H.a.n.d.

h.a.n.d. Inc.
Native name
ハ・ン・ド
ha.n.do
Company typeKabushiki gaisha
IndustryVideo games
FoundedFebruary 26, 1993
Headquarters,
Japan
Key people
Teruaki Matoba, representative and president
Toshinori Imata, director and vice-president
Number of employees
223[1] (2019)
Websitewww.hand.co.jp

h.a.n.d. Inc. (ハ・ン・ド, ha.n.do), abbreviation of Hokkaido Artists' Network and Development,[2] is a Japanese video game developer. The company originally started as a service selling Macintosh hardware and software to universities before the Mac platform was widely known. When competition in the field increased, h.a.n.d. reorganized to develop original software.[3]

h.a.n.d.'s earliest known game is Treasure Strike, developed in collaboration with publisher, Kid, who released the PC follow-up to the Dreamcast original in 2004. The company consists of two other divisions—North Point Inc. for the development of mobile phone apps and other software, and S.N.S. Inc. who work on social games for Facebook and Mixi for external publishers.

  1. ^ "Company Profile". h.a.n.d. Retrieved 2019-11-14.
  2. ^ "h.a.n.d. Inc. official website" (in Japanese). Retrieved March 28, 2014.
  3. ^ Sahdev, Ishaan (September 23, 2010). "Company Profile: A h.a.n.d. In Game Development". Siliconera.com. Retrieved 2010-10-04.