


In 2009, Playrix became interested in developing free-to-play games for mobile phones while continuing to create PC games. By the end of 2007, the company had released around 15 casual games and its first PC game, reaching a monthly revenue of $300,000. They founded Playrix, rented an office in Vologda, and hired ten employees. īy 2004, Igor and Dmitry Bukhman had released three games and 30 screensavers, bringing their earnings to $10,000 a month. They released another game six months after that and started selling screensavers that they bought from programmers. Six months later, the Bukhman brothers released their second game, which brought their monthly revenue up to $200 and allowed them to buy a second computer. The game brought in $60 in its first month.

The brothers sеt its price at $15 and uploaded it to two hundred app catalogs. They released Discovera later that year, which was similar to the game Xonix. Igor and Dmitry Bukhman started working on their first game in 2001 on a computer with a Pentium 100 processor.
