The company launched Storm Skaters for Snapchat in September 2020. Special power-ups such as the Air Raid can be unlocked to help defeat the opponent’s fleet.īattleship is the second title for Snap Games developed by CoolGames’ in-house studio and is based on cloud-based HTML5 technology. Through CoolGames’ matchmaking system, people can challenge random Snapchatters and their friends for battles. It is a real-time, turn-based multiplayer game where users can engage in sea battles against their Snapchat friends. “HTML5 has come of age and these companies are reaching massive audiences with it.”īattleship for Snap Games has been designed with gameplay and animations in mind to specifically appeal to Snap’s Gen Z and Millennial audiences. “Cloud based HTML5 is the technology of choice in gaming for a growing number of next generation platforms from ‘big tech’ players such as Snap,” continues Rutten. People increasingly favour platforms where they can instantly join the games that their friends are playing, without the hassle of downloading it first from a classic app-store. We’re delighted to be Snap’s partner of choice and to bring Battleship to their millions of users for the first time.” “Snapchatters have really embraced the idea of seamlessly playing and sharing mobile game experiences with their friends from within their favourite messenger app. “Snap Games is growing at an impressive speed, becoming one of the world’s leading game platforms outside the traditional app-stores,” says Laurens Rutten, founder and co-CEO of CoolGames. “As an expert in developing cloud-based HTML5 games, CoolGames perfectly captured what players have cherished for years about Battleship while ensuring it works seamlessly inside the Snapchat platform.”

“We are thrilled to introduce this iconic board game to Snapchatters,” says John Imah, Head of Games and Brand Partnerships at Snap Inc. They will be notified when their opponent fires back. Coming soon, Battleship players will be able to search for and fire at their enemy’s fleet whenever they want, this is true even when their challenger is not online. Snap is teaming up with CoolGames as its first partner to integrate their new asynchronous social features like Custom Chat Updates to help games become more social, shareable and retentive experiences. Its retention rate is one of the highest on the platform. Snapchat’s 500 million monthly users can now challenge each other and instantly engage in the naval combat fun of the original Battleship on any mobile device.īattleship has reached close to four million players since it soft launched on Snap Games two weeks ago. CoolGames partners with Snap to bring Hasbro’s Battleship to SnapchatĪMSTERDAM, 30 June, 2021 – CoolGames has released Hasbro’s Battleship Game for Snap Games, Snapchat’s HTML5 gaming platform.

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