developer
Smilebit
スマイルビット
Japan
About
Smilebit was a Sega internal development studio, formed from the reorganisation of Sega's AM6 division in 2000. The team is best known for Jet Set Radio (2000) on the Dreamcast — a cel-shaded open-world action game set in Tokyo's skating culture, directed by Masayoshi Kikuchi. Jet Set Radio was among the first games to use cel-shading as a primary aesthetic, and its original soundtrack blended hip-hop, funk, and J-pop in a manner considered groundbreaking. Smilebit was dissolved into Sega's internal reorganisation in 2004.