Invizimals

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Invizimals
GenresAction
DevelopersNovarama
Magenta Software
PublishersSony Computer Entertainment Europe
Platforms
Platform of originPlayStation Portable
Year of inception2009
First releaseInvizimals
November 13, 2009
Latest releaseInvizimals: Battle of the Hunters
January 22, 2016

Invizimals is an augmented reality video game franchise developed by Novarama and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. The series began in 2009, as a video game on PSP, has since inspired toys, Trading cards, comics, and an animated television series telling an interconnected transmedia story.

Gameplay[change | change source]

Gameplay of Invizimals is similar to Pokèmon series, involving players capturing and raising diffrent speciesof creatues, and allowing player to battle with them, either against an AI or with the other creatures using the PSP's wireless abilities. Unlike Pokèmon, however Invizimals requires the players to hunt and capture more creatures, within the real world, using the augmented reality system. These monsters are spawned (determined by color of surfaces and time of day), and the trap to used to captured of monsters. Once captured, the players are able to raise and their monster's levels, and allow them to learn diffrent attacks that can used in battle. Players also use the trap to view their monsters, and take pictures of their collection.

Games[change | change source]

Animated series[change | change source]

Invizimals
Genre
Created byNovarama
Directed byJose Luis Ucha
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes26
Production
Executive producers
  • Dani Sanchez-Crerspo
  • Carlos Biern
  • Pete Smith
Producers
  • John McLaughlin
  • Claudia Biern Boyd
  • David Montero
Running time22 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkClan
Super 3
ReleaseDecember 6, 2013 –
present

In September 2012, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe was announced computer animated series called Invizimals (the TV series of the same name that announced in 26 episodes) would be produced by BRB International. The show was created by BRB's Screen21 Media and Novarama, who are both based in Barcelona, with writters from North America, and animation done in China. It billed itself as the first augmented-reality cartoon television series, with on-screen scannable markers that would unlock content in Invizimals: The Aliiance on PlayStation Vita and also the Invizimals: TV Tracker app for iOS and Android.