Gamsole, a Kenyan-based mobile game developer turns to the Windows Phone 8 platform in a bid to drive global download success and within a short time achieves over four million downloads for a new game. The ease-of-development framework provided by Windows Phone 8 shapes the company’s future game strategy as it turns to this platform. The advantages were in-app purchase service that lets developers sell additional content and experiences within the app or via the Windows Phone Store and native code support to enable easy development across platforms so developers can code apps in C++ and C, or mix and match code to match their needs.