Hyper Hippo is an award-winning cell sport studio devoted to creating leisure that has a optimistic affect on the world. Based in 2012, in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, Hyper Hippo turned a trailblazer within the idle sport style scoring over 80 million installs of their greatest hits, AdVenture Capitalist, AdVenture Communist, and AdVenture Ages globally.
“Hyper Hippo’s foremost areas of enterprise are in new video games and reside 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 reside 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 around the globe. We’ve set ourselves aside within the trade by cultivating a repute 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 improvement mannequin.”
In February 2022, the crew introduced the worldwide launch of a subsequent era idle sport Dungeon Dwarves, being the primary idle sport to be obtainable on Netflix in 15 languages in over 190 international locations around the globe.
“Dungeon Dwarves is a enjoyable, addictive idle sport 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 around the globe,” 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 Alternative Award, Most Performed Recreation on Kongregate, Recreation of the 12 months on Miniclip, Prime 5 Recreation on Steam, Standard F2P on Ps, and Greatest On the spot Recreation of the 12 months on Fb.
“Our breakthrough sport AdVenture Capitalist pioneered the style of idle gaming,” explains Fisher. “On the time, a lot of the crew anticipated it to be one among 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 supplied a collection of distinctive participant giveaways representing themes throughout their reside titles, with grand prizes together with a tropical trip.
“Whereas we acknowledge and are grateful for the successes we’ve had during the last decade, we actually imagine that our greatest years are forward of us and the very best video games are but to be made,” says Fisher. “Our purpose will not be solely to create nice leisure however to create robust worlds and tales that our gamers can interact 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 had been additionally a finalist for the Company Social Duty Award in 2022.
Take a look at their web site right here and attain out to the crew at communications@hyperhippo.com.
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