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{{Infobox company
| name = Voodoo SAS
| logo = Voodoo Logo.svg
| type = [[Privately held company|Private]]
| industry = [[Video game industry|Video games]]
| founded = {{Start date and age|df=yes|2013}}
| founders = {{Unbulleted list|Alexandre Yazdi|Laurent Ritter}}
| hq_location_city = [[Paris]]
| hq_location_country = France
| area_served = Worldwide
| key_people = {{Unbulleted list|class=nowrap|Alexandre Yazdi ([[Chief executive officer|CEO]])|Gabriel Rivaud ([[Vice-president|VP]], games)}}
| products = ''[[Hole.io]]''
| owner = {{Unbulleted list|class=nowrap|[[Goldman Sachs]] (minority stake)|[[Tencent]] (minority stake)|[[Groupe Bruxelles Lambert]] (16%)}}
| num_employees = 335<ref name="PGbiz: Tibo" />
| num_employees_year = 2021
| website = {{URL|https://www.voodoo.io/|voodoo.io}}
}}
'''Voodoo SAS''' (also referred to as '''Voodoo.io''') is a French [[video game developer]] and [[Video game publisher|publisher]] based in [[Paris]]. The company was founded in 2013 by Alexandre Yazdi and Laurent Ritter. Voodoo's games, predominantly [[free-to-play]] "[[hyper-casual game]]s", have been collectively downloaded 5 [[1,000,000,000|billion]] times as of May 2021. By February 2022, their apps surpassed 6 billion installs.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Astle |first=Aaron |last2=Writer |first2=Staff |title=Voodoo surpasses 6 billion downloads across games and apps |url=https://www.pocketgamer.biz/news/78161/voodoo-passes-six-billion-downloads/ |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=pocketgamer.biz}}</ref> The company has been criticised for [[Video game clone|cloning]] other games.
== History ==
Voodoo was founded in 2013 by Alexandre Yazdi and Laurent Ritter.<ref name="Les Echos: Funding" /> They had been friends since high school and had previously founded Studio Cadet in 2012, a services company for websites and mobile applications.<ref name="Les Echos: Quiz Run" /> Yazdi became the [[chief executive officer]] of Voodoo, while Gabriel Rivaud acted as the [[vice-president]] of games.<ref name="VentureBeat: Goldman Sachs" /> According to Rivaud, the company was in turmoil for its first four years in operation and opted to change its business strategy thereafter.<ref name="VentureBeat: Goldman Sachs" /> Using data it gathered from its previous games, the company designed its newer games to attract more players.<ref name="VentureBeat: Goldman Sachs" /> Using the [[Unity (game engine)|Unity]] game engine, Voodoo tested one new game roughly every week. This method resulted in the successful release of ''Paper.io'' in 2016.<ref name="Les Echos: Turnover" />
Through 2017, Voodoo quadrupled its staff count to 80 and expected to grow to 150 people by the end of 2018.<ref name="Les Echos: Funding" /> In May 2018, the American banking company [[Goldman Sachs]], through its West Street Capital Partners VII fund, invested {{US$|200 million}} in Voodoo.<ref name="Les Echos: Funding" /> It was the largest fundraising in the French technology sector since 2015.<ref name="Les Echos: Funding" /> Yazdi and Ritter retained control of the company.<ref name="Les Echos: Funding" /> At the time, Voodoo had, aside from its Paris headquarters, offices in [[Montpellier]] and [[Strasbourg]].<ref name="Les Echos: Funding" /> A development studio in [[Berlin]], Germany, was established in December 2018, headed by [[general manager]] Alexander Willink.<ref name="GIbiz: Berlin opening" /> The studio started out with roughly ten people, looking to eventually expand to 40 employees.<ref name="GIbiz: Berlin opening" /> It later hired key employees from developers [[Blizzard Entertainment]], [[King (company)|King]], and Mamau.<ref name="PGbiz: Berlin hires" />
By September 2019, Voodoo employed 220 people, including 150 at its Paris headquarters.<ref name="Les Echos: Turnover" /> A publishing office in [[Istanbul]], Turkey, was announced in August 2019 and is headed by publishing director Corentin Selz.<ref name="PGbiz: Istanbul interview" /> This continued with the opening of a [[Montreal]] development studio in November 2019, led by Mehdi El Moussali, a former [[Video game producer|producer]] for [[Gameloft]].<ref name="GIbiz: Montreal opening" /> Through this new location, Voodoo intended to expand beyond hyper-casual games.<ref name="GIbiz: Montreal opening" /> The company acquired [[Shoreditch]]-based developer Gumbug in December that year.<ref name="VentureBeat: Gumbug" />
