Halfbrick Studios

Halfbrick Studios Pty Ltd

Type	Private
Industry	Video game industry
Founded	2001
Headquarters	Brisbane, Australia
Number of locations	6 (2016)
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Shainiel Deo (CEO)
Products	Fruit Ninja Jetpack Joyride
Number of employees	100 (2016)
Website	halfbrick.com

Halfbrick Studios Pty Ltd (commonly referred to as simply Halfbrick) is an Australian video game developer based in Brisbane. The company was founded in 2001 by six people in a basement in Brisbane, Australia, and primarily worked on licensed games until 2008. They released the highly-acclaimed Fruit Ninja (2010) and Jetpack Joyride (2011).

Outside their Brisbane headquarters, Halfbrick opened five offices in Sydney, Adelaide, Spain, Bulgaria, and Los Angeles.^[1] In March 2012, Halfbrick Studios acquired Onan Games for an undisclosed price to make use of their software Mandreel, which allows games to support iOS, Android, Adobe Flash and HTML5 development.^[2]

By 2015, Fruit Ninja has been downloaded over 1 billion times.^[3]

Games

Year	Title	Platform(s)
2002	Rocket Power: Beach Bandits	PlayStation 2, Nintendo Gamecube, Xbox
2003	Fuzz & Rocket (canceled)	Game Boy Advance
2004	Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue	Game Boy Advance
2005	Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 3: Night of the Quinkan	Game Boy Advance
2006	Barnyard	Game Boy Advance
	Avatar: The Last Airbender	Game Boy Advance
	Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island	Game Boy Advance
2007	Heatseeker	PlayStation Portable
	Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Burning Earth	Game Boy Advance
	The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night	PlayStation 2, Wii
2008	Hellboy: The Science of Evil	PlayStation Portable
	Avatar: The Last Airbender – Into the Inferno	Nintendo DS
2009	Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Heroes	Microsoft Windows
	Marvel Super Hero Squad	Nintendo DS
	Halfbrick Blast Off	Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3
	Halfbrick Echoes	Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3
	Halfbrick Rocket Racing / Aero Racing	Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3
2010	Age of Zombies	iOS, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3
	Fruit Ninja	iOS, Android, Bada, Windows Phone
	Sunset Studio: Behind the Scenes!	Microsoft Windows
	The Last Airbender	Nintendo DS
	Monster Dash	iOS
	Raskulls	Xbox 360
2011	de Blob 2	Nintendo DS
	Fruit Ninja FX	Arcade
	Fruit Ninja Kinect	Xbox 360
	Fruit Ninja Frenzy	Facebook
	Age of Zombies	Android
	Monster Dash	Google Chrome
	Jetpack Joyride	iOS
	Fruit Ninja: Puss In Boots	Android, iOS
	Steambirds: Survival	Android, iOS
	Age of Zombies Anniversary	iOS
2012	Jetpack Joyride	Android, BlackBerry OS, Facebook, PlayStation Vita, Windows Runtime
2013	Fish out of Water	iOS
	Fruit Ninja Skittles	Android, iOS
	Band Stars	Android, iOS
	Colossatron: Massive World Threat	Android, iOS
2014	Bears vs. Art	Android, iOS
	Birzzle Fever	Android, iOS
	Yes Chef	Android, iOS
	Radical Rappelling	Android, iOS
	Top Farm	Android, iOS
2015	Fruit Ninja Kinect 2	Xbox One
	Fruit Ninja Academy: Math Master	Android, iOS
2016	Fruit Ninja VR	Microsoft Windows
	Star Skater	Android, iOS
	Dan the Man	Android, iOS

References

1. Snowdon, Tom (28 March 2014). "Step inside the Brisbane lab of Fruit Ninja app creators Halfbrick Studios, with Queensland Business Monthly". The Courier-Mail. News Corp. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
2. Takahashi, Dean (19 March 2012). "Halfbrick Studios acquires Onan Games for quick cross-platform ports". GamesBeat. VentureBeat. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
3. Serrels, Mark (8 November 2016). "Australia's Most Successful Game Studio Is Having An Identity Crisis". Kotaku . Retrieved 23 Nov 2016.

External links

• Official website