Drinkbox Studios Inc. is a Canadian video game developer based in

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. The company was founded in April 2008 by Chris Harvey, Ryan MacLean and Graham Smith, three

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previously employed by

Pseudo Interactive Pseudo Interactive was a video game developer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and started in 1995 by David Wu, Rich Hilmer, and Daniel Posner. In 2006, the company had over fifty employees. After closing, several employees formed DrinkBox Studio ...

, which closed earlier that year. Drinkbox is best known for the ''Guacamelee!'' series of games.

History

In 2008,

-based video game developer

laid off the majority of its staff before closing down completely. Out of the laid-off employees, many left Toronto to work in other places, while three

, Chris Harvey, Ryan MacLean and Graham Smith, stayed to found their own game studio in April that year. Their idea was to create a game company that would create games they would want to play. Initially, the company was called Not a Number Software, but the team quickly considered the name to be a bad choice and changed it to DrinkBox Studios. In the weeks following the DrinkBox' foundation, they hired a senior artist and a

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to move forward with the company as a five-man team.

Games developed

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