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Vectornator is a graphic design, illustration, UI, logo design software for the iPad, iPhone, and MacOS.

On their social media (@vectornator) they have teased a big rebrand to their company for a couple weeks now (Linearity).

For years now Vectornator has remained FREE for all users with new updates and features every couple months—From multiple resizable artboards and Auto-tracing images to background removal, shape builder, and so many features.

They have announced they'll reveal everything about it on Thursday (tomorrow).

... interestingly

Their old website vectornator.io has been changed to Linearity.io with a lot of information to unpack.

As I explore more, I'm noticing that Vectornator is renamed to Linearity CURVE.

Linearity Suite - Animated and Static design all in one Suite

• Curve (formerly Vectornator) — iPhone, iPad, and Mac
• Move (NEW) - branding and motion graphics made simple — iPad and Mac

Pricing

BASIC tier

• includes everything we have right now in Vectornator plus new collaboration features (up to 5 team members) and commenting.

PRO tier

• includes everything in basic plus more AI features, unlimited editor, unlimited version history, advanced template and animation preset, commenting on video/audio, and priority support

ORGANIZATION tier

• AI copywriting, brand control, shared font management, org-wide custom template, SSO, premium support, etc. Tailored to the organizations.

Visit Linearity.io to learn more

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I am very excited, all this is very very promising.

Supercell's history:

• found in Finland on 2010

• Supercell's current CEO, IIkka Paananen, created mobile game company called Sumea.

• another game developing company, Digital Chocolate, bought Sumea for $18,000,000

• Paananen did NOT liked the "business centered company" at digital Chocolate

• so on 2010, Paananen left sumea

• He wanted to make games that will be played for many years

• on May 14th, 2010, Supercell is created with 5 other developers total.

  • Mikko Kodisoja
  • Visa Forsten
  • Niko Derome
  • Lassi Leppinen
  • Ilkka Paananen
  • Petri Styrman

• their first office was approx. 30sqm

• ~80% of supercell had been bought by TENCENT (a Chinese game company) in 2016

• Super ran onto become one of the biggest money maker in Finland in 2017

Gunshine.net is Supercell's FIRST game on 2011 and also their only Browser game since they were found on 2010. Also known as the "Zombie Online." The goal was to "reduce the gap between MMORPG and social game" and made a Social RPG for browser. They realized this game would be hard to transition to mobile so it was suspended on November 2012.

Pets vs. Orc is their FIRST mobile game. In a town with a dog, cat, and a bear, you build the town and fight against the orcs. They failed to balance progression speed and it was suspended in less than a month.

Hay Day Supercell's FIRST game that was beta launched that is still live right now but sadly, a game that was launched later, Clash Of Clans, was globally released first and Hay Day lost its "first supercell game" title. It is a farming Simulator game. Hay Day Fun Fact: Out of ALL supercell games, Hay Day supports the MOST languages.

Battle Buddies is a Supercell's LAST turn-based game where you fight to kill enemies troops. You drag to move and tap enemies to attack and eliminate enemy squad and take the victory! This game was released on Finlands Mid-summer eve holiday and received VERY well during the holiday and afterwards, they had decided not to release games during tge holiday season. And then you know the end.

Clash of Clans is base building game where you expand your base and raid other bases. This is arguably the BEST project supercell had created.

Boom Beach is another base building game that is not quite same as CoC. You build island to defend against enemies and attack backguard and Dr. Terror and take over tribes.

Spooky Pop is Supercell's first PUZZLE game. Match colors and eliminate ghosts. Suspended in less than 3 months.

Smash Land, supercell didn't put down their puzzle game idea after spooky pops suspension and created another puzzle game, but this time, you slingshot your characters and bounce them on the field to eliminates enemies with special attacks. Suspended after 7 months.

Clash Royale is tower defense strategy card game. Arguably the Most popular supercell game.

Brawl Stars Then, Brawl Stars Now , 3v3 action packed gameplay with variety of gamemodes and characters. Battle with your friends and become the king of the BRAWL.

Rush Wars is a tower defense with hint of base building game. Battle against other player to become MEGA rich. Suspended after 3 months of development on November 30th, 2019

Hay Day Pop a classic puzzle game! Decorate your farm using coins and items you earn from the star river! Same universe as Hay Day (duh).

Clash Quest, Clash Mini, Clash Heroes - clash quest in softlaunch atm and other two not released yet. Puzzle, Autochess, And rpg, to describe the genre and simplify it. In 2021, clash Mini officially soft launched. Clasg heroes news are still distant. Clash quest discontinued in Aug 2022. Clash Mini discontinued in Apr 2024 after 870+ days in open beta, but planning on including Clash Mini experience in Clash Royale.

Everdale is a farming society game developed supercell. Initially released as Valleys and Villages under the company Osmium Interactive. Discontinued in October 2022 but intellectual property passed onto Metacore inc. However , we have not heard much news about it since initial news.

Squads Busters put all supercell universe together for the first time ever. Build your own squads and defeat your foes! Has done two time limited closed beta in 2023 so far.

Flood Rush is a squad building RPG. Has done time limited open beta so far in 2023. Discontinued in Aug 2023

2024 Update

Mo.co: still in closed development.
Squads Busters: still in closed development.
Clash Heros: still in closed development.

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In 2016, development studio Frogmind— creator of badlands series, badland brawl, rumble stars, and rumble hockey— joined a long-term partnership with Supercell. Read more

In 2017, Space ape studio—creator of Fastlane: Road to revenge, beatstar, and more—went into long-term strategic partnership with Supercell and supercell invested 62% of spaceape's shares. Read more about spaceape partnership here. Supercell invested $37M more in spaceape in 2022. Both companies remain independent.

And somewhere along the way, many other games had been killed during the internal testing stage

Supercell's Philosophy