Renegade Kid

Renegade Kid LLC

Company type	Privately held company
Industry	Video games
Predecessor	Iguana Entertainment (founders' former employer)
Founded	2007
Founder	Gregg Hargrove, Jools Watsham
Defunct	2016
Fate	Dissolved; intellectual properties acquired by Atooi and Infitizmo
Headquarters	Austin, Texas , United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Gregg Hargrove, Jools Watsham
Products	Video games (e.g., Dementium: The Ward, Mutant Mudds, Moon Chronicles, Xeodrifter)
Number of employees	3 (initially)

Renegade Kid LLC was a privately held American video game studio located in Austin, Texas. Established in 2007 by seasoned developers Gregg Hargrove and Jools Watsham, both formerly affiliated with Iguana Entertainment, the company gained recognition for its innovative game design and influential presence in the indie gaming sector until it ceased operations in 2016. The intellectual property rights were subsequently acquired by Watsham, who continues development under the Atooi label.

History

Prior to launching Renegade Kid, Hargrove and Watsham worked together for more than ten years at Iguana Entertainment. They created Renegade Kid in early 2007, applying their expertise from Nintendo 64 development to focus on the Nintendo DS platform, which they perceived as a handheld equivalent of the N64. Their first project, Dementium: The Ward, was publicly revealed in March 2007 and released by Gamecock Media Group by June, with the studio initially staffed by only three individuals.

In March 2012, Renegade Kid collaborated with Gamescribe to introduce PitchWinPlay, a contest designed to generate successful game concepts for the Nintendo eShop. Unfortunately, the competition was discontinued when Gamescribe closed in July of that year. Additionally, 2012 marked Renegade Kid’s debut as a self-publishing developer with Mutant Mudds. After encountering difficulties with publishers—particularly a contract that placed an uneven financial burden on the developer—the company shifted entirely toward an independent business approach.

Although Moon Chronicles was released in 2014, its commercial performance was disappointing; however, the studio found steadiness with Xeodrifter. Despite this, financial challenges continued, prompting founders Hargrove and Watsham to dissolve Renegade Kid in August 2016. The company’s intellectual properties were divided between their new enterprises: Watsham’s Atooi took ownership of two-dimensional titles such as Mutant Mudds and Treasurenauts, while Hargrove’s Infitizmo assumed control over three-dimensional games including Dementium and Moon Chronicles. In 2020, Atooi issued a collection of five former Renegade Kid games on Nintendo 3DS titled Atooi Collection, which became one of the platform’s last physical releases.

Hargrove passed away from pancreatic cancer in September 2018. Following his death, Watsham arranged to obtain rights to Infitizmo’s intellectual properties from Hargrove’s estate and proceeded to launch remastered editions of the Dementium series.

Games

Year	Title	Platform(s)	Publisher(s)
2007	Dementium: The Ward	Nintendo DS	Gamecock Media Group, SouthPeak Games
2009	Moon		Mastiff, Gamebridge
2010	Dementium II		SouthPeak Games
2011	ATV Wild Ride		Destineer
	Face Racers: Photo Finish	Nintendo 3DS	Majesco Entertainment
2012	Mutant Mudds	iOS, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 3DS	Renegade Kid
	Bomb Monkey	Nintendo 3DS
	Planet Crashers		UTV Ignition Games
2013	ATV Wild Ride 3D		Renegade Kid
	Mutant Mudds Deluxe	iOS, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U
2014	Moon Chronicles	Nintendo 3DS
	Xeodrifter	Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U	Renegade Kid, Gambitious Digital Entertainment, Atooi
2015	Dementium Remastered	Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5	Renegade Kid, Atooi
2016	Mutant Mudds Super Challenge	Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U
2017	ATV Renegades	PlayStation 4, Xbox One	Nighthawk Interactive

Unreleased Titles

• Demon's Crest (Game Boy Advance)
• Son of the Dragon (Wii)
• Crash Landed (Nintendo DS)
• Maximilian and the Rise of the Mutant Mudds (Nintendo DS)
• Razor Global Domination Pro Tour (PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox One)
• Cult County (macOS, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 3DS, Linux, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox One)
• Dementium II Remastered (Nintendo 3DS)