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Other Ocean Interactive

Formerly	Backbone Charlottetown (2006–2007)
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Video games
Founded	6 February 2006; 18 years ago (2006-02-06) in Charlottetown, Canada
Founder	Andrew Ayre
Headquarters	St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Key people	Andrew Ayre (CEO)
Parent	Backbone Entertainment (2006–2007) Other Ocean Group (2007–present)
Divisions	Other Ocean Emeryville
Website	otherocean.com

Other Ocean Interactive is a Canadian-American video game developer based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Emeryville, California. Originally founded in 2006 in Charlottetown, as a studio for Foundation 9 Entertainment, the studio was spun off as Other Ocean Interactive in May 2007. Since then, it has made eight games itself and has been involved in the development of 40 other games.

History

Foundation 9 Entertainment, at the time the largest independent video game developer in North America, announced on 6 February 2006 that it was opening Backbone Charlottetown, a new internal studio based in Charlottetown, Canada. When co-founder Andrew Ayre left Foundation 9 a year later, he bought out and became the sole owner of the Backbone Charlottetown studio, which was renamed Other Ocean Interactive that May. By 2008, the company established headquarters in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Games developed

Other Ocean Interactive developed the following games:

References

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External links

• Official website

• 2006 establishments in Prince Edward Island
• Companies based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
• Companies based in Emeryville, California
• Video game companies established in 2006
• Video game development companies
• Video game companies of Canada
• Video game companies of the United States