Slightly Mad Studios
The Slightly Mad Studios is a game development company based in London. The main focus in the area they are racing games and driving games worked, have with Gamagio but also about a daughter who completely in the market for casual games, especially for mobile platforms such as cellular phones, is located.
Beginnings, working for the publisher 10TACLE Studios
Nucleus of Slightly Mad Studios was at the beginning of the third millennium a modding team for the game F1 Challenge '99 -'02, the data programmed for the game to play the FIA GT Championship in 2002 or Formula 1 seasons after 2002 to be able; Formula -1 modifications were doing the abbreviation " RH" in front of the year, which stands for the still employed Fahrzeugmodellierer Ralph Hummerich.
For this team SimBin Studios was founded, who are responsible for GTR, GTR ² and GT Legends. In the meantime, SimBin co-founder Ian Bell founded the developer company Blimey! Games, which continued to work for the publisher 10TACLE Studios.
Slightly Mad Studios
Following the insolvency of 10tacle Blimey was! Games renamed the Slightly Mad Studios, which are even today still headed by Ian Bell. These developed for Electronic Arts Need for Speed Shift parts and Shift 2 Unleashed, of which several million units were sold. This success was reflected in the inclusion in the list " 100 Development " of 2010, down where the Slightly Mad Studios, were measured on the sales made as a seventeenth - 's most successful game developers in the world. Furthermore, after too 10tacle - time cooperation with Ferrari, it was decided in 2012 completed under the publisher Atari the title "Test Drive Ferrari Racing Legends" and brought to market.
Published in 2011, the Slightly Mad Studios, the online portal World of Mass Development ( WMD short ). This allows game developers potentially interested teams, the game without the help of publishers who provide the financial resources needed in the normal case, and also because its mostly control the development of the game from the outside, to manufacture and therefore as to keep the artistic freedom. This happens on the basis of a combination of crowdsourcing, Crowd Testing and Crowdfunding: early interested players can search for a paid registration, which gives with increasing paid sum of money greater rights, discuss with the developers of the planned game in a forum, stimulate changes or innovations and after opportunity to test early versions of the game. Thus, there are certain similarities to the crowdfunding site Kickstarter.com, only that WMD is specialized in the production of software in this area and provides advanced options. However, the decisive factor was the financial aspect, as Ian Bell laid bare in an internet forum:
" I'd love to do a rally game actually. The problem is getting someone to pay for it. We, like most developers, work hand to mouth at the mercy of publishers When it comes to the money side. We've pitched rally before concepts to publishers and even helped Offered To go on the funding but still no interest. "
"I would really love to make a rally game. The problem is to get someone to pay for it. We, like most developers, financially considered live at the mercy of editors depending on the hand to mouth. We have already made earlier editors Rally Concepts tasty and even offered to fund half, but there was no interest. "
The pilot title of the portal is developed by Slightly Mad Studios themselves racing simulation " Project CARS ", which will be released in 2014. Since the project started in October 2011 could be collected through the crowdfunding about 2.25 million euros for the financing of the title, so that the target of about 3.75 million euro development budget could be achieved. The second title of the platform, also developed by Slightly Mad Studios, will be a motorcycle racing game with the working title of "Biker Bash ".