How to get venture capital for games

“Developing an idea, let alone a video game, costs a fortune. That is something CEO Thomas Krogh-Jacobsen from the game developer Pixel Pandemic knows a lot about; knowledge that he has chosen to share in the radio show De 6 Hatte on the national Danish talk radio Radio24syv – a radio show that focuses on…

Pixel Pandemic featured in an article on Scale-IT at Vaeksthuset on the considerations of potentially moving to the Valley

På vej til Silicon Valley Blandt de 150 deltagere var Thomas Krogh-Jacobsen, der er direktør i Pixel Pandemic, som udvikler spil til sociale platforme. Han var interesseret i at høre mere om mulighederne for at rejse venture kapital: – Browser-spil distribueret igennem bl.a. Facebook er ”born global” fra start. Men det er nødvendigt at rejse…

Pixel Pandemic nominated as best startup for the EuroCloud Nordic Award

Pixel Pandemic are nominated as best startup for the EuroCloud Nordic Award. An award which will be given to the startup who demonstrates the most innovative businessmodels and products leveraging the strategic advantages of cloud based technology. The award show will take place on the 23rd of May 2012 in Stockholm. You can read more…

The Pixel Pandemic game engine technology featured in yet another cloud case

We are proud to announce the that the Pixel Pandemic game engine technology is featured in yet another cloud case emphasizing the huge opportunities of scalability and pay as you grow for companies with rapid growth.  

Pixel Pandemic has been approved in the Windows Azure for BizSpark Plus program

Pixel Pandemic is proud to announce that we have been approved in the Windows Azure for BizSpark Plus program and look very much forward to continue our close collaboration with Microsoft in the future development of our game engine which is .NET based and Azure enabled. At the time of writing only 2 Danish companies have…

Summer Internship at Pixel Pandemic

Pixel Pandemic is offering an unpaid summer internship in the office in Copenhagen for a student with interest in browser game development with a focus on level design.   Ulønnet praktikplads: Level Designer til Facebook spil Om os Pixel Pandemic ApS er et browser spilstudie på 7 mand, der udvikler browser baserede spil der bl.a.…

Pixel Pandemic will participate in Microsoft Azure Start-up and Investors Event in Dublin

Pixel Pandemic will participate in Microsoft Azure Start-up and Investors Event in Dublin 12th-13th of March.

Pixel Pandemic as Microsoft case story on Computerworld.dk

Pixel Pandemic is features as one of two case stories in the Microsoft bizspark on Computerworld.dk: http://www.computerworld.dk/art/213352/microsoft-aabner-gigant-netvaerk-for-danske-ivaerksaettere

The Vikings Are Coming

Further down the track is Pixel Pandemic, whose ‘Zombie Pandemic’ game has been a huge hit.  This is a classic start-up that spotted a gap in the market. It has tapped into the interest in browser-based games  – particularly the explosion of game applications on Facebook -  and has created a feature-rich gaming platform that…

Microsoft Azure Cloud case study on Pixel Pandemic

“When Pixel Pandemic released an online role-playing game built on the company’s own game engine, the game quickly generated worldwide demand. Unfortunately, the company’s existing server infrastructure could not scale up to meet the growing demand. Pixel Pandemic needed to guarantee a high-quality game experience wherever and whenever the game was played, and it wanted…