Chilltime

Chilltime
Type of business Private
Available in English
Founded February 2007
Headquarters Lisbon, Portugal
Area served Worldwide
Founder(s) Daniel Vila Boa
Key people Daniel Vila Boa (CEO)
Industry Interactive entertainment, Social network service
Products Massively multiplayer online games
Website Chilltime.com
Alexa rank Negative increase 2,291,414 (April 2014)[1]
Registration Yes
Current status Active

Chilltime is a massively multiplayer online games developer located in Lisbon, Portugal, Europe.[2] The company develops browser-based Real-time strategy games.

History

Chilltime was founded by Daniel Vila Boa in 2007. The company started out as a social networking site for the Portuguese youth in 2004.[3]

The project grew to a point where it gained the interest of the magazine publisher Edimpresa. In 2007, Edimpresa was a joint venture between the European publishing company Edipresse and Impresa a Portuguese media conglomerate. Edimpresa acquired a 51pct majority stake of the company in October 2007 for less than a million euros.[4]

The company focused on its social network in Portugal that included profiles, friend updates, photos, online journals, forums, groups and integrated communities.[5] These integrated communities included SIC Radical, Portuguese Idolos, Portuguese Cosmopolitan and Gato Fedorento with photos, videos, fan updates, competitions and forums.[6]

In 2008, Netjovens.pt re-branded to Chilltime.com in attempt to make the social networking site go international.[7] During this period the Impresa bought the remaining 50pct stake in Edimpresa from European publisher Edipresse.[8] The 51pct stake of Chilltime now belonged to Portuguese media conglomerate Impresa.

In December, 2009, the founder bought the 51pct stake owned by Impresa for an undisclosed amount. Impresa stated that the company no longer made sense in its portfolio considering international competition from Social networking sites and that it would focus on its national businesses, the founder stated that in this new phase Chilltime would focus new projects that were not based on advertising model, neither on the Portuguese national market.[9]

In January 2010, Chilltime replaced the social networking website with their corporate website.[10] Later that year in August, Chilltime launched World War Online, a massively multiplayer strategy war game.

World War Online

World War Online is a freemium PvP massively multiplayer online real-time strategy browser game developed and published by Chilltime in 2010.[11][12]

World War Online is currently available in over 100 countries and has active players in over 50 of them.[13][14]

Gameplay

Players build multiple types of bases to produce four types of resources: money, food, bricks and grain which can then be used to train military units that can be used in offence and defense. The players can also invest in WWO-influence, a limited resource that can be used to create more bases, accelerate their upgrades or train strong units.[15]

Once they are strong enough, players then join squads to conquer capitals and getting points on the leaderboard. At the end of each season, which lasts around four months, the winners get real, physical medals as a reward.[16]

Development and release

World War Online was released in August 2010 by Chilltime.[17]

As one of the 66 Portuguese startup companies to represent Portugal on the Web Summit, Chilltime took a challenge based on a new battle engine for World War Online that is currently in development.[18][19]

Chilltime as Social Network

Chilltime had many features as a social network including:

  • Customized profiles and follow updates of friends.
  • Create a restricted group of friends where they can share photos and information.
  • Join fan groups and share information
  • Community blogging service allowing members to follow blogger.
  • Online newspapers for members to read up on and follow, members could create and monetize their own online newspapers.
  • Integrated communities with exclusive updates from brands (SIC Radical, Cosmopolitan, Idolos and Gato Fedorento)

Chilltime with integrated social communities

Chilltime gave users the opportunity to interact with their favorite brands. The SIC Radical integrated community, would allow members to select their favorite shows, add them to their agenda, follow updates and share their opinion in online forums.[20]

References

  1. ↑ "Chilltime.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  2. ↑ "Contact Chilltime." Chilltime. Retrieved on April 7, 2011.
  3. ↑ About Chilltime from Chilltime
  4. ↑ Impresa (2009-04-18). "Impresa partnership Forbes". Archived from the original on 2011-08-05. Retrieved 2009-04-18.
  5. ↑ Social network portfolio from Chilltime
  6. ↑ Chilltime Portfolio from Chilltime
  7. ↑ Jornal de Negócios (2009-02-12). "Internationalization". Retrieved 2009-02-12.
  8. ↑ Forbes (2008-05-15). "Edipresse sells 51pct stake". Retrieved 2008-05-15.
  9. ↑ Impresa (2010-01-15). "Jorge Vila Boa". Retrieved 2010-01-15.
  10. ↑
  11. ↑ "De batalha em batalha até à medalha final". Jornal de Negócios, translated. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  12. ↑ World War Online
  13. ↑ "O que a Chilltime espera do Web Summit". Jornal de Negócios, translated. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  14. ↑ "Yoochai, Chilltime, Tripaya". Sic Notícias, translated. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  15. ↑ "Na vanguarda do futuro". Folhetos Lidl. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  16. ↑ "Empresa de videojogos Chilltime espera investidores para maior projecção internacional". Jornal de Negócios, translated. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  17. ↑ "Os portugueses à conquista da Web Summit". Rádio Renascença, translated. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  18. ↑ "Road 2 Web Summit Awards". Road 2 Web Summit Facebook Page. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  19. ↑ "Thank you for visiting us at Web Summit!". Chilltime Facebook Page. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  20. ↑ Sic Radical from Chilltime
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