Gameberry Labs

What can a team build in 24 hours when given the freedom to experiment, solve problems, and think differently? At Gameberry Labs, our recent hackathon brought teams together around two themes: Smarter Games & Smarter Workflows. Here’s what those 24 hours looked like: New ways to play. From Hatch Me If You Can!, a PvP game where players catch escaping chickens, to Legends of Ludo, which adds RPG-style attacks to classic Ludo, teams reimagined familiar gaming experiences. Smarter ways to build. Game Forge explored making game creation easier, while Loopright used specialist AI agents to take ideas from market research to playable prototypes, testing, and evaluation. Teams making things happen. People brainstormed, tested ideas, worked through challenges, and built prototypes under a tight deadline. Projects like Playgram, an Instagram-style experience for games, and Bug Bounty, a QA scouting concept, showed the range of ideas explored. Congratulations to our winners, Yash Gupta Koushik Das Vikasa R B Vishwas Singh for Smarter Games and Parvezali Polra Vishwas Kemparaj for Smarter Berryvengers, along with all the runners-up and teams who took part. The hackathon may be over. The work doesn't have to stop here. The next step is to look at these ideas, understand what has potential, and explore which ones we can take forward. Because sometimes, 24 hours is all it takes to get an idea moving. A big shoutout to our judges for taking the time to review the ideas, share their perspectives, and help make this hackathon a success! Arvindh @Himanshu Kumar MuniramPrakash V Jatin Keswani Lochhun s @Balasubramanian M Animesh Diwakar @Shahul afridi Gaurang Rao Atishaya Jain Shashank Rajora Mehak Dhingra Pratham Singh Aditi Singh SRUTHIKA TB Hrishik Sai Bojnal Rishi Raja Bharatha Ram Suthar Shreyash Sharma Rahul Chacko Dimpal Raval Aman Agrawal Rana Madhvendra @Sharath G Lijoy Davies Sabyasachi @Shaik Afsarali

🇮🇳 A little late, but this one deserves to be celebrated. We’re thrilled to see Sorry! World featured on Google Play this Independence Day! 🇮🇳 Moments like these are special because they remind us of the purpose behind all the hard work that goes into building games. Behind every launch, every update, and every new feature at Gameberry Labs is a team of talented people who genuinely care about creating games that bring people together. Seeing Sorry! World, a game built in India for players around the world -- get this recognition makes us incredibly proud of what the team has built. And to our community, thank you for showing up, playing, and being part of the journey. ❤️ Happy Independence Day! 🇮🇳 #GameberryLabs #SorryWorld #GooglePlay #MadeInIndia #IndependenceDay #IndianGaming #GameDevelopment

Celebrating the spirit of Onam at Gameberry Labs From vibrant pookalam to beautiful traditional attire, delicious food, and even better company, we came together to celebrate the joy, togetherness, and richness of Kerala’s harvest festival. Here’s to new beginnings, shared happiness, and creating wonderful memories together. Happy Onam! 🌼

Great hires aren’t found by chance. They’re found by asking the right questions. Gameberry Labs recently wrapped up a two-day “Hire the Best” interviewing skills workshop with Navgati. We explored how to: • Structure interviews around clear competencies • Listen for specifics instead of generalities • Recognise and challenge our own biases before they influence decisions • Look beyond a great resume to identify genuine potential Because great interviewing isn’t just about asking questions, it’s about making better, more thoughtful hiring decisions.

Our VP of Games, Gins Lukachan was invited to Gyaan Adda at the National Institute of Design, Bengaluru, to speak with design students on decoding the gaming industry and building a portfolio that actually gets read. "Should I admit I used AI in my portfolio?" Gins: "Yes, say it out loud. Assume AI was involved in everything you open now. Hiding it only makes you look evasive when the interview exposes it. Nobody penalises AI use. Everybody penalises pretending." Some highlights from the session: → A portfolio isn't a gallery, it's an argument. What did you decide, why, and what happened? → One playable prototype beats ten beautiful mockups. → Everyone's portfolio got prettier these last two years, so pretty stopped being evidence. Judgment is the scarce thing now. → And the one nobody expects: every design discipline has a door into games. Information design into live economies, retail design into in-game storefronts, universal design into accessibility. Not just game design. 𝘐𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵. 

