Airtight Games was an American independent video game developer based in Redmond founded in 2004. It was made up of former members of FASA Studio, Will Vinton Studios and Microsoft, as well as several other studios, with key members included president and creative director Jim Deal, art director Matt Brunner, and co-founder Ed Fries.[1][citation needed]
| Industry | Video games |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2004 |
| Defunct | July 2014 |
| Headquarters | Redmond, Washington, United States |
Key people | Jim Deal (President) |
| Website | airtightgames.com |
History
editAirtight Games was formed in 2004 by the core team that shipped the Xbox title Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge.[citation needed] Their first title was the 2010 action game Dark Void, published by Capcom and released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms.
In 2012 they released a puzzle-platform game with Square Enix as publisher, titled Quantum Conundrum. They followed this up with two mobile games for iOS in 2012 and 2013, and Soul Fjord, a hybrid roguelike/rhythm game developed as an exclusive title for the short-lived Ouya console and released in 2014.
In June 2014 they released the adventure-mystery game Murdered: Soul Suspect, published by Square Enix and released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. Earlier that year the studio had laid off 14 employees, and its creative director Kim Swift joining Amazon Game Studios.[2] A month later Airtight Games closed in July 2014.[3][4]
Games developed
edit| Year | Title | Publisher | Platform(s) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ouya | iOS | PS3 | Win | X360 | PS4 | XBO | |||
| 2010 | Dark Void | Capcom | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| 2012 | Quantum Conundrum | Square Enix | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| 2012 | Pixld[5] | Airtight Games | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| 2013 | DerpBike[6] | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
| 2014 | Soul Fjord[7] | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| 2014 | Murdered: Soul Suspect | Square Enix | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
References
edit- ^ Perry, Douglass C. (August 21, 2009). "How Airtight Games started a console game studio with just $24,000". VentureBeat. Retrieved November 15, 2023.
- ^ Dyer, Mitch (April 2, 2014). "Murdered: Soul Suspect Developer Airtight Games Suffers Layoffs". IGN. Retrieved November 15, 2023.
- ^ Bishop, Todd (July 1, 2014). "Airtight Games closes, just weeks after debut of new game". Geekwire. Retrieved July 2, 2014.
- ^ Yin-Poole, Wesley (July 3, 2014). "Report: Murdered: Soul Suspect dev Airtight closes down". Eurogamer. Retrieved June 5, 2021.
- ^ "Pixld". GameSpot. Archived from the original on July 17, 2013. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
- ^ "DerpBike". GameSpot. Archived from the original on July 17, 2013. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
- ^ "Soul Fjord - Android". IGN. Retrieved July 16, 2013.