The Behemoth

For other uses, see The Behemoth (disambiguation).

The Behemoth

File:The Behemoth logo.png The mascot and logo for The Behemoth
Type	Private
Industry	Interactive entertainment
Founded	2003
Founder	Tom Fulp, Dan Paladin, John Baez
Headquarters	San Diego, California, United States
Key people	Dan Paladin (Art Director), Tom Fulp (Gameplay Programmer)
Products	Alien Hominid Castle Crashers BattleBlock Theater
Number of employees	14
Website	www.thebehemoth.com

The Behemoth is a video game development company that was created in 2003 by John Baez, artist Dan Paladin (aka Synj), and programmers Tom Fulp (the creator of the popular Newgrounds Flash website), Brandon LaCava, and Nick Dryburgh. Dryburgh later left the company. The Behemoth development studio is located in San Diego, California. The company is known for producing simple games with Paladin's signature 2D style.

Their first console game, Alien Hominid, gained critical acclaim by the media and the members of The Behemoth quickly gained status as indie developers focused on bringing old-school styles of video games back into mainstream gaming. Some of the minigames from Alien Hominid were ported to iOS in 2011.

The Behemoth's second game, Castle Crashers, was released August 27, 2008, originally for the Xbox Live Arcade service, eventually re-releasing for the PlayStation 3 on August 31, 2010, and Microsoft Windows/Mac OS X on September 26, 2012. Since its release on Xbox Live Arcade, Castle Crashers has become one of the most downloaded games, with over 2.6 million copies sold as of year-end 2011.

A third title, BattleBlock Theater, was released on April 3, 2013. The Steam version of BattleBlock Theater was released on May 15, 2014.

The Behemoth is currently in development of a turn-based strategy game titled Pit People.

History

During August 2002, Tom Fulp and Dan Paladin collaborated in creating the Flash game Alien Hominid for Newgrounds. The game has since become extremely popular and generated over twenty million hits and rising. Later in the year, Paladin was working on developing a console video game when co-worker Baez approached him. He was a fan of Alien Hominid and asked Paladin if he was interested in developing the game for consoles. When Baez offered to produce the game, Fulp and Paladin eventually agreed, recruited LaCava and Dryburgh, and formed The Behemoth in 2003.

Games

• Alien Hominid (2004) (PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, Game Boy Advance, PC [Flash prototype])
• Alien Hominid HD (2007) (Xbox 360)
• Castle Crashers (2008) (Xbox 360); (2010) (PlayStation 3); (2012) (PC)
• Super Soviet Missile Mastar (2011) (iOS)
• PDA Games (2011) (iOS)
• BattleBlock Theater (2013) (Xbox 360); (2014) (PC)
• Pit People (TBA) (Xbox One, PC)

External links

• The Behemoth Official Website
• Alien Hominid website
• Alien Hominid game on Newgrounds
• Castle Crashers website
• BattleBlock Theater website