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Wicked Witch Software

Wicked Witch

Type	Video game developer
Industry	Video games
Founded	2001
Headquarters	Melbourne, Australia
Key people	Managing Director Daniel Visser Lead Artist Shannon Trottman Programming Lead Shayne Ford Chief Financial Officer Colin Visser
Employees	12
Website	http://www.wicked-witch.com.au/

Wicked Witch is a video games developer founded in 2001 by managing director Daniel Visser. Originally operating out of Visser's residence with employees sometimes working 30 hour days and sleeping on the floor. It is currently located in offices in Eastern Melbourne, Australia. The company has worked with many local and international developers and publishers. The senior staff is composed of industry veterans, some who previously worked at Melbourne House and Torus Games. Wicked Witch has released around 50 titles on PC, handheld and mobile platforms and worked on dozens of other projects across most major consoles including Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and Wii. Wicked Witch also owns a range of original products including one of the first MMORPG on the Java ME mobile platform.

Recently, Wicked Witch has been developing 3D titles for PC, Nintendo DS and Playstation Portable. After the release of their port of the Space Chimps game for PC Wicked Witch released their first 2 Nintendo DS titles. NRL's Mascot Mania and AFL's Mascot Manor are action adventure games based on the Mascots of each sports league, aimed at younger fans of the sports. After the Mascot titles, Wicked Witch developed and released, in partnership with Sony, AFL Challenge and Rugby League Challenge for PlayStation Portable. These titles saw more intense marketing including TV advertisements during the finals series of the Australian Football League. Wicked Witch however was disappointed with the marketing as they felt it was not properly explained that the PSP titles were low budget and had short development schedules.

In 2009, Wicked Witch had around 20 staff members. In an article from 2011 though, they are said to only have 12 full time staff members indicating they have reduced in size. Their main upcoming title is AFL on the Nintendo Wii, also produced for the publisher Tru Blu Entertainement which according to Wicked Witch is a more complete game then previous AFL titles. Wicked Witch is now working on a Rugby Union , funded at least in part by Film Victoria.

Wicked Witch is a licensed developer for Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS and Wii, and is a member of the Game Developer's Association of Australia.