The next piece from Keith Stuart's whistlestop tour of Dundee has just gone live. Today's piece covers Denki and the mysterious new projects they have underway:
Very few game developers have a philosophy about design, a philosophy that's clearly and completely applied in everything they do. You get companies like Ubisoft, which have rigid and rigorous approvals processes, ensuring a certain amount of innovation, but you really have to look to Japanese veterans like Nintendo or Treasure, to see a truly over-arching creative theory at work.
Or you can look to Denki, the small Dundee-based studio that's spent the last couple of years firing out brilliant casual games for Sky's interactive TV service. By the end of 2008, the team - all 20 of them - had released 180 titles, most in the last two years. Sure, these aren't PS3 first-person shooters, they're usually cute puzzlers with cool ideas and solid interfaces. But 180. 20 people. The mind boggles.
It's both amazing and great.
[Disclaimer: ur ed. now worx 4 denki]
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Posted by: office147 | May 05, 2011 at 08:49 AM