1-Up Studio

1-Up Studio
Native name
1-UPスタジオ株式会社
1-Up Sutajio Kabushiki gaisha
FormerlyBrownie Brown Inc. (2000–2013)
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryVideo games
GenreVideo game development
Founded30 June 2000; 24 years ago (2000-06-30) in Tokyo, Japan
Founder
  • Shinichi Kameoka
  • Kouji Tsuda
HeadquartersKanda Square, 2-2-1 Kandanishiki-cho, ,
Japan
Number of locations
1 studio (2020)
Key people
Gen Kadoi (President)
Number of employees
88 (2024)
ParentNintendo
Website1-up-studio.jp
Footnotes / references
[1][2]

1-Up Studio Inc.[a] (stylized as "1-UP STUDIO."), formerly Brownie Brown Inc.,[b] is a Japanese video game developer founded on June 30, 2000, in Tokyo, Japan by Shinichi Kameoka and Kouji Tsuda, who worked on the Mana series. The studio developed games for both Nintendo and Square Enix, including Magical Vacation and Sword of Mana.

On February 1, 2013, the company announced that due to their recent co-development efforts with Nintendo, they were undergoing a change in internal structure. As a result, the company took on its current name. At the same time, Kameoka left to form a new studio, Brownies.

Since the 2010s, the company has mainly worked as a support studio to Nintendo EPD, with its staff mainly consisting of character artists, field artists, game designers/planners and programmers.[3]

  1. ^ "会社概要 | 1-UP Studio Inc". 1-up-studio.jp. Archived from the original on 2019-11-26. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  2. ^ "会社の沿革 | 1-UP Studio Inc". 1-up-studio.jp. Archived from the original on 2020-09-24. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  3. ^ "キャリア採用情報 | 1-UP Studio Inc". 1-up-studio.jp. Retrieved 2023-05-23.


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