Nooby Island

Nooby Island was a South Korean independent game developer established in March 2011. Its work focused on mobile games, combining action combat, strategy, kingdom management and stylized 3D artwork. The studio also developed tools for practising multiplayer game mechanics, alongside capabilities in character and environment modeling, animation and concept art.

Games and development

The studio launched Celestials League in 2012. Distributed internationally under names including Celestials AOS and Celestials: Eternian Chronicle, the game brought action real-time strategy and MOBA mechanics to mobile devices. It featured multiple heroes, 40 single-player campaign missions and hand-painted 3D visuals. Its development established the Celestials setting that the studio later revisited in an action RPG project.

In October 2013, Nooby Island released Last Hit for Android. This application focused on training MOBA mechanics, extending the studio’s interest in the genre beyond a conventional game release.

Nooby Island subsequently collaborated with Bluehole Studio on Minidom, a mobile strategy and kingdom-management simulation game. The project combined 3D presentation with kingdom-building systems and formed part of the studio’s work in joint development.

Publishing and later development

In December 2015, Nooby Island entered an equity investment and publishing agreement with Four Thirty Three, also known as 4:33, through the publisher’s United initiative. The partnership supported plans for Celestials: Oracle War, an action RPG based on the studio’s existing intellectual property. Follow-on investment from Capstone Partners arrived in November 2016 to support development.

The studio’s production capabilities spanned game design, mobile development and visual asset creation, with particular emphasis on hand-painted characters and environments. Its portfolio reflected both original game development and collaboration with external development and publishing partners.

Active development wound down in the late 2010s, and the official website stopped operating around 2018–2019. The company formally closed and deregistered on September 12, 2023.