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Klei Entertainment

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Products
  
Video games

Founded
  
July 2005

Type of business
  
Private

Headquarters
  
Vancouver, Canada

Number of employees
  
35

Industry
  
Computer and video game industry

Key people
  
Jamie Cheng and Jeffrey Agala

Website
  
www.kleientertainment.com

Video games
  
Don't Starve, Don't Starve Together, Invisible - Inc, Mark of the Ninja, Shank

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Klei Entertainment Inc. is an independent game development studio located in Vancouver, British Columbia. Klei was formed in July 2005 by Jamie Cheng. They are best known for their games Mark of the Ninja, Don't Starve, Eets, Shank and Invisible, Inc.

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History

Klei Entertainment was formed in July 2005 by Jamie Cheng. Prior to the formation of Klei, Cheng worked as a specialist AI programmer at Relic Entertainment. Klei was 11 employees in 2009 and as of May 2013 has grown to 35 employees.


Their first title, Eets was first released March 27, 2006 for Microsoft Windows, then for Mac OS X on December 9, 2010. Between those two releases the game was ported to the Xbox 360 via the Xbox Live Arcade platform and released on April 25, 2007. Retitled Eets: Chowdown, this version featured 120 new levels and an action minigame called Marsho Madness.

The company assisted with Slick Entertainment's N+, the Xbox Live Arcade port of the Adobe Flash game N. In 2008 Klei developed Sugar Rush, a casual massively multiplayer online game. They announced in late August 2010, that development had stopped and the game was canceled. The company's fourth original title, Shank, was announced at Penny Arcade Expo 2009. It was released on August 24, 2010 for the PlayStation 3, August 25, 2010 for the Xbox 360 and October 26, 2010 on for Microsoft Windows.

Klei's survival adventure game Don't Starve was released on April 23, 2013. On July 2, 2013 it was announced that their next release would to be titled Invisible, Inc., a turn-based espionage game released on May 12, 2015.

References

Klei Entertainment Wikipedia