Elephant Games

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Elephant Games
Industry Video games
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Headquarters Yerevan, Armenia
WebsiteElephant Games [1]

Elephant Games is an international casual game developer company founded in 2003. The main expertise of the company is Hidden Object games. The company released more than 150 games [2] smost of them in partnership with a US publisher Big Fish Games. The head office [3] of the company is located in Yerevan, Armenia, and the geography of the team is from India to Argentina.

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History

Initially the company was called White Elephant. The large white animal was associated with a big scale and uniqueness. Later it was renamed to Elephant Games. The company is owned by two people with a passion for games, Dmitry Kuklin and Andrey Pakhmutov.

The very first game the company released is called Crazy Worms. The projects that followed are Jungle Heart and RIP (Rest in Peace) Trilogy.

During 2006, the company released three installments of the top-down arcade shooter RIP. The game was first published by Meridian4, and then distributed as a trilogy on Steam.

In 2007, Elephant Games entered the European market with a fashion simulator game, Real Stories: Fashion Shop for Nintendo DS. Elephant Games was one of the first in its region to get the license from Nintendo. Later Nintendo approved and licensed the concept of the shooter WinD (Way in Dusk)

In 2009 the company expanded its DS and Wii portfolio with the action mini game Love Is... In Bloom based on the comic of the New Zealand artist Kim Grove.

Elephant Games also works on Hidden Object games. Lost in the City [4] was launched in 2009. Other games include Mystery Trackers, [5] Grim Tales [6] and Detectives United. [7]

The company has been cooperating with Big Fish, a major US company, a global publisher and distributor of casual games. During the partnership, Elephant Games has won many international Big Fish Games Customer Favorites Awards.

In October 2012, the company released its first free-to-play game Found: A Hidden Object Adventure, [8] which was available on both PC and iPad (currently closed).

The company's second free-to-play game Midnight Castle, [9] was released in December 2013. The project has been around for over 10 years at this point.

Since 2009, Elephant Games has focused on the hidden object genre and launched more than 150 games with different themes, styles and settings.

Game Series

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References

  1. ↑ "Elephant Games - Elephant Games".
  2. ↑ "Play Elephant Games > Download Games | Big Fish". Big Fish Games :: Safe & Secure Game Downloads.
  3. ↑ "Electronic Register, Government of Armenia". www.e-register.am.
  4. ↑ "Lost in the City > iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac & PC Game | Big Fish". Big Fish Games :: Safe & Secure Game Downloads.
  5. 1 2 "Mystery Trackers: Winterpoint Tragedy > iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac & PC Game | Big Fish". Big Fish Games :: Safe & Secure Game Downloads.
  6. 1 2 "Play Free Grim Tales Games > Download Games | Big Fish". Big Fish Games :: Safe & Secure Game Downloads.
  7. ↑ "Detectives United Anthology Part 1 > iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac & PC Game | Big Fish". Big Fish Games :: Safe & Secure Game Downloads.
  8. ↑ "Found: A Hidden Object Adventure". October 22, 2012 – via YouTube.
  9. ↑ "Midnight Castle available on iOS, Android & PC! | Big Fish". Big Fish Games :: Safe & Secure Game Downloads.
  10. ↑ "Games in the Hallowed Legends Series". casualwish.com.
  11. ↑ "Games in the Chimeras Series". casualwish.com.
  12. ↑ "Games in the Christmas Stories Series". casualwish.com.
  13. ↑ "Games in the Royal Detective Series". casualwish.com.
  14. ↑ "Games in the Surface Series". casualwish.com.
  15. ↑ "Death Pages: Ghost Library Collector's Edition > iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac & PC Game | Big Fish". Big Fish Games :: Safe & Secure Game Downloads.
  16. ↑ "All Games in the Mystery Case Files Series". casualwish.com.
  17. ↑ "Games in the Riddles of Fate Series". casualwish.com.
  18. ↑ "Games in the Midnight Calling Series". casualwish.com.
  19. ↑ "Games in the Halloween Stories Series". casualwish.com.
  20. ↑ "Games in the Detectives United Series". casualwish.com.
  21. ↑ "Games in the Paranormal Files Series". casualwish.com.
  22. ↑ "Games in the Ms. Holmes Series". casualwish.com.
  23. ↑ "Avalon on elephant-games.com". Archived from the original on 2022-06-13. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
  24. ↑ "Jungle Heart on elephant-games.com". Archived from the original on 2022-06-29. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
  25. ↑ "Road Rush on elephant-games.com". Archived from the original on 2021-11-25. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
  26. ↑ "RIP Trilogy on elephant-games.com". Archived from the original on 2022-06-27. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
  27. ↑ "Bloom > iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac & PC Game | Big Fish". Big Fish Games :: Safe & Secure Game Downloads.
  28. ↑ "Real Stories: Fashion Shop on elephant-games.com". Archived from the original on 2022-06-29. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
  29. ↑ "Love Is... In Bloom on elephant-games.com". Archived from the original on 2022-06-29. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
  30. ↑ "Ball Craft on elephant-games.com". Archived from the original on 2022-06-29. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
  31. ↑ "Elephant Games". elephant-games.com.
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