SMG Studio is an

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based in

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. They are best known for their video games '' Death Squared'' (2017), '' Moving Out'' (2020), and the ''One More'' series. Their first release, ''Over The Top Tower Defence'', first launched for mobile devices on May 24, 2014. SMG Studio was one of ten companies which received funding from

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's Games Enterprise in 2013.

History

SMG Studio was established in 2013 as a gaming unit of Soap Creative, an Australian digital creative agency founded in 2002. SMG Studio was acquired by

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in February 2015.

Products

* ''ThumbZilla'' (2011) *''Over The Top Tower Defence'' (2014) * ''One More Line'' (2014) * ''One More Dash'' (2015) * ''Risk: Global Domination'' (2015) * ''One More Bounce'' (2016) * ''Thumb Drift'' (2016) * '' Death Squared'' (2017) * ''Super One More Jump'' (2018) * ''No Way Home'' (2020) * '' Moving Out'' (2020) *''SP!NG'' (2021) * '' Moving Out 2'' (2023)

References

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