Puntoria
Puntoria is a company comprised of four young entrepreneurs that have a passion for online and video games. This team was created by two students of computer science Floriment Klinaku and Alket Rexhepi from Prishtina. Atdhe Konjufca and Pëllumb Hasani joined later. Puntoria is accepted in the ICK Incubator initially in the pre-incubation phase.
Puntoria LLC is a company comprised of four young entrepreneurs that have a passion for online and video games. This team was created by two students of computer science Floriment Klinaku and Alket Rexhepi from Prishtina. Atdhe Konjufca, graphic designer and Pëllumb Hasani flash designer joined Puntoria in a later stage.
“The idea of our business is to create a company that would be developing online games in Kosovo and the region, games that are suitable for existing platforms such as Facebook or for smartphones like android platform or iOS”, says Klinaku adding that the main goal of this team is to make virtual games that most of Kosovars play including also the well-known card game called Pishpirik.
After four months in the ICK incubator Puntoria LLC has succeeded not only to register as a company but also to launch its first product, the online game Pishpirik- a well known entertainment card, that now can be played on Facebook. This means that it can be played by millions of people around the world. Pishpirik was launched on Monday, February 11, 2013 in the ICK premises.
Klinaku says that games that people play home or with friends can be transformed into virtual games and reach more people.
His friend and business partner Alket Rexhepi says that this business was discussed since high school but only while in university it started to take the appropriate form. “We are here at ICK to develop our business idea”, adds Alket Rexhepi.
Puntoria LLC is part of the ICK incubator since August 2012.
Puntoria
Floriment Klinaku Software Development 049 132 380 klinakuf@gmail.com
Pëllumb Hasani Flash Designer 049 46 55 45 pllum.h@msn.com
Innovation Centre Kosovo offers incubator services, mentoring, consulting and training to entrepreneurs and managers in business planning, accounting, finance, product/service development, marketing/ sales, human resources, technology development and transfer and matchmaking with local, regional and international businesses.
Athene Prosjektledelse, Norway and Kosovo Association of Information and Communication Technology (STIKK), Kosovo are the founders of ICK, and Crimson Capital LLC, Kosovo is the main cooperating partner. ICK is funded by The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Pishpirik
An original Albanian card game played by 2 or 4 people called Pishpirik, has been launched on Facebook by a new game development startup from Kosovo called Puntoria, targeting millions of users on the biggest social network in the world.
While Zynga has achieved to have over 38 million players around the world in its popular game Zynga Poker, which is also available for Facebook as well as Android, iPhone, MySpace, Tagged and Google+, Puntoria aims to tackle a bit of that market share, while it already achieved to have over 4,000 registered users in just two days after it’s official launch, and statistics are quite impressive on the number of active players – according to the game developers averagely 500 players are active per hour.
One of the founders, Floriment Klinaku says that the concept being developed behind Pishpirik, is not just to ship an active social card game, but to develop team formations, create tournaments and integrate in-game buying options as a source of income. Puntoria, aims to develop further card games in the future, while it also has plans to launch the game on iPhone and Android, in the near future.
Puntoria is one of the tenants of Innovation Centre Kosovo, and has been part of the business incubator since 4 months now, and it’s aiming to launch products focusing on Eastern European countries.
What is worth mentioning is that Pishpirik is not new on the web in the Balkan area, since igrajmo.se one of the biggest game sites from Serbia, has offered the game to hundreds in the region, but in general there was never a good integration with Facebook, and this gap looks like it has been filled by Puntoria.
Innovation Centre Kosovo offers incubator services, mentoring, consulting and training to entrepreneurs and managers in business planning, accounting, finance, product/service development, marketing/ sales, human resources, technology development and transfer and matchmaking with local, regional and international businesses.
Athene Prosjektledelse, Norway and Kosovo Association of Information and Communication Technology (STIKK), Kosovo are the founders of ICK, and Crimson Capital LLC, Kosovo is the main cooperating partner. ICK is funded by The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
While Zynga has achieved to have over 38 million players around the world in its popular game Zynga Poker, which is also available for Facebook as well as Android, iPhone, MySpace, Tagged and Google+, Puntoria aims to tackle a bit of that market share, while it already achieved to have over 4,000 registered users in just two days after it’s official launch, and statistics are quite impressive on the number of active players – according to the game developers averagely 500 players are active per hour.
One of the founders, Floriment Klinaku says that the concept being developed behind Pishpirik, is not just to ship an active social card game, but to develop team formations, create tournaments and integrate in-game buying options as a source of income. Puntoria, aims to develop further card games in the future, while it also has plans to launch the game on iPhone and Android, in the near future.
Puntoria is one of the tenants of Innovation Centre Kosovo, and has been part of the business incubator since 4 months now, and it’s aiming to launch products focusing on Eastern European countries.
What is worth mentioning is that Pishpirik is not new on the web in the Balkan area, since igrajmo.se one of the biggest game sites from Serbia, has offered the game to hundreds in the region, but in general there was never a good integration with Facebook, and this gap looks like it has been filled by Puntoria.
Innovation Centre Kosovo offers incubator services, mentoring, consulting and training to entrepreneurs and managers in business planning, accounting, finance, product/service development, marketing/ sales, human resources, technology development and transfer and matchmaking with local, regional and international businesses.
Athene Prosjektledelse, Norway and Kosovo Association of Information and Communication Technology (STIKK), Kosovo are the founders of ICK, and Crimson Capital LLC, Kosovo is the main cooperating partner. ICK is funded by The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
About us
The card game "Pishpirik" created to be played online was classified by Facebook - the largest social network in the world as the leading trend in the list of card games that can be played by over 1 billion users of Facebook.
