Sneaky Games is always looking to pioneer new technologies! A new case study released by Microsoft debuts a successful example.

Synopsis:

Sneaky Games is an independent software vendor that develops role-playing games for social media platforms, such as Facebook, and mobile devices. The small company, which employs 22 people, used a hosted infrastructure at Rackspace to deliver its games to customers, but struggled with costly and time-consuming server maintenance, particularly when the company had to scale up its infrastructure to meet peaks in traffic. Sneaky Games turned to the Windows Azure platform, hosting its games on the cloud service in Microsoft data centers. As a result, the company achieved levels of scalability critical to its success in the social media space and can scale up or scale down its infrastructure in minutes. Sneaky Games avoided the need to hire more IT personnel to maintain its infrastructure and can instead dedicate its resources to developing compelling games and quickly offering them to players.

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Vampire Legacy has launched on Facebook!

Journey into the land of Vampire Legacy:

Some of our team members will be at Dragon*Con again this year. If interested in meeting some of the team responsible for Fantasy Kingdoms and Vampire Legacy or if you want to know which panels we will be speaking at, please email community@sneakygames.com for more information!

Sneaky Games is looking to expand! If you are a creative or techie or game building enthusiast or just generally good person – but most importantly a rock star / team oriented / super cool / game loving individual that lives in the Austin area and wants to work at inarguably the best social gaming studio in Austin – check out our jobs section now and send us your resume!

From InsideSocialGames.com: “This week’s list of emerging Facebook games (identified by games under 1 million monthly active users that grew the most in MAU over the past week) contains many of the titles we’ve been talking about recently. The biggest surprise this week was Fantasy Kingdoms by Sneaky Games, which took the top position after coming in #4 last week. Another big gain of 218,499 monthly active users is setting a record high for this whimsical farming game that launched almost one year ago.”

Read More at:
http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2011/02/25/fantasy-and-pirates-shine-on-this-week%E2%80%99s-list-of-emerging-facebook-games/

Sneaky Games is looking for unique individuals that love the idea of making games!

If you can code, create amazing artwork, project manage, market, analyze, or you think you are just a great person that will fit in somewhere. Check out our job openings section and submit your resume or CV!

Sneaky Games Job Openings

We just launched Fantasy Kingdoms on Hi5 last week and are excited about the reception we have received – we already have moved up to the top games chart to make Fantasy Kingdoms the #3 most played game on Hi5!

Check our Fantasy Kingdoms on Hi5 – http://www.hi5.com/friend/apps/entry/fantasykingdoms/play?src=sg_website

We hit our 350,000 player mark this month (It is actually ALOT higher now!)

Press Release:

http://eon.businesswire.com/portal/site/eon/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100716005526&newsLang=en

Calling all players! The new Vanguard program at Sneaky Games will include exclusive access to items and early access invites to Sneaky Games new games as they become available! Click here to join our online social equivalent of an old school “by mail” fan club (decoder ring not included… yet!)

Sneaky Games took on a round of funding in late June!

http://www.statesman.com/business/technology/austin-social-media-game-startup-lands-venture-backing-745403.html