About Dadako Studios

Who, why?

Dadako was founded by Hawken King, to publish virtual toys and games on iOS and beyond. “Dadako” means “Brat” in Japanese. dadako.com has been online since ’99.

Hawken previously served as an art director in the UK at a games company, and is an avid collector of vintage video games.

How?

Hawken King is responsible for the main bulk of design, graphics, audio effects, videos, websites & programming that goes into the apps released by Dadako.

He’s a one-man app making machine.

Based on how things are going Dadako sometimes reaches out to trusted freelance programmers to help complete projects. In 2011 Liam Conroy joined the Dadako fold and brings his vast coding brain into the mix. Hawken and Liam worked hard to bring Tilterpillar to life.

Music in Dadako’s apps is handled through Justin DiCenzo & Ragething. Justin is a legendary singer songwriter who also plays all his own instruments.

App translation is handled wholly by our good friends MyGengo. Give them a try.

And then?

In May 2010 Dadako released Facemakr for iPhone and iPad. Featured by Apple in various app stores, and pre-installed on handsets in the UK and Japan, currently 50,000 or so copies sold.