![]() “They had a hit on their hands,” said Case, whose screenwriting work on numerous shows beginning with Bill Maher has drawn five Emmy nominations. Because it’s a free-to-play title, the company has to make money in other ways, whether it’s advertising, in-app purchases (typically of resources or capabilities that boost a player’s success) or other tactics.ĬBS Buys Entrepreneur Comedy From Adrienne Rose White, Aliee Chan, Christopher Case, Cedric The Entertainer & Avalon Entertainment Juice Jam, like Cookie Jam, is a so-called “match 3” game, requiring players to match three similar items among many on a screen. Informal conversations turned into a more formal role for Case as the company looked to build another blockbuster out of the most modest of story elements. SGN CEO Chris DeWolfe, the former MySpace CEO, and several others at SGN knew Case from around town. Replicating that success was a challenge for SGN in the hugely competitive, hugely lucrative sector of free-to-play mobile games. The game has been downloaded 42 million times across all platforms. SGN’s biggest hit, Cookie Jam, was Facebook’s Game of the Year in 2014, and has remained perched in the iTunes Store’s Top 20 for much of the year since it was released. It’s wide open and yet obviously, it’s not a movie screen.” “It was an opportunity to understand what’s happening here. “Mobile for me is the Wild, Wild West,” said Case. EXCLUSIVE: Chris Case – a long-time writer on shows such as Spin City, Titus and Mad About You who is exec producer on Yahoo’s new Sin City Saints – ended up with a very different writing assignment recently, punching up the story line, characters and emotional engagement of a new mobile game, Juice Jam, from SGN.
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