Other Ocean Interactive

Other Ocean Interactive
FormerlyBackbone Charlottetown (2006–2007)
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryVideo games
Founded6 February 2006; 18 years ago (2006-02-06) in Charlottetown, Canada
FounderAndrew Ayre
Headquarters
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
,
Canada
Key people
Andrew Ayre (CEO)
Parent
DivisionsOther Ocean Emeryville
Websiteotherocean.com

Other Ocean Interactive is a Canadian-American video game developer based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Emeryville, California.[1][2] Originally founded in 2006 in Charlottetown, as a studio for Foundation 9 Entertainment, the studio was spun off as Other Ocean Interactive in May 2007. Since then, it has made eight games itself and has been involved in the development of 40 other games.

History

Foundation 9 Entertainment, at the time the largest independent video game developer in North America, announced on 6 February 2006 that it was opening Backbone Charlottetown, a new internal studio based in Charlottetown, Canada.[3] When co-founder Andrew Ayre left Foundation 9 a year later, he bought out and became the sole owner of the Backbone Charlottetown studio, which was renamed Other Ocean Interactive that May.[4][5] By 2008, the company established headquarters in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.[6]

Games developed

Other Ocean Interactive developed the following games:

Year Title Platform(s) Notes
2008 Super Monkey Ball iPhone
2009 CSI: Deadly Intent - The Hidden Cases Nintendo DS
2010 Dark Void Zero Nintendo DSiWare
Puffins: Let's Race! Nintendo DS
Puffins: Let's Fish!
Puffins: Let's Roll!
CSI: Unsolved!
2011 Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection Xbox LIVE Arcade
Spider-Man: Edge of Time Nintendo DS
Iron Brigade Windows
2012 The Simpsons: Tapped Out Android
Stacking Windows
South Park: Tenorman's Revenge Xbox LIVE Arcade
Poptropica Adventures Nintendo DS
The Amazing Spider-Man
2013 Gunstringer: Dead Man Running Windows
2014 Hexic Windows 8.1

Windows Phone

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Generation iOS

Android

Involved in development
Yu-Gi-Oh! Millennium Duels PlayStation 3

Xbox 360

Involved in development
Costume Quest 2 Wii U
NBA Rush iOS Involved in development
2015 #IDARB Windows

Xbox One

Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist PlayStation 4

Windows

Xbox One

Involved in development
2016 Giant Cop: Justice Above All Windows VR title for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift
Super Time Force Ultra PlayStation Vita
2017 Minecraft: New Nintendo 3DS Edition New Nintendo 3DS
2019 Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist Nintendo Switch Involved in development
Project Winter Windows
MediEvil PlayStation 4 Remake of the 1998 title, MediEvil
2021 Project Winter Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
2023 The Walking Dead: Betrayal Windows Launched in Early Access; discontinued on December 1, 2023, after cessation of development[7]
Diebrary Browser game

Windows

TBA Underlab Windows Self-described as a spiritual successor to Project Winter[8]
Unreleased Cloudy Mountain Intellivision Amico Remake of the 1982 title, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
Night Stalker Remake of the 1982 title of the same name

References

  1. ^ Bitti, Mary Teresa (20 March 2011). "Fostering entrepreneurial spirit — in every employee". National Post.
  2. ^ Smellie, Sarah (2 January 2018). "Atlantic Canadian company taking gamers through the Rick and Morty multiverse". CBC. Archived from the original on 2 December 2019. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  3. ^ Carless, Simon (6 February 2006). "Foundation 9 To Open New Canadian Studio". Gamasutra. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  4. ^ Bartlett, Dave (2 July 2010). "Two Newfoundland natives making waves in video game industry". SaltWire Network. Archived from the original on 29 January 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  5. ^ Boyer, Brandon (25 May 2007). "Foundation 9 Co-Founder Departs, Opens Other Ocean". Gamasutra. Archived from the original on 3 May 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  6. ^ Collins, Dillon (8 August 2018). "Made Right Here: Other Ocean". Newfoundland Herald. Archived from the original on 29 January 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  7. ^ Lyles, Taylor (7 December 2023). "The Walking Dead: Betrayal Is Shutting Down Less Than Three Months After Early Access Launch". IGN. Archived from the original on 1 February 2024. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  8. ^ Shankar, Bradly (23 August 2023). "Canadian Project Winter dev reveals social deduction game Underlab". MobileSyrup. Archived from the original on 3 October 2023. Retrieved 17 October 2024.