The card game "Pishpirik" created by the Puntoria team, which is part of the Incubator of the Innovation Centre Kosovo (ICK), has reached this success only within three months in the largest social network in the world.
"This success has motivated us to work to advance furthermore Pishpirik game and also think about the digitization of other traditional games that are played with cards in our country and in the region," said Floriment Klinaku executive director of Puntoria.
“Pishpiriku the product of the Puntoria team that is part of the ICK incubator has got a top ranking in the section of card games in the social network of Facebook, "said Uranik Begu Executive Director of the Innovation Centre Kosovo (ICK). Begu added that "given the impact that Facebook now has with over 1 billion users and the global competitiveness in this platform this is a great success not only for the Puntoria team, but also own Innovation Centre Kosovo".
Innovation Centre Kosovo offers incubator services, mentoring, consulting and training to entrepreneurs and managers in business planning, accounting, finance, product/service development, marketing/ sales, human resources, technology development and transfer and matchmaking with local, regional and international businesses.
Athene Prosjektledelse, Norway and Kosovo Association of Information and Communication Technology (STIKK), Kosovo are the founders of ICK, and Crimson Capital LLC, Kosovo is the main cooperating partner. ICK is funded by The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The card game "Pishpirik" created by the Puntoria team, which is part of the Incubator of the Innovation Centre Kosovo (ICK), has reached this success only within three months in the largest social network in the world.
"This success has motivated us to work to advance furthermore Pishpirik game and also think about the digitization of other traditional games that are played with cards in our country and in the region," said Floriment Klinaku executive director of Puntoria.
“Pishpiriku the product of the Puntoria team that is part of the ICK incubator has got a top ranking in the section of card games in the social network of Facebook, "said Uranik Begu Executive Director of the Innovation Centre Kosovo (ICK). Begu added that "given the impact that Facebook now has with over 1 billion users and the global competitiveness in this platform this is a great success not only for the Puntoria team, but also own Innovation Centre Kosovo".
Innovation Centre Kosovo offers incubator services, mentoring, consulting and training to entrepreneurs and managers in business planning, accounting, finance, product/service development, marketing/ sales, human resources, technology development and transfer and matchmaking with local, regional and international businesses.
Athene Prosjektledelse, Norway and Kosovo Association of Information and Communication Technology (STIKK), Kosovo are the founders of ICK, and Crimson Capital LLC, Kosovo is the main cooperating partner. ICK is funded by The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Some milestones achieved during May
Some milestones achieved during May
#1 Our game is positioned in top of the trending card games list on Facebook.
#2 We have 160 000 players
#3 We have 70 000 friends that liked our fan page
70 000 likes
Pishpirik Titles & Ranks
Pishpirik Titles & Ranks
Pioner, level: 1+
Explorer, level: 5+
Adventurer, level: 10+
Junior, level: 15+
Senior, level: 20+
Partizan, level: 25+
Bac, level: 30+
Effendy, level: 35+
Bey, level: 40+
Knyaz, level: 45+
Duke, level: 50+
Prince, level: 55+
Padishah, level: 60+
Sulltan, level: 65+
Viscount, level: 70+
Marquis, level: 75+
Baron, level: 80+
Sire, level: 85+
Emperor, level: 90+
Overview
Overview
Pishpirik is an old card game played by the Balkans, they used to play Pishpirik with their friends and family on their free time and this game was the most entertainment game. Nowadays this game is played in our houses and all of us love playing it. Now, we can play it online with our Facebook friends or other random people.
Pishpirik on Facebook is the same as we used to play, we can play and chat on the same time. Also, we can send different gifts to our friends that we are playing with.
Also, it is important how well you will score because you will be ranked based on the scores. The more you play the higher probability to win, the more you win the higher level you will have.
You can play the game at https://apps.facebook.com/pishpirik/
The Game
The Game
The Pishpirik Game is a card game played in turns. A turn consists of playing one card from your hand face up on top of the discarded pile.
If the rank of the played card matches the rank of the previous card on the pile, the playing player captures the whole pile. The captured cards are stored face down to the the side of the player who scored them.
The end of the game
The next player will then start a new discard pile by playing a card face up to the empty table.
Who has a jack will captures the whole pile, no matter what card is on top of it.
If the played card is not a jack and is not equal to the previous top card of the pile, the played card is simply added to the top of the pile.
When the two players have played their four cards, the game deals another batch of four cards to each player from the stock (but no more from the center of the table) and playing continues. When these cards are played, the game deals a further batch of four cards each.
Pishpirik Score
The Pishpirik act animation
When there is only one card on the deck, and the player who has a card with the same rank as the one in the pile then he captures the two cards and gets a score of 10 points. This act is called Pishpirik and is animated as it is shown in image. If these two cards are jacks the player scores 20 points.
After the deck is empty the round is finished, the two captured cards stacks of the players are counted according to these rules:
Each Jack 1 point
Each Ace 1 point
Each King 1 point
Each Queen 1 point
Three 10 1 point
The 10 ♦ 2 points
The 2 ♣ 1 points
Majority of cards 3 points
Each Ace 1 point
Each King 1 point
Each Queen 1 point
Three 10 1 point
The 10 ♦ 2 points
The 2 ♣ 1 points
Majority of cards 3 points
Extra points
Each Pishpirik 10 points
Jack Pishpirik 20 points
Each Pishpirik 10 points
Jack Pishpirik 20 points
Another round is played until one of the players reaches 101 points. After that the winner is the player who has collected more points throughout the rounds.
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