Other Ocean Interactive

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Other Ocean Interactive
FormerlyBackbone Charlottetown (2006–2007)
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Video games
Founded6 February 2006;18 years ago (2006-02-06) in Charlottetown, Canada
FounderAndrew Ayre
Headquarters,
Canada
Key people
Andrew Ayre (CEO)
Parent
Divisions Other Ocean Emeryville
Website otherocean.com

Other Ocean Interactive is a Canadian-American video game developer based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Emeryville, California. [1] [2] Originally founded in 2006 in Charlottetown, as a studio for Foundation 9 Entertainment, the studio was spun off as Other Ocean Interactive in May 2007. Since then, it has made eight games itself and has been involved in the development of 40 other games. Digital Eclipse was formerly part of the company.

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History

Foundation 9 Entertainment, at the time the largest independent video game developer in North America, announced on 6 February 2006 that it was opening Backbone Charlottetown, a new internal studio based in Charlottetown, Canada. [3] When co-founder Andrew Ayre left Foundation 9 a year later, he bought out and became the sole owner of the Backbone Charlottetown studio, which was renamed Other Ocean Interactive that May. [4] [5] By 2008, the company established headquarters in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. [6]

Games developed

Other Ocean Interactive developed the following games:

YearTitlePlatform(s)Notes
2008 Super Monkey Ball iPhone
2009 CSI: Deadly Intent - The Hidden Cases Nintendo DS
2010 Dark Void Zero Nintendo DSiWare
Puffins: Let's Race!Nintendo DS
Puffins: Let's Fish!
Puffins: Let's Roll!
CSI: Unsolved!
2011 Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection Xbox LIVE Arcade
Spider-Man: Edge of Time Nintendo DS
Iron Brigade Windows
2012 The Simpsons: Tapped Out Android
StackingWindows
South Park: Tenorman's Revenge Xbox LIVE Arcade
Poptropica AdventuresNintendo DS
The Amazing Spider-Man
2013Gunstringer: Dead Man RunningWindows
2014Hexic Windows 8.1

Windows Phone

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Generation iOS

Android

Involved in development
Yu-Gi-Oh! Millennium Duels PlayStation 3

Xbox 360

Involved in development
Costume Quest 2 Wii U
NBA RushiOSInvolved in development
2015#IDARBWindows

Xbox One

Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist PlayStation 4

Windows

Xbox One

Involved in development
2016Giant Cop: Justice Above AllWindowsVR title for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift
Super Time Force Ultra PlayStation Vita
2017 Minecraft: New Nintendo 3DS Edition New Nintendo 3DS
2019 Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist Nintendo Switch Involved in development
Project Winter Windows
MediEvil PlayStation 4 Remake of the 1998 title, MediEvil
2021Project WinterNintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
2023The Walking Dead: BetrayalWindowsLaunched in Early Access; discontinued on December 1, 2023, after cessation of development [7]
Diebrary Browser game

Windows

TBAUnderlabWindowsSelf-described as a spiritual successor to Project Winter [8]
Unreleased Cloudy Mountain Intellivision Amico Remake of the 1982 title, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
Night Stalker Remake of the 1982 title of the same name

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