By July 2020, [[Tencent]] was looking to acquire a minority stake in Voodoo, which was still majority-owned by Yazdi and Ritter.<ref name="SeekingAlpha: Tencent" /> Tencent acquired a minority stake to undisclosed terms in August that year. At this time, Voodoo was valued at {{US$|1.4 billion|long=no}}.<ref name="TechCrunch: Tencent" /> According to Yazdi, this deal would help Voodoo to extend their games into the Asia-Pacific market.<ref name="Gamasutra: Tencent" /> Voodoo subsequently opened offices in Singapore and Japan later that month, headed by Julian Corbett and Ben Fox, respectively.<ref name="GIbiz: Singapore/Japan opening" /> In total in 2020, Voodoo saw revenues of {{€|380 million}}, up from {{€|1 million}} in 2016.<ref name="Les Echos: Turnover" /> The company announced an investment in Istanbul-based developer Fabrika Games in September 2020,<ref name="PGbiz: Fabrika Games" /> and acquired Parisian developer OHM Games in December. OHM Games had developed four games for Voodoo in 2020, which together generated 260 million downloads.<ref name="PGbiz: OHM Games" /> Voodoo further bought BidShake, a [[Tel Aviv]] company developing a marketing automation platform, in June 2021.<ref name="GIbiz: BidShake" /> [[Groupe Bruxelles Lambert]] acquired a 16% stake in Voodoo for {{€|266 million}} in August 2021, valuing Voodoo at {{€|1.7 billion}}.<ref name="Tech.eu: GBL" /> Voodoo acquired the Israeli studio Beach Bum in September for a reported price of {{US$|250–300 million|long=no}}.<ref name="GIbiz: Beach Bum" /><ref name="Reuters: Beach Bum" />
== Games ==
The majority of Voodoo's games are [[free-to-play]] "[[hyper-casual game]]s" developed for the [[Android (operating system)|Android]] and [[iOS]] mobile [[operating systems]].<ref name="Gamasutra: Goldman Sachs" /> Games released by the company include ''Helix Jump'', ''Baseball Boy'', ''Snake vs Block'', ''[[Hole.io]]'', ''Aquapark.io'', ''Purple Diver'', ''Crowd City'', and ''Paper.io''.<ref name="VentureBeat: Gumbug" /><ref name="Financial Times: hyper-casual" /> Voodoo games were downloaded 2 [[1,000,000,000|billion]] times by April 2019,<ref name="PGbiz: two billion" /> 3.7 billion downloads by May 2020,<ref name="PGbiz: Approach" /> and 5 billion by May 2021.<ref name="PGbiz: five billion" /> In December 2019, Voodoo games had 2.6 billion downloads, 300 million [[monthly active users]] (MAUs), and 1 billion individual players.<ref name="VentureBeat: Gumbug" /> ''Helix Jump'', developed by H8games, is Voodoo's most successful game with more than 500 million downloads as of August 2020.<ref name="Financial Times: hyper-casual" /><ref name="PGbiz: Helix Jump" />
External developers can submit games through an online platform for Voodoo to evaluate. The publisher has worked with over 2,000 such studios, which account for 75% of Voodoo's releases. The company finances select studios and supports them during the prototyping phase, receiving a [[Royalty payment|royalty]] share in return.<ref name="Les Echos: Turnover" /> Outside of games, Voodoo developed the [[social media]] platform Wizz in 2020. As of August 2021, the platform has 1 million MAUs in the United States.<ref name="Les Echos: Turnover" />
== Reception ==
Voodoo has been criticised for releasing apparent [[Video game clone|clones]] of [[indie game]]s. These include ''Infinite Golf'' (similar to ''[[Desert Golfing]]''), ''Twisty Road'' (''[[Impossible Road]]''), ''The Fish Master'' (''[[Ridiculous Fishing]]''), ''Flappy Dunk!'' (''[[Flappy Bird]]''), ''Rolly Vortex'' (''[[Rolling Sky]]''), ''The Cube'' (''[[Curiosity: What's Inside the Cube?]]''), and ''Hole.io'' (''[[Donut County]]'').<ref name="Kotaku: Donut County" /><ref name="GIbiz: Donut County" /><ref name="Variety: Donut County" /> In the case of ''Hole.io'', the game used the core gameplay mechanic of ''Donut County'' that has the player controls a hole in the ground to consume objects within the environment, progressively growing wider to be able to consume larger objects.<ref name="Kotaku: Donut County" /><ref name="Polygon: Dont County" /> Ben Esposito had been working on ''Donut County'' for more than five years when ''Hole.io'' released in mid-2018, before ''Donut County''{{'s}} publication.<ref name="Variety: Donut County" /><ref name="Engadget: ripping off indies" /> In response to an inquiry from ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', Voodoo stated that ''Hole.io'' was not a clone of ''Donut County'', although both were in the same sub-genre of games. ''Variety''{{'}}s Michael Futter noted that these games were the only two in this genre.<ref name="Variety: Donut County" />
== Accolades ==
* #20 on ''[[Pocket Gamer.biz]]''{{'}}s "Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2018"<ref name="PGbiz: Top 50 2018" />
* #5 on ''Pocket Gamer.biz''{{'}}s "Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2019"<ref name="PGbiz: Top 50 2019" />
* #16 on ''Pocket Gamer.biz''{{'}}s "Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2020"<ref name="PGbiz: Top 50 2020" />
* Best Publisher – Mobile Games Awards 2019<ref name="MGA: 2019" />
* Revelation of the Year – [[BFM Awards]] 2019<ref name="BFM TV: Awards 2019" />
* Part of {{Interlanguage link|Next40|fr}} 2021<ref name="Le Figaro: Next40 2021" />
