Megapop games is proud to announce that it has won the Investor Live Pitch Battle at the annual Nordic Game conference. In a fierce battle between 20+ Nordic companies, four ended up in the final round. Once there, Megapop pitched to a panel of noted, professional game investors, as well as a large live audience, and emerged the winner!
As most industry watchers note, the Nordic region has grown to become one of the world hotspots for gaming, with an impressive amount of successful companies. Celebrating its tenth edition, the annual Nordic Game Conference drew a record amount of visitors from both near and far to honor the Nordic gaming industry. That Megapop left victorious in such a competitive climate bodes well for the future of the company.
Megapop is a startup studio founded by former Funcom (Age of Conan, The Longest Journey) and Artplant (Battlestar Galactica Online) developers. Its first game, Trolls vs Vikings, was unveiled at GDC 2013, and the game has since started to gain a growing interest.
About Trolls vs Vikings:
- Play as nature-loving trolls, who must defend their magical homeland from fierce Viking invaders and their gods.
- Span the seasons, each one providing new environments, challenges, tactics, bosses and hilarious new enemies to fight.
- Social features that mark a first for the genre: experience both real-time and turn-based multiplayer matches. Loop in friends with the seamless social sharing and comparing system.
- Awesome characters, deep strategy, collectable monsters, tons of achievements and fun gameplay, both solo and online. Join the wacky and wonderful world of the Trolls, and help them fend off the vicious Viking horde!
- Movable towers, set-pieces, strategic resource gathering, dynamic in-game tile system, and many other small and large tweaks to the gameplay formula.
