Who We Are
Grey Area changes the way games tie in with the world we live in. The Company was founded to create breakthrough gaming experiences using real world locations as the context for mobile games. Grey Area released Shadow Cities – a location based MMORPG – globally in 2011, which has became a category defining game tittle.
We see cities as playing fields, neighborhoods as front lines.
The core group comprises Mikko Hämäläinen, Andreas Karlsson, Teemu Tuulari and Ville Vesterinen with a network of world class investors and advisors. We are currently looking for more talent to join our team of 15. Regardless of where you reside, if you get games and just got interested, get in touch!
You can follow Grey Area on Twitter @greyarealabs and Like our Facebook stream to stay in the loop.
Ville Vesterinen
Ville is the CEO and a co-founder at Grey Area. Ville has always felt that cities create the context and are more significant drivers in our lives than they get credit for. He also believes that understanding social games in a larger context would allow games go where they haven’t gone before. Grey Area draws the two together.
Email: ville @ greyarealabs.com
Twitter: @vesterinen
Mikko Hämäläinen
Mikko is a co-founder at Grey Area. Mikko has years of experience from telecom sector in building highly available mobile and networked services. Mikko is also a fierce gamer, game designer and loves well designed games more than most. When Mikko is not playing games, he’s making better ones.
Email: mikko @ greyarealabs.com
Andreas Karlsson
Andreas is a co-founder and responsible for the graphic design at Grey Area. Because of his strong engineering background and graphical talent Andreas can seamlessly work in both areas simultaneously. He’s a cool cat with a style to match and a graphic artist with a real passion for technology.
Email: andreas @ greyarealabs.com
Teemu Tuulari
Teemu is the Chief Engineer and co-founder of Grey Area. He is responsible for the server side development and specialized in data driven, intelligent and self learning systems that come handy whether designing a wholly new user interface based on pattern recognition, or planning your game’s AI.
Teemu has a six year track record in developing mission-critical server platforms with challenging scalability and high availability requirements. Prior to founding Grey Area, he was a software specialist and team leader at Ericsson where he succesfully helped to ship large-scale products worldwide. Teemu graduated from Aalto University School of Science and Technology in Helsinki with a M.Sc. in Computer Science.
Email: teemu @ greyarealabs.com