Longbow Games
| ISIN | 🆔 |
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| Industry | Video games |
| Genre | Strategy video game etc. |
| Predecessor | Longbow Digital Arts Inc. |
| Founded 📆 | 1998 |
| Founder 👔 | Seumas McNally |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , Canada |
Area served 🗺️ | |
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| Products 📟 | Video games |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | longbowgames |
| 📇 Address | |
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Longbow Games develops video games and resides in Toronto.
History
Longbow Games was established in 1998 as Longbow Digital Arts Inc. by the McNally family in Toronto, Canada. Founding partners were Seumas McNally, his father Jim McNally, brother Philippe McNally and his mother Wendy McNally. In 2000 the company's tank combat game Tread Marks won the top award at the second Independent Games Festival. Soon after, on 21st of March 2000 the founder and chief executive Seumas McNally died after three years of Hodgkin lymphoma. Independent Games Festival re-named its grand price in his honour [1].
Since then the company was led by the remaining family members [2]. 2014 hencewhile lead developer Rob McConnel took over leadership of the company. In 2012 the company had 7 employees (and an intern), otherwise outsourcing tasks to various external subcontractors [3].
Projects
Since Longbow Games is a developer independent of big publishing houses, its projects mainly emerged from the personal interests of its co-owners. For example Hegemony: Philip of Macedon was a pet project of Jim McNally who became interested in Philip while researching Alexander the Great and discovering that it was actually his father who had developed the troop types, tactics and infrastructure that enabled Alexander's invasion of the Persian Empire [4]. In hindsight, the early arcade games Longbow produced were mere stepping stones to the more in-depth real-time strategy games of the Hegemony series [5].
Finances
A bottleneck has been financing, since independence from publishing firms meant being forced to rely on self-funding. Initially the company aimed to sell it's titles via it's own online store (but apparently abandoned that approach later on). Additionally, as Longbow developed the game engine e.g. for Hegemony from scratch, it was eligible to receive research and development credit from the government. An export fund for sending Canadian companies abroad to promote their games supported Longbow to visit trade shows [6].
However, funding the development of larger, more complex projects, Longbow turned to other strategies. With its title Hegmony Rome: The Rise of Caesar, in 2013/14 Longbow attempted Steam Early Access to gain some pre-financing and player input [7]. In 2014/15 Longbow launched a kickstarter direct financing for its next strategy title Hegemony III: Clash of the Ancients [8], but reached only a fraction of its first $30.000 CAD goal [9].
Products
- DX-Ball 2 (and successors) is an arcade video game, first released in 1998.
- Tread Marks is a tank wargame, released in 2000.
- Hegemony is a strategy game series, which was started in 2010.
- Golem is a fantasy platform game, which was released in 2018.
References
- ↑ About the Independent Games Festival. On the website of Independent Games Festival, visited 31. Januar 2021 (english)
- ↑ Longbow Games. at: MobyGames, visited 31. Januar 2021 (english)
- ↑ Torontos Longbow Studios avoiding iOS in favour of hardcore PC games. On the website of Financial Post, visited 04. Feburary 2021 (english)
- ↑ Great Expectations: Hegemony Interview. On the website of Rock Paper Shotgun, visited 04. Feburary 2021 (english)
- ↑ Developer Interview: Jim McNally. On the website of Flash of Steel, visited 04. Feburary 2021 (english)
- ↑ Interview: Longbow Games Talks Indie RTS Hegemony: Philip Of Macedon. On the website of Gamasutra, visited 04. Feburary 2021 (english)
- ↑ Strategy Informer talks with Rob McConnell about Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caisar's Early Access on Steam and more. On the website of GameWatcher, visited 04. Feburary 2021 (english)
- ↑ Longbow Games sets up kickstarter campaign for Hegemony 3: Clash of the Ancients. On the website of GameWatcher, visited 04. Feburary 2021 (english)
- ↑ Hegemony III: Clash of the Ancients - Funding Unsuccessful. On the website of KickTraq, visited 04. Feburary 2021 (english)
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