A sequel to the fans' favourite Stronghold game, Stronghold Crusader 2 was revealed at Gamescom 2012 and eventually released in September 2014 after two years in development. Stronghold Kingdoms would eventually come to iOS and Android, with the launch of the game's mobile version eclipsing the original Steam release in terms of downloads. It would remain in the Top 10 Most Popular free-to-play games on Steam for two years and today still boasts hundreds of thousands of active users. The game entered open beta in 2010 and launched on Steam in early 2012. Over the course of the next two years the Kingdoms player base grew from tens to hundreds of thousands. Working with a skeleton team of four the developer quickly prototyped, iterated and released a closed Alpha for Stronghold Kingdoms, Firefly's first foray into free-to-play. Seven years and seven games later Firefly decided a change was needed. Both games went on to sell over 2 million copies each. Crusader would eventually become the fan-favourite Stronghold game. A year later Firefly released Stronghold Crusader, which shifted the game's setting from medieval England to the Middle East and featured a more fast-paced RTS experience. The game became a surprise hit for publisher Take Two particularly in North America, the UK and Germany, with critics praising the game's unique premise, British charm and playability. Players agreed that Firefly had managed to create a title which successfully merged the City Builder and RTS, without sacrificing the fun or depth found in either genre. Stronghold was released in 2001 to critical acclaim and commercial success. After working out of a small rented room in South London for two years, the team accomplished this with the release of Stronghold. Simon, working as a freelance coder and designer, and Eric in a Producer role eventually decided to break off on their own and set up Firefly in 1999, with the aim of merging the City Builder and Real-Time Strategy genres. Early Yearsįirefly Studios co-founders Simon Bradbury and Eric Ouellette first met in the 90s at Impressions Games, while working on Caesar and Lords of the Realm. We believe this, combined with a flexible working environment and room to grow at the company, makes Firefly a great place to work whether you’re starting out in games or looking for an empowering next step. All staff across programming, art, production, business, marketing and QA are talented, self-driven individuals who help us punch well above our weight as a studio.Īt Firefly we value and benefit from individual expression and passion, which we do our best to nurture, support and channel into our games. Enjoyed worldwide by a community of millions, our games have a dedicated international following and rich legacy in strategy gaming.Īs a company we are a growing, close-knit interdisciplinary group of around 40 people from across the world. Alternatively designing their own fiendishly challenging maps via Steam Workshop or downloading hundreds of player creations made during the game’s rich 20 year legacy.Firefly Studios is a BAFTA nominated video game studio consisting of around 30 full and part-time staff, specialising in strategy games since 1999.Ĭreators of the BAFTA nominated Stronghold series, Firefly Studios is a Devolver Digital strategy game developer with over 20 years of experience publishing games on PC and mobile. Beyond this and fresh single player content, players will also weave new gallant tales of victory by picking a fight online with full Steam multiplayer support. In addition to a host of technical enhancements and player-requested quality of life improvements, Stronghold: Definitive Edition will allow fans old and new to customise their experience with individual settings for many of their preferred game features and controls. This is alongside extra single player content in the form of a 10 mission ‘Castle Trail’, which sees players either defend or besiege historical castles such as Warwick, Dunnottar and Marksburg. This latest entry in the ‘castle sim’ series features the original game’s classic military and economic campaigns, together with an entirely new 14 mission narrative campaign. Stronghold: Definitive Edition invites players to relive the glory of the original BAFTA-nominated game remade with new visuals, missions and siege scenarios. Wishlist Strongold: Definitive Edition now! The original Stronghold reached its 20th anniversary recently and to celebrate we are thrilled to announce Stronghold: Definitive Edition! Carefully rebuilt using the source artwork, remastered music, returning voice talent and veteran developers of the first entry in this legendary series, Stronghold: Definitive Edition releases on November 7th for PC on Steam. Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you.
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