Hamumu Games, Inc.
is an independent game development company originally founded in 1998 in San Luis Obispo, California, as Hamumu Software and run largely by Mike Hommel (also known as Hamumu or Jamul in most online circles), with the assistance of his wife, Solange Hommel (known to some parts of the community as Sol Hunt). It was renamed in 2009 following a major renovation of its website and based in Georgetown, Texas, as of 2022.
The company is the Spiritual Successor to "Jamul Software", which developed and published SPISPOPD in the wake of DOOM's popularity when it was first released; for most intents and purposes, both "Jamul Software" and Hamumu Games, Inc. are referred to as the same company.
Hamumu's main claim to fame is creating the artwork for Growtopia, a Wide-Open Sandbox game developed by Robinson Technologies, which was first released in 2012 for Android devices, with later releases on iOS and Windows, and turned out to be a financial success. With the acquisition of Growtopia by Ubisoft in 2017 and handover of the game's development, Hamumu has since focused development efforts elsewhere.
Hamumu specializes in what it calls "dumb games", which is its way of saying "family-friendly fun games that aren't meant to be taken seriously". If you play any of these, expect pretty much all of them to be overly nonsensical. A majority of these games were initially released at the turn of the millennium as paid products but are now available for free on the developer's itch.io page.
Video games developed by Hamumu Games:
- Adventures of Bouapha
- Spooky Castle
- Sleepless Hollow
- Amazin' SPISPOPD
- Babby of Towlr
- Castle Smash
- Costume Party
- Dredd Speed and the Robot Rebellion
- Dumb: The Game
- DumbWords!
- Eddie Galaxy
- Eddie's Lament
- Growtopia (co-developed with Robinson Technologies; acquired by Ubisoft)
- Habitat for Horror!
- Hitsuji: Shears of Fury
- Infinite Deadly Islands of Terror
- Loonyland series
- Loonyland: Halloween Hill
- Loonyland II: Winter Woods
- Kid Mystic (originally published by eGames as Spooky Castle: The Adventures of Kid Mystic)
- Killer Kiwis
- Mad Planet
- Maze of Ludicrosity
- Medusa's Lament
- Mia's Happy Day
- Moon Invaders
- Nikki Neigh and Tricky Trey
- Ninja Academy
- Ninja Kitty Vs. The Nukebots
- NPC Quest
- Ollie Goes to Town
- Pedro and the 100-Year Quest
- Pedro Kicks Back
- Pee Wee's Nightmare
- Pumpkin Pop
- Retrovirus
- Rise of the Owls
- Robot Wants series
- Robot Wants Kitty
- Robot Wants Puppy
- Robot Wants Fishy
- Robot Wants Ice Cream
- Robot Wants Y!?
- Robot Wants Justice
- Robot Wants It All
- Scarecrow: Heart of Straw
- Scouts Vs. Aliens
- Short Fuse
- Still Pond
- Stockboy
- SPISPOPD series
- Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles of Putrid Debris
- SPISPOPD II: Dr. Lunatic
- SPISPOPD II: Dr. Lunatic Supreme With Cheese
- T.A.G.
- Two Roads
- Wee Ninja
- Zoobedoo
Other games originally published as Hamumu Software:
- Derelict (co-developed with Laughing Dragon Games)
- Dungeon Scroll (developed by Robinson Technnologies)
- XOP (developed by Toastsoft)
