Scopely partners with mobile startup Redemption to make ‘top-grossing games’

Mobile gaming was once the new frontier for developers. It was wild and untamed — it seemed like anything was possible. Today, it is realm controlled by a few companies that have had the same top hit games for the last three years. But that’s not stopping publishers from trying to make new successes.

Publisher Scopely, the company responsible for The Walking Dead: Road to Survival game, revealed to GamesBeat that it is investing in a “strategic partnership” with startup studio Redemption Games for an undisclosed amount of money. This is the new company from developers Michael Witz and Dan Lin, who are veterans of SGN and the social gaming hit Cookie Jam. Together with Scopely, Witz and Lin hope to create new games that rise to the highest spots of the top-grossing chart. And that means overtaking perennial moneymakers like Candy Crush Saga and Clash of Clans in the $30 billion mobile-gaming market, which even has companies like Activision spending $5.9 billion to get involved.