Bangalore: Remember Ravenwood the Facebook game that stayed on the top application charts for ages. The game was developed by a San-Francisco based developing firm, with an Indian playing a key role, and later got acquired by 6waves. While in the middle of the development process of their much awaited sequel to the Ravenskye City, 6waves decided to lay off Lolapps following a major change in business model.

Lolapps launched the last edition of its Facebook game Raven World Series on May 4 2012 despite getting laid off by the Hong-Kong based acquirer. This final chapter of the game series Raven World, which is listed in the top chart of Facebook games, was developed by Lolapps independently.

A team of six coders took up the challenge to complete the development process of the game that was started while the company was under 6waves. The game had already been in the production pipeline of 6wave since a year, when they decided to cut down on their internal game studio to concentrate more on third party mobile apps.

Arjun Sethi, the former CEO of Lolapps along with co-founders Kavin Stewart and Brian Rue raised money to buy Sliver Lake Studio where the rest of the designing was finished.  “We felt we owed this to the team .A lot of them had worked on it for a year. We all felt like it was a groundbreaking title,” said Sethi in his interview with GamesBeat.

After the acquisition of Lolapps, there was a speculation that games developed by the company were loosing users. Zynga, the rival app developer of Lolapps, were taking over the app charts of Facebook and had even launched CastleVille, a game very similar to Lolapps own castle game. But Brad Flynn, the product manager of Lolapps confirmed that the similarity is only in the names. While Zynga’s game is based mostly on the outside environment of the castle, Ravenshire Castle is more on the inside of the castle.

The game is a two dimensional online strategy play, with advanced programming on flash that allows the player to move and act in more directions than any other social networking games. Successor to its famous prequel Raven Wood and Ravenskye City, launched by John Romero and Brenda Brathwaite in 2010, the game is all set to make a mark on the Facebook top game Chart.