Cat Daddy Games
Industry | Video games |
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Headquarters | Kirkland, Washington, United States |
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Cat Daddy Games, L.L.C. is a video game developer based in Kirkland, Washington that has developed games for publishers Take-Two Interactive, Activision, Electronic Arts, Sierra Entertainment, and Microsoft. Harley Howe and Pat Wilkinson created Cat Daddy in 1996 and started developing several well-known Tycoon series of games and its production of casual titles. Cat Daddy is currently a wholly owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. and is best known for its Carnival series of games for the Wii, Nintendo DS and Xbox 360.
Cat Daddy had a hit with the release of Carnival Games for both the Wii and Nintendo DS, with the former shipping over 7 million copies worldwide, making it one of the biggest titles for the Wii, and was certified Platinum. Carnival Games: Mini-Golf was released in 2008, to similar numbers. A true sequel, New Carnival Games was released on September 21, 2010. In 2011, Cat Daddy Games did their first Kinect game, Monkey See Monkey Do Carnival Games, the following year in 2012 produced their first Nintendo 3DS game: Carnival Games Wild West 3D and Let's Cheer! for Kinect.
The studio is focused on mobile titles, recently releasing Comedy Central's Indecision Game, House Pest starring Fiasco the Cat, Gridblock and Herd, Herd, Herd for iPhone, iPad and Android.
Studio heads
Harley Howe and Patrick Wilkinson are the co-studio heads. Harley is the game designer and Pat is the programming shaman.
Titles
1999-2000
- Full Strength Strongman Competition
- Ski Resort Tycoon
2001-2010
- Skateboard Park Tycoon
- Golf Resort Tycoon
- Casino Tycoon
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2001
- Ski Resort Tycoon II
- Golf Resort Tycoon II
- Extreme Paintbrawl 4
- Casino Mogul
- Gladiator of Rome
- Skateboard Park Tycoon World Tour of 2003
- Snowboard Park Tycoon
- School Tycoon
- Skateboard Park Tycoon 2004: Back in the USA
- Cruise Ship Tycoon
- Civil War: The Game
- Championship Snowboarding 2004
- Ski Resort Extreme
- Wildfire
- Medieval Conquest
- Sportsman's Challenge
- Mall Tycoon 3
- American Civil War, Gettysburg
- Splat Renegade Paintball
- Deal or No Deal
- Carnival Games
- Carnival Games for Nintendo DS
- Carnival Games Presents: Mini-Golf for Wii
- Birthday Party Bash
- Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for Wii
- Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Friends: Asian Elephants for Nintendo DS
- It's My Circus Elephant Friend for Wii (Europe)
- It's My Circus Elephant Friend for Nintendo DS (Europe)
- New Carnival Games for Wii
- New Carnival Games for Nintendo DS
- New Carnival Funfair Games for Wii (Europe)
- New Carnival Funfair Games for Nintendo DS (Europe)
2011-present
- Monkey See Monkey Do Carnival Games for Kinect
- Monkey See Monkey Do Carnival Games for Kinect (Coasterama DLC pack)
- Carnival Games In Action! for Wii (Europe)
- Carnival Games Wild West 3D for Nintendo 3DS
- Let's Cheer! for Xbox Kinect (Both US and Europe)
- Comedy Central's Indecision Game [mobile] for iPhone, iPad & Android
- House Pest starring Fiasco the Cat [mobile] for iPhone, iPad & Android
- Gridblock [mobile] for iPhone, iPad & Android
- My NBA 2K [mobile] for iPhone, iPad & Android
- Herd, Herd, Herd [mobile] for iPhone, iPad & Android
- Turd Birds [mobile] for iPhone, iPad & Android
- My NBA 2K14 [mobile] for iPhone, iPad & Android
- My NBA 2K15 [mobile] for iPhone, iPad & Android
- WWE SuperCard [mobile] for iPhone, iPad & Android
- Evolve: Hunter's Quest [mobile] for iOS, Android & Windows Phone
- My NBA 2K16 [mobile] for iPhone, iPad & Android
- NHL Super Card [mobile] for iPhone, iPad & Android
- Carnival Games VR for HTC Vive, PlayStation VR & Oculus Rift
- My NBA 2K17 [mobile] for iPhone, iPad & Android
- Mafia III: Rivals [mobile] for iPhone, iPad & Android
- NHL SuperCard 2K17 [mobile] fro iPHone, iPad & Android
Parent company
Cat Daddy is a subsidiary of major publisher Take-Two Interactive Inc., which also owns publishers such as Rockstar Games, 2K Games, 2K Sports and game studios Firaxis and Rockstar North.