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3	thatgamecompany is an American VideoGame developer, which was founded on May 15, 2006 by Jenova Chen and Kellee Santiago. After their first game, ''VideoGame/{{Cloud}}'', Sony contracted them to develop three more games -- ''VideoGame/{{Flow}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Flower}}'', and ''VideoGame/Journey2012'' -- for the Platform/PlayStation3 between 2006 and 2012, but they've since secured independent funding. Their latest project, ''VideoGame/SkyChildrenOfTheLight'', came out on Platform/{{iOS}} phones in 2019, with other mobile platforms planned at a later date.
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5	thatgamecompany's games to date include:
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7	* ''VideoGame/{{Cloud}}'' (2005)
8	* ''VideoGame/{{Flow}}'' (2006)
9	* ''VideoGame/{{Flower}}'' (2009)
10	* ''VideoGame/{{Journey\|2012}}'' (2012)
11	* ''VideoGame/SkyChildrenOfTheLight'' (2019)
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14	!!Tropes found in thatgamecompany's history:
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16	* ArtGame: Their entire creative output so far has been primarily driven by the exploration of the emotional potential of video games as a medium.
17	* BeautifulVoid:
18	** ''VideoGame/{{Cloud}}'': The sky, the clouds in the sky and the islands below, with a volcano and some buildings added in the fourth level.
19	** ''VideoGame/{{Flow}}'': The creatures you eat, the creature you are and the watery substance around you, nothing more.
20	* TheMcCoy: The company's MO: making video games based on emotions unusual to the medium.
21	* OneWordTitle: All their games' titles consist of a single word, with the only [[ShortTitleLongElaborateSubtitle exception]] so far being ''Sky: Children of the Light'' -- but even that game was known simply as ''Sky'' before release.
22	* SilenceIsGolden: Hardly any dialogue pops up in their early games.
23	* WorthIt: They went two years over both their deadline ''and'' budget, and were effectively bankrupt by the time they shipped ''Journey'', but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S684RQHzmGA&t=37m51s a single email made it all worth it]].

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