World Cricket Championship 2 wins AatmaNirbhar Challenge

The game World Cricket Championship 2 (WCC2) is developed by a Chennai-based firm Nextwave Multimedia and the game has won first place in the government’s Digital India AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation challenge.

The game stood out as people’s choice in-game category out of the 326 registrations with a staggering lead of 74% votes, Nextwave Multimedia added.

WCC2 is currently racking 130 million installs, whereas in March it was at 110 million. This massive boost has helped them witness a 25% surge in daily active users, 20% in revenue growth and a solid 100% growth in in-app purchases.

“Sports simulation games are among the toughest to build and maintain. They require math, physics, art, animation, art, game economy, data science, coding and game design to build a competitive robust game,” the company added.

P R Rajendran, co-founder and CEO of Nextwave Multimedia said some warm words on this win,

“We thank our fans for voting for us in the AatmaNirbharApp People’s Choice Award. This brings us visibility and will inspire us to build further on what we have achieved so far”.

This cricket simulation game has an audience of wide demographic with people playing the game from over 150 countries including the United Kingdom, Australia, United States of America, United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

News Source: Times of India