BottleRocket Entertainment, Inc.
Overview
BottleRocket Entertainment was founded in 2002 when
Jonathan Beard and a number of his fellow coworkers left
Sony Entertainment’s San Diego studio to form a new company. They had developed
The Mark of Kri (2002) and struck a deal with Sony to create the follow-up
Rise of the Kasai (2005) and
Xiaolin Showdown for
Konami, released in 2006. Members of the team have previously worked on
Dick Tracy,
Star Flight,
Vectorman,
World Series Baseball,
Jurassic Park,
Raptor: Call of the Shadows, and movies such as
Sinbad,
The Prince of Egypt and
The Road to El Dorado.
The studio was tasked by
Namco Bandai to create a new game in the
Splatterhouse series. In February 2009 Namco Bandai confirmed that the game had been taken away from the developers, even though it was almost complete, to be finished by another studio. According to Namco Bandai the studio was missing its milestones, but BottleRocket contested that, blaming bad management on the publisher's side.
Previously the studio was also working on a game with the superhero
Flash, for
Brash Entertainment, but that company went out of business. As both deals fell through, in September 2009 it became known the studio had been closed.
Trivia
Company contact information and location (2008):
BottleRocket Entertainment
6349 Palomar Oaks Court
Carlsbad, California 92011
Company phone: 760.431.7855
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