Tapps Games

Tapps Games is a Brazilian mobile game development company based in São Paulo, Brazil, founded by Rene Retz and Flavio Miyamaru. It is best known for "My Boo" and its Evolution game series, most notably Cow Evolution. 
== History and Formation ==
Tapps Games was founded by Rene Retz and Flavio Miyamaru in December 2011. Their mascot is a character named Tappy. According to one of the lead developers, it was difficult to start a company in Brazil due to its lack of a structured gaming market, although there are still more people that own a smartphone and have access to the internet there than the rest of South America. Most of the company's localization work consists of translation of both their store and their in-app content. They have had 170 employees as of 2021.
Retz has said that their goal is to entertain as many people as possible.
The company's first game, LightUp, was released on May 26, 2012. They soon quickly gained worldwide success in the next couple of years for games such as My Boo, Do Not Disturb!, Toilet Time, Vlogger Go Viral, and Cow Evolution. Their app "Agent Hawk Cardboard" was ranked as their #1 best-selling app in the US in 2017.
== Games ==
Taken from SensorTower.com
List of games by Tapps Games
Title 	Release Date
LightUp 	May 26, 2012
Run, Tappy, Run 	June 29, 2012
Where's Tappy? 	August 9, 2012
Honey Battle 	August 20, 2012
Do Not Disturb! 	July 3, 2013
Tree Fortress 	August 23, 2013
My Virtual Pet 	August 29, 2013
My Boo 	September 25, 2013
Toilet Time 	December 17, 2013
My Doll House 	December 18, 2013
Kitty Cat Clicker 	March 1, 2014
Adventure Land 	March 12, 2014
My Virtual Pet Shop 	May 6, 2014
Mine Quest 	June 12, 2014
My Fairy Tale 	July 30, 2014
Plush Hospital 	August 1, 2014
Jack Pott 	August 19, 2014
Cow Evolution 	August 26, 2014
My Virtual Dragon 	September 27, 2014
Do Not Disturb! 2 	October 8, 2014
Cookbook Master 	October 15, 2014
Fat No More 	November 25, 2014
Platypus Evolution 	November 27, 2014
My Boo Album 	December 13, 2014
Money Tree 	December 13, 2014
Goat Evolution 	February 3, 2015
Call of Doodie 	April 9, 2015
My Derp 	May 21, 2015
My Magic Castle 	May 28, 2015
Giraffe Evolution 	June 2, 2015
Dear Diary 	June 20, 2015
Epic Party Clicker 	July 4, 2015
Every game in the I Am series 	July 18, 2015
My Grumpy 	August 8, 2015
Zebra Evolution 	September 17, 2015
Chicken Evolution 	October 24, 2015
Solitaire Detectives 	October 27, 2015
Vlogger Go Viral: Be an Internet Celebrity Legend!	November 10, 2015
Octopus Evolution 	November 27, 2015
My Cat Album 	December 8, 2015
Sarah's Secrets 	December 18, 2015
Fashion Fever 	March 8, 2016
My Monster House 	May 15, 2016
Shark Evolution 	May 18, 2016
Magic Guardians 	May 24, 2016
My Nail Makeover 	July 1, 2016
Cat Evolution 	July 6, 2016
So Social 	July 7, 2016
Monkey Evolution 	June 29, 2016
Animal Rescue 	October 28, 2016
Birds Evolution 	November 17, 2016
My Monster Album 	November 23, 2016
Turtle Evolution 	December 22, 2016
Dragon Evolution 	January 31, 2017
Hollywood Billionaire 	February 3, 2017
Panda Evolution 	April 4, 2017
Fashion Fever 2 	April 20, 2017
Unicorn Evolution 	April 21, 2017
Agent Hawk Cardboard 	May 26, 2017
Gladiator vs. Monsters 	June 1, 2017
Fox Evolution 	June 15, 2017
Bacteria Evolution 	July 1, 2017
Gym 'Til Fit 	July 15, 2017
Dolphin Evolution 	August 8, 2017
Fox Evolution 	August 17, 2017
Secret Life of Food 	August 17, 2017
Robot Evolution 	August 26, 2017
Dino Evolution 	August 26, 2017
Food Cats 	September 2, 2017
Dog Evolution 	September 12, 2017
Horse Evolution 	December 2, 2017
Reindeer Evolution 	December 5, 2017
Thrones: Kingdom of Elves 	December 14, 2017
Elephant Evolution 	December 20, 2017
We Are Illuminati 	January 11, 2018
Fairy Evolution 	January 14, 2018
Lion Evolution 	January 15, 2018
Snake Evolution 	January 20, 2018
Phoenix Evolution 	February 2, 2018
Evolution Galaxy 	March 28, 2018
Hamster Evolution 	April 23, 2018
Carmen? 	August 17, 2018
Do Not Disturb 3 - Grumpy Marmot Pranks! 	August 28, 2018
Human Evolution 	April 20, 2021
Medicine Dash - Hospital Time Management Game 	June 30, 2021
Video Game Evolution 	July 11, 2021
Griffin Evolution 	July 11, 2021
Hamster Evolution 	July 11, 2021
Raccoon Evolution 	July 11, 2021
Mouse Evolution 	July 11, 2021
Slime Evolution 	July 11, 2021
Eagle Evolution 	July 11, 2021
Fish Evolution 	July 11, 2021
Duck Evolution 	July 11, 2021
Mermaid Evolution 	July 11, 2021
=== Evolution Series ===
One of Tapps Games' most popular series of games is the Evolution series. It started with Cow Evolution also known as Cow Evolution: Animal Clicker or Cow Evolution: Mootant Apocowlypse. It was released on August 26, 2014. In the game the player must drag a cow across the screen and match it with an identical cow, causing them to mutate. Cows can also be purchased at a shop for either coins or diamonds. A crate containing a cow will appear every couple of seconds, and these can be upgraded to arrive faster or contain a more powerful cow. The types of cows that you discover can be viewed in the Moopedia. The more the player progresses, the bigger and more powerful the mutants become. Later in the game you are given the option to trade your cows to aliens, and can go to other planets to mutate them, starting with Mars and then Pluto. Once you create a supreme being with enough power, you can reset the game.
Cow Evolution and received positive reviews. One source stated that "Manitoids sometimes find this game to be a bad distraction from their studies. But others use it to bribe themselves to get the work done." Another source described it as "an absurd but an idle way to kill your time." A sequel, Platypus Evolution, was released in November 2014. Since then, other sequels have been made, in which the player evolves goats, octopi, foxes, snakes, fairies, dragons, and more. On April 20, 2021, Tapps released the first Evolution game in more than three years: Human Evolution.
== Reception ==
The company had amassed 10 million downloads in less than two years and more than 700 million downloads worldwide, making them one of the most successful mobile game publishers of all time. Edamame Reviews praised their game "We Are Illuminati" for being long and interesting.
 
Category:Mobile game companies
Category:Establishments in Brazil
Category:2011 video games