Other Ocean Interactive facts for kids
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Formerly
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Backbone Charlottetown (2006–2007) |
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| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 6 February 2006 in Charlottetown, Canada |
| Founder | Andrew Ayre |
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Canada
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Andrew Ayre (CEO) |
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| Divisions | Other Ocean Emeryville |
Other Ocean Interactive is a Canadian-American company that creates awesome video games! They have offices in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and Emeryville, California, USA. This company started in 2006 in Charlottetown, Canada. Since then, they have made many of their own games and helped develop even more for other companies.
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The Story of Other Ocean Interactive
How the Company Started
Other Ocean Interactive began its journey on February 6, 2006. It was first known as Backbone Charlottetown. This studio was part of a bigger company called Foundation 9 Entertainment. At that time, Foundation 9 was one of the largest independent video game developers in North America.
Becoming Independent
About a year later, in May 2007, one of the co-founders, Andrew Ayre, decided to leave Foundation 9. He bought the Backbone Charlottetown studio and became its only owner. That's when the studio changed its name to Other Ocean Interactive. By 2008, the company set up its main office in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Games Created by Other Ocean
Other Ocean Interactive has worked on a lot of video games! They have developed eight games by themselves and helped create over 40 other games. They make games for many different gaming systems.
Popular Games They Developed
Some of the cool games Other Ocean Interactive has worked on include:
- Super Monkey Ball for iPhone (2008)
- Dark Void Zero for Nintendo DSiWare (2010)
- Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection for Xbox LIVE Arcade (2011)
- Spider-Man: Edge of Time for Nintendo DS (2011)
- The Simpsons: Tapped Out for Android (2012)
- Minecraft: New Nintendo 3DS Edition for New Nintendo 3DS (2017)
- Project Winter for Windows (2019)
- MediEvil for PlayStation 4 (2019), which is a remake of an older game.
They also helped develop games like Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Generation and Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist. Other Ocean Interactive continues to create fun and exciting games for players around the world!
