1-Up Studio
1-Up Studio Inc. (stylized as "1-UP Studio Inc."), formerly Brownie Brown Inc., is a Japanese video game developer founded on June 30, 2000, in Tokyo, Japan by Shinichi Kameoka and Kouji Tsuda who worked on the Mana series. The studio developed games for both Nintendo and Square Enix, including Magical Vacation and Sword of Mana.
Logo since 2013 | |
Native name | 1-UPスタジオ株式会社 |
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Romanized name | 1-Up Sutajio Kabushiki gaisha |
| Formerly | Brownie Brown Inc. (2000–2013) |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Video games |
| Genre | Video game development |
| Founded | 30 June 2000 in Tokyo, Japan |
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| Headquarters | Kanda Square, 2-2-1 Kandanishiki-cho, , Japan |
Number of locations | 1 studio (2020) |
Key people | Gen Kadoi (President) |
Number of employees | 80 (2023) |
| Parent | Nintendo |
| Website | 1-up-studio |
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On February 1, 2013, the company announced that due to their recent co-development efforts with Nintendo, they were undergoing a change in internal structure. As a result, the company took on its current name. At the same time, co-founder Shinichi Kameoka left to start an independent development studio, Brownies.
The company since the 2010s mainly works with Nintendo internal projects as a support studio to Nintendo EPD, with its staff mainly consisting of character artists, field artists, game designers/planners and programmers helping with different titles, but mainly the Super Mario 3D titles.