SMG Studio

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SMG Studio
Industry Video games
FoundedJuly 2013
FounderAshley Ringrose
Headquarters,
Area served
Worldwide
Website smgstudio.com

SMG Studio is an independent video game developer based in Sydney, Australia. They are best known for their video games Death Squared (2017), Moving Out (2020), and the One More series. [1] Their first release, Over The Top Tower Defence, first launched for mobile devices on May 24, 2014. [2]

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SMG Studio was one of ten companies which received funding from Screen Australia's Games Enterprise in 2013. [3]

History

SMG Studio was established in 2013 as a gaming unit of Soap Creative, an Australian digital creative agency founded in 2002. [4] [5]

SMG Studio was acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network in February 2015. [6]

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