Clark Stacey is the co-founder and

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(earlier known as Smart Bomb Interactive), which in 2010 launched the ''

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'', a massively multiplayer online virtual world, in partnership with the

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. The game has around 75 million registered players, and is one of the fastest-growing online children's properties worldwide, targeted at the 9–11 years age group.

Early life and career

Stacey was born and brought up in

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. After graduating in English and philosophy from the

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, Stacey became an academician. In 1992, in consequence of his long-standing interest in the field, Stacey teamed up with Kris Johnson again and co-founded Smart Bomb Interactive, which specialized as a game development studio and earned revenues through a licensing model. During these years, video games exemplifying explosions and destruction became the leitmotifs of Stacey's video game productions. Stacey and Johnson subsequently rechristened the company as

. Based out of

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and employing around 130

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s as of 2016, Stacey and Johnson went on to develop highly followed games like ''Animal Jam Classic'', ''Snoopy Flying Ace'', ''Tunnel Town, Fer.al,'' and others.

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Early life and career

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