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<ref name="MGA: 2019">{{cite web |url=https://www.mobilegamesawards.com/winners-2019/ |title=The winners of 2019 |website=[[Mobile Games Awards]] |access-date=5 February 2020 |archive-date=27 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127193811/https://www.mobilegamesawards.com/winners-2019/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="PGbiz: Approach">{{cite web |url=https://www.pocketgamer.biz/feature/73406/the-voodoo-approach/ |title=The Voodoo Approach: How the world's biggest hyper-casual publisher makes its hit games |date=20 May 2020 |website=[[Pocket Gamer.biz]] |access-date=2 August 2021 |archive-date=10 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410230504/https://www.pocketgamer.biz/feature/73406/the-voodoo-approach/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="PGbiz: Berlin hires">{{cite web |url=https://www.pocketgamer.biz/job-news/71097/voodoo-brings-on-blizzard-mamau-and-king-hires-for-berlin-studio/ |title=Voodoo brings on Blizzard, King and Mamau hires for Berlin studio |first=Matthew |last=Forde |date=2 July 2019 |website=[[Pocket Gamer.biz]] |access-date=28 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703042814/https://www.pocketgamer.biz/job-news/71097/voodoo-brings-on-blizzard-mamau-and-king-hires-for-berlin-studio/ |archive-date=3 July 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="PGbiz: Fabrika Games">{{cite web |url=https://www.pocketgamer.biz/news/74405/voodoo-invests-in-istanbul-based-developer-studio-fabrika-games/ |title=Voodoo invests in Istanbul-based developer studio Fabrika Games |first=Kayleigh |last=Partleton |date=4 September 2020 |website=[[Pocket Gamer.biz]] |access-date=20 November 2020 |archive-date=16 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116091647/https://www.pocketgamer.biz/news/74405/voodoo-invests-in-istanbul-based-developer-studio-fabrika-games/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="PGbiz: five billion">{{cite web |url=https://www.pocketgamer.biz/news/76503/voodoo-five-billion-downloads/ |title=Voodoo crossed five billion downloads |first=Tousif |last=Biswas |date=7 May 2021 |website=[[Pocket Gamer.biz]] |access-date=29 September 2021 |archive-date=13 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513093058/https://www.pocketgamer.biz/news/76503/voodoo-five-billion-downloads/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="PGbiz: Helix Jump">{{cite web |url=https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/69314/voodoo-development-magic-how-h8-games-launched-helix-jump/ |title=Voodoo Development Magic: How H8 Games launched Helix Jump, one of the hottest games of 2018 |date=22 October 2018 |website=[[Pocket Gamer.biz]] |access-date=2 November 2021 |archive-date=30 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211030031635/https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/69314/voodoo-development-magic-how-h8-games-launched-helix-jump/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="PGbiz: Istanbul interview">{{cite web |url=https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/71309/interview-hyper-casual-specialist-voodoo-opens-new-istanbul-studio/ |title=Interview: Hyper-casual specialist Voodoo opens new Istanbul studio |first=Matthew |last=Forde |date=1 August 2019 |website=[[Pocket Gamer.biz]] |access-date=28 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190805073614/https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/71309/interview-hyper-casual-specialist-voodoo-opens-new-istanbul-studio/ |archive-date=5 August 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="PGbiz: OHM Games">{{cite web |url=https://www.pocketgamer.biz/news/75369/voodoo-acquires-paris-based-studio-ohm-games/ |title=Voodoo acquires Paris-based studio OHM Games |first=Kayleigh |last=Partleton |date=21 December 2020 |website=[[Pocket Gamer.biz]] |access-date=24 January 2021 |archive-date=21 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201221171411/https://www.pocketgamer.biz/news/75369/voodoo-acquires-paris-based-studio-ohm-games/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="PGbiz: Tibo">{{cite web |url=https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/76327/voodoo-tibo-vincent-ducimetire/ |title="Don't always assume that you need expensive and professional training to enter the industry" |date=18 April 2021 |website=[[Pocket Gamer.biz]] |access-date=2 August 2021 |archive-date=29 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429083507/https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/76327/voodoo-tibo-vincent-ducimetire/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="PGbiz: Top 50 2018">{{cite web |url=https://www.pocketgamer.biz/list/68809/top-50-mobile-game-developers-of-2018/entry/20/ |title=Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2018 – #20: Voodoo |date=21 August 2018 |website=[[Pocket Gamer.biz]] |access-date=29 September 2021 |archive-date=27 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927173142/https://www.pocketgamer.biz/list/68809/top-50-mobile-game-developers-of-2018/entry/20/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="PGbiz: Top 50 2019">{{cite web |url=https://www.pocketgamer.biz/list/71427/the-top-50-mobile-game-makers-of-2019/entry/5/ |title=The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2019 – #5: Voodoo |date=1 October 2019 |website=[[Pocket Gamer.biz]] |access-date=29 September 2021 |archive-date=27 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927161325/https://www.pocketgamer.biz/list/71427/the-top-50-mobile-game-makers-of-2019/entry/5/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="PGbiz: Top 50 2020">{{cite web |url=https://www.pocketgamer.biz/list/74284/the-top-50-mobile-game-makers-of-2020/entry/16/ |title=The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2020 – #16: Voodoo |date=8 September 2020 |website=[[Pocket Gamer.biz]] |access-date=20 November 2020 |archive-date=26 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226212939/https://www.pocketgamer.biz/list/74284/the-top-50-mobile-game-makers-of-2020/entry/16/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="PGbiz: two billion">{{cite web |url=https://www.pocketgamer.biz/news/70441/voodoo-racks-up-two-billion-mobile-game-downloads/ |title=Voodoo racks up two billion mobile game downloads |first=Craig |last=Chapple |date=9 April 2019 |website=[[Pocket Gamer.biz]] |access-date=28 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416194537/https://www.pocketgamer.biz/news/70441/voodoo-racks-up-two-billion-mobile-game-downloads/ |archive-date=16 April 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="Polygon: Dont County">{{cite web |url=https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/25/17501882/donut-county-game-knockoff-ben-esposito-holeio |title=Donut County lookalike is number one on the App Store |first=Petrana |last=Radulovic |date=6 July 2018 |website=[[Polygon (website)|Polygon]] |access-date=28 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190826214233/https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/25/17501882/donut-county-game-knockoff-ben-esposito-holeio |archive-date=26 August 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="Reuters: Beach Bum">{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/french-mobile-gaming-unicorn-voodoo-buys-israeli-studio-beach-bum-2021-09-30/ |title=French mobile gaming unicorn Voodoo buys Israeli studio Beach Bum |first=Sarah |last=Morland |date=30 September 2021 |website=[[Reuters]] |access-date=21 April 2022 |archive-date=2 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211002095804/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/french-mobile-gaming-unicorn-voodoo-buys-israeli-studio-beach-bum-2021-09-30/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="SeekingAlpha: Tencent">{{cite web |url=https://seekingalpha.com/news/3590986-tencent-eyes-stake-in-game-developer-voodoo-bloomberg |title=Tencent eyes stake in game developer Voodoo – Bloomberg |first=Brandy |last=Betz |date=14 July 2020 |website=[[Seeking Alpha]] |access-date=15 July 2020 |archive-date=15 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200715220128/https://seekingalpha.com/news/3590986-tencent-eyes-stake-in-game-developer-voodoo-bloomberg |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="Tech.eu: GBL">{{cite web |url=https://tech.eu/brief/gbl-acquires-minority-stake-in-mobile-games-unicorn-voodoo-at-e266-million/ |title=GBL acquires minority stake in mobile games unicorn Voodoo at €266 million |first=Dan |last=Taylor |date=2 August 2021 |website=Tech.eu |access-date=29 September 2021 |archive-date=27 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927155237/https://tech.eu/brief/gbl-acquires-minority-stake-in-mobile-games-unicorn-voodoo-at-e266-million/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="TechCrunch: Tencent">{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/tencent-takes-minority-stake-in-french-casual-games-maker-voodoo/ |title=Tencent takes minority stake in French casual games maker Voodoo |first=Rita |last=Liao |date=17 August 2020 |website=[[TechCrunch]] |access-date=17 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200817135827/https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/tencent-takes-minority-stake-in-french-casual-games-maker-voodoo/ |archive-date=17 August 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="Variety: Donut County">{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2018/gaming/features/donut-county-hole-io-apple-1202866615/ |title=Goldman Sachs-Backed Cloner Uses War Chest, Ad Buys to Overshadow Original Games |first=Michael |last=Futter |date=6 July 2018 |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |access-date=28 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716023824/https://variety.com/2018/gaming/features/donut-county-hole-io-apple-1202866615/ |archive-date=16 July 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="VentureBeat: Goldman Sachs">{{cite web |url=https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/29/voodoo-raises-estimated-200-million-from-goldman-sachs-for-mobile-games/ |title=Voodoo raises estimated $200 million from Goldman Sachs for mobile games |first=Dean |last=Takahashi |date=29 May 2018 |website=[[VentureBeat]] |access-date=28 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820033608/https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/29/voodoo-raises-estimated-200-million-from-goldman-sachs-for-mobile-games/ |archive-date=20 August 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="VentureBeat: Gumbug">{{cite web |url=https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/11/voodoo-acquires-mobile-game-studio-gumbug-in-london-as-it-exploits-hypercasual-growth/ |title=Voodoo acquires mobile game studio Gumbug in London as it exploits hypercasual growth |first=Dean |last=Takahashi |date=11 December 2019 |website=[[VentureBeat]] |access-date=11 December 2019 |archive-date=11 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191211192529/https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/11/voodoo-acquires-mobile-game-studio-gumbug-in-london-as-it-exploits-hypercasual-growth/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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== External links ==
* {{Official website|https://www.voodoo.io/}}
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[[Category:French companies established in 2013]]
[[Category:Tencent]]
[[Category:Video game companies established in 2013]]
[[Category:Video game companies of France]]
[[Category:Video game development companies]]
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{{About||the luxury personal computer brand|VoodooPC}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Voodoo SAS
| logo = Voodoo Logo.svg
| type = [[Privately held company|Private]]
| industry = [[Video game industry|Video games]]
| founded = {{Start date and age|df=yes|2013}}
| founders = {{Unbulleted list|Alexandre Yazdi|Laurent Ritter}}
| hq_location_city = [[Paris]]
| hq_location_country = France
| area_served = Worldwide
| key_people = {{Unbulleted list|class=nowrap|Alexandre Yazdi ([[Chief executive officer|CEO]])|Gabriel Rivaud ([[Vice-president|VP]], games)}}
| products = ''[[Hole.io]]''
| owner = {{Unbulleted list|class=nowrap|[[Goldman Sachs]] (minority stake)|[[Tencent]] (minority stake)|[[Groupe Bruxelles Lambert]] (16%)}}
| num_employees = 335<ref name="PGbiz: Tibo" />
| num_employees_year = 2021
| website = {{URL|https://www.voodoo.io/|voodoo.io}}
}}
'''Voodoo SAS''' (also referred to as '''Voodoo.io''') is a French [[video game developer]] and [[Video game publisher|publisher]] based in [[Paris]]. The company was founded in 2013 by Alexandre Yazdi and Laurent Ritter. Voodoo's games, predominantly [[free-to-play]] "[[hyper-casual game]]s", have been collectively downloaded 5 [[1,000,000,000|billion]] times as of May 2021. By February 2022, their apps surpassed 6 billion installs.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Astle |first=Aaron |last2=Writer |first2=Staff |title=Voodoo surpasses 6 billion downloads across games and apps |url=https://www.pocketgamer.biz/news/78161/voodoo-passes-six-billion-downloads/ |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=pocketgamer.biz}}</ref> The company has been criticised for [[Video game clone|cloning]] other games.
== History ==
Voodoo was founded in 2013 by Alexandre Yazdi and Laurent Ritter.<ref name="Les Echos: Funding" /> They had been friends since high school and had previously founded Studio Cadet in 2012, a services company for websites and mobile applications.<ref name="Les Echos: Quiz Run" /> Yazdi became the [[chief executive officer]] of Voodoo, while Gabriel Rivaud acted as the [[vice-president]] of games.<ref name="VentureBeat: Goldman Sachs" /> According to Rivaud, the company was in turmoil for its first four years in operation and opted to change its business strategy thereafter.<ref name="VentureBeat: Goldman Sachs" /> Using data it gathered from its previous games, the company designed its newer games to attract more players.<ref name="VentureBeat: Goldman Sachs" /> Using the [[Unity (game engine)|Unity]] game engine, Voodoo tested one new game roughly every week. This method resulted in the successful release of ''Paper.io'' in 2016.<ref name="Les Echos: Turnover" />
