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Backflip Studios Inc.
Company type
Subsidiary
Industry
Video games
Founded
April 2009
Defunct
October 24, 2019; 4 years ago (2019-10-24)
Fate
Closed
Headquarters
Boulder, Colorado, U.S.
Key people
Julian Farrior (CEO) Dale Thoms (CTO) Tom Blind (Lead Game Designer)
Products
Games for video game consoles, Android and Apple Inc. App Store
Number of employees
100
Parent
Hasbro (70%)
Website
Archived official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2019-10-07)
Backflip Studios was a mobile game developer and publisher based in Boulder, Colorado, United States.[1] It was founded by Julian Farrior, Dale Thoms and Tom Blind in April 2009.[2] In August 2009, it was announced that the company had raised US$145,000 in funding to continue developing for the iPhone OS.[3] Backflip Studios was best known for their free mobile game Paper Toss, which has been downloaded over 50 million times.[4] They are also widely known for Dragonvale, with over 10 million downloads. In 2013, Backflip Studios sold a 70% stake in the company to Hasbro for $112 million in cash.[5][6]
The studio closed on October 24, 2019. As a result, most of their apps or games were taken off the App Store and Google Play Store respectively. [7][8][9]
^linkedin company profile
^arn (June 10, 2010). "WWDC 2010: Backflip Studios' Success and Upcoming Games". Archived from the original on February 8, 2012. Retrieved December 1, 2019.
^Kee, Tameka. "game backflip raises money". Archived from the original on 2011-08-07. Retrieved 2009-12-26.
^"Paper Toss - Android Apps on Google Play". play.google.com. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
^"38 Gaming Companies You Need to Know". Built In. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
^Takahashi, Dean (October 24, 2019). "Hasbro closes Backflip, studio behind DragonVale and Transformers mobile games". VentureBeat. Retrieved December 1, 2019.
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