![]() ![]() “We heard from a lot of companies,” Sum says. In the span of a calendar year, a small team from Australia became one of the most sought-after mobile developers in the world. By mid-August 2015, Crossy Road was downloaded over 100 million times across all platforms. What happened resembles the unrealistic plot of a power-fantasy young adult novel: their little game became a phenomenon. “When we made Crossy Road, we knew we had a good game and we thought it was a lot of fun, but it just really took off more than we thought.” ![]() “We definitely didn’t expect any of this to happen,” Sum told me over the phone. When Matt Hall and Andy Sum of Hipster Whale released their Frogger-inspired mobile game Crossy Road last November, their expectations were realistic. Until one considers that Pac-Man 256 is a touch-based mobile game made by a small independent studio from Melbourne, Australia. This past August, the latest version of Pac-Man reached #1 on the charts in Japan. This article is part of a collaboration with iQ by Intel. ![]()
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