Mediatonic

Mediatonic Limited is a British

PopCap Games, Big Fish Games and PlayFirst were early Mediatonic clients and, among others, Mediatonic produced Flash conversions of Bejeweled, Bookworm, Diner Dash and Poppit!. It also created Amateur Surgeon, an original game, for Adult Swim Games.^[2][3][4] Mediatonic was profitable enough in its first year that, following Bailey and Croft's graduation, the studio moved to a former government building in Westminster in February 2006 and hired ten employees.^[1][2] Other early games by Mediatonic included Meowcenaries, Gigolo Assassin, Must Eat Birds, and Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess.^[5] Having reached 25 employees, Mediatonic moved to new offices near Covent Garden in February 2008.^[1]

In July 2009, Mediatonic opened a studio in Brighton to act as a digital media agency, later spun out into a company named Graphite.^[1] Mediatonic received funding from entrepreneurs Kelly Sumner, Ian Livingstone and Geoff Heath in April 2010, and from Frog Capital in January 2012.^[1] Pete Hickman, a former executive producer for Eidos Interactive, joined Mediatonic as its head of production in July 2011.^[6][7] Planning to double its 50-strong headcount, Mediatonic moved its London headquarters to Soho in May 2012.^[1][8] Mediatonic opened a Brighton development studio that October.^[9] According to Bailey, Mediatonic began giving original games and work-for-hire projects equal weight and the company grew as a result.^[10] It later branched out into publishing, opening The Irregular Corporation as a sister company in December 2015.^[1][10]

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