Strange Quest
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded 📆 | 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , |
Area served 🗺️ | Worldwide |
Key people | |
| Products 📟 | Blastlands: Team Combat |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 9 (2019) |
| 🌐 Website | strangequest.com/ |
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Strange Quest AB is a video game developer based in Stockholm focusing on synchronous action multiplayer games for mobile devices. Strange Quest develops low complexity, high-intensity competitive multiplayer mobile games for a global audience.
History[edit]
Founding[edit]
Strange Quest was founded by Adam Schaub (CEO), Andreas Jirenius (CTO), and Mille Trygg-Wiberg (AD). With past experience from BBC, Yahoo!, Stardoll, Bonnier, and game developer King, all have solid backgrounds in games development and publishing.[1]
Seed Round[edit]
In December 2017, Strange raised $2.2 million in a seed investment round led by Initial Capital, Manta Ray, and Global Founders. Three Swedish investors were also involved at this stage. [2][3]
Games[edit]
The first game released by Strange Quest had the working title "pew pew". The official title was announced as Blastlands: Team Combat and release to Android and iOS mobile devices within limited geo-targeted locations. The beta period ran for ~9 months before focus moved to other internal projects.[4]
| Year | Title | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Blastlands: Team Combat | Available | A synchronous action multiplayer game. Players play in teams or as solo players. |
References[edit]
- ↑ Jacob Riis (4 December 2017). "Strange Quest: first investment round". Nordic Game. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
- ↑ Craig Chapple (4 December 2017). "Ex-King staff raise $2.2 million for new Swedish studio Strange Quest". PocketGamer. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
- ↑ Chris Kerr (4 December 2017). "Ex-King staffers net $2.2M to form new multiplayer-focused mobile studio". PocketGamer. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
- ↑ Jonas de Lange (4 December 2017). "Strange Quest wants to build the next big mobile game genre". Breakit. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
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