Peter Ong (game designer)

DreamRift

Type	Private
Industry	Video game industry
Founded	2009
Headquarters	Orlando, Florida U.S.
Key people	Peter Ong (Creative Director) Ryan Pijai (Technical Director)
Products	Monster Tale Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion
Website	http://www.dreamrift.com

DreamRift is an American independent video game developer based in Orlando, Florida, founded in 2009. They have developed two video games for Nintendo's handheld systems Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS: Monster Tale and Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion.

Founded in 2009 by Peter Ong and Ryan Pijai, DreamRift is an independent videogame company that has developed games with major publishers including Disney Interactive Studios and Majesco Entertainment. Its first project was announced in November 2009 under the working title of Project Monster.

In an interview with Peter Ong, Dreamrift's Co-Founder and Creative Director, Destructoid asked about the inception of the project and company:

Ong responded by saying:

Project Monster evolved into the company's first game, titled Monster Tale, and was selected for publishing by Majesco Entertainment.

Monster Tale was released on March 22, 2011 to highly favorable reviews and was found to have one of the highest Metacritic ratings of an original IP released that year for the Nintendo DS. It also gained an overall User Score of 9.2

In 2011, DreamRift transitioned to the Nintendo 3DS and began working on a top-secret project, the project was confirmed by IGN in March 2012 to be Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion, developed in collaboration with Disney Interactive Studios.

Following the news of DreamRift's involvement with Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion, first details revealed that the game was not only a new game within the Epic Mickey series, but also a sequel to the classic 1990 Mega Drive/Genesis videogame, Castle of Illusion. Penny Arcade reported at a press event in Anaheim that "Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion is a faithful spiritual successor to the Genesis game".

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