VoxelStorm

VoxelStorm Ltd.
VoxelStorm
Limited company
Industry
Founded January 2, 2012 (2012-01-02) in Manchester, United Kingdom
Founder Eugene Hopkinson
Headquarters Manchester, United Kingdom
Products
Website voxelstorm.com

VoxelStorm Ltd, commonly referred to as VoxelStorm, is a British independent game development studio, video game publisher and music publisher. The company was founded by Eugene Hopkinson, and is based in England and Scotland.[1] VoxelStorm has developed and released a handful of games, most nostably AdvertCity and sphereFACE.[2]

VoxelStorm prides themselves on writing their game engines in-house,[1][3] allowing them to have full control over what they are producing. The developer also puts a lot of emphasis on the importance of performance and compatibility for their games.[4] The developers have been praised as "enthusiastic" and "talented".[5]

Themes

VoxelStorm's games tend to focus on Retrofuturism[3] and cyberpunk themes,[6] with dark cynical humour.[7] The settings of their games are frequently procedurally generated.[8][9] The graphics in VoxelStorm games tend to be heavily stylized rather than realistic.[10]

Distribution

VoxelStorm makes their games available on Windows, Linux and OS X.
A common trend with VoxelStorm's games is that there is no installer - simply a single executable which can be downloaded and run at any time.

Game Jams

VoxelStorm has taken part in multiple Game jams. AdvertCity, a published VoxelStorm game, was originally started in a CyberPunk Game Jam[11]
GolfXTRM was made in the Fuck This Jam Game Jam.[9]

Games

Timeline of release years
2012GolfXTRM
GolfXTRM soundtrack
2013VoxelStorm Official Soundtrack 1
2014Fractyr
AdvertCity Demo OST
Fractyr soundtrack
2015AdvertCity
sphereFACE Demo OST
2016sphereFACE

Discography

References

  1. 1 2 "VoxelStorm is a small indie game studio based in England and Scotland, composed of a group of enthusiastic, experienced game developers, focusing on self-built 3D engines and innovative game designs.". voxelstorm.com. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  2. "Rock Paper Shotgun - VoxelStorm". Rock Paper Shotgun. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  3. 1 2 Stretch, Kelly (July 23, 2015). "sphereFACE – A retro-3D vector shooter". G3AR. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  4. "VoxelStorm - itch.io". voxelstorm.itch.io. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  5. "Bring on the Storm". MancsterCon. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  6. Brown, Fraser. "Drown a cyberpunk city in adverts with AdvertCity". PCGamesN. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  7. Lambert, Liam. "Kickstarter of the Week: AdvertCity". Gizorama. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  8. Priestman, Chris. "Affect The Economy Of A Cyberpunk City With Advertisements In AdvertCity". Siliconera. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  9. 1 2 3 Louwrens, Rogan. "Clubbing under the influence: GolfXTRM". Hidden Exit. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  10. Glass, Garrett (27 March 2014). "Virtual City Life - AdvertCity". The Koalition. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  11. "CyberPunk Advertisement Tycoon Game Discovered - News - Altered Confusion™ The Place to Alter your Gaming Confusion". alteredconfusion.com. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  12. "GolfXTRM - First person golf game with no HUDs, no aiming aids, no course map, no teleport between shots, and nothing to help you find the ball.". itch.io. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  13. "Fractyr - A vaguely Descent-inspired abstract 6-degree-of-freedom indoor flight sim / tunnel shooter.". itch.io. Retrieved 1 December 2015.

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