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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | April 2009 |
| Defunct | October 24, 2019 |
| Fate | Closed |
| Headquarters | Boulder, Colorado, U.S. |
Key people | Julian Farrior (CEO) Dale Thoms (CTO) Tom Blind (Lead Game Designer) |
| Products | Games for video game consoles, Android and Apple Inc. App Store |
Number of employees | 100 |
| Parent | Hasbro (70%) |
| Website | Archived official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2019-10-07) |
Backflip Studios was a mobile game developer and publisher based in Boulder, Colorado, United States.[1] It was founded by Julian Farrior, Dale Thoms and Tom Blind in April 2009.[2] In August 2009, it was announced that the company had raised US$145,000 in funding to continue developing for the iPhone OS.[3] Backflip Studios was best known for their free mobile game Paper Toss, which has been downloaded over 50 million times.[4] They are also widely known for Dragonvale, with over 10 million downloads. In 2013, Backflip Studios sold a 70% stake in the company to Hasbro for $112 million in cash.[5][6]
The studio closed on October 24, 2019. As a result, most of their apps or games were taken off the App Store and Google Play Store respectively. [7][8][9]
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