Brainy Studio LLC is a Russian entertainment and

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company, best known for developing the game TurnOn, with which has been won Imagine Cup 2014 in "Games" category held by

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and other partners. The company's headquarters is located in

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History

Brainy Studio was founded in January 2013 by students of Perm National Research Polytechnic University: web-developer Evgenii Romin, programmer Anton Baranov and digital artist Ilya Antonov. In the same year they launched first game

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platform, with which placed second at Imagine Cup Russia Finals in Moscow. In 2014 company joined Unity-developer Alexander Frolov (left in summer of 2015) and marketeer Dmitri Ogorodnikov. In summer studio won in "Games" category of Imagine Cup International Finals with a prototype of the game TurnOn, and got the right to go to the AppCampus acceleration program, organized jointly by

and

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in the Finnish University of Aalto. In February 2015 the company released the first demo episode of TurnOn for Windows Phone. The same year they began

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campaign. Full version will be launched on June 1 2016 on

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(as a member of ID@Xbox) and in

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(got Greenlit 17 April 2015).

List of games released

* ''

'' (2013), platforms: Windows Phone. ** 2nd place at Imagine Cup Russia Finals 2013. * '' Clumsy Sheep Lullaby'' (2014), platforms:

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, Android, Windows Phone,

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. * '' Angry Bees'' (2014), platforms: iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows Store. * '' TurnOn'' (2015), the first episode, platforms: Windows Phone. ** 1st place in the "Games" category on the world's largest technology competition Imagine Cup 2014 in

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. ** "Best Indie Game" at the conference for game developers and publishers DevGamm Moscow 2014. ** 3rd place at the festival GamesJam Kanobu 2014 among 450 games.GamesJamKanobu ended
** Semi-finalist at the international competition Adobe Design Achievements Awards in Game Art and Design Nominees.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.brainystudio.ru/
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