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Company Profile
Kolibri Games
Website
kolibrigames.com
About
Located in the heart of Berlin, Kolibri Games are a rising and vibrant mobile gaming studio that aspires to be the most player oriented company in the world. As the developers of the successful Android and iOS game Idle Miner Tycoon and Idle Factory Tycoon they made a name for themselves by focusing on interaction with their players and using popular ideas from the community to further develop the game.
Related People
Guillaume Verlinden
Managing Director
Gordon Büttner
Product Director
Chris Ling
Head of Game Data
Oliver Löffler
CTO and Founder
Daniel Stammler
Co-CEO and Co-Founder
Sebastian Reuther
QA Lead
Dzmitry Yudo
Product Director for New Games
Ross Logan
Chief Financial Officer
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Accolades
Articles featuring Kolibri Games
150 Million Downloads Milestone
Idle Miner Tycoon hits 150 million downloads
Kolibri Games celebrate their hit title Idle Miner Tycoon reaching 150 million downloads
Idling By
Idle Miner Tycoon now available on Facebook Gaming
Reaches cloud platform six years after 2016 mobile release
Titles And Trends
Kolibri Games hires Dzmitry Yudo as product director for new games
Leading the initiative to explore idle games
Green Footprint
Kolibri Games partners with Planetly to attain carbon neutrality
Makes contribution for past two years of business operations
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Taking user acquisition and retention to the next level
"As UA managers, we have the tools to decide what KPIs we pursue"
2020 In Review
Why Kolibri Games' Daniel Stammler believes Call of Duty: Mobile's continued success is one of the big winners in 2020
"It's a great display of what our platform has to offer"
Making Of
Why Kolibri Games favours the games-as-a-service approach with Idle Restaurant Tycoon
"If at any point during this process, the game does not meet our requirements, we stop development"
Welcome Aboard
Kolibri Games hires Paul Le Bas as its new VP of marketing
"I am thrilled to join this talented team"
Expansion
Kolibri Games is expanding with a new studio in Romania
"We truly believe in the potential of Idle Miner Tycoon and are excited to start working on entirely new titles that will expand the universe"
Remote Working
Remote Working: How Kolibri Games' Sebastian Reuther is dealing with QA from home
"QA benefits from an office for equipment reasons"
Not So Idle
How Kolibri Games is adapting to the challenge of remote working
Entrepreneur in residence Dennis Gräf details the initiatives in place to help with the change
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Kolibri's Chris Ling on how data can impact a game's development
"Analysis means providing insight and recommendations - not just a chart"
Ubisoft Goes Idle
Ubisoft moves further into mobile with acquisition of Kolibri Games
75 per cent stake purchased
Best Of 2019
The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2019
Revealed: The movers, shakers and moneymakers!
Job News
Kolibri hires former Wooga exec as chief financial officer
Ross Logan becomes first addition to the company's C-Suite since it was founded
Rapid Growth
Growing German studio Kolibri hits 100m downloads
The developer behind Idle Miner Tycoon and Idle Factory Tycoon now employs 100 staff
Keeping Lean
How Kolibri went from minimum viable product to 70 million installs for its Idle Tycoon games
A look at the development process from concept design stage to post-release
Job News
Former Exient, Chimera and ZenGuard staff join Idle Miner Tycoon dev Kolibri Games
Former Chimera Entertainment lead game designer Boris Conrad Heisserer takes the role
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight: Kolibri Games' Daniel Stammler
Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 will take place on January 21st to 22nd
Rebranding
Idle Miner Tycoon dev Fluffy Fairy renames to Kolibri Games
New name is the German word for hummingbird
Supply And Demand
Fluffy Fairy’s Idle Factory Tycoon surpasses four million downloads in two weeks
Follow-up to Idle Miner Tycoon finds early success
Good Loot
Fluffy Fairy Games and TreasureHunt named Europe’s hottest games start-ups in Red Herring Top 100
The games studios have been invited to the US to showcase their companies in June
Iterative Approach
Keep on shipping: How Fluffy Fairy Games updated its game 50 times in a year
Founder and CTO Oliver Löffler explains the challenges and advantages of this iterative approach to development