Squad (company)

Monkey Squad, S.A. de C.V.
Private
Industry Interactive entertainment
Founded 2009 (2009)
Headquarters Mexico City, Mexico
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
  • Adrian Goya
  • Ezequiel Ayarza
  • Felipe Falanghe
Products Kerbal Space Program
Website www.squad.com.mx

Monkey Squad, S.A. de C.V., doing business as Squad, is an interactive entertainment company based in Mexico City, Mexico, best known for their debut game Kerbal Space Program.

The main business of Squad is to provide digital and interactive services to customers like Coca-Cola, Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Samsung and Nissan, including creating websites, guerrilla marketing, multi-media installations, and corporate-image design.[1] They have developed software for different applications, some of which were video games.[2]

In October 2010, Felipe Falanghe approached Squad owners Adrian Goya and Ezequiel Ayarza. He intended to resign to work on a video game he had been planning. However, Squad said he could create the game as a company project after finishing his current assignment. That was the start of Kerbal Space Program, an indie space flight simulation game[3][4] with first public release on June 24, 2011, with the game in version 0.7.3.[5] The game was officially released out of beta on April 27, 2015, and is continually updated.

Part of Squad's enticement to join is that each employee will, at some stage, be able to make their dream pitch to the company. If the pitch makes business sense, then the company will support it. With the success of KSP, Squad is starting to branch out into other areas, such as record-producing, and away from pure marketing.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "To the Mun and back: Kerbal Space Program". Polygon. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  2. ↑ "True PC Gaming: Kerbal Space Program Developer Interview". Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  3. ↑ "The atypical story of Kerbal Space Program's indie flight to success". Joystiq. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Moonshot: How Kerbal Space Program’s creator launched an indie darling from out of nowhere". VentureBeat. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Version history – KSP Wiki". Kerbal Space Program Wiki. December 16, 2013. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
  6. ↑ "To the Mun and Back". Polygon. January 27, 2014. Retrieved September 13, 2015.

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