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Disney crossy road crashing2/1/2024 ![]() ![]() The idea of making a completely new game and improving on the niggling issues of Crossy Road felt like a great opportunity. “We were introduced to Disney by a mutual friend so we had this diagloue of what could we do with them. I wanted to know why Disney Crossy Road felt like a natural fit. ![]() Undoubtedly Hipster Whale have had a number of requests to collaborate. That was always the key goal in the way that I make games.” Hall said It’s obviously important to make money at some point. “The key for me is with a free game, you can reach 10 times as many people, and thats why I make games. Hipster Whales approach to free-to-play has always been an interesting one. That’s when I really wanted to share it with my friends and that’s when I realised that people would talk about it”Ĭrossy Road has always been on many people’s radar, as it’s arguably one of the most successful games to come out of Australia. ![]() We realise at that point that the game was funny and it was really starting to work from a humour angle. Of course the DOGE meme popped up in Comic Sans and Andy just started laughing. I started to code him in and I send the version to Andy and said to asked him if he wanted to try the character. There was a moment there where we were adding all those characters, but we started to add in other well-known characters such as the DOGE meme. ![]() “We originally planned to spend 6 weeks on it but once we got to that 6 week point we started to realise that this is actually quite interesting and I think this is working. Upon asking Hall when he realised that he had something special he had the below to say: The original Crossy Road has been downloaded over 120 million times. We had the pleasure of sitting down with Hipster Whale co-founder Matthew Hall, the Australian studio responsible for the mobile smash hit Crossy Roads, released in 2014. ![]()
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