Alternatively, I could spend some currency on unlocking new characters or nifty hats. (12.9-inch iPad Pro shown here.)Īll the while, I collected coins, the better to replenish my health through a handy vending machine that shows up every 10 levels. You can play Crossy Road Castle in portrait orientation on your phone, but I find it’s more satisfying to play in landscape mode. The first one had me chasing a giant bald eagle who plopped eggs and feathers in my general direction while soaring through a rainbow, and I rudely knocked her out of the sky by bumping her wings. At other times I’d press switches that’d activate timed platforms, or I’d rocket from platform to platform with the help of yellow cannons. Sometimes my chicken would waddle over a button, and I could send the birds plummeting onto spikes below. Hipster Whale continues to make and publish bright and funny games with broad appeal, including the Apple Arcade exclusive Crossy Road Castle, and Piffle, developed by Mighty Games.You spend each level jumping from ledge to ledge with a member of a cast of unlockable characters that includes everything from a chicken to a “Big Fat Pig,” bouncing on the heads of blocky birds and solving puzzles along the way.

Hipster Whale has also joined forces with world-renowned companies along the way, including Bandai Namco and Disney to create more top-charting games like PAC-MAN 256 and Disney Crossy Road. Since then, this small indie studio has continued to make big waves, receiving over a dozen nationally and globally recognised awards, including the Apple Design Award for Crossy Road and the 2015 Studio of the Year at the Australian Game Developers Awards. Their first release, Crossy Road, quickly became a viral success and has to-date amassed more than 250 million downloads. Hipster Whale is a multi-award winning Australian studio founded in 2014 by Matt Hall and Andy Sum. The studio was founded by Matt Hall and Andy Sum in November 2014 with the launch of Crossy Road.

Hipster Whale is a small independent game studio based in Melbourne, Australia.

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