Hyper Hippo Entertainment
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Founders | Lance Priebe Pascale Audette |
| Headquarters | 1650 Bertram Street Kelowna, British Columbia V1Y 2G4 |
Key people | Lance Priebe (CEO & CCO) |
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Number of employees | 108 |
| Website | hyperhippo |
Hyper Hippo Entertainment is a Canadian online video game and software development company. It was co-founded by Club Penguin founder Lance Priebe[1] and Pascale Audette, a former employee of Disney Online Studios Canada. Their current most popular games include AdVenture Capitalist and Wild Warfare, among many others.
History
Hyper Hippo was founded by Lance Priebe and Pascale Audette in late 2012. Its original purpose was to expand the size of Priebe's old studio, RocketSnail Games, which is today used as a personal studio for independent projects by Priebe. Hyper Hippo formally inherited all of RocketSnail's projects, including Mech Mice and Leviathans Online.[citation needed]
In November 2012, Catalyst Game Labs announced a partnership with Hyper Hippo to create Leviathans Online.[2] Later in December 2012, Wired's GeekDad also reported about Catalyst Games and Hyper Hippo Games possibly partnering.[3]
In 2015, they published a revamped version of browser game AdVenture Capitalist for mobile.[citation needed]
In February 2016, Jagex announced a partnership with Hyper Hippo to create RuneScape: Idle Adventures[4] a spin-off of RuneScape described as a quick-to-play RPG that can be played "in just a few moments each day".[5] On September 1, 2016, an early access beta was released through Steam on PC. The game was also planned to be released on mobile devices[6] but was shut down and removed from Steam on May 15, 2017.[7]
References
- ^ "Lance Priebe - Hyper Hippo". Retrieved 8 January 2013.
- ^ "Catalyst, Hyper Hippo Productions to develop Leviathans Online". Retrieved 21 November 2012.
- ^ "Leviathans Online GeekDad Wired.com". Archived from the original on December 4, 2012. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
- ^ "RuneScape: Idle Adventures | Coming Spring 2016 - News - RuneScape".
- ^ "Runescape: Idle Adventures is a casual RPG born from Jagex and Hyper Hippo partnership". PCGamesN. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
- ^ "Should games firms welcome or fear Chinese conquest?". BBC News. 2016-11-04. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
- ^ "RuneScape And Old School RuneScape Finally Coming To Steam". TheGamer. 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2022-04-13.