Game Arts

 is a video game developer in Tokyo, Japan, that was founded in 1985. It is a subdivision of GungHo Online Entertainment and is best known for developing the ' and ' series. Before development on Super Smash Bros. Brawl started, the Super Smash Bros. team at HAL Laboratory was preoccupied with another project at the time, requiring for another team to step in. Game Arts, who had just completed developing , was introduced to the project by Shigeru Miyamoto, and some of the company's staff was soon hired to work on the preliminary development of the game.