Powerful Robot Games was a game development studio based in Montevideo, Uruguay. It was founded in 2002 by game researcher Gonzalo Frasca and Sofía Battegazzore. It closed down ten years later in 2012.

The studio developed Big Fat Awesome House Party, a web game for Cartoon Network that generated over 13 million accounts in its first year.

The studio also developed BEST. GAME. EVER.-a browser game made for Total Drama Island

The studio also developed Path of the Jedi—a browser game made for Star Wars: The Clone Wars in 2009. [1]

Powerful Robot pioneered the field of campaign games by developing in 2003, along with Persuasive Games, the first videogame ever commissioned for a U.S. Presidential campaign.[2] Its team was also behind "Cambiemos" (2004), a game for the Uruguayan Presidential Campaign.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Powerful Robot Games [@powerfulgames] (November 4, 2010). "Play Path of the Jedi, the game we developed for Star Wars - The Clone Wars http://bit.ly/1a3VhX" (Tweet). Retrieved 2021-02-13 – via Twitter.
  2. ↑ "How Dean's Web game is like Pac-Man". 16 January 2004.
  3. ↑ "Game appeal for Uruguay's voters". 2004-10-23. Retrieved 2021-09-29.


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