Rival Games Oy

HBO in Gaming for Tablets

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Gaming
  • Location Turku, Finland
  • Currency EUR
  • Founded March 2013
  • Employees 13
  • Website rival-games.com

Company Summary

A modern form of entertainment, where TV series execution meets interactive story-driven gaming.

Own IP, The Detail, is inspired by the best crime TV series and aimed at the same audience. We are also hard at work on the shared development of a well-known IP with a U.S. based comic publisher.

We use the episodic distribution model, which is cheaper and faster to iterate, and distinguishes us from the over-crowded Free-To-Play market.

Team

  • Jukka Laakso
    CEO

    M.Sc in Technology (exp. 2014), majoring in Productization with a minor on Business Competence.
    AaltoEE Game Executive Graduate
    IGDA Scholar at Game Developer Conferemce 2013

  • Sami Lehtinen
    CTO

    M.Sc in Technology majoring in Networked Systems Security with a minor on Technology Entrepreneurship.

Advisors

  • Sheri Rubin
    Founder & CEO at Design Direct Deliver
    Aki Järvilehto
    Former Executive Vice President at Remedy Entertainment
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Juuso Koskinen
    Top ”young” university business incubator in 2013 (awarded by UBI Networks)
    Sami Vanhatalo
    Co-Founder & Former Lead Technical Artist at Remedy Entertainment (Currently Lead Technical Artist at Grand Cru)
    Unconfirmed

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