We are just a bunch of creative people who share a great passion for designing and developing awesome game experiences which we hope people love to play.
So far we successfully created and launched four games, Bobblehead Mania, Mirror Dash, Tubes and Polarity. Mirror Dash was featured by the App Store in the Arcade and Dice categories on the first position for paid apps.
The team
Laurentiu Cotiuga
Product Designer, Web Dev
Mainly responsible for designing the look and feel of the games including UI elements, environments, as well as the overall user experience from the first to the last point of contact with the users.
George Negoita
Product Designer, Animator
Having a diverse set of skills, he worked on creating flawless user experiences through design thinking as well as level design, animation, sound design and music production.
Cristian Olteanu
Game developer
Developed most of the mechanics and features for all our games including things like player input, movement, collisions, level generators, monetisation, power-ups and everything else that required programming.
Mircea Mocian
Game developer
Part of the original team, he worked on the game mechanics and features for Bobblehead Mania as well as 3D modelling the characters and environment.
Our story
In the fall of 2014, while being students at Essex University, George, Laurentiu, Cristian and Mircea met as a result of Games Hub which is a business incubator headed by Steven Huckle from Shark Infested Custard and established by the University of Essex, Eastern Enterprise Hub and Essex County Council.
Games Hub is a place where people from all backgrounds use their creativity to make amazing games. Coming from the same country as well as having the perfect combination of skills to create games, they decided to form a company. Being new to the industry, they decided to call it Novo Games.
While being at the incubator, they recognised the immense opportunity and they built great connections with highly experienced people from Microsoft, Square Enix , DLaLa, Arch Creatives and Jagex. Over time they started to gain more attention from BBC Essex Radio, The Gazette, University of Essex News, as well as from various mobile game oriented websites. Eventually they published their best game to date, Mirror Dash, which was featured by the App Store in the Arcade and Dice categories on the first position for paid apps in 100+ regions.