Through 2017, Voodoo quadrupled its staff count to 80 and expected to grow to 150 people by the end of 2018.<ref name="Les Echos: Funding" /> In May 2018, the American banking company [[Goldman Sachs]], through its West Street Capital Partners VII fund, invested {{US$|200 million}} in Voodoo.<ref name="Les Echos: Funding" /> It was the largest fundraising in the French technology sector since 2015.<ref name="Les Echos: Funding" /> Yazdi and Ritter retained control of the company.<ref name="Les Echos: Funding" /> At the time, Voodoo had, aside from its Paris headquarters, offices in [[Montpellier]] and [[Strasbourg]].<ref name="Les Echos: Funding" /> A development studio in [[Berlin]], Germany, was established in December 2018, headed by [[general manager]] Alexander Willink.<ref name="GIbiz: Berlin opening" /> The studio started out with roughly ten people, looking to eventually expand to 40 employees.<ref name="GIbiz: Berlin opening" /> It later hired key employees from developers [[Blizzard Entertainment]], [[King (company)|King]], and Mamau.<ref name="PGbiz: Berlin hires" />
By September 2019, Voodoo employed 220 people, including 150 at its Paris headquarters.<ref name="Les Echos: Turnover" /> A publishing office in [[Istanbul]], Turkey, was announced in August 2019 and is headed by publishing director Corentin Selz.<ref name="PGbiz: Istanbul interview" /> This continued with the opening of a [[Montreal]] development studio in November 2019, led by Mehdi El Moussali, a former [[Video game producer|producer]] for [[Gameloft]].<ref name="GIbiz: Montreal opening" /> Through this new location, Voodoo intended to expand beyond hyper-casual games.<ref name="GIbiz: Montreal opening" /> The company acquired [[Shoreditch]]-based developer Gumbug in December that year.<ref name="VentureBeat: Gumbug" />
By July 2020, [[Tencent]] was looking to acquire a minority stake in Voodoo, which was still majority-owned by Yazdi and Ritter.<ref name="SeekingAlpha: Tencent" /> Tencent acquired a minority stake to undisclosed terms in August that year. At this time, Voodoo was valued at {{US$|1.4 billion|long=no}}.<ref name="TechCrunch: Tencent" /> According to Yazdi, this deal would help Voodoo to extend their games into the Asia-Pacific market.<ref name="Gamasutra: Tencent" /> Voodoo subsequently opened offices in Singapore and Japan later that month, headed by Julian Corbett and Ben Fox, respectively.<ref name="GIbiz: Singapore/Japan opening" /> In total in 2020, Voodoo saw revenues of {{€|380 million}}, up from {{€|1 million}} in 2016.<ref name="Les Echos: Turnover" /> The company announced an investment in Istanbul-based developer Fabrika Games in September 2020,<ref name="PGbiz: Fabrika Games" /> and acquired Parisian developer OHM Games in December. OHM Games had developed four games for Voodoo in 2020, which together generated 260 million downloads.<ref name="PGbiz: OHM Games" /> Voodoo further bought BidShake, a [[Tel Aviv]] company developing a marketing automation platform, in June 2021.<ref name="GIbiz: BidShake" /> [[Groupe Bruxelles Lambert]] acquired a 16% stake in Voodoo for {{€|266 million}} in August 2021, valuing Voodoo at {{€|1.7 billion}}.<ref name="Tech.eu: GBL" /> Voodoo acquired the Israeli studio Beach Bum in September for a reported price of {{US$|250–300 million|long=no}}.<ref name="GIbiz: Beach Bum" /><ref name="Reuters: Beach Bum" />
== Games ==
The majority of Voodoo's games are [[free-to-play]] "[[hyper-casual game]]s" developed for the [[Android (operating system)|Android]] and [[iOS]] mobile [[operating systems]].<ref name="Gamasutra: Goldman Sachs" /> Games released by the company include ''Helix Jump'', ''Baseball Boy'', ''Snake vs Block'', ''[[Hole.io]]'', ''Aquapark.io'', ''Purple Diver'', ''Crowd City'', and ''Paper.io''.<ref name="VentureBeat: Gumbug" /><ref name="Financial Times: hyper-casual" /> Voodoo games were downloaded 2 [[1,000,000,000|billion]] times by April 2019,<ref name="PGbiz: two billion" /> 3.7 billion downloads by May 2020,<ref name="PGbiz: Approach" /> and 5 billion by May 2021.<ref name="PGbiz: five billion" /> In December 2019, Voodoo games had 2.6 billion downloads, 300 million [[monthly active users]] (MAUs), and 1 billion individual players.<ref name="VentureBeat: Gumbug" /> ''Helix Jump'', developed by H8games, is Voodoo's most successful game with more than 500 million downloads as of August 2020.<ref name="Financial Times: hyper-casual" /><ref name="PGbiz: Helix Jump" /> One game specifically, Twisty Road, has recently officially declared the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) of their game to be an individual from Victoria, Australia. His name, Chadwick Middleton. His high score at the present moment may only be 100, though this is purely the case due to the fact that he doesn't want to dishearten his beautiful perfect girlfriend Brianna too much, always giving her hope that one day she'll be better than him. Unbeknownst to her that she never will be... BECAUSE HE IS THE GOAT.
