Spiders (game developer)
| Spiders | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Private company |
| founding | 2008 |
| Seat | Paris |
| management | Jehanne Rousseau (CEO) |
| Number of employees | 20th |
| Branch | Game development |
| Website | spiders-games.com |
Spiders is a French computer game development studio based in Paris .
history
The company was founded in 2008 by developers of the action role-playing game Silverfall by Monte Cristo . The focus of the studio is accordingly on action role-playing games, but also commissioned work such as porting. The studio works mainly with the French publisher Focus Home Interactive . After Faery: Legends of Avalon , which was published exclusively digitally, In 2012, In collaboration with the French developer Cyanide Studios , Of Orcs and Men was the first major in-house development. In 2013, the now solely developed action role-playing game Mars: War Logs followed . After Bound by Flame in May 2014, the Mars successor The Technomancer was launched in 2016 .
In 2018, the games magazine IGN named Spiders, based on The Technomancer, as a successful representative of a gradually emerging market for B-games (based on B-movies ). These have a significantly lower budget than so-called AAA top productions . As a result, the games often do not achieve the quality of a blockbuster either in terms of play or content, but can sometimes build a benevolent and loyal fan base through creative ideas. Even GameSpot compared the role of Spiders in the gaming industry with the ratio of the Syfy channels to Hollywood " to eager but far less grandiose adaptation it takes a popular big-budget concept and Creates " (German: "It takes a popular big-budget Concept and developed from it a hard-working, but less great adaptation. "). For its in-house production, the studio uses the self-developed Silk Engine, a modification of Sony's PhyreEngine .
At the end of July 2019, the French publisher Bigben Interactive announced that it had taken over Spiders in order to expand its portfolio in the field of computer role-playing games and to become the leading publisher in the field of medium-sized AA productions. With this, Bigben took over another studio after Cyanide, which had previously developed exclusively for the competitor Focus Home Interactive for a long time. The last collaboration with Focus was the role-playing game Greedfall for Windows, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in September 2019 .
Developed games
| Title | Release date | Platform (s) | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sherlock Holmes is chasing Jack the Ripper | November 2009 | Porting X360 | Focus Home Interactive |
| Faery: Legends of Avalon | November 10, 2010 | X360, PS3, Windows | Focus Home Interactive |
| Gray Matter | February 2011 | Porting X360 | dtp entertainment |
| The will of Sherlock Holmes | September 2012 | Porting X360 & PS3 | Focus Home Interactive |
| Of Orcs and Men | September 2012 | X360, PS3, Windows | Focus Home Interactive |
| Mars: War Logs | May 2013 | X360, PS3, Windows | Focus Home Interactive |
| Bound by Flame | May 9, 2014 | Windows, PS3, PS4, X360 | Focus Home Interactive |
| The technomancer | June 28, 2016 | Windows, PS4, XONE | Focus Home Interactive |
| Greedfall | September 10, 2019 | Windows, PS4, XONE | Focus Home Interactive |
Web links
- Official website
- Spiders at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ eurogamer.net
- ↑ au.ign.com
- ↑ Jason D'Aprile: The Technomancer Review. GameSpot , July 14, 2016, accessed July 14, 2016 .
- ↑ gamestar.de
- ↑ Marcel Kleffmann: Bigben: The Spiders Studio (Technomancer, GreedFall) is bought. In: 4Players. July 25, 2019, accessed May 18, 2020 .
- ↑ Jason Wilson: Bigben's acquisition of Spiders weaves a web of Double-A ambition. In: VentureBeat. August 25, 2019, Retrieved May 18, 2020 (American English).