Squad (company)

Monkey Squad S.A de C.V.
Industry Interactive marketing and Video games
Founded 2009[1]
Headquarters Mexico City, Mexico
Key people
 Co-founders Adrian Goya and Ezequiel Ayarza
Felipe Falanghe (KSP lead developer)
Products Kerbal Space Program
Website squad.com.mx

Squad, Monkey Squad S.A de C.V., is an interactive marketing company in Mexico City, Mexico, which is also the developer and publisher behind Kerbal Space Program (KSP).

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. They have developed software for different applications, some of which were similar to video games.

When employee Felipe Falanghe approached Squad owners Adrian Goya and Ezequiel Ayarza in October 2010 intending to resign so that he could work on a video game idea he had thought about for a while, he got a different response than he had anticipated: They said he could create the game as a Squad project after finishing his current assignment. That was the start of Kerbal Space Program, an indie space flight simulation game[2][3][4] with first public release on June 24, 2011.[5] The game was released April 27th 2015 on Steam.

As of February 2015 Squad's description of the KSP team has 14 employees assigned to various responsibilities regarding the game (not necessarily full-time), with Falanghe as lead developer.[6]

References

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

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