Clash of Clans Special Creator Award

The best teams make the best games. That is the sentence that the Finnish company Supercell has as its main motto to define itself before telling its official story on its website.
Supercell is a video game development company for mobile phones. The company was born in 2010 and has five of the most important titles on the market: Hay Day, Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. The objective, according to the firm in its official description, is to make the best titles that are played by as many people as possible, enjoy them for years and remember them forever.
All the video games that Supercell has on the market measure their earnings and number of players in millions. Not only are they among the products that invoice the most on the market, but they have occupied these positions for several years.
The celebration of Gamelab's fifteenth anniversary brings us one of the latest news about Clash of Clans this time in relation to its creator, the 41-year-old Ikka Paananen received a special award in October 2019 at the organization's event dedicated to digital world.

Award ceremony

Gamelad was founded in 2005. According to its official website, it is a non-profit organization that works mainly with the digital environment. It includes in its events all kinds of people who are related to the world of technology, they can be academics, entrepreneurs, investors or researchers. Its activities aim to improve the future of digital creations.
Giving Paananen, founder and CEO of Supercell, the Special Anniversary Award was a more than right decision if a figure was sought to represent the commitment and effort to position the creative video game industry on the European and world stage.
The company that is in charge of global successes like Clash of Clans, is the product of the creative talent, concern and business vision of six friends who are fans of video games. Supercell has, divided among its five titles, more than 100 million players per day, in 2016 it was the first company of its kind (known as a startup) in Europe to transfer the market valuation of the 10 billion dollars, have employees of more than 30 nationalities and offices in the United States, Europe and Asia (the company is part of Tencent, a Chinese multinational company).

More than just numbers

That the creator of Clash of Clans is in the news for the award he received from Gamelab on its fifteenth anniversary is important because of the philosophy that Paananen discloses and permeates in Supercell.
In the official description that the Nordic country firm makes of its own history, he says that the idea of ​​founding the company was made with the aim of bringing together the best possible human team and videogame experts from the beginning. Financial objectives would be in the background since they believed that human quality would be achieved alone. They were not wrong.
The developer of Clash Royale and Brawl Stars is the company that contributes the most to the Finnish State in taxes per year. It does so with more than a trillion euros a year and of the members of the organization, seven are among the ten people who pay the state the most annually.

Inversion of fortune

The CEO of Supercell seems to want to transfer the philosophy that he implemented in the company responsible for Clash of Clans to his society. Part of the high profits he earns he invests in different organizations that improve the quality of life in Finland.
One of the entities that receive money from the 41-year-old executive is We Foundation. The association, according to its official site, is dedicated to international charity through education. Its activities are global in scope as it is present in different countries in all regions. We Foundation seeks to collaborate against the fight against poverty through sustainable changes that focus on education.

Ilkka Paananen is central to the story of Clash of Clans, one of the phenomena of recent years. The news about the award that the CEO of the company that is in charge of successes such as Hay Day or Clash Royale, indicates the correct choice of an organization like Gamelab of one of the people who can be taken as an example in the field of the industries of technology and development of video games.
The good decision can be justified from elements such as the founding of Supercell when the axis was found placed in a quality human group or the free download model that supports the Finnish company's titles. You can also think about the high taxes the company pays in Finland or Paananen's personal decision to invest part of his money in improving conditions in the Nordic country.
There are several examples that surround the executive director of the firm that develops Clash of Clans to be taken as a good role model for the rest of the companies or those that are about to start.