thinking Ape
A Thinking Ape is a YC Winter 2008 (W08) company. Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada; Remote. Team of 75.
About A Thinking Ape
Summary
A Thinking Ape builds social strategy mobile games designed to sustain large online player communities over many years. Its titles, including Kingdoms of Heckfire and Kingdoms at War, replace passive single-player experiences with persistent multiplayer worlds where social interaction is the core loop. Small, autonomous internal teams own each game from design through live operations.
Go-to-market
A Thinking Ape reaches consumers directly through mobile app stores, where players download and engage with its games as ongoing live-service products.
From the Y Combinator listing
We build communities through massively multiplayer mobile games
Proudly recognized as one of CANADA'S TOP SMALL & MEDIUM EMPLOYERS for 2018! Mission: We build communities. Surrounded by mountains and water in beautiful Vancouver, BC, we are smart people who like smart people. We create mobile games with a social core that engage players and provoke us with creative new problems. We value data, informal leadership and keeping it all balanced. When we set out to make games with massive online communities, we knew that we first had to create the ideal environment for building ambitious things: a place where brilliant and inspiring people come together to build games that make millions of players happy. We realized that we needed to find incredibly talented people and get out of their way. Since then we've paid careful attention to how we like to work together - these are some of our guiding principles: Ownership; Have Wonderful Arguments; The Best Ideas Win; Keep Growing. We are artists, designers, and engineers. We leverage our talent with small, independent teams. And we know that a happy builder is an efficient builder.
Facts
- B2B / B2B -> Marketing
- Vancouver, BC, Canada; Remote
- 75
- Acquired
- Early
Founders (2)
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