Bossa Studios Limited is a British video game developer based in

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. It is known for its comedic, physics-based games ''

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'' and '' I Am Bread''.

History

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Bossa was founded in October 2010 by Henrique Olifiers (gamer-in-chief), Roberta Lucca (marketer-in-chief), Ric Moore (technologist-in-chief), and Imre Jele (creator-in-chief). The establishment was formally announced in June 2011, when it had opened its office at the

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, England. Bossa was acquired by the television production company

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in 2011, with the deal announced on 16 September, without disclosing terms. At the time, Bossa had 20 employees, and its first game, ''Monstermind'', launched that same month for the

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. ''Monstermind'' won the BAFTA award in the "Online – Browser" category in February 2012. Subsequent games by Bossa were ''Toy Run'' and ''Merlin: The Game'', the latter based on the Shine-produced TV series '' Merlin''. Following the commercial success of ''

'', Bossa underwent a management buyout process in July 2015 that returned Shine's stake (transferred to

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after Shine merged with Endemol in December 2014) to the studio's founders. The company received a investment in a

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in September 2017. Shortly thereafter, they hired former

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writer

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to lead a new

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-based studio for them, working on an unannounced cooperative title. According to

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, Bossa acquired between in another investment round in 2019, with NetEase as one of the largest investors in this series, gaining a minority stake in Bossa. In August 2022 some of Bossa Studios IPs including

, I Am Bread, and I am Fish was sold to

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for a reported $3 million.

Games

Games developed

Games published

Cancelled

* ''

Decksplash ''Decksplash'' is a cancelled skateboarding video game that was being developed by Bossa Studios for Microsoft Windows. In November 2017, Bossa Studios announced that ''Decksplash'' was cancelled after not reaching its intended goal of 100,000 ...

'' * ''

Worlds Adrift ''Worlds Adrift'' was a massively multiplayer sandbox video game, set in a massive world that is permanently changed by players' actions. Developed and published by Bossa Studios, the game entered early access on PC through Steam in mid-July 201 ...

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://www.bossastudios.com/ 2010 establishments in England British companies established in 2010 Privately held companies based in London Video game companies established in 2010 Video game companies of the United Kingdom Video game development companies 2011 mergers and acquisitions