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Nicalis, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Santa Ana, California. The company focuses primarily on indie games and has developed and published both original games as well as ports of existing games. Nicalis was founded in 2007 by Tyrone Rodriguez, a game designer and former game journalist. In 2017, Nicalis announced that they had acquired SuperVillain Studios and Cowboy Color.

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Company.name
Nicalis, Inc.
Company.logo
Nicalis logo 2017.png
Company.type
Private
Company.founder
Tyrone Rodriguez
Company.location_city
Santa Ana, California
Company.location_country
U.S.
Company.industry
Video games
Company.subsid
SuperVillain Studios

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Nicalis

Nicalis Inc is a developer and publisher for many classic games, such as Cave Story+, 1001 Spikes, and The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+. Stay tuned for more!

nicalis.com

Welcome to Nicalis.com! You may know us as the publisher and developer of some of your favorite games, like Cave Story®+, The Binding of Isaac series and Crystal Crisis. We’ve been lucky enough to sell millions of copies of our games, largely because our team has decades of combined experience in creating fun video games, and in helping game creators reach more players everywhere. Are you working on a fun game? We can get your game successfully released on multiple platforms. We’re licensed to develop and publish on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X S, Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG, iOS and more. Are you having trouble getting your game across the finish line due to lack of funds, manpower or both? We can help with that, too. Get in touch! If you’re a player, visit our Games page to see some of our past, current and future projects. We’re branching out into original game design and character creation, and we can’t wait for the world to see what we have in store!

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Nicalis, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Santa Ana, California. The company focuses primarily on indie games and has developed and published both original games as well as ports of existing games. Nicalis was founded in 2007 by Tyrone Rodriguez, a game designer and former game journalist. In 2017, Nicalis announced that they had acquired SuperVillain Studios and Cowboy Color.

==Games== Since its founding, the company has developed and published several games, beginning with Dance Dance Revolution: Mobius in 2008 and Cave Story in 2010. In October 2011, Nicalis announced that it would publish a port of VVVVVV for the Nintendo 3DS via the Nintendo eShop. In December 2011, Nicalis offered both NightSky and Cave Story+ for sale as part of Humble Indie Bundle 4. In April 2012, Nicalis announced that its plans to publish the WiiWare port of La-Mulana in the US and EU had been cancelled, citing a steep decline in the WiiWare userbase. In January 2017, it was silently announced that Nicalis would release several of their games on the Nintendo Switch.

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