1-Up Studio
History. The company consists of many ex-Square Co., Ltd. 2D artists. At least two of its founders (Kameoka Shinichi and Kouji Tsuda) had previously worked on the award-winning "Mana" series on the Game Boy and Super NES platforms. The founders left Square due to "differing ideals." The company's first original creation was the Japan-only "Magical Vacation" for the Game Boy Advance, which was released in 2001. Another popular title developed by Brownie Brown was "Sword of Mana", which was created for and published by Square Enix. Thought to be a new title in  the "Seiken Densetsu" series, it was actually an enhanced remake of the first game in the series, "Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden" (known as "Mystic Quest" in Europe and "Final Fantasy Adventure" in North America). The company has also been credited with the development of "Mother 3" in a collaborative effort with Shigesato Itoi and HAL Laboratory for the Game Boy Advance, and "Magical Starsign" ("Magical Vacation: When the Five Stars Align" in Japan) for the Nintendo DS. Brownie Brown expressed interest in a Nintendo DS port of "Mother 3" if Nintendo asked them to make it, and that they  would like it to be enjoyed by fans abroad. While the company has only released video games for Nintendo's handheld video game systems up to this point, the company had previously announced a title for the GameCube, named "Gofuku", which was scheduled for release in 2005 and was announced alongside "Magical Vacation: When the Five Stars Align". The company later released "Blue Dragon Plus" for the Nintendo DS, developed alongside Mistwalker, and entered into the downloadable games market in 2009 with "A Kappa's Trail", a DSiWare game. Brownie Brown also worked on the DS title "Livly Garden", based  on a browser game from So-net Entertainment, released in Japan on January 28, 2010, and aided in the development of two Level-5 titles, "Professor Layton's London Life", a bonus game included with "Professor Layton and the Last Specter", and "Fantasy Life", for the DS and 3DS respectively. On February 1, 2013, the company announced on their original official website that, as a result of their recent development cooperation efforts with Nintendo, Brownie Brown had undergone changes in internal structure, which included officially changing the name of their company to 1-Up Studio. Since then, 1-Up Studio has  been acting as a support development company for Nintendo developed titles.