The Games Industry in Ireland 2013 Report

jamiemc

Hi all,

In preparation for The Games Industry in Ireland 2013 report, I have completed my discovery stage of research, with lots of help across GameDevelopers.ie, Enterprise Ireland, Games Ireland, Invest NI and the IDA to identify games companies and development teams on the island of Ireland. I want to now see if there are duplicates or changes among the list of companies. And I was hoping that I could post on this forum to broaden our reach a bit more.

With the main jobs survey to commence later in the year, I will begin to map out the industry across Ireland for all to see, and in order to build out the interactive map of Ireland, I need to identify the companies operating in the Irish games industry and their location(s) around Ireland.

Each developer will have a database entry to put in information about themselves, games they publish, links to their websites, pr etc, if they so choose.

I had missed a lot from Northern Ireland in the November report, but thanks to Twitter and Invest NI, we have gotten a large number of updates from there. This will allow me to now do a Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, and all-island datasets with this years report.

Please note, this includes the entire supply chain and ancillary services, so a few of them will be taken away from all the devs. Also, if you could sticky this it would be great.

So my list is as follows, all 160 of them
List Closed 19th June 2013

A1 Games Distribution
Activision
Affinity Tech
Annahid Games
Atom Split Games
Backspindle Games
Ballardia
Banshee Computers
BatCat Games
Big Fish
BillyGoat Entertainment
Bitrabbit
bitSmith Games
Black Market Games
Blizzard
Bluefox
Blurry Games * new from NI
Bone