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Progrestar

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Progrestar is a leading social application developer, setting the standard of quality and dynamics for the whole industry. This leadership position has been established and attained over the last two years in the extremely competitive environment.

The company employs over 50 highly professional developers in its offices in Moscow. Owing to this invaluable asset Progrestar released almost 15 projects, highly appreciated by users of the most popular social networks – vkontakte.ru, mymail.ru, odnoklassniki.ru, facebook.com.

Progrestar projects have over 20,000,000 registered users from over 100 countries around the globe. Subscriptions are growing by 2,000,000 monthly.

Recent Milestones

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  Progrestar — http://twitter.com/progrestar became the best corporate microblog in Runet (2/10/11)
  Posted 2/11/11 at 5:51am via blogruneta.ru
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  Progrestar — The most conspicuous recent product placement of MTS brand through a 'VKontakte' game "Digger" (12/27/10)
  Posted 2/11/11 at 5:37am via habrahabr.ru
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  Progrestar — Progrestar is the fastest growing Russian developer on Facebook. 8th place in Top Gainers This Week – Games (10/5/10)
  Posted 8/20/10 at 4:50am via bit.ly
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  Progrestar — If you just want to play a treasure hunting game that’s a little better-designed than whatever you’re playing now, then chances are pretty good that you’ll enjoy Digger. If you’re not playing any treasure hunting games at all, Digger might even wi (10/5/10)
  Posted 10/26/10 at 12:49am via gamezebo.com
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  Progrestar — If you’re not playing any treasure hunting games at all, Digger might even win you over to the genre. Digger’s avatars are much taller, more customizable, and more detailed than others. (10/5/10)
  Posted 10/19/10 at 10:41pm via bit.ly
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  Progrestar — Russian Developer Progrestar Gets into Facebook with Digger (9/21/10)
  Posted 9/29/10 at 6:14am via insidesocialgames.com
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  Progrestar — Moscow Facebook Developer Garage. First russian successful game launch on Facebook by Progrestar (9/13/10)
  Posted 9/29/10 at 6:09am via bit.ly
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  Progrestar — Progrestar is the fastest growing Russian developer on Facebook. 8th place in Top Gainers This Week – Games (9/10/10)
  Posted 9/29/10 at 6:12am via bit.ly
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  Progrestar — Finally the newest game by Progrestar “Digger” was launched on Facebook both for Russian speaking and English speaking users. Firstly Facebook credits are opened for Russian social game developer Progrestar. (8/18/10)
  Posted 8/20/10 at 4:57am via facebook.com
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  Progrestar — Now you can play "Digger" on Odnoklassniki.ru http://bit.ly/btjQ09. More than 5200 users during first hour. (8/9/10)
  Posted 8/20/10 at 4:52am via appdata.ru
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  Progrestar added Varvara Zolotova as Chief Marketing Officer. (6/15/10)
  Posted 7/7/10 at 11:26pm

Videos

Screenshots

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Above: Game Liliput
Uploaded: 7/12/10

Above: Game Teplyandia
Uploaded: 7/12/10

Above: Game Dig! NEW
Uploaded: 8/2/10

Products

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Digger

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Website	apps.facebook.com/treasure_digge...
Blog	facebook.com/apps/application.ph...
Stage	Alpha
Launch Date	August 3, 2010

Who among us has not dreamed of traveling around the world, discovering new continents and islands? Participate in thrilling adventures for the greatest hidden treasures and artifacts of all time. All this can be found in the newest game Digger! Fascinating gameplay, modern design and surprising storyline. Feel yourself like a real pioneer.

Your journey starts on a small home island that can be expanded and decorated. Here you can vault your collection of ancient coins, gems and artifacts. And upgrade your tiny boat into marvelous ship that will bring you to the shores you never imagined. Invite friends with you. You’ll need all their strength and loyalty to avoid obstacles and difficulties during your quest. And don’t forget to bring a bottle of good rum, some characters like Robinson that you’ll meet on your way, may trade secret treasure maps for it.

Tons of content and modern graphics will make a trip fun and memorable! The game has more than 500 unique islands with carefully drawn landscape, plants, animals, treasures and many more.

Features:

• Unique Adventure atmosphere
• Incredible customizable animated characters and original animals
• 100+ handcrafted beautiful treasure maps with completely different landscapes
• Brand new material crafting system

Liliputia

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Teplyandiya

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Sources

Critter Island Visits This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Apps (bit.ly) [edit]
appdata.ru [edit]
apps.facebook.com [edit]
TechEye checks out Russia's first Facebook dev conference (bit.ly) [edit]
Critter Island Visits This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Apps (bit.ly) [edit]
Russian Developer Progrestar Gets into Facebook with Digger (insidesocialgames.com) [edit]
If you’re not playing any treasure hunting games at all, Digger might even win you over to the genre. (bit.ly) [edit]
Digger takes the basic treasure hunting game formula and polishes it up, offering players a well-balanced take on the genre. (gamezebo.com) [edit]
Promoting a cellular subscription plan through a 'VKontakte' game (habrahabr.ru) [edit]
Winners of The Best Russian Blogs Awards (2011.blogruneta.ru) [edit]