🚀 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 #𝟭 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆! If your game isn’t evolving every week, it’s already losing players. In our latest blog, we unpack: 🧠 The psychology driving live ops (FOMO, novelty, competition & progression) 👤 Why one-size-fits-all calendars are dying and hyper-personalization is the future 🎮 How we at Gameberry Labs are building Live Ops as a true strategic engine, not just an “events team” Live Ops isn’t decoration. It’s infrastructure. It’s the difference between a game that launches strong and one that generates revenue for a decade 💰 If you’re in mobile gaming, live ops, monetization or game design, this is worth your time. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/g3HPT3xG

Our Director of Strategy Pawas Shrivastava was invited back to his alma mater Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow 11 years after graduating, to speak with PGP students on Strategy in Tech in today’s fast-evolving world. He shared a few hard-earned insights from the trenches of building a consumer tech company: ⚙️ The frameworks remain same, but their application has changed dramatically. 🏆 Winning companies don’t necessarily have better strategies, they have shorter experimentation cycles. ⚡ They discover they’re wrong fast and act on it faster. 🔁 In tech, strategy is no longer a plan to execute, it’s how to maximize learning rate. 𝘐𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘬 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘺𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴, 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘺. We’re grateful to give back to the institutions that has shaped Berryvengers and even more excited to keep building games that millions love.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁! 🇮🇳 Fresh off the Men in Blue's thrashing of New Zealand in the T20 World Cup final on Sunday and winning their third title in history! 🏆 Meanwhile, our own Gameberry Premier League delivered its own dose of high-octane drama! 6 powerhouse teams, 9 edge-of-the-seat matches, 2 electrifying days of sixes, wickets, comebacks, and pure passion. And one champion team lifted the GPL trophy amid roaring cheers! 🏏🔥 Huge congratulations to our winners, and shoutout to every Berryvenger who batted, bowled, fielded and cheered! This is how we do well-being at Gameberry, channeling that same fire from national glory into our own backyard battles. Grateful for teams that plays as fiercely as India did last weekend.

From shooting campaigns with Hrithik Roshan, Anushka Sharma, PV Sindhu and the entire Indian Cricket Team… to helping launch Sorry! World and winning Upcoming Game of the Year at IGDC. Our latest 𝙋𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙂𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙮 story covers Naren Kaushik's journey. From 15+ years in advertising agencies across 4 cities to Gameberry Labs, his trajectory has been anything but linear. The highs were electric, the lows were brutal, and then gaming changed the game entirely. Full story here - https://lnkd.in/gk56Mk6c

🌟 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗨𝗽 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵🌟 At Gameberry Labs, we believe that a healthy team is a happy and productive one. That's why in collaboration Loop, our incredible health partner, we organized an epic Stepathon from January 19th to 26th. A huge shoutout to Loop for this fantastic initiative, your commitment to promoting wellness truly inspires us! 👏 And wow, did our team deliver! Key highlights: 🤝 Over 𝟭𝟱 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 across different departments participated! 👟 Together, they clocked 𝟱.𝟳+ 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽𝘀 in just 8 days! Drumroll for our champions... 🥁 🏆 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀: Yogesh, Shravan.N, Gins Lukachan, Bharath JV, and Aarthi Sivaramakrishnan 🥇 𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀-𝗨𝗽: Vasudha Sodhani, Umesh Sahu, Saniya Raza, Kritika Khaitan, and Arsh Bhatt 🥈 𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀-𝗨𝗽: Suman Naik, Srishti Garg, Karan Shah, Jatin Bal, and Dimpal Raval Lastly, shout to Sanjeeb Swain, he did 378,565 steps alone! Congratulations to all participants, you're all winners in our book! Events like this foster teamwork, boost energy levels, and remind us all to prioritize self-care amid our fast-paced game development world. Our commitment to fitness continues with our 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 - 𝗚𝗕𝗣𝗟! Stay tuned for that!