{"id":4057,"date":"2021-08-22T00:16:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T07:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2021-10-24T04:09:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T11:09:18","slug":"tinybuild-acquires-rawmen-developer-animal-for-10-2m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/tinybuild-acquires-rawmen-developer-animal-for-10-2m","title":{"rendered":"TinyBuild Acquires Rawmen Developer Animal For $10.2M"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/tinybuild-invests-3m-in-hologryph\" title=\"TinyBuild invests $3m in Hologryph\">TinyBuild<\/a> team is looking to increase its own game development abilities. The publisher announced that it had acquired Pasadena, California-based developer Animal for $10.2 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team at TinyBuild has been working with the developer for two years now on Animal&#8217;s upcoming arena shooter, Rawmen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deal is billed as TinyBuild&#8217;s fourth &#8216;acquihire&#8217; of this year and will see them pay up to $10.2 million for Animal over the next three years. &nbsp;70% of the price will be paid in Tiny Build shares, with the remaining 30% will be paid in cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;We are delighted to announce the acquisition of Animal, our fourth acquihire this year, as we continue to scale up our ambitions,&#8221; commented Nichiporchik. &#8220;Our experience of working with the studio over the last two years means we know they are going to be a great addition to the TinyBuild family.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking about Animal&#8217;s acquisition, Alex Nichiporchik, CEO of TinyBuild, said that the purchase was driven by an interest in acquiring their talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement of TinyBuild&#8217;s most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/tinybuild-acquires-three-indie-game-studios\" title=\"tinyBuild Acquires Three Indie Game Studios\">three acquisitions<\/a> has been nothing short of exciting. TinyBuild announced in February that it had acquired We&#8217;re Five Games, Moon Moose, and Hungry Couch simultaneously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March, TinyBuild went public, arriving on the London Stock Exchange with a market capitalization of \u00a3340.6 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TinyBuild is currently ranked as one of America&#8217;s most successful startup companies and has launched over 40 titles since being founded in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Send your news to <a href=\"mailto:news@gamesround.com\">news@gamesround.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TinyBuild team is looking to increase its own game development abilities. The publisher announced that it had acquired Pasadena, California-based developer Animal for $10.2 million. The team at TinyBuild has been working with the developer for two years now on Animal&#8217;s upcoming arena shooter, Rawmen. The deal is billed as TinyBuild&#8217;s fourth &#8216;acquihire&#8217; of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[835,454,455,837,456,836],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4057"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4067,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions\/4067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}