Sora Ltd. (有限会社ソラ, Yūgen kaisha sora) is a Japanese video game developer founded by Masahiro Sakurai, a former employee of HAL Laboratory.Sora was built as an agency that would contract Sakurai as a freelance video game designer to different companies. His first project under Sora was designing Meteos with Q Entertainment. Nintendo's Satoru Iwata hired Sakurai, a long-time friend whom he had worked with at HAL Laboratory, to work on Super Smash Bros. Brawl.