Game Arts

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 Grandia and Lunar series. Before development on Super Smash Bros. Brawl started, the 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 Grandia III, 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