Kwalee Ltd. is a British video game developer and publisher. The company was founded in May 2011 by David Darling, co-founder and former CEO of Codemasters who is hailed as one of the 'founding fathers' of the UK games industry. The company publishes games on mobile, PC and console platforms. It is known for its hypercasual games for iOS and Android devices, with a large internal development studio helping the company to more than 700 million game downloads in total. Based in Leamington Spa in the county of Warwickshire, Kwalee is one of the several companies that make up the Leamington Spa video gaming cluster. As of 2022, the company also has offices in Bangalore, Beijing and Portugal. Kwalee employs over 180 technical, marketing, publishing and administrative staff in its offices, including Andrew Graham (designer and programmer of Micro Machines) and COO Jason Falcus (programmer of NBA Jam). In 2020, the company began to publish PC and console games with Max Everingham joining from Team17 to head up a new division. TENS! and Eternal Hope were the first PC and console game releases from Kwalee, with the one-hit-kill fighting game Die by the Blade set to launch in 2023, shifting away from its initial plan to release the game in November 2022. The Kwalee Name Kwalee is the Australian Aboriginal for “wait for me,” used as the name for a sailboat belonging to David Darling's grandfather, who taught him electronics. During his youth, Darling sailed on it frequently, thus the name Kwalee is a homage to the grandfather who inspired his career path. Third-Party Publishing In 2019, Kwalee launched the publishing side of its business. This team works with third-party developers to help their games reach a wider audience by signing and publishing them under the Kwalee brand. Successes of the Kwalee publishing department include Rocket Sky! from developer DP Space AG, which has been a number one app in 11 countries including the United Kingdom, France and Australia, and OverTake, a 2020 driving title that has been the number one iOS game in countries including the United Kingdom, Australia and more. On 24 January 2022, Kwalee acquired Tictales. 'Creative Wednesdays' and Profit Sharing Kwalee offers an opportunity to all of its employees in the form of its 'Creative Wednesdays', where any member of staff is encouraged to pitch ideas for games on a weekly basis. Some of these ideas