Thursday, 25 April 2013

Company Analysis - Indie


To research and discover more about this small indie developer I browsed the companies web site and Steam Greenlight aswell as its own site, links below:


Below is a report on Lunar Software in under 250 words.

Lunar Software is an independent games company situated in the UK near Preston. The entire team consists of three people.

The company was founded by Aaron Foster while he worked part time at a teaching job at University. It was here that while working on a prototype an idea formed which inspired his first game, and lead to the founding of Lunar Software with Aarons partner Jemma Hughes. Shortly after commencing work on this new idea they agreed that to take the game to the next level a programmer was required for more complex game mechanics and gameplay. A programmer approached them and after working on his game for several months he was taken on board. Now the team of three have set up a small studio at home.

The company has no released games to date but is currently working on a horror survival style game which takes place in an abandoned moon base. The game is titled Routine and has been Greenlit on Steams Greenlight and has built up a large following of fans who are anticipating its release on steam in the future.

The game is built using UDK, a game engine which has recently became more popular with indie developers.
The team has recently stated however that the project has begun to go under a redesign which has inevitably increased the amount of content and work needed for release, causing the project estimated milestones to be pushed back.

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