Paul Gouge

Paul Gouge is a games industry entrepreneur and investor, the founder of BattleMail, Rockpool Games, Ironstone Partners, Ideas Pad and Playdemic.

Career

BattleMail

After receiving a degree in economics, Gouge spent two years in investment banking before leaving in 1999 to found his first games company, BattleMail, with Alex Rigby.[1] Their game, BattleMail Kung Fu, was a virally distributed casual massively multiplayer online game that was nominated, unsuccessfully, for a BAFTA award[2] and was later sold to (M)Forma.

Rockpool Games/Ironstone Partners

In late 2002, Gouge and Rigby founded Rockpool Games, a mobile phone games studio, as well as Ironstone Partners, a video game licensing business. Over the following five years, Rockpool developed mobile games based on major video game licenses and won several major awards.[3] Both businesses were acquired by Eidos Interactive in early 2007[4] for $15m, with Gouge as head of Eidos Play, the firm's casual division, until February 2009.

Playdemic

In late 2010, Gouge and Rigby founded Playdemic, a European independent social games company that develops and operates game services for social networks and mobile devices. The company’s first release, Gourmet Ranch,[5] was launched in August 2010 and, by early 2012, had registered over 10 million users and generated over $10m in virtual goods revenue.

Playdemic's second release was Crossword Buddies,[6] which was launched on Facebook in February 2012 and became available on iPhone and iPad in May 2012. On 8 March 2012, Playdemic signed a distribution deal with Zynga[7] to help increase its audience.

Appatyze

Gouge was a seed investor in and board advisor to Appatyze, an in-app advertising company.

References
  1. "Battlemail to push games via email". Campaign. 24 May 2000. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  2. "BAFTA Awards Search". BAFTA. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  3. "Total Mobile Magazine Awards Three-In-A-Row Maximum Scores For Games Developed By Rockpool". Games Industry (Press release). Rockpool Games Ltd. 17 August 2006. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  4. David Jenkins (26 February 2007). "Eidos Acquires Rockpool Games, Ironstone, SoGoPlay". GamaSutra. Archived from the original on 21 March 2007. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  5. "Gourmet Ranch". Playdemic. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
  6. "Crossword Buddies". Playdemic. Archived from the original on 31 January 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
  7. "Playdemic sign distribution deal with Zynga" (Press release). Playdemic. 8 March 2012. Archived from the original on 1 February 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
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