External developers can submit games through an online platform for Voodoo to evaluate. The publisher has worked with over 2,000 such studios, which account for 75% of Voodoo's releases. The company finances select studios and supports them during the prototyping phase, receiving a [[Royalty payment|royalty]] share in return.<ref name="Les Echos: Turnover" /> Outside of games, Voodoo developed the [[social media]] platform Wizz in 2020. As of August 2021, the platform has 1 million MAUs in the United States.<ref name="Les Echos: Turnover" />
== Reception ==
Voodoo has been criticised for releasing apparent [[Video game clone|clones]] of [[indie game]]s. These include ''Infinite Golf'' (similar to ''[[Desert Golfing]]''), ''Twisty Road'' (''[[Impossible Road]]''), ''The Fish Master'' (''[[Ridiculous Fishing]]''), ''Flappy Dunk!'' (''[[Flappy Bird]]''), ''Rolly Vortex'' (''[[Rolling Sky]]''), ''The Cube'' (''[[Curiosity: What's Inside the Cube?]]''), and ''Hole.io'' (''[[Donut County]]'').<ref name="Kotaku: Donut County" /><ref name="GIbiz: Donut County" /><ref name="Variety: Donut County" /> In the case of ''Hole.io'', the game used the core gameplay mechanic of ''Donut County'' that has the player controls a hole in the ground to consume objects within the environment, progressively growing wider to be able to consume larger objects.<ref name="Kotaku: Donut County" /><ref name="Polygon: Dont County" /> Ben Esposito had been working on ''Donut County'' for more than five years when ''Hole.io'' released in mid-2018, before ''Donut County''{{'s}} publication.<ref name="Variety: Donut County" /><ref name="Engadget: ripping off indies" /> In response to an inquiry from ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', Voodoo stated that ''Hole.io'' was not a clone of ''Donut County'', although both were in the same sub-genre of games. ''Variety''{{'}}s Michael Futter noted that these games were the only two in this genre.<ref name="Variety: Donut County" />
== Accolades ==
* #20 on ''[[Pocket Gamer.biz]]''{{'}}s "Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2018"<ref name="PGbiz: Top 50 2018" />
* #5 on ''Pocket Gamer.biz''{{'}}s "Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2019"<ref name="PGbiz: Top 50 2019" />
* #16 on ''Pocket Gamer.biz''{{'}}s "Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2020"<ref name="PGbiz: Top 50 2020" />
* Best Publisher – Mobile Games Awards 2019<ref name="MGA: 2019" />
* Revelation of the Year – [[BFM Awards]] 2019<ref name="BFM TV: Awards 2019" />
* Part of {{Interlanguage link|Next40|fr}} 2021<ref name="Le Figaro: Next40 2021" />
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<ref name="Tech.eu: GBL">{{cite web |url=https://tech.eu/brief/gbl-acquires-minority-stake-in-mobile-games-unicorn-voodoo-at-e266-million/ |title=GBL acquires minority stake in mobile games unicorn Voodoo at €266 million |first=Dan |last=Taylor |date=2 August 2021 |website=Tech.eu |access-date=29 September 2021 |archive-date=27 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927155237/https://tech.eu/brief/gbl-acquires-minority-stake-in-mobile-games-unicorn-voodoo-at-e266-million/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="TechCrunch: Tencent">{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/tencent-takes-minority-stake-in-french-casual-games-maker-voodoo/ |title=Tencent takes minority stake in French casual games maker Voodoo |first=Rita |last=Liao |date=17 August 2020 |website=[[TechCrunch]] |access-date=17 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200817135827/https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/tencent-takes-minority-stake-in-french-casual-games-maker-voodoo/ |archive-date=17 August 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="Variety: Donut County">{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2018/gaming/features/donut-county-hole-io-apple-1202866615/ |title=Goldman Sachs-Backed Cloner Uses War Chest, Ad Buys to Overshadow Original Games |first=Michael |last=Futter |date=6 July 2018 |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |access-date=28 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716023824/https://variety.com/2018/gaming/features/donut-county-hole-io-apple-1202866615/ |archive-date=16 July 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="VentureBeat: Goldman Sachs">{{cite web |url=https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/29/voodoo-raises-estimated-200-million-from-goldman-sachs-for-mobile-games/ |title=Voodoo raises estimated $200 million from Goldman Sachs for mobile games |first=Dean |last=Takahashi |date=29 May 2018 |website=[[VentureBeat]] |access-date=28 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820033608/https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/29/voodoo-raises-estimated-200-million-from-goldman-sachs-for-mobile-games/ |archive-date=20 August 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="VentureBeat: Gumbug">{{cite web |url=https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/11/voodoo-acquires-mobile-game-studio-gumbug-in-london-as-it-exploits-hypercasual-growth/ |title=Voodoo acquires mobile game studio Gumbug in London as it exploits hypercasual growth |first=Dean |last=Takahashi |date=11 December 2019 |website=[[VentureBeat]] |access-date=11 December 2019 |archive-date=11 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191211192529/https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/11/voodoo-acquires-mobile-game-studio-gumbug-in-london-as-it-exploits-hypercasual-growth/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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== External links ==
* {{Official website|https://www.voodoo.io/}}
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== Games ==
-The majority of Voodoo's games are [[free-to-play]] "[[hyper-casual game]]s" developed for the [[Android (operating system)|Android]] and [[iOS]] mobile [[operating systems]].<ref name="Gamasutra: Goldman Sachs" /> Games released by the company include ''Helix Jump'', ''Baseball Boy'', ''Snake vs Block'', ''[[Hole.io]]'', ''Aquapark.io'', ''Purple Diver'', ''Crowd City'', and ''Paper.io''.<ref name="VentureBeat: Gumbug" /><ref name="Financial Times: hyper-casual" /> Voodoo games were downloaded 2 [[1,000,000,000|billion]] times by April 2019,<ref name="PGbiz: two billion" /> 3.7 billion downloads by May 2020,<ref name="PGbiz: Approach" /> and 5 billion by May 2021.<ref name="PGbiz: five billion" /> In December 2019, Voodoo games had 2.6 billion downloads, 300 million [[monthly active users]] (MAUs), and 1 billion individual players.<ref name="VentureBeat: Gumbug" /> ''Helix Jump'', developed by H8games, is Voodoo's most successful game with more than 500 million downloads as of August 2020.<ref name="Financial Times: hyper-casual" /><ref name="PGbiz: Helix Jump" />
+The majority of Voodoo's games are [[free-to-play]] "[[hyper-casual game]]s" developed for the [[Android (operating system)|Android]] and [[iOS]] mobile [[operating systems]].<ref name="Gamasutra: Goldman Sachs" /> Games released by the company include ''Helix Jump'', ''Baseball Boy'', ''Snake vs Block'', ''[[Hole.io]]'', ''Aquapark.io'', ''Purple Diver'', ''Crowd City'', and ''Paper.io''.<ref name="VentureBeat: Gumbug" /><ref name="Financial Times: hyper-casual" /> Voodoo games were downloaded 2 [[1,000,000,000|billion]] times by April 2019,<ref name="PGbiz: two billion" /> 3.7 billion downloads by May 2020,<ref name="PGbiz: Approach" /> and 5 billion by May 2021.<ref name="PGbiz: five billion" /> In December 2019, Voodoo games had 2.6 billion downloads, 300 million [[monthly active users]] (MAUs), and 1 billion individual players.<ref name="VentureBeat: Gumbug" /> ''Helix Jump'', developed by H8games, is Voodoo's most successful game with more than 500 million downloads as of August 2020.<ref name="Financial Times: hyper-casual" /><ref name="PGbiz: Helix Jump" /> One game specifically, Twisty Road, has recently officially declared the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) of their game to be an individual from Victoria, Australia. His name, Chadwick Middleton. His high score at the present moment may only be 100, though this is purely the case due to the fact that he doesn't want to dishearten his beautiful perfect girlfriend Brianna too much, always giving her hope that one day she'll be better than him. Unbeknownst to her that she never will be... BECAUSE HE IS THE GOAT.
External developers can submit games through an online platform for Voodoo to evaluate. The publisher has worked with over 2,000 such studios, which account for 75% of Voodoo's releases. The company finances select studios and supports them during the prototyping phase, receiving a [[Royalty payment|royalty]] share in return.<ref name="Les Echos: Turnover" /> Outside of games, Voodoo developed the [[social media]] platform Wizz in 2020. As of August 2021, the platform has 1 million MAUs in the United States.<ref name="Les Echos: Turnover" />
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0 => 'The majority of Voodoo's games are [[free-to-play]] "[[hyper-casual game]]s" developed for the [[Android (operating system)|Android]] and [[iOS]] mobile [[operating systems]].<ref name="Gamasutra: Goldman Sachs" /> Games released by the company include ''Helix Jump'', ''Baseball Boy'', ''Snake vs Block'', ''[[Hole.io]]'', ''Aquapark.io'', ''Purple Diver'', ''Crowd City'', and ''Paper.io''.<ref name="VentureBeat: Gumbug" /><ref name="Financial Times: hyper-casual" /> Voodoo games were downloaded 2 [[1,000,000,000|billion]] times by April 2019,<ref name="PGbiz: two billion" /> 3.7 billion downloads by May 2020,<ref name="PGbiz: Approach" /> and 5 billion by May 2021.<ref name="PGbiz: five billion" /> In December 2019, Voodoo games had 2.6 billion downloads, 300 million [[monthly active users]] (MAUs), and 1 billion individual players.<ref name="VentureBeat: Gumbug" /> ''Helix Jump'', developed by H8games, is Voodoo's most successful game with more than 500 million downloads as of August 2020.<ref name="Financial Times: hyper-casual" /><ref name="PGbiz: Helix Jump" />'
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