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Not Doppler

Games & Interactive
Open roles
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Founded
2005
Employees
11-50
Offices
1

About Not Doppler

Not Doppler is an independent Australian video game developer and publisher based in Sydney. Founded in July 2005, the business began as an online Flash games portal before expanding into mobile development and publishing. Its current work spans mobile games, ongoing support for established releases and premium PC game development.

The studio's mobile portfolio covers action, arcade, physics-based driving, multiplayer car combat and lifestyle simulation. Across its mobile releases, Not Doppler reports more than 300 million cumulative downloads. Its development and publishing capabilities include game design, client and server engineering, 3D art, animation, quality assurance, community support and ongoing content delivery.

Mobile development and publishing

Not Doppler combines in-house development with publishing collaborations. The Earn to Die series forms a longstanding part of its publishing catalogue, alongside titles such as Dead Zed and Renegade Racing. Its first fully in-house developed 3D game, Crash of Cars, launched in March 2017. The real-time multiplayer car battle game subsequently reached more than 50 million downloads.

The studio expanded its catalogue with Food Stylist, a photorealistic food-plating simulation released in 2022, and Earn to Die Rogue, launched in May 2024. The latter combines roguelite platforming with driving and exceeded 13 million downloads within its first year. Alongside new projects, the company continues maintaining established mobile titles through live operations and content updates.

Expansion into PC games

Not Doppler is also developing premium PC projects, including The Road, an upcoming five-player cooperative horror and driving game. This expansion builds on a business that has moved from browser-game curation into mobile production and publishing, and now into a broader range of platforms. Its original browser portal remains available as a preserved digital archive following the end of Adobe Flash support in December 2020.

More about Not Doppler

Leadership

John Daskalopoulos is the founder, CEO and General Manager. He started the business at age 14.

Production and collaboration

  • The Earn to Die series was developed in collaboration with Toffee Games, illustrating the studio's longstanding work with independent developers.
  • Food Stylist uses extensive photogrammetry scanning to create its photorealistic food presentation.

Recognition

  • Earn to Die Rogue received the Excellence in Mobile award at the 2024 Australian Game Developer Awards.
  • Crash of Cars received an Android Excellence Award from Google Play.

Browser-game heritage

The original portal followed a weekly publishing schedule promoted as “New Games Every Thursday.” Over fifteen years, it curated and hosted more than 4,300 browser games across 880 weekly updates.

Notable credits

10 credits
  • The Road
  • Earn to Die Rogue
  • Food Stylist - Design Game (co-published with Zeste Pty Ltd)
  • Crash of Cars
  • Earn to Die 2
  • Earn to Die
  • Earn to Die HD
  • Dead Zed
  • Renegade Racing
  • NotDoppler.com Web Archive

Offices

Where Not Doppler is based

1 location
  • Sydney office

    Headquarters
    Suite 1106, Level 11, 250 Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, AustraliaSydney, New South Wales, Australia
    About this office

    Company headquarters housing executive management, game design, PC and mobile engineering, 3D art and animation, quality assurance and publishing operations.

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