Flying Wild Hog

Flying Wild Hog Sp. z o.o.
Private
Industry Video game industry
Founded April 2009 (2009-04)
Founder
  • Tomek Baran
  • Michał Szustak
  • Klaudiusz Zych
Headquarters Warsaw, Poland
Number of locations
2 (2017)
Key people
Michał Szustak (CEO)
Number of employees
110+ (2017)
Website flyingwildhog.com

Flying Wild Hog Sp. z o.o. is an independent Polish video game developer founded in April 2009 by Tomek Baran, Michał Szustak and Klaudiusz Zych. Based in Warsaw, Poland, the company is best known for its 2013 reboot of Shadow Warrior, and its 2016 sequel, Shadow Warrior 2.

History

Flying Wild Hog was established in April 2009 by Tomek Baran, Michał Szustak and Klaudiusz Zych. Since then the studio has been working on their own Road Hog Engine, a video game engine, and their first title Hard Reset releasing the game in September 2011.[1][2][3] In April 2012 Flying Wild Hog has released Hard Reset: Exile,[4][5][6] a free DLC for Hard Reset. In September 2013 they released Shadow Warrior, which was published by Devolver Digital, with the sequel, Shadow Warrior 2 being announced in 2015 for a 2016 release.[7][8] On 7 December 2015, Flying Wild Hog opened their new division in Cracow, Poland, led by Michał Kuk.[9]

Road Hog Engine

The Road Hog Engine is the game engine developed and used by Flying Wild Hog for all of their games. The engine was designed specifically for PC platforms, supporting both advanced physics and high fidelity graphics. It uses Havok and DirectX 9.0c and DirectX 11. As of 2016, the engine is able to compile games for Microsoft Windows (as x86 and x86-64 binaries), PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

Developed games

Release year Title Genre(s) Platform(s) Publisher(s) Notes
2011 Hard Reset First-person shooter Microsoft Windows Flying Wild Hog
2012 Hard Reset: Exile First-person shooter Microsoft Windows Free expansion for Hard Reset
2013 Shadow Warrior First-person shooter Microsoft Windows Devolver Digital Reboot of 1997 Shadow Warrior
2014 PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Juju Platform Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 Flying Wild Hog
2015 Android
Shadow Warrior First-person shooter OS X, Linux Devolver Digital Ported by Knockout Games
2016 Hard Reset Redux First-person shooter Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One Gambitious Digital Entertainment Redux of 2011 Hard Reset
Shadow Warrior 2 First-person shooter Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One Devolver Digital Sequel to 2013 Shadow Warrior

References

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