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We are a global innovation partner for creative industries

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Employees

We pick only the best for our teams.

Locations

■ Bucharest ■ Botosani ■

■ San Francisco ■ Los Angeles ■

■ Guadalajara ■ Montreal ■

Service capabilities

■ Full Development ■ Co-Development

■ Live Ops ■ Custom Development ■

■ Development Support ■

Amber History

2013

Amber founded in Bucharest, Romania with 3 employees.
A QA discipline established alongside the engineering core.
Creative Studio formed.

2014

Hit the first $1M in revenue and 31 staff, moving into our first proper office space (not an apartment).
Started our first full game dev project, Cinderella Free Fall, in collaboration with Disney.

2015

Started developing Little Leader for the Apple Watch, in collaboration with Glu.

Carbon spin-off launched, an incubator for local indie studios.

2016

Started developing Link Twin, an original puzzle concept.
Live Ops discipline established, Amber hits 160 staff.
Moved into our current office, at Charles de Gaulle Plaza.

2017

Mihai Pohontu joined as CEO in March 2017.
New offices opened in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Innovation labs established.
Amber reached over 280 staff.

2018

Merged with Lorraine, studio based in Bucharest, Romania; released Rumble Heroes on mobile platforms.
Created strategic alliance with Fuero, Warsaw-based studio.
Reached $7.25M in annual revenues.

2019

New location opened in Botoșani.
Merged with Scorpius Games, a Bucharest based PC/console studio.
Reached 400+ staff and $13.1M in annual revenue.

2020

New Game Development studios in Guadalajara, Mexico & Montreal, Canada

Who we are

The Amber Manifesto

We’re Innovation Partners, Purveyors of a New Development Services Model for Creative Industries. Read our Full Manifesto.

What we Believe in

Partners

We aim to excel at providing world-class software development services, infused with design sensibility, pursuing uncompromising quality, on the bleeding edge of technology

Testimonials

When I was to asked to beef up our QA team quickly and efficiently, I contacted Amber. Since I had no previous work experience with them, I had little idea what to expect. By working closely together with the team at Amber, we came up with a plan that enabled us to get our games tested thoroughly and speedily. In addition to the functional QA group they offer a full suite of testing and localization services making them a one stop shop for all of my QA needs.

John BrooksQA Manager
Boss Fight Entertainment

I have worked with many external vendors/partners/providers in the past and have never had a quality of service quite up to the level as we've received from Amber.

Ayhan SahinDirector of Product
BIG FISH GAMES

Finding an external development partner was not an easy journey for Super Evil Megacorp. We were one of those “everything needs to be invented by us” studio. We were worried about skill level, speed of external teams, language barriers, time zone management, stability, our lack of internal process and tools etc. Amber Studios helped us to solve external issues we were worried about and to focus only focus on fixing and improving internal ones. We are happy that Amber Studio is our partner on this journey.

Taewon YunCBO
SUPER EVIL MEGACORP

We have nothing but positive things to say regarding our year long collaboration with Amber. Deliveries were always on time and of very high quality, and the level of communication, organization, and professionalism was excellent. The designers were always accessible and responsive, and they were also very open to and accepting of feedback. All of these demonstrated the team’s strong willingness to learn and deep passion for the project, which was inspiring for us, as well..

Caleb RuggLevel Design
ROVIO

Amber Studios was a great partner for us at KIXEYE. Their team was diligent, savvy, and hard working. For a good portion of the development of WC:RA the majority of the gameplay engineering was done out of Amber and they were responsible for some of our more critical features. Their leadership was great to work with and their team was always willing to do what we asked of them. I would happily work with Amber Studios again given the opportunity.

Joshua HendrenGeneral Manager
KIXEYE

In my 16 years of working in the QA industry, Amber Studios has been by far one of the best outsource companies to work with. Not only surpassed my expectations in quality and communications but also in execution. I would highly recommend Amber Studios for anybody's QA needs.

Joseph OlivasQA Manager
KABAM

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Amber during mobile porting of one of our titles. They’re a team that is prepared to take on a difficult challenge and deliver quality results. I’d happily work with them again.

Liam O`NeillProducer
RAW FURY