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Stickmen Studios (also known as Stickmen Limited) was formed in 2006 and creates games for various computer platforms. Its sister company is CerebralFix Limited, a social media network game development studio founded in 2009 and based in Christchurch, New Zealand. Both companies products target the internet download market.〔(Fairfax NZ News )〕 CerebralFix's Directors are Jeremy Cadillac and Benjamin Dellaca of Christchurch. Cadillac and Dellaca, along with Brooklyn Waters are also Directors of Stickmen Limited. Dellaca is CEO of CerebralFix and Brooklyn Waters is CEO of Stickmen. Both businesses employ over 35 staff, up from six in 2008. ==Government funding== Stickmen Studios first game in 2009, Dragon Master Spell Caster, got panned by gamers.〔http://au.wii.ign.com/articles/104/1044251p1.html Dragon Master Spell Caster Review Dead on arrival, 13 November 2009〕 However, the company did obtain $300,000 in New Zealand Government Ministry of Science and Innovation research and development funding to create an international market for their gaming technologies as well as evaluating new technologies to help autistic children. To help autistic children the Ministry invested in a partnership between Stickmen and Crown research institute, Industrial Research Limited (IRL), to develop Wii game Kung Fu Funk, a console game released in May 2010 using motion sensing controls to encourage upper body movement. Reviews by users of the game on gaming websites were quite negative. The project demonstrated the power of incorporating movement science into interactive games, resulting in Stickmen’s 2011 launch of i-Ora Limited, a company focused on interactive media for education and rehabilitation. i-Ora is now working with IRL, the University of Auckland’s UniServices, and Korean firm Yujin Robotics Co to develop devices to educationally assist autistic children. They have also helped develop a game-based rehabilitation device for people recovering from strokes, which follows a rehabilitation format known as gaming rehabilitation. The companies office was destroyed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. In 2012 William McLellan and his friend and business partner Colin Anderson were also responsible for the approval, design and construction of a Government Funded IT business hub (Referred to as the EPIC IT Hub - Enterprise Precinct and Innovation Campus) on Manchester Street in Central Christchurch. Both CerebralFix and Stickmen Studios will take up residence in this building in August 2012 along with several other earthquake affected Christchurch businesses. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stickman Studios」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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