Hyper Hippo is an award-winning cell recreation studio devoted to creating leisure that has a constructive affect on the world. Based in 2012, in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, Hyper Hippo grew to become a trailblazer within the idle recreation style scoring over 80 million installs of their greatest hits, AdVenture Capitalist, AdVenture Communist, and AdVenture Ages globally.
“Hyper Hippo’s fundamental areas of enterprise are in new video games and stay operations,” explains their CEO Sam Fisher. “We’re growing and publishing new video games that innovate and form the idle style; sustaining and regularly bettering upon stay operations for 5 world-class video games on a number of platforms whereas localizing & culturalizing our current video games into new markets.
“Our mission is to entertain, join, and encourage billions of followers world wide. We’ve set ourselves aside within the business by cultivating a status as a player-first developer with each participant inquiry is responded to inside 24 hours and most inside 12. Creating moments of pleasure for our gamers is greater than only a mission assertion for us; it’s our growth mannequin.”
In February 2022, the staff introduced the worldwide launch of a subsequent technology idle recreation Dungeon Dwarves, being the primary idle recreation to be out there on Netflix in 15 languages in over 190 nations world wide.
“Dungeon Dwarves is a enjoyable, addictive idle recreation that everybody can play, however with room for mastery. Since launching on Netflix in February 2022, we’ve added a further 18 languages and expanded entry to the sport for our followers world wide,” says Fisher.
Since its launch in 2015, their greatest title AdVenture Capitalist has obtained a number of awards, together with a Google Play Editor’s Selection Award, Most Performed Sport on Kongregate, Sport of the 12 months on Miniclip, High 5 Sport on Steam, Well-liked F2P on Ps, and Greatest Prompt Sport of the 12 months on Fb.
“Our breakthrough recreation AdVenture Capitalist pioneered the style of idle gaming,” explains Fisher. “On the time, a lot of the staff anticipated it to be considered one of our fail-fast experiments – till we found we couldn’t put it down!”
Celebrating 10 years of success
In October 2022, Hyper Hippo celebrated a milestone 10 12 months anniversary. As a part of the event they provided a sequence of distinctive participant giveaways representing themes throughout their stay titles, with grand prizes together with a tropical trip.
“Whereas we acknowledge and are grateful for the successes we’ve had over the past decade, we really imagine that our greatest years are forward of us and the perfect video games are but to be made,” says Fisher. “Our objective isn’t solely to create nice leisure however to create sturdy worlds and tales that our gamers can have interaction in. We’re excited to proceed constructing significant connections with our gamers over the following 10 years.”
Constructing on their ten years of success, Hyper Hippo was named a Greatest Place to Work by GamesIndustry.Biz in 2021 and 2022. In 2021, they obtained the Well being & Wellbeing Award and have been additionally a finalist for the Company Social Accountability Award in 2022.
Take a look at their web site right here and attain out to the staff at communications@hyperhippo.com.
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