• Source: Pixelberry Studios

Pixelberry Studios is a mobile game development company based in Mountain View, California, United States. Founded in 2013 by Oliver Miao, Keith Emnett, and Winston She, Pixelberry develops episodic narrative mobile games for Android and iOS, aiming to create "games with heart," beginning with Surviving High School and Cause of Death, which deals with themes of bullying, eating disorders and capturing serial killers. Since then, the company has fully released three more mobile games: Hollywood U, High School Story and Choices: Stories You Play.




History


Pixelberry launched Choices: Stories You Play in August 2016. Like their previous games, Choices: Stories You Play is an interactive narrative game. In it, players can pick "choose your own adventure" stories or "books" across multiple literary genre such as romance, adventure, mystery, fantasy, and horror. Each "book" is divided into "chapters", and chapters are released on a weekly basis. The player character is usually highly customizable, from skin tone to gender. Since the shutdown of their other games, Choices is the flagship game and primary focus for the studio. In November 2017, Pixelberry was acquired by Nexon.
In 2020, a planned plot line in one of Choices' most popular titles was leaked, leading to fan backlash and further criticism of racial insensitivity in Choices stories. Pixelberry's CEO issued a personal apology and pledged $100,000 to Black Girls Code, the Black Writers Collective, and the Latinx Writers Collective. He also committed the company to enact more representative writing and hiring practices.
In 2022, Pixelberry launched a sister app to Choices, called StoryLoom which features creator-made, interactive stories. On July 15, 2022, Pixelberry Studios announced that High School Story would have its servers permanently shut down on August 10, 2022.
On January 22, 2024, Pixelberry announced it would shut down StoryLoom on February 29 and lay off 120 employees across multiple departments. Pixelberry was acquired by Series Entertainment in July.




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• Pixelberry Studios
• High School Story
• Nexon
• Surviving High School
• List of fictional European countries
• Guinevere
• Lea Michele
• Cause of Death (video game)
• Jennifer Hepler
• The Cybersmile Foundation