1-Up Studio
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1-Up Studio Inc.[lower-alpha 1] (stylized as "1-UP STUDIO."), formerly Brownie Brown Inc.,[lower-alpha 2] 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.
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Native name | 1-UPスタジオ株式会社 |
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Romanized name | 1-Up Sutajio Kabushiki gaisha |
Formerly | Brownie Brown Inc. (2000–2013) |
Company type | Subsidiary |
Industry | Video games |
Genre | Video game development |
Founded | 30 June 2000; 24 years ago (2000-06-30) in Tokyo, Japan |
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Headquarters | Kanda Square, 2-2-1 Kandanishiki-cho, , Japan |
Number of locations | 1 studio (2020) |
Key people | Gen Kadoi (President) |
Number of employees | 88 (2024) |
Parent | Nintendo |
Website | 1-up-studio |
Footnotes / references [1][2] |
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]