Swiper Game Studio Officially Purchased Animoca Brands Through The Sandbox

JAKARTA - Animoca Brands, through its subsidiary The Sandbox, has just acquired Sviper GmbH, a game development studio from Germany. This acquisition aims to expand The Sandbox's creative capabilities and development.

Swiper is known for its creative advantages in working with well-known brand partners and having senior talent in its field. Swiper will help The Sandbox expand social features and gameplay in the metaverse.

The Sandbox is a decentralized virtual game world that allows its users to create their own content. In this acquisition, The Sandbox plans to provide a more interesting gaming experience with new social features, multiplayer options, and a new Game Maker.

The Sandbox already has more than 400 partners consisting of Warner Music Group, Ubisoft'smen, Cut The Rope, Tony Hawk, Gucci Vault, The Walking Dead, and also Atari.

Swiper will help The Sandbox realize its vision of empowering players around the world. They will help create a play experience that users can access with both original and well known characters and worlds.

The Swiper leadership team has more than 25 years of experience working with well-known brands on mobile, PC, and multiplayer gaming games. Ole Schaper and CPO CEO Mark Buchholz led the Swiper team.

The Swiper team consisting of 40 people is based in a gaming technology center in Hamburg, Germany. Apart from joining The Sandbox, they are also opening job vacancies for the virtual world. This acquisition is also a strategic step by The Sandbox to expand its creative footprint around the world.

Their team fully accepts the idea of the metaverse as a shared digital space. Therefore, The Sandbox is a place where the world and heroes collide to create magic.

The Sandbox creative team in Germany has advanced in the possibility of gameplay available to our internal team and creators of The Sandbox at large, said Sebastien Borget, COO and Co-Founder of The Sandbox.

"From adding social features to designing rules that can be used by creators to prototype game logic to implementing strong multiplayer features, our Hamburg team accelerates the creative potential of the metaverse," added Borget.

For information, Swiper is a game development studio founded in 2016 by game industry veterans. They have experience in PC, mobile, and free-to-play games from Germany's biggest gaming company.

In addition, Swiper also provides an extraordinary gaming experience with the highest quality. The team combines technical expertise, innovation, focus, and speed in a non-political work environment. In addition, Swiper also works with several IPs and the world's largest PC and mobile partners.