Flipline Studios
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Formerly | Flipline IDS (2004-2006) |
|---|---|
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded 📆 | 2004 |
| Founder 👔 | Tony Solary Matt Neff |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | 3030 E. 63rd Street Suite 214, , |
Area served 🗺️ | |
| Brands | Papa Louie |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | https://www.flipline.com |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Flipline Studios (also simply known as Flipline) is an American-based Flash game development company founded in 2004 that is best known for its series of Papa Louie's restaurant time-management games and Cactus McCoy. It was founded by Tony Solary and Matt Neff, who met each other when they were students at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
History[edit]
Between 2002 and 2003, before the company was founded, two students from the Cleveland Institute of Art, Tony Solary and Matt Neff, worked on a sidescrolling role playing game known as The Mawglin. No further details are known about the game at this moment.
In 2004, Solary and Neff graduated from the Institute and founded Flipline IDS (short for Interactive Design Studios). The company specialized in making websites for technology firms, 3D visualizations for construction companies, and doing graphic design for consulting firms. Aside from this, Solary and Neff worked on an aninated series known as Freezing Pointe, which planned to have a large cast of characters, locations, and episodes. The two main characters of the series were called Ross and Eddie. A pitch bible and a few episodes were written for the series, and a trailer was made, but the series was eventually scrapped in 2006. Solary and Neff currently have no intentions to restart work on the series.[1]
In 2006, the company shifted its focus to making Flash games. The first game Solary and Neff started work on was titled Pizza Panic, which involved an adventurous chef named Papa Lucci on a mission to save his customers from creatures known as Pizza Monsters. After a while, another game with the name Pizza Panic began development, so to avoid similarities with that game, Solary and Neff decided to change the name of their game to Papa Lucci: when Pizzas Attack. Later on, the developers thought that the name Lucci would be too hard for most people to pronounce, so they had to change it to a more familiar-sounding name like Louie.[2]
On October 17, 2006, when Papa Louie: When Pizzas Attack! was still in development, the company released two games: endless shooter Meteor Blastor and endless runner Guppy Guard Express. Both games were released on the Kongregate website.
On November 9, 2006, Papa Louie: When Pizzas Attack! was released on the papalouie.com website. The game was a side-scrolling platformer game consisting of 5 worlds, 13 levels, and a boss battle at the end. It was added to the Kongregate website on December 14.
After the release of Papa Louie, Solary and Neff wanted to use the same characters and universe that they established in that game and branch out into making other types of games. This spawned the idea of making a time-management restaurant game set in the Papa Louie universe.[3]
Papa's Pizzeria, the first of its kind in the Papa Louie franchise, was released on flipline.com on August 7, 2007. The game features Delivery Boy Roy, the main playable character, as he runs Papa Louie's pizza restaurant while he's away. The objective of the game is to serve pizzas to customers in order to get as many tips as possible to level up. The pizzas are made by topping them with certain toppings in the Topping Station, baking them for a certain amount of time in the Bake Station, and cuting them into slices in the Cutting Station, and each customer's pizza order differs.
After the release of Papa's Pizzeria, Solary and Neff wanted to "test the water" with downloadable games. For this reason, they created Rock Garden Deluxe. The game was released in early 2008 on pogo.com as a paid downloadable game along with a free demo which was also available for download. Unfortunately, this did not perceive very well, so the full version of Rock Garden Deluxe was moved to the Flipline Studios website as a free game and Solary and Neff went back to making web games.
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- ↑ "Flipline Q&A: Pre-Papa Days and Real Life Customers. « Quinn's Q&a « Flipline Studios Blog". Retrieved 2022-04-29.
- ↑ "Quinn's Q&A: Flipdecks, iPad Mini, and Papa Louie's Origins! « Quinn's Q&a « Flipline Studios Blog". Retrieved 2022-04-29.
- ↑ "Flipline Rewind: Papa's Pizzeria Post-Mortem « Flipline Rewind « Flipline Studios Blog". Retrieved 2022-05-01.
