Supercell buys 51% of Badland game developer Frogmind for $7.8 million

Frogmind was founded in 2012 by Vuorinen and Juhana Myllys with the simple goal of building the best games. In April 2013, the company launched its first title, Badland, which was built by two people and became a huge hit.

Frogmind will operate independently in the same way that Supercell has operated independently under SoftBank (and now Tencent).

Frogmind has 12 employees, and co-founder Vuorinen said the company will continue to publish its games as it wishes. Paananen said that Supercell will remain a developer, not a publisher. It will offer advice to Frogmind.

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