flOw’s developers join Santa Monica HQ

Ellie Gibson over at GamesIndustry.biz reports that Sony Computer Entertainment America has signed a deal with thatgamecompany, the developer of flOw, the PS3 downloadable game. Here’s the big deal: the recent graduates who founded thatgamecompany will develop three more games for the PS3.

Yup, the lucky and talented former USC students (that’s University of Southern California) will move to Sony’s sexy Santa Monica HQ.

For those of you not in the flow, Jenova Chen was working on a thesis on “flow theory,” and he came up with this game (Myra talked about flow theory in a recent article). Sony saw it, and paid for it. Now it’s going to start selling on the PS3’s online store starting December 19 as a downloadable game.

Jenova Chen co-founded thatgamecompany. The developer’s website (thatgamecompany.com) has the original PC Flash-based version.

Ellie Gibson over at GamesIndustry.biz reports that Sony Computer Entertainment America has signed a deal with thatgamecompany, the developer of flOw, the PS3 downloadable game. Here’s the big deal: the recent graduates who founded thatgamecompany will develop three more games for the PS3.

Yup, the lucky and talented former USC students (that’s University of Southern California) will move to Sony’s sexy Santa Monica HQ.

For those of you not in the flow, Jenova Chen was working on a thesis on “flow theory,” and he came up with this game (Myra talked about flow theory in a recent article). Sony saw it, and paid for it. Now it’s going to start selling on the PS3’s online store starting December 19 as a downloadable game.

Jenova Chen co-founded thatgamecompany. The developer’s website (thatgamecompany.com) has the original PC Flash-based version.