Press Releases 2017
Shoal Games Secures License to the Mr. Men & Little Miss Brand
ANGUILLA, B.W.I., July 31, 2017 – Shoal Games Ltd. (TSXV: SGW) (OTCQB: SGLDF) (“the Company”), mobile software developer, publisher, and owner of Rooplay (http://www.rooplay.com), today announced that it has licensed the rights to the Mr. Men and Little Miss brand owned by Sanrio Co., Ltd. Created by Roger Hargreaves in 1971, the popular children’s book series has sold more than 250 million copies in 28 countries. Popular in many regions of the world, Mr. Men and Little Miss score a 98% for brand awareness in the UK where the brand is iconic.
Shoal Games Announces Q2 2017 Results
ANGUILLA, B.W.I., July 27, 2017 – Shoal Games Ltd. (TSXV: SGW) (OTCQB: SGLDF) (“the Company”), mobile software developer, publisher, and owner of Rooplay (www.rooplay.com) and the Rooplay Originals games featuring Garfield, today announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2017. All amounts are presented in United States dollars and are in accordance with United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
Recent Shoal Games Ltd. highlights include:
- Signed Global license of the popular Moomins brand
- Development of Garfield Checkers and Garfield Chess games
- Launch of 12 Rooplay Original games featuring Garfield as stand alone apps
- Successful closing of a private placement raising CAD$1.045 million
“The second quarter of 2017 saw the Rooplay strategy continue to come to fruition with the launch of 10 Rooplay Original stand alone games featuring Garfield,” commented Jason Williams Shoal Games CEO. “Rooplay Original games are produced by Shoal Games and are published onto the Rooplay platform which makes our content offering of over 500 EdTech games stronger. In addition, the Rooplay Original games are also published as stand alone apps in the Google Play store which generate free traffic and send players to Rooplay when they want more game content. This strategy is live and is just one of many strategies that Shoal Games uses to generate free traffic into Rooplay. Our content strategy is to deliver a huge quantity of quality education and entertainment games onto Rooplay all featuring popular brands. Over the coming months, we will be releasing a variety of games for a global audience featuring Garfield, the Moomins, and many more brands that have strong global demand. This growth in player traffic we expect will turn into long term recurring revenue.”
Shoal Games Ltd. Closes Canadian $1,045,000 Financing
ANGUILLA, B.W.I., June 20, 2017 / Shoal Games Ltd. (TSX-V:SGW) (OTCQB:SGLDF) (the “Company”), mobile software developer, owner, and publisher of Rooplay (www.rooplay.com) and the Rooplay Originals games featuring Garfield, today announced that it has closed the non-brokered private placement financing previously announced on June 8, 2017. The oversubscribed financing totaled Canadian $1.045 million (the “Financing”) and consisted of 2,323,779 units priced at Canadian $0.45 per unit (“Units”). Each Unit was comprised of one common share and one share purchase warrant. Each share purchase warrant is exercisable into one common share of the Company for 12 months following closing. The exercise price of the warrants is Canadian $0.55 per share for the first six months following closing and Canadian $0.65 per share for the period which is 7-12 months following closing.
Shoal Games Ltd. Announces Proposed Financing
ANGUILLA, B.W.I., June 8, 2017 / Shoal Games Ltd. (TSX-V:SGW”) (OTCQB:SGLDF) (the “Company”), mobile software developer, publisher, and owner of Rooplay (www.rooplay.com), announces that it intends to complete a private placement financing for gross proceeds of up to $1,000,000 (the “Financing“), which is expected to consist of units, with each unit comprised of one common share and one share purchase warrant at a price of $0.45 per unit, or such other price per unit determined by the Company’s management in compliance with TSX Venture Exchange (the “Exchange“) pricing regulations. Each share purchase warrant will be exercisable to acquire one common share of the Company at a price of $0.55 per share for the first six months after closing and at a price of $0.65 per share for the remaining 6 months following the closing of the Financing.
Shoal Games Launches 10 Rooplay Originals featuring Garfield
ANGUILLA, B.W.I., June 6, 2017 – Shoal Games Ltd. (TSXV:SGW) (OTCQB:SGLDF) (“the Company”), mobile software developer, publisher, and owner of Rooplay (www.rooplay.com), today announced that it has launched 10 Rooplay Original productions exclusively on Google Play.
In addition to publishing the Rooplay Originals directly onto its Rooplay platform, Shoal Games has also released all 10 of its recent productions featuring Garfield as stand-alone apps. The games include Garfield 4 in a Row, Garfield Tic Tac Toe, Garfield Spot the Difference, Garfield Connect the Dots, Garfield Snakes and Ladders, Garfield Coloring Book, Garfield ABC’s, Garfield Math Bingo, Garfield Memory Match, and Garfield Puzzle.
As stand-alone games in the Google Play Store, all of the Rooplay Originals are initially free to download, but encourage users to also download the Rooplay platform where they can enjoy more than 500 different games in one app including the Rooplay Originals. Users of the stand-alone apps are also capable of purchasing the complete single game with an in-app purchase should they desire.