Tiny Rebel Games
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Tiny Rebel Games is a game studio led by husband-and-wife team Lee Cummings and Susan Cummings, veterans of Rockstar Games and 2K Games. Its first mobile game was Doctor Who: Legacy (2013), a free-to-play match-3 puzzle RPG built with the BBC license, followed by Doctor Who Infinity. In 2022 the studio pivoted toward web3, raising $7 million led by Fabric Ventures to build the Petaverse Network — an open standard for interoperable digital pets in the metaverse.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
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- Doctor Who: Legacy launches
Doctor Who: Legacy launches on November 27, 2013 as a free-to-play match-3 puzzle RPG for the show's 50th anniversary, developed with Seed Studio under a BBC Worldwide license; it grows to include every incarnation of the Doctor and over 200 companions.
- Legacy shuts down
Doctor Who: Legacy closes on February 17, 2019 after five years: the BBC license ends and Tiny Rebel chooses not to renew, focusing the two-person team on Doctor Who Infinity instead.
- Petaverse raise
Tiny Rebel Games closes a $7 million round led by Fabric Ventures, with Animoca Brands, Dapper Labs and others, to build the Petaverse Network — blockchain-based digital pets as an open metaverse standard.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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