The story
The company was founded in 1999 by Robert Walsh, who is the current CEO, Steve Stamatiadis, the creative director and John Passfield, the design director who left the company in 2005.
In 2007, Krome Studios placed on the Develop 100 List at #94, being the only Australian game development studio to make the list that year after releasing The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning the year before (2006). Three years later in 2010, Krome Studios was awarded the number 52 spot. Also in that year, Krome Studios entered into a technology sharing agreement with Emergent Game Technologies.
On 18 August 2010, it was reported that Krome had closed down its Adelaide studios and made significant staff cuts to its Melbourne and Brisbane offices, with as many as 100 staff let go. On 18 October 2010, it was reported that all remaining staff were let go; however, on 1 November, CEO Robert Walsh responded to an email sent by IGN stating that Krome Studios had not closed down.
In July 2012, Krome Studios re-opened its website, which had remained dormant since its fall in 2010, and announced that Ty the Tasmanian Tiger would return. Since then, Krome has developed two games based on Ty the Tasmanian Tiger for iOS and PC. They have also developed several other titles for iOS, including Playmaker and Whole Wide World (for the child learning company, Fingerprint) and Toy Soldiers: Boot Camp, on Windows Phone 7.
In March 2016, Krome Studios re-released a PC remastered port of Ty the Tasmanian Tiger on Steam Early Access for the PC only, with increased resolution textures and new lighting, shadow and reflection effects, which left early access that December. They would go on to do the same with Bush Rescue and Night of the Quinkan in each following year respectively.
From Wikipedia’s article on Krome Studios, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4