Tower Studios
is a modern
London
based Development & Production House
founded & managed by 3 of the most experienced & senior individuals in UK game
development.
MANAGEMENT
Jon Hare
Co-founder/MD/Creative Director/Lead Designer - Sensible Software 1985-1999
Games Design and
Business Consultant (Codemasters/Elixir/THQ/etc.) 1999-2004
Mike Montgomery
Development
Manager Virgin Games 1982 - 1986
Co-founder/MD/Executive Producer/Staff Manager Bitmap Brothers 1986 - 2004
John Phillips
Renowned Games
Creator 1983 1991
Technical
Director Bitmap Brothers 1991 - 2004
GAMES INDUSTRY
EXPERIENCE
Management - Jon
Hare and Mike Montgomery through their long time leaderships of Sensible
Software & The Bitmap Brothers are
two of the
best known and most successful development directors in the UK,
both have over 20 years experience
in the simultaneous
management of development teams, products, business & media.
John Phillips has considerable management experience
as a technical director.
Development - Mike &
Jon have been responsible for the production & direction of virtually
all of the
Sensible and Bitmap titles
that have ever been released.
Mike & John are top level programmers with 20 years
experience across all formats.
Jon has also 7 years experience as lead games
artists.
Creative Direction & Design
- Jon is known as one of the top game designers in Europe Jon Mike & John each
have
20 years
experience in Creative Direction & Games Design, winning
countless industry awards & all three of them have in recent years consulted for
clients such as Codemasters, THQ, Elixir, Nicely Crafted & several start up
companies.
Products- Between
them on a total of 15 different formats the Tower Management have:-
* Designed, produced and developed 14
original Number One games
* Designed, produced and developed 32 other released
original games
* Assisted with the design and development of 15
Other Released Games
* Designed and developed franchises that have
generated
over
$200,000,000 at retail.
MAJOR FRANCHISES
CREATED DESIGNED AND DEVELOPED BY TOWER MANAGEMENT
Sensible Soccer
(Sensible World of Soccer, Sensible Soccer 98)
Speedball
(Speedball 2, Speedball 2100)
Cannon Fodder
(Cannon Fodder 2)
Xenon
(Xenon 2)
Chaos Engine
(Chaos Engine 2)
Wizball
(Wizkid)
Z
(Steel Soldiers)
TOWER STUDIOS
SERVICES
Design, Direction & Management
- Tower is uniquely positioned among UK development firms to offer
extensive
expertise in games design, creative direction & development team management
As a mobile games production house Tower offers a
number of services both designing & prototyping games to spec and as the
representative of a publisher, working closely with third party development
teams to ensure the quality of any given game during each and any phase of its
development
Design, Direction & Management services include:-
* Game design
* Prototyping
* Creative direction
* Technical management
* Production
* Team leadership
* Developer/publisher/licensor liaison
* Troubleshooting
Development - Tower
is fast establishing itself as
one of the
UKs leading development teams for top quality games on mobile/cell phone
platforms and
recently signed a multi-product deal with Kuju Wireless including
Sensible
Soccer & Cannon Fodder for Mobile Phones
both of which are currently eagerly awaited by the operators.
Tower is also currently contracted to develop a
number of original mobile games and has imminent announcements to make regarding
the contracted development of further mobile games attached to big licenses.
COMPANY STRATEGY
Tower is interested in securing contracts with
a select
number of publishing partners
with whom to establish
long term
relationships both
as a mobile games Production House and as a Developer of mobile games.
CONTACT
Name: Jon Hare
Email:
Jon AT tower-studios
DOT co
DOT uk