Bloober Team

Bloober Team SA
Private
Industry Video game industry
Founded 2008 (2008)
Founders
  • Piotr Babieno
  • Piotr Bielatowicz
Headquarters Kraków, Poland
Products
Number of employees
 ~30[1] (2017)
Subsidiaries iFun4all
Website blooberteam.com

Bloober Team SA is a Polish video game developer based in Kraków. Founded in 2008, by Piotr Babieno and Piotr Bielatowicz, the company is best known for developing Layers of Fear (2016) and Observer (2017). Their most recent game, codenamed Project Méliès, was announced in March 2018. In January 2018, Bloober Team received the Paszport Polityki award in the "Digital Culture" category.

History

Bloober Team was founded by Piotr Babieno and Piotr Bielatowicz in 2008.[2]

One of the turning points in Bloober Team's history was the development of Basement Crawl, which debuted alongside the PlayStation 4. Following poor reception[3] the studio reworked the game by re-using the core game concept while introdrucing new graphics, game mechanics, story and game modes. The resulting product, Brawl, was released in February 2015 to favourable reviews, and was made available free of charge for owners of Basement Crawl.[4]

The developer received the Paszport Polityki award in the "Digital Culture" category on 10 January 2018.[5] A new project, codenamed Project Méliès, was announced on 8 March 2018.[6]

Games developed

Year Title Platform(s) Genre(s)
2010 Music Master Chopin Microsoft Windows Music
2011 Double Bloob Nintendo DS Action
Paper Wars: Cannon Fodder Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Xbox 360 Strategy
2013 A-Men Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita Puzzle
A-Men 2 Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita
2014 Basement Crawl PlayStation 4 Action
2015 Brawl Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4
2016 Layers of Fear Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One Psychological horror
2017 Observer Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
TBA Project Méliès TBA

References

  1. ↑ Harris, John (2 November 2017). "Dev Q&A: How Bloober Team created 'hidden horror' in Observer". Gamasutra. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "Bloober Team Breaks Down the Psychology of 'Hidden Horror' in New Video for >observer_". Gamasutra. 23 June 2017. Archived from the original on 8 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "Basement Crawl Critic Reviews for PlayStation 4". Metacritic. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  4. ↑ Sanchez, Miranda (22 April 2015). "Brawl Coming to PS4 This Week". IGN. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  5. ↑ Kłosiński, Daniel (10 January 2018). "Twórcy Observer ze studia Bloober Team laureatami Paszportu Polityki". Eurogamer.pl. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  6. ↑ Wood, Austin (8 March 2018). "Project Méliès is the next game from Observer, Layers of Fear dev". PC Gamer. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
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