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Logo found on their website.
skip Ltd. is a video game company that has a close relationship with Nintendo, developing games exclusively for their consoles, most of which are published by the company. Their games consists of titles such as Chibi-Robo, the bit Generations series, and Captain Rainbow for the GameCube, Game Boy Advance and Wii, respectively.
Several of the founding members include former Square Enix developers. The company is currently located in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.
History[]
The studio was founded July 2000 as one of the successor studios to Love-de-Lic, with key members like Kenichi Nishi and Keita Eto among the founding members.
Kenichi Nishi left in 2006 to found a smaller studio to work on games with fewer people. Skip continued to work on original ideas though with Captain Rainbow and Snowpack Park,
The studio has reportedly changed its name in 2019 to Skip Inc. According to several sources, the development side of the studio closed by 2020. Several developers have joined other studios such as Vanpool and Onion Games.
Games[]
As aforementioned, all of their titles are exclusive to Nintendo consoles, with only one (LOL on the Nintendo DS) not being published by the company. Their games include:
- bit Generations series (Japan exclusive) - Game Boy Advance
- Chibi-Robo!: Plug Into Adventure! - GameCube
- GiFTPiA - GameCube
- Chibi-Robo!: Park Patrol - Nintendo DS
- Chibi Robo!: Clean Sweep - Nintendo DS
- LOL - Nintendo DS
- Captain Rainbow - Wii
- Art Style - WiiWare (except Digidrive)
- Snowpack Park - WiiWare
- Wii Play: Motion - Wii (only a couple minigames)
- Chibi-Robo: Photo Finder - Nintendo 3DS eShop
- Chibi Robo: Zip Lash - Nintendo 3DS