July 6 2011
The Chinese social gaming company Rekoo has launched a new game on Mixi, called “Let’s build a train town”. The maker of popular game Sunshine Ranch is conducting some kind of “test run” for its newest title first to monitor usage.
In the game , players serve as a train station master who has to build a city around the station, through buying new trains to expand the station ,generate revenue, etc.to increase the population. The players can let trains travel to cities that friends on Mixi have built.
“Let’s build a train town” is currently available on Mixi for PCs only.
Currently, 50% of Rekoo revenue comes from abroad. Rekoo has released Sunshine Ranch on Mixi in 2009 and got 2 million users in two months. Sunshine Ranch has 5.6 million users by the end of March. The mobile version of Sunshine Ranch was been published in this year. At the same time, Sunshine Ranch has released in South Korea Nate platform and ranked 5.
According to statistics, the Japanese social gaming market will reach $ 2.66 billion; ARPPU will reach $ 42.18 in 2011.