Question Time
Teatime Games CEO Thor Fridriksson candidly reflects on the failures of QuizUp and Plain Vanilla
"We put a lot of our eggs into one basket and then that basket was squashed"
Company Profile
Plain Vanilla
Website
www.plainvanillagames.com
About
The San Francisco-based developer behind the QuizUp series of games.
Accolades
Articles featuring Plain Vanilla
Pick Up Quizup
Glu Mobile picks up QuizUp developer Plain Vanilla in deal worth $8.7 million
Takes advantage of deal established in January
Phone A Friend
Glu Mobile invests in and might acquire troubled QuizUp dev Plain Vanilla (if TV show works)
Last roll of the dice
The Global View
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2014
The shakers, makers and movers
Phone A Friend
QuizUp generated 10 organic installs per paid download
Fiksu lifts the curtain on marketing campaign
Diary of a Promiscuous Gamer: One big arrival and a massive clear out
This guy will play anything as long as it's free
Diary of a Promiscuous Gamer: Heroes of Dragon Age tries my patience and wallet
This guy will play anything as long as it's free
Holidays Hot Five: QuizUp cashes up, Clash of Clans crashes out, and what's going to happen in 2014
Top five Christmas stories
The Charticle: QuizUp - the least successful most successful iPhone game ever
Ruling downloads, nowhere in top grossing
Plain Vanilla's CEO on why QuizUp won't be an easy-come easy-go fad like Draw Something
22 million new reasons to expect global success
Plain Vanilla strikes while QuizUp is hot, raising $22 million
Trivia quiz app prepared for a big 2014
We had a $1 million UA launch fund but only spent a fraction, says Plain Vanilla CEO of US #1 hit QuizUp
Virality built into the gameplay
Right answer: QuizUp dev Plain Vanilla raises $2 million in funding
Sequoia Capital and e.ventures invest
Plain Vanilla's plan to create a socially-powered world-class trivia gaming platform
It's time to QuizUp
QuizUp developer Plain Vanilla announces $2.4 million Series A funding round
Investors include Tencent and Unity CEO Helgason