Fun Bits Interactive

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Fun Bits Interactive
Industry Video games
Founded 2010
Headquarters Seattle, Washington, United States
Website funbits.com

Fun Bits Interactive is an American video game developer founded in 2010 by the core team previously working as Titan Studios.

In 2010, three of the team members from Fat Princess of Titan Studios started Atomic Operations, which was then renamed as Fun Bits Interactive. After Titan completed Fat Princess, Fun Bits continued work on the project releasing the Fat Roles DLC, which supported additional classes, private servers and clan support. [1]

Games

Game TitleRelease DatePlatform
Fat Princess: Fat Roles DLC June 25, 2010 PlayStation 3
Escape Plan February 22, 2012 PlayStation Vita
Fat Princess Adventures December 5, 2015 PlayStation 4
Squids from SpaceJuly 31, 2017 Steam

Fat Princess Adventures is an action role based video game for the PlayStation 4 platform. [2] It was released 2015 via Sony Computer Entertainment and is a continuation from the original Fat Princess: Fat Roles DLC game.

Squids from Space is a top-down, team-based, multiplayer, action shooter game between humans and Squid aliens from space, initially set in the 1950s Everything is Different After the Eclipse. The game initially released with one map and one game mode. It had its first public beta testing for its second map, The Moonbase, on 31 July 2017. The core gameplay mechanics involves two teams of eight players with the main objective of capturing the enemy leader three times. Meanwhile, the teams can gain an advantage by collecting resources found throughout the map and bringing them back to their bases in order to unlock stronger weapons.

Since the game's release, players have compared the game to a previous Fun Bits Interactive title, Fat Princess, due to its similar mechanics of capturing the enemy leader. [3]

References

  1. "Fun Bits". Fun Bits. Retrieved 2011-07-27.
  2. "Fat Princess Adventures". Playstation. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
  3. Sheldrake, Monique (2017). Preview: Squids from Space (PC). That Video Game Blog. Retrieved from http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2017/06/14/preview-squids-space-pc/


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