DESIGN PHILOSOPHY

We love games. For us, they are the most exciting medium around right now. We're in the middle of a creative explosion in gaming, and as an independent studio, we want to contribute to that.

We work in first-person games. We believe the sense of immersion and engagement you get when you are pitched directly into the world is really amazing and powerful. Our games focus on this experience, this sense of being there. We place very heavy emphasis on this immersive experience, rather than mechanics, so story is central to our design. Audio and music is integral to this, as is striving for the highest quality in art and environment design. We hope this comes through in the games.

We also work closely with the University of Portsmouth, and are committed to the idea of development-led research. This means that we believe that one of the best ways you can learn about games is by making them, and feeding that knowledge back into academia. We also believe that the best contribution we can make in terms of games research is to explore new forms, develop games based on those ideas, and prove their validity in the marketplace. We hope this is something more academics will come to, and it's really inspiring to see more and more people - academics and indies - pushing at the boundaries of what games can be. We're very proud to be part of that development.