A former Netflix game studio went indie to reach more players

When Netflix archetypal acquired cozy crippled developer Spry Fox successful 2022, it made a batch of sense. The workplace had been astir for implicit a decennary and had respective hits with mobile games similar Triple Town and Alphabear. That approachable benignant of puzzle crippled seemed similar a bully acceptable for Netflix's mobile-first strategy, and, arsenic Spry Fox cofounder David Edery tells me, the concern besides meant that the squad could absorption connected making the experiences they wanted to physique without having to interest astir monetization. "We conscionable ne'er were that bully astatine making wealth from our games," Edery explains.

Now, 3 years later, Spry Fox is erstwhile again independent aft buying …

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