Bloober Team


Bloober Team S.A. is a Polish video game developer based in Kraków. Founded in November 2008 by Peter Babieno and Peter Bielatowicz, the company is best known for developing Layers of Fear, Observer, and Blair Witch. In January 2018, Bloober Team received the Paszport Polityki award in the "Digital Culture" category.

History

Bloober Team was founded by Peter Babieno and Peter Bielatowicz. The studio was originally part of Nibris, a developer set up in 2006, but sought to become independent through investor funding. The studio formally launched on 6 November 2008, employing 20 people in Kraków offices. Babieno became the chief executive officer for the company. In October 2010, following Nibris' decision to exit the game development business and the cancellation of their only video game, Sadness, many of the company's developers joined Bloober Team.
One of the turning points in Bloober Team's history was the development of Basement Crawl, which debuted alongside the PlayStation 4. Following poor reception, the studio reworked the game by re-using the core game concept while introducing new graphics, game mechanics, story and game modes. The resulting product, Brawl, was released in February 2015 to favourable reviews, and was made available free of charge for owners of Basement Crawl.
The developer received the Paszport Polityki award in the "Digital Culture" category on 10 January 2018. A new project, codenamed Project Méliès, was announced on 8 March 2018. In October that year, the title was announced to be Layers of Fear 2, to be released in 2019 by Gun Media.
In 2009, Bloober Team founded a subsidiary limited liability company iFun4all sp. z o.o. and later brought it to NewConnect stock exchange with the initial public offering occurring on 23 September 2016. On 23 August 2019 company changed its name from iFun4all to Draw Distance. Bloober Team remains the owner of 34.98% of the Draw Distance shares.

Games developed

Cancelled games