Pixelberry Studios
Pixelberry Studios is a mobile game development company based in Mountain View, California, United States. Founded in 2013 by Oliver Miao, Keith Emnett, and Winston She, Pixelberry aims to create "games with heart," beginning with Surviving High School and Cause of Death, which deals with themes of bullying, eating disorders and capturing serial killers. Since then, the company has fully released three more mobile games: Hollywood U, High School Story. In November 2017, Pixelberry was acquired by Nexon. Pixelberry launched Choices: Stories You Play in August 2016. Since the shutdown of their other games, Choices is the flagship game and primary focus for the studio.In 2020, a planned plot line in one of Choices''' most popular titles was leaked, leading to fan backlash and further criticism of racial insensitivity in Choices stories. Pixelberry's CEO issued a personal apology and pledged $100,000 to Black Girls Code, the Black Writers Collective, and the Latinx Writers Collective. He also committed the company to enact more representative writing and hiring practices. In 2022, Pixelberry launched a sister app to Choices, called StoryLoom'' which features creator-made, interactive stories. On July 15, 2022, Pixelberry Studios announced that High School Story will have its servers permanently shut