Crash Lab

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Crash Lab
Company type Private
Industry Video games
Founded1925;99 years ago (1925) in Nottingham, United Kingdom
Headquarters
Nottingham
,
United Kingdom
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Steve Ellis
Martin Wakeley
Lee Musgrave
Graeme Norgate
Products The Snowman and The Snowdog
Twist Pilot
Website crashlab.co.uk

Crash Lab is an independent British video game developer. The company was founded in November 2011 by Steve Ellis, Martin Wakeley and Lee Musgrave [1]

Contents

The company develops mobile games for iOS devices (including the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch), Android devices (including Kindle Fire HD), PlayStation Mobile, Mac App Store, Samsung Apps and Blackberry App World [2]

Developed titles

Twist Pilot

Twist Pilot was initially released on iOS and Android in 2012 as part of the Zynga Partners for Mobile program [3] and subsequently released on PlayStation Mobile, Mac App Store, Blackberry App World and Samsung Apps.

The Snowman and The Snowdog

The Snowman and The Snowdog game were published on iOS and Android by Channel 4 [4]

The game was based on The Snowman and The Snowdog film, produced by Lupus Films. [5]

The game reached number 1 in the iPhone and iPad game charts and was downloaded over 1 million times in the UK and Ireland. [6]

Awards

Notable staff

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  2. ↑ "Crash Lab Games". crashlab.co.uk. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
  3. ↑ "Crash Lab and Zynga launch Twist Pilot on the App Store and Google Play". blog.zynga.com. Archived from the original on 8 January 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
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