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Amber is a game development agency based in Bucharest, Romania, with additional business offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The company employs 280+ professionals and throughout the years, Amber has collaborated with major companies in the games industry, including Disney Interactive, Gameloft, thatgamecompany, Glu, NBC Universal, Kixeye, Roblox and more.

Company History
Amber was founded in 2013 by former executives from EA Romania, with the goal of creating a major independent Romanian game development company. The company started out as a development outsourcing service.

In 2014, Amber secured its first major creative deal, with Disney Interactive, for the full development of Cinderella Free Fall. An additional business unit was created, covering Quality Assurance and Customer Support.

In 2016, Amber started development of its first original IP, a puzzle game called Link Twin. At this point Amber’s staff exceeded 200 people and the company moved into a new office. A spin-off company called Lorraine was also created, to start work on Amber’s original IP products.

In 2017, Mihai Pohontu (formerly a VP at Samsung and Electronic Arts) joined Amber as CEO, and the company was reorganized as a network of studios, with a growing focus towards product development. Lorraine was merged back with Amber, as part of the new strategy.

Company Structure
Amber is structured as a network of fully-owned studios (Lorraine, Avalon and Amber Live Ops), each having a different specialization. In addition to the studios, two other business units cover the specialized services offered by Amber (Custom Development, Quality Assurance, Customer Support, etc).

Amber is employee-owned and 100% self-funded.

Services
According to Amber's own website, the complete list of services provided by the company is listed below.
 * Full-Cycle Development
 * Co-Development
 * Custom Engineering
 * Live Operations
 * Game Design
 * Game Art
 * Quality Assurance & Localization QA
 * Quality Automation
 * Customer Support

Awards & Industry Recognition
2017 - Link Twin granted 2nd place award at the Big Indie Pitch competition at Pocket Gamer Connects London

2018 – Amber nominated at the Mobile Game Awards in the category “Best QA & Localization”

2018 – Amber nominated at the Develop Awards in the category “QA & Localization”

2019 – Amber nominated at the Mobile Game Awards in the category “Best QA & Localization”