Manga Castle Revolutionizes Manga Through Social Gaming

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If the U.S has Zynga and Playfish, Singapore has Manga Castle, a manga-styled social game maker.

Despite just 1 year into the business, Manga Castle has achieved considerable success with investors and users.

With over 15,000 likes on Facebook, Manga Castle’s product has proven to be well liked among manga and social game lovers. We’ll let Sylvia, CEO of Manga Castle, to share with us more about her start-up.

1. Hey Sylvia, for a start, give us a brief introduction of your company.

In short, Manga Castle creates manga-styled social games on Facebook powered by a behavioral engine. Besides Facebook, our games will be hosted on mangacastle.com and game publishers’ sites.

2. What inspired you guys to form this start-up?

Our desire to bring happiness to the world inspired us. From gathering a manga community to providing awesome gaming experiences, we want to make the world a happier place.

This is really what kept us going, through the late nights and through the tough times.

3. Sweet! I’m happy. Share with us the journey, from the founding stage till now.

4. Behavioral search engine and an open platform for developers? Elaborate please.

5. What are the successes and failures experienced so far?

6. Any tips to budding entrepreneurs?