Neon Play

Neon Play was founded in the United Kingdom in 2010 by Oli Christie. Its documented business was the development of mobile applications, with a particular emphasis on games for iOS and Android. This placed the company within the first major wave of smartphone-focused game studios that used app stores as their primary route to market. The company’s most prominent recorded product is Paper Glider. The game achieved an unusual level of public recognition when it was associated with the ten billionth download from Apple’s App Store. That milestone reflected the scale reached by Apple’s digital distribution platform and gave Neon Play exposure beyond the normal audience of a small mobile-games developer. Rather than being known for a broad portfolio of physical products or a large publishing network, Neon Play became especially identifiable through this connection between one of its games and a major platform milestone. Neon Play’s games were distributed through both iOS and Android, giving the company access to users across the two leading smartphone ecosystems. The available reference material states that its products had received more than 130 million downloads. No date, title-level breakdown, geographic analysis, or revenue information is supplied, so the figure is best treated as a cumulative historical claim rather than a current performance measure. The public record available for this entry is limited. It confirms the company’s British origin, its 2010 founding, its founder, its mobile-game focus, its principal known title, and its association with the App Store download milestone. It does not establish the company’s headquarters city, ownership, corporate group, current leadership beyond the founder’s historical role, or whether Neon Play continues to operate independently or under the same name. There is also insufficient information to document a detailed sequence of later releases, acquisitions, campaigns, controversies, or strategic decisions. For that reason, the company’s current status is left unknown and unsupported fields are not filled with assumptions.

• 2010

  Neon Play is founded

  [1]Neon Playen.wikipedia.org

  Oli Christie founded Neon Play in the United Kingdom as a mobile application development company.

• Paper Glider reaches a major App Store download milestone

  [1]Neon Playen.wikipedia.org

  Paper Glider was reported as the application downloaded in connection with the ten billionth download from Apple’s App Store.

• Neon Play games surpass 130 million downloads

  [1]Neon Playen.wikipedia.org

  Available reference material reports more than 130 million downloads for the company’s games, without specifying a date or title-by-title breakdown.

A British mobile game developer focused on downloadable entertainment applications for iOS and Android.

• Mobile game

  Paper Glider

  Paper Glider is the Neon Play game most clearly documented in available reference material. It was released as a mobile application and became notable because it was associated with the ten billionth download from Apple’s App Store. The available sources do not provide sufficient detail about its gameplay systems, release date, commercial model, later versions, or current availability, so those attributes are not specified here.

1. 1Neon Playen.wikipedia.org