Craneballs Studio is a video game development company based in the Czech Republic. It was founded in 2008. The company originally focused on web design and making graphics. It started to develop video games near the end of 2008 due to the financial crisis of 2007–08. Its first video game was released in 2009 and was financially successful. Its other games were successful too, so the studio has grown from three people to around 20.[2][3]