Cownado

Factsheet

Developer:
Cownado
Based in Valle d'Aosta, Italy

Founding date:
March 9, 2014

Website:
cownado.com

Press / Business Contact:
info@cownado.com

Social:
twitter.com/CownadoStudios
youtube.com/c/CownadoStudios

Releases:
Dawn Of Ultra Pong
Frank The Dillo
Space Beaches

Description

Cownado is an independent game studio based in Italy. Its mission is to build awesome 2D games inspired by the 16-bit classics of the'90s, with a focus on multi-player, for PC & consoles.

History

Cownado is an independent game studio located in the northern part of Italy named Valle d'Aosta (a place mostly populated by cows). Founded in 2014 by three childhood friends, it has released its first game in Q4 2015, Frank the Dillo, a hybrid miniature golf/platformer set in an Arabian 1001 Nights-like imaginary world. Following Frank the Dillo, in 2016 they released a free to play multiplayer Pong/Breakout style game named Dawn Of Ultra Pong, The studio pillar is to develop games with a simple and fun gameplay, with a glimpse of the 80s and 90s masterpieces that they loved as children. Cownado uses its internally built 2D engine named friGame, which is optimized for HTML5-based games and free for the community to use.

After succesfully releasing 2 mobile games, their focus has shifted to the PC platform, and they worked on a multiplayer party game named Space Beaces until abandoning it in late 2019.

From 2019 to 2025 Cownado went in stand-by, as life happened for all the founding members. In 2026 Franco decided to continue making games under the Cownado brand, continuing it as his solo project, and now he's working on a new game.

Projects

• Dawn Of Ultra Pong
• Frank The Dillo
• Space Beaches

Team & Repeating Collaborators

Franco Bugnano

Contact

Inquiries
info@cownado.com

Twitter
twitter.com/CownadoStudios

Web
cownado.com