Chhota Bheem has been a heartthrob for children for quite some time now. The creators Green Gold Animation are taking the character to smaller screens as well with an exclusive deal with Nazara Games to develop and publish multiple mobile games across all its IPs over the next 5 years.
Nazara Games and June Software recently signed a definitive agreement to collaborate on a series of games based on the popular Chhota Bheem IP.
In the wake of this deal Nazara Games launched a new title in the Chhota Bheem Series which follows its successful game Chhota Bheem Jungle Run. Developed by June Software, Chhota Bheem Race has you racing against the entire gang of Raju, Chutki, Jaggu, Kalia and many others.
Chhota Bheem Race is the first of the six game deal between Nazara and June. After having successfully made games for the global market, June is now focusing on making games for India and thus the desi touch to its successful real-time multiplayer game Ninjump Dash.
Although Ninjump Dash is a real-time multiplayer, Chhota Bheem Race is a single player game where you challenge four AIs to reach to the finish line. The game takes players on a racing adventure with awesome racing skills, unlock special weapons like the belan, danda, mace or the Bat that gives you special powers.
The mobile game market in India is growing at a very high pace. With the rapidly developing infrastructure and high penetration of low end smartphones domestic mobile markets are expected to touch Rs.2000 crore and kids along with young adults gaming genre will play a major role in this.
Commenting on the partnership with June Software Nazara Games CEO, Manish Agrawal, “We at Nazara are happy to partner with Roby and the team at June Software; June Software is one of the most successful developers in kids segment in the global mobile gaming market. With long term partnerships with Green Gold & June Software, we at Nazara are very confident that we will give highly relevant & local mobile gaming content to millions of kids in India and abroad.”
Roby John, CEO and Founder of June Software was quoted “We are thrilled with the opportunities working with the Nazara Games team on Chhota Bheem IP and doing Games for India. In the past, we focused extensively on global markets and build world class games that have been downloaded over 40 Million times. Taking our proven game engines and redoing it with a focus on Indian IP and new technical constraints like small app size, restricted data usage, localization challenges and supporting even low end smartphones without a compromise on the gamer’s experience is exactly the kind of challenges that June Software thrives on and our first game in this series – Chhota Bheem Race, does prove that. We look forward to the many millions of players playing our new games. “
He continued, “As a studio, we focus on two things: make play real time and bring our educational expertise with TaptoLearn. Manish and I discussed about giving June’s games a Chhota Bheem touch and thus are currently working on 6 games based on the Green Gold IP.”
The studio has downsized the game significantly for attracting more eyeballs across regions where Chhota Bheem has a large following. Currently the game is available for Android and iOS and the game even got featured on Apple App Store in India.
Recently, publisher Nazara also signed a deal with Russian game developer Zeptolab to localise its popular game Cut The Rope for 3 years where the company wants to attract 40-50 million players from the country.
“We currently have nearly 20,000 downloads for the game already and are expecting these numbers to grow in the coming week. Apart from this, we are already working on releasing the second game in the series which should be out soon,” he ends.
