Elephant Games

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Elephant Games
Industry Video games
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Headquarters Yerevan, Armenia
Website http://elephant-games.am/

Elephant Games is a Russian casual game development company founded in 2003. It currently produces games for PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Android. Most of the company's projects are published by Big Fish Games. [1] While its head office is in Russia, Yoshkar-Ola, register name "E - Studio", it also maintains an office in Yerevan, Armenia.

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History

The company started as indie developer White Elephant in 2003. [2] Later the name was changed to Elephant Games. The first released projects were for PC. Through year 2006, the company produced three parts of the arcade top-down shooter RIP. The game was first published by Meridian4 [3] and then distributed as a trilogy bundle on Steam. [4]

In 2007 Elephant Games went on the European market with their fashion simulation game Real Stories: Fashion Shop for Nintendo DS. [5]

Expanding its DS and Wii portfolio the company developed the 2009 action mini-game Love Is... In Bloom based on the Love Is... comic strip by New Zealand born artist Kim Grove. [6]

Elephant Games has also produced hidden-object games. Lost in the City was released in 2009. [7] Others include the Mystery Trackers series that begins with Mystery Trackers: The Void in 2010, [8] Mystery Trackers: Raincliff, and Hallowed Legends: Templar in 2011, [9] and many others.

In 2013 Elephant Games took over two major series previously developed by Big Fish Studios: Mystery Case Files [10] and Haunted Hotel. [1]

In October 2012 the company released its first free-to-play game Found: A Hidden Object Adventure which is available on both PC and iPad. [11] The company's second free-to-play game, Midnight Castle, was released in December 2013. [12]

In 2016, the studio released its first fully self-published game called Just Bones on Steam.


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References

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  2. ↑ "Uziana.com Game Reviews - White Elephant Games Interview". uziana.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-11. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
  3. ↑ "Meridian4 - RIP Trilogy". meridian4.com. Archived from the original on 2014-03-05. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
  4. ↑ "Save 90% on RIP - Trilogy on Steam". store.steampowered.com. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
  5. ↑ "Real Stories Fashionshop". gamekult.com. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
  6. ↑ "Love is...in Bloom: The Flower Shop Garden - GameSpot". gamespot.com. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
  7. ↑ "2009 Customer Favorites Awards | Big Fish Blog". bigfishgames.com. Archived from the original on 2010-01-14. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
  8. ↑ "2010 Customer Favorites Awards | Big Fish Blog". bigfishgames.com. Archived from the original on 2011-01-02. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
  9. ↑ "Best PC Games of 2011 | Big Fish". promotions.bigfishgames.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-11. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
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  11. ↑ "elephant-games.com | Found: A Hidden Object Adventure". elephant-games.com. Archived from the original on 2014-02-26. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
  12. ↑ "Behind the Curtain: The Making of Midnight Castle | Big Fish Blog". bigfishgames.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-11. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
  13. ↑ List of games in the Mystery Trackers series on CasualWish.com
  14. ↑ List of games in the Hallowed Legends series on CasualWish.com
  15. ↑ List of games in the Chimeras series on CasualWish.com
  16. ↑ List of games in the Christmas Stories series on CasualWish.com
  17. ↑ List of games in the Royal Detective series on CasualWish.com
  18. ↑ List of games in the Surface series on CasualWish.com
  19. ↑ Death Pages: Ghost Library on BigFishGames.com
  20. ↑ List of games in the Mystery Case Files series on CasualWish.com
  21. ↑ List of games in the Riddles of Fate series on CasualWish.com
  22. ↑ List of games in the Midnight Calling series on CasualWish.com
  23. ↑ List of games in the Halloween Stories series on CasualWish.com
  24. ↑ List of games in the Detectives United series on CasualWish.com
  25. ↑ List of games in the Paranormal Files series on CasualWish.com
  26. ↑ List of games in the Ms Holmes series on CasualWish.com
  27. ↑ "Avalon on elephant-games.com". Archived from the original on 2022-06-13. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
  28. ↑ "Jungle Heart on elephant-games.com". Archived from the original on 2022-06-29. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
  29. ↑ "Road Rush on elephant-games.com". Archived from the original on 2021-11-25. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
  30. ↑ "RIP Trilogy on elephant-games.com". Archived from the original on 2022-06-27. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
  31. ↑ Bloom on BigFishGames.com
  32. ↑ "Real Stories: Fashion Shop on elephant-games.com". Archived from the original on 2022-06-29. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
  33. ↑ "Love Is... In Bloom on elephant-games.com". Archived from the original on 2022-06-29. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
  34. ↑ "Ball Craft on elephant-games.com". Archived from the original on 2022-06-29. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
  35. ↑ Sir Match-a-Lot on elephant-games.com
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