Hyper Hippo Entertainment Ltd. is a Canadian video game and software development company. It was co-founded by

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founder Lance Priebe and Pascale Audette, a former employee of Disney Online Studios Canada. Their current most popular games include '' AdVenture Capitalist'' and ''Wild Warfare'', among many others.

History

Hyper Hippo was founded by Lance Priebe and Pascale Audette in late 2012. Its original purpose was to expand the size of Priebe's old studio, RocketSnail Games, which is today used as a personal studio for independent projects by Priebe. Hyper Hippo formally inherited all of RocketSnail's projects, including ''

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'' and ''Leviathans Online''. In November 2012,

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also reported about Catalyst Games and Hyper Hippo Games possibly partnering. In 2015, they published a revamped version of browser game '' AdVenture Capitalist'' for mobile. In February 2016,

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announced a partnership with Hyper Hippo to create ''RuneScape: Idle Adventures'' a spin-off of ''

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'' described as a quick-to-play RPG that can be played "in just a few moments each day". On September 1, 2016, an early access beta was released through

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on PC. The game was also planned to be released on mobile devices but was shut down and removed from Steam on May 15, 2017.

References

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