1-Up Studio

1-Up Studio Inc. (stylized as "1-UP STUDIO."), formerly Brownie Brown Inc., is a Japanese video game developer founded on June 30, 2000, in Tokyo, Japan by Shinichi Kameoka and Kouji Tsuda, who worked on the Mana series. The studio developed games for both Nintendo and Square Enix, including Magical Vacation and Sword of Mana.

This article is about the Japanese video game developer formerly known as Brownie Brown. For the tap dancer, see Ernest Brown (dancer).
1-Up Studio
Native name
1-UPスタジオ株式会社
Romanized name
1-Up Sutajio Kabushiki gaisha
FormerlyBrownie Brown Inc. (2000–2013)
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryVideo games
GenreVideo game development
Founded30 June 2000 (2000-06-30) in Tokyo, Japan
Founder
  • Shinichi Kameoka
  • Kouji Tsuda
HeadquartersKanda Square, 2-2-1 Kandanishiki-cho,
Chiyoda, Tokyo
,
Japan
Number of locations
1 studio (2020)
Key people
Gen Kadoi (President)
Number of employees
80 (2023)
ParentNintendo
Website1-up-studio.jp
Footnotes / references

On February 1, 2013, the company announced that due to their recent co-development efforts with Nintendo, they were undergoing a change in internal structure. As a result, the company took on its current name. At the same time, Kameoka left to form a new studio, Brownies.

Since the 2010s, the company has mainly worked as a support studio to Nintendo EPD, with its staff mainly consisting of character artists, field artists, game designers/planners and programmers.

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