Krome Studios Explained

Krome Studios Pty Ltd.
Type:Private
Industry:Video games
Founders:Robert Walsh
Steve Stamatiadis
John Passfield
Foundation:1999[1]
Location City:Fortitude Valley, Queensland
Location Country:Australia
Key People:Robert Walsh (chief executive officer, co-founder)
Steve Stamatiadis (creative director, co-founder)
Lindsay Parmenter (head of development)
Num Employees:350 (2009)[2]

Krome Studios Pty Ltd. is an Australian video game company. Its headquarters were in Brisbane and it previously had offices in Adelaide and Melbourne (Krome Studios Melbourne). Krome Studios is best known for their Ty the Tasmanian Tiger games and for their reboot of the Spyro the Dragon series. Krome has created games for the Xbox, GameCube, Wii, Game Boy Advance, Dreamcast, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Macintosh and PC. Krome has also developed for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Windows Phone 7 and iOS.

History

The company was founded in 1999 by Robert Walsh, who is the current CEO, Steve Stamatiadis, the creative director and John Passfield, the design director who left the company in 2005.

In 2007, Krome Studios places on the Develop 100 List at #94 being the only Australian game development studio to make the list this year after releasing the year before (2006). Three years later in 2010, Krome Studios was awarded the number 52 spot. Also in this year Krome Studios entered into a technology sharing agreement with Emergent Game Technologies.[3]

On 18 August 2010, it was reported that Krome had closed down their Adelaide studios and made significant staff cuts to their Melbourne and Brisbane offices, with as many as 100 staff let go. On 18 October 2010, it was reported that all remaining staff were let go;[4] [5] however, on 1 November CEO Robert Walsh responded to an email sent by IGN stating that Krome Studios had not closed down.[6]

In July 2012, Krome Studios re-opened their website, which had remained dormant since their fall in 2010, and announced that Ty the Tasmanian Tiger would return. Since then Krome have developed two games based on Ty the Tasmanian Tiger for iOS and PC.[7] They have also developed several other titles for iOS, including Play Maker and Whole Wide World (for the child learning company, Fingerprint) and Toy Soldiers: Boot Camp, on Windows Phone 7.

In March 2016, Krome Studios re-released a PC remastered port of Ty the Tasmanian Tiger on Steam Early Access for the PC only, with increased resolution textures, and new lighting, shadow and reflection effects,[8] which left early access that December. They would go on to do the same thing with Bush Rescue and Night of the Quinkan in each following year respectively.

Games developed by Krome Studios

Windows

Consoles

Mobile and web

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Krome Studios in Development of Next Installment of Best Selling TY the Tasmanian Tiger Series. Business Wire. Berkshire Hathaway. 7 March 2005. 5 July 2019.
  2. Web site: Oz Developer Watch: Krome Studios. GameSpot. Lozzica. 25 February 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090917200332/http://au.gamespot.com/news/blogs/spot-on/909183774/26793392/oz-developer-watch-krome-studios.html. 17 September 2009. dead. 21 August 2020.
  3. Web site: Krome Studios in the Develop 100 list. 2010-05-07. 2010-06-09. 8 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130608224809/http://www.develop-online.net/features/873/Develop-100-2010-The-100-in-full. dead.
  4. Web site: Krome Closes Down . 2010-10-17 . 2010-10-17 . ign.com.
  5. Web site: Krome Studios to close doors on Monday, contractors will continue work . 2010-10-15 . 2012-05-24 . tsumea.com.
  6. Web site: Krome Studios: Things Fall Apart . 2010-11-07 . 2011-07-12 . ign.com.
  7. Web site: Krome Studios is back, and so is TY. Tsumea. 9 May 2013.
  8. Web site: Ty The Tasmian Tiger on Early Access. https://web.archive.org/web/20160213081803/http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2016/02/10/ty-the-tasmanian-tiger-is-coming-back-in-hd-on-pc.aspx. dead. 13 February 2016. 2016-02-10. Game Informer.
  9. Web site: Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes Comes to the Rescue This September . 2009-05-11 . . 2009-05-19.
  10. Web site: Krome Studios . Krome Studios . 2014-06-27.

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