'In addition, many of these games are cross-platform, hitting both web and mobile. Glasser, who credits the spread in part to the growing accessibility of Unity and HTML5 on the platform in the last year. 'We are definitely seeing more and different studios getting into the platform,' says Facebook's A.J. It's a view held up by Facebook itself, revealing in its annual Games of the Year list this morning that European and independent studios have come to dominate an increasingly diverse ecosystem.

There's so much more we want to do!ĭeveloping games is expensive, and we want to keep expanding Thunder Run and World of Gundar until we can all agree that it's the best free to play multiplayer real time strategy gaming experience the market has to offer.The state of the Facebook ecosystem looks quite different from Europe, Criminal Case developer Pretty Simple told Gamasutra last week. Just recently we launched a new Missile Silo building (with a full 'craftable missiles' system), implemented Air Traffic Control towers (with a new tier of 'aircraft' units), and we're just getting started. We have big plans for getting on additional platforms like Steam and further expanding the World of Gundar for years to come, but we can't do that without your help!īecoming an official Patron for Thunder Run: Global Warfare will help ensure that our small development team can continue making big necessary updates to the game every week.

Last year, we developed a desktop client for our flagship Facebook title: 'Thunder Run: War of Clans', that allowed us to rebrand Thunder Run as 'Thunder Run: Global Warfare' and cross-publish to the Microsoft Games Store.

Over the years, as many popular Facebook and browser gamers made shifts to mobile, console, or traditional PC games, our valued community has kept up alive as one of the top Facebook Games on the Facebook Canvas platform, but support and opportunities for growth are beginning to wane as the popularity of alternate platforms increases. Once a growing global Facebook Game company that employed dozens of developers and artists, Battlehouse has since shrunk to a core original team, who all share an undying passion for making the most fun and immersive real time strategy game that we possibly can. We build engaging free to play massively mutiplayer online video game worlds like 'Thunder Run' and the 'Mars Frontier Trilogy', that have been explored by millions since our inception in 2012.

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