[1][2] Ex-Sulake chief technology officer Markus Halttunen joined Small Giant in the same position.
[3] Later that year, the company completed a fundraising campaign that generated USD 3.1 million to allow them to launch their first mobile game, OddWings Escape.
[5] The game's early success was credited, in part, to its having been translated into 15 different languages at launch, giving it broader international appeal.
[7] Following OddWings Escape and Rope Racers, Soininen described a change in Small Giant's focus away from casual games: "we decided to kill those products pretty quickly and start looking for the big one.
[10] By the end of the year, Small Giant reported that Empires and Puzzles had generated USD 33 million in revenue.
[13] The terms for purchasing the remaining portion of the company will be set based on its performance over the three years following the initial acquisition.
The game shares many gameplay elements with Empires and Puzzles, but it features a modern warfare setting.