About US

Tako Boy Studios is an independent game development studio, co-owned by Tom Ferrer and Phil Giarrusso. Their design philosophy prioritizes juicy, exciting gameplay populated with colorful, quirky characters - building on the foundations of their favorite games, and melding these inspirations with unique twists of creativity. Lovingly crafted pixel art is their specialty.

Community engagement is important to Tako Boy Studios, and they actively participate in discussion on Twitter and Discord with their audience. By listening to players and incorporating their feedback, they aim to develop the best games they can.

HISTORY

The studio first began when Tom Ferrer and Phil Giarrusso, both with several years of freelance experience in the indie development scene, came together to bring a new project to fruition. What started out as a friendly Twitter exchange transformed into a life long friendship. Both of these developers were eager to begin a new chapter of their lives - one that would allow them to focus on creating games they truly wanted to make, and move away from full-time contract work.

Working remotely, on opposite coasts, Tom and Phil poured hundreds of hours into developing the spook-tacular, sugar-coated arcade rogue-lite game, Candies 'n Curses which released in October 2018.

Their following project, Creatures of Aether, was developed collaboratively with Dan Fornace LLC, the studio behind Rivals of Aether, the hit indie platform fighting game.

As of now, they’re currently developing a Cross Blitz - an RPG deck-builder coming soon to Steam Early Access.