Prior to founding Renegade Kid, Gregg Hargrove and Jools Watsham had been working together for 12–13 years, starting at
Iguana Entertainment. The two launched Renegade Kid in early 2007. Hargrove and Watsham incorporated their expertise in
Nintendo 64 (N64) game development into Renegade Kid's projects, and Watsham described the
Nintendo DS, which would become the studio's primary target platform, as "basically a portable N64". The studio's first game,
Dementium: The Ward, was announced on March 5, 2007, and found
Gamecock Media Group as its publisher by June. However, the following July, Gamescribe announced that it was shutting down and PitchWinPlay was canceled. Also in 2012, Renegade Kid released
Mutant Mudds, the first game it funded and published on its own. Afterward, Renegade Kid went back to cooperating with publishers. The studio arranged a publishing deal for a licensed game in which the publisher would grant Renegade Kid a budget of but only allocated of those, keeping the remaining locked down until the later stages of the game's development. This meant that any
financial risk the publisher could have faced would have been shifted to the developer instead. Renegade Kid rejected the deal and, from that point on, turned its business model entirely to
indie game development. Renegade Kid's 2014 game
Moon Chronicles sold poorly and the studio struggled to survive. The situation stabilized following the release of
Xeodrifter, but running the studio still proved to be a financial challenge for Hargrove and Watsham. As a result, the two decided to split up. On August 29, 2016, Renegade Kid announced that it was shutting down. The
intellectual property rights were divided between the companies set up by Hargrove and Watsham independently: Atooi, founded by Watsham in 2015, obtained the rights for Renegade Kid's two-dimensional games (including
Mutant Mudds and the then-in-development
Treasurenauts), while Infitizmo, which was established in 2016 by Hargrove, received the three-dimensional titles (including
Dementium and
Moon Chronicles). Five games from the former were included in a
compilation video game for the
Nintendo 3DS, titled
Atooi Collection and released on August 7, 2020 by
Limited Run Games as the 3DS' final physical title prior to Nintendo's official discontinuation of the system. In September 2018, Hargrove died of pancreatic cancer. Watsham negotiated with Hargrove's widow to acquire Infitizmo's intellectual properties and subsequently released remasters of the
Dementium games. == Games ==