Mobile has emerged as the most important platform for mobile game development. Think of your first time exploring the world of social media, you might have felt so excited & tempted to browse more, isn’t it? Your brain gave you a great dose of dopamine, which made you want to keep going, which is precisely what occurs when we play our favorite mobile games. According to a report by research and markets, smartphone and tablet gaming is about $56 billion in 2019 and expected to reach $97 Billion by 2020. What’s more, by 2023, mobile gaming is expected to take over than half of the total video games market.

At Space Ape, it makes some of the world’s best mobile games for your Apple or Android smartphone. Founded in 2012 and based in London, the company is now over 110 people strong organized across seven small teams. Mobile gaming is a global business and so is Space Ape. Its staff represents 28 different nationalities and games are live in 150 countries.

To-date the company has launched four games: Samurai Siege, Rival Kingdoms, Transformers: Earth Wars, and Fastlane. Over 45 million people have played them with more joining each day! It has won three Develop Awards (Best Independent Studio, Best New Game), four TIGAs (Best Independent Studio, Game of the Year x2, Best Strategy Game) and gamesindustry.biz Best Place to Work 2017. Transformers: Earth Wars is as top 50 Grossing Game on the App Store charts and Rival Kingdoms received the coveted “Editor’s Choice” award from Apple.

But Space Ape's most valuable asset is and will always be its team. The company believes the best games are made by the best teams. Successful Space Apes are passionate about their craft, are highly productive in their work day, self-accountable, and most of all, are small-team players.

Inside Ape Labs

Space Ape's mission is to make the highest quality and most successful mobile games in the world. They are imaginative, inventive, and genre-defining in their pursuit of those games. Teams at Space Ape pursue their passions. Some are most excited about opening up new genres to make something entirely fresh – like the company's hit music game Beatstar. Other teams want to explore brands and communities they love to produce games like Boom Beach: Frontlines – their upcoming multiplayer action follow-up to the Supercell classic – or Transformers: Earth Wars, a game that’s grossed over $100m. As a result of this creative, team-led strategy their games reflect the eclectic tastes of mobile gamers globally. Their games are a diverse mix of strategy, casual, arcade and action, and every game they’ve released has been played by tens of millions of people around the world.

Most Popular Games Designed by Space Ape Games

Beatstar - Touch Your Music

Experience the next generation of music games with Beatstar, a game that lets you touch your music. Follow the rhythm to your favorite songs! Tap and Swipe to the instruments, vocals or beats to experience music in a whole new way. Every beat is yours for the taking; just make sure you can keep up!

Master your favorite songs and discover new ones along the way. Play hits from Doja Cat, Avicii and Lil Nas X, or explore the classics like Lynyrd Skynrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” or Run-DMC’s “It’s Tricky”. Imagine the best Coachella lineup ever: that’s Beatstar.

Fastlane: Road to Revenge

Fastlane is a mass casual retro arcade shooter with bags of personality designed to bring irreverence and style that resonates with today’s mobile gamers. Fastlane’s style derives from its urban theme, larger than life characters and humor, and from an eclectic library of music. They are all fanatical about music, especially what they listen to when they play games, and as such, music has inspired the world building and character design for Fastlane.

Transformers: Earth Wars

Earth’s fate is in your hands! Whose side are you on? This real-time combat strategy mobile game pairs authentic Transformers story-telling with fast-paced gameplay, 3D animation and hundreds of characters. Assemble the ultimate team of legendary Transformers robots – including Optimus Prime, Megatron, Bumblebee, Grimlock, Soundwave, Starscream & many more. Will you join forces with the Decepticons or ally with the Autobots? Choose your side!

Rival Kingdoms

Build the ultimate base, forge a mighty Kingdom and crush your enemies in “Rival Kingdoms: The LosT City”. A game of epic strategy warfare where only the strongest will claim victory! Download it now! Join forces with the Ancients; Legendary warriors able to harness the forces of nature. Use their devastating powers to turn the tide of battle to your advantage!

Space Ape Games | Leadership

John is a co-founder and the CEO of Space Ape Games. He likes Space and video games, and is incredibly proud to work alongside the wonderful team at Space Ape. John is From California, US.

Simon is a co-founder of Space Ape Games. He started making games when this entailed manually copying code from magazines and saving to cassette. He then served a decade as a lawyer and early product guy at Skype before finding his way back to gaming at Playfish & EA. Simon co-founded Space Ape with John a few years later. Simon is from Australia.

"We’ve released four globally successful titles, our games have been played by tens of millions of people, we’ve made $250m, and we’ve partnered with Supercell."