Funkitron, Inc.
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Funkitron®, Inc. is a casual game developer founded in 2001 by game industry veteran Dave Walls. The company is best known for creating casual games around popular licenses such as SCRABBLE, Slingo, and Poker Superstars. Funkitron also operates two casual game sites at Funkitron.com and BlueRibbonGames.com.
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History
Funkitron, Inc. was founded in 2001 by Dave Walls, a former creative director for Hasbro Interactive who was attracted to the casual game industry's digital distribution model, small game size, and pure nature of play. Funkitron's first games Dicey and Cascade where experiments in the market. In 2003 Funkitron partnered with Atari to create the first downloadable games based a board game brand -- SCRABBLE and Boggle Supreme. The company later extended these franchises by creating SCRABBLE Blast and SCRABBLE Rack Attack. SCRABBLE Blast was a top online game on Microsoft Zone and other sites and was extended to handheld gaming (Gameboy) and mobile platforms.
After these games proved to be successful, Funkitron joined up with Slingo, Inc. to create Slingo Deluxe, another top ten game.
Company Timeline
- May 2004 - Funkitron teams up with AOL to launch AOL Games Channel. [1]
- August 2006 - Funkitron site BlueRibbonGames.com goes live. [2]
Games
(See also the Funkitron Games category page for a full list of Funkitron games)
SCRABBLE
Slingo
Poker
Others
