Social gaming developer FlowPlay Inc. has been fully acquired past Wind Creek Hospitality, the gaming unit of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians in Alabama.
The Seattle-based societal gaming companion is responsible for(p) for such pop mobile offerings as Vegas World, Casino World, 7 Seas Casino, and Live Game Night Poker. The terms of the transaction were non disclosed.
Poarch Tribal Chair Stephanie Bryan said inward a vent that the acquisition will grant the tribe’s gaming group to “build opportunities and economical developing in unexampled ways.” She added that the deal provides for continued growth.
FlowPlay was founded in 2006. The society does not currently offering tangible money gaming. Instead, its wandering apps offer free-to-play gaming that comes with in-app purchases and social components.
FlowPlay’s groundbreaking games are unique compared with other societal gaming competitors. In Casino World, for instance, players manage non just romp one-armed bandit machines and tabular array games for fun, but can to boot make luxury hotel resorts and surrounding complexes not dissimilar the lifetime computer simulation Sims franchises.
Wind Creek Bullish
Wind Creek Hospitality owns and operates trey Class II Wind Creek casinos inwards Heart of Dixie and quaternary commercial-grade casinos inwards Pennsylvania, Nevada, Aruba, and Curacao. Wind Creek is to boot venturing to Prairie State after beingness awarded the commercial gaming certify for Chicago’s South Suburbs earlier this month.
In 2018, the Alabama River tribe, the only federally recognized Native American group inward the state, agreed to compensate $1.3 1000000000000 to Las Vegas Sands to acquire Sands Bethlehem-Judah in Pennsylvania. The acquisition, completed inward July of 2019, came at a to the highest degree unfortunate time, as COVID-19 struck just now months later.
The Poarch Creek Indians, however, are optimistic virtually the US gaming industry post-pandemic. The Windy City cassino development, and now the FlowPlay takeover, affirm the company’s long-term positively charged outlook.
We are excited to fetch FlowPlay and its talented spirited studio squad into our expanding portfolio of companies and look forrard to the process we can buoy accomplish together,” said John Jay Dorris, chair and CEO of Wind Creek Hospitality.
FlowPlay was previously a publicly traded corporation. But the owing(p) shares were bought indorse past the troupe inward belatedly 2020. FlowPlay founder and CEO Derrick Jelly Roll Morton said the divvy up buyback was non related to to the Wind Creek purchase.
“We did the buyback after an thoroughgoing travail to bump a buyer inwards 2020 came to an cease with no takers,” Jelly Roll Morton explained to GeekWire this week. “Wind Creek got inward soupcon with us o'er the summertime with an interesting accept on our concern and a way of life send on to get the companionship still bigger.”
iGaming Market
Wind Creek Hospitality is currently occupied inwards ane real money cyberspace gaming market. In Pennsylvania, the company’s brick-and-mortar Wind Creek Bethlehem-Judah offers online cassino games. Wind Creek’s iGaming site is powered by Betfred.
Real money online cassino gaming is currently only when sound inwards Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Benjamin West Virginia, Michigan, and Connecticut. Silver State permits real money cyberspace poker, but not interactive slots and tabularize games.