SkyVu (Battle Bears)

[nebugeater]

So this billboard has been up along I 80 for a week or two now. The interesting part is where it says MADE ON OMAHA. This does not appear to be the type of app I follow or use but I am curios. Is this a small time company splurging on a billboard to try and get traction or is this from some established company here in Omaha that does a bunch of this stuff. At FREE it will take a lot of downloads to pay for the billboard. Most like the hope is this will get you hooked to buy the Upgrade version.





billboard-1 by nebugeater, on Flickr

[Coyote]

SkyVu Entertainment is the award-winning game studio behind the hit mobile game franchise BATTLE BEARS which has over 18 MILLION downloads on iPhone, iPad and Android. Co-founded by CORALINE animator Ben Vu and backed by venture capital funding from Lightbank, Nextview, Great Oaks and the Nebraska Angels, SkyVu (pronounced sky-voo) has quickly grown into a mobile game tour-de-force with multiple award-winning core games and was named one of the Top 50 Developers of 2012 by PocketGamer. Learn more at http://www.Sky.Vu

Ben Vu is an animator, writer, and director from Omaha, Nebraska. Ben received his Master’s degree in Experimental Animation at CalArts and and studied film & TV production at Ball State University where he was the first student to complete a computer animated film. While at CalArts, Ben completed his second computer animated short film, Noobies, and began his professional career on Henry Selick’s short film, Moongirl Ben continued to work for Selick on the Academy Award nominated film, Coraline, where he worked closely with Selick in both the art and story departments. Ben also assisted LAIKA Entertainment in developing the upcoming film, Here Be Monsters. Ben has lectured at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Yersin University (Vietnam), the University of Nebraska (Omaha), Metropolitan Community College (Omaha) and his alma mater Creighton Prep High School (Omaha). In 2007, Ben and his brother Hoa founded SkyVu Entertainment, a mobile games studio based in Omaha. Ben is the CEO of SkyVu and guides the strategic and creative direction of the company.

[Coyote]

Headquarters

SkyVu Entertainment
(Aksarben Village)
1915 S. 64th Ave.
Omaha, NE 68106
(415) 944-7084

San Francisco
(415) 944-7084

Singapore
+65 9232-9401

[Coyote]

SkyVu Named Top 50 Developers of 2012

44. SkyVu
New entry

US developer SkyVu continues to build out its 3D shooter Battle Bears franchise, adding new games, themes and modes, most notably its real-time four-on-four multiplayer Royale game.

Mixing up the paid model with free-to-play, the series has now been downloaded over 14 million times.

Certainly not on an Angry Birds scale, nevertheless with a core fanbase, and merchandising such as comic and plushes, not to mention a push into animated content and social games, it's a great demonstration of the power of mobile to kickstart a media property, even a niche one.

[Uffda]

I downloaded way back last year when it first came out just to see what it was about. Currently it is gathering icloud webs as I am not much of a gamer. :D

[Brad]

SkyVu has been in the Pinhook Flats building for a couple years now.