Overview
Arkedo is known for making small independent games on a variety of platforms including their popular line of Xbox Live Indie Games (Concept), the Arkedo Series (Franchise). Founded by Aurélien Régard and Camille Guermonprez in 2006 with the goal of making DS games and being "as small as possible" to give them more time to focus on making games, rather than the peripheral activities a larger studio has to put up with (meetings, reports, etc.). They have managed to retain all of their intellectual properties.
In February 2013 Arkedo Studio closed down due to financial problems.
Early Games
Arkedo Series
Arkedo is perhaps best known for their highly-praised Arkedo Series (Franchise) on Xbox Live Indie Games (Concept). These games were later released on the PlayStation Network.
Hell Yeah!
In 2012, Arkedo partnered with Sega to produce Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit.
Nervous Brickdown (Game)
26 June 2007
Nervous Brickdown refreshes the player's skills in paddle and ball gameplay while introducing new gameplay elements across 135 levels, taking full advantage of the DS' unique hardware.
Arkedo Series - 01 JUMP! (Game)
2 October 2009
Jump! is an Xbox Live Indie platformer, developed by Arkedo Studios, in which the player must collect bombs before they explode.
Arkedo Series - 02 SWAP! (Game)
24 October 2009
SWAP! is a dual stick puzzle game released on Xbox Live by Arkedo Studios.
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit (Game)
25 September 2012
This surprisingly Metal game stars Ash, a skeletal bunny who's the feared Prince of Hell. He's on a quest to get revenge on his arch-enemy Fat Rabbit, who has put Ash's "intimate" pictures all over the "Hell-ternet".
Big Bang Mini (Game)
21 January 2009
Big Bang Mini is a top-down shooter where players use the stylus to shoot fireworks through nine bizarre neon worlds.
Hell Yeah! Pocket Inferno (Game)
21 February 2013
A mobile spin-off of Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit.
Arkedo Series - 04 SLASH! (Game)
Unknown Release
The fourth game in Arkedo's "one game per month" experiment on the Xbox Live Indie Games Marketplace. Currently, all that is known about the game is that it is a "cross between the Legend of Zelda and Geometry Wars."
2-Finger Heroes (Game)
Unknown Release
An ambitious Xbox Live Indie Game from Arkedo Studios that was set to take full advantage of Kinect's motion tracking abilities... until it was realized that Kinect wasn't actually powerful enough to scan finger movements, and the game was cancelled.
OMG: Our Manic Game (Game)
18 October 2010
O.M.G. from Arkedo
Poöf vs The Cursed Kitty (Game)
8 November 2013
Poöf vs The Cursed Kitty is an action/platformer.
Arkedo Series - 04 SLASH! (Game)
Unknown Release
The fourth game in Arkedo's "one game per month" experiment on the Xbox Live Indie Games Marketplace. Currently, all that is known about the game is that it is a "cross between the Legend of Zelda and Geometry Wars."
2-Finger Heroes (Game)
Unknown Release
An ambitious Xbox Live Indie Game from Arkedo Studios that was set to take full advantage of Kinect's motion tracking abilities... until it was realized that Kinect wasn't actually powerful enough to scan finger movements, and the game was cancelled.