thatgamecompany

Thatgamecompany (stylized thatgamecompany) is an American independent video game development company founded on May 15, 2006 by University of Southern California students Jenova Chen and Kellee Santiago. It was known as Thatgamecompany, LLC from 2006 to 2012 and later incorporated as Thatgamecompany, Inc. The studio is a private company headquartered in Santa Monica, California, and describes itself as a game studio making interactive entertainment intended to inspire human connection across ages.

Its catalogue comprises flOw (a Flash browser title remade for PlayStation 3 and released on the PlayStation Store in 2007 with enhanced visuals and sound, multiplayer modes and motion-controller support), Flower (PlayStation 3, February 2009), Journey (PlayStation 3, March 13, 2012) and Sky: Children of the Light, a free-to-play social title released on iOS in July 2019, Android in April 2020, Nintendo Switch in June 2021, PlayStation 4 in December 2022 and Windows in April 2024. The first three titles were made under a three-game contract with Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Network; Sky was the studio's first self-published game, announced in 2018.

According to Chen, the company designs by first mapping the emotions a game should evoke rather than starting from game mechanics, focuses on titles that provoke emotional responses, and does not plan to produce large blockbuster titles because sales pressure would stifle innovation. Company leadership includes Jenova Chen as president and creative director; the team page also lists engineering, art, audio, production, live-operations, finance, talent and corporate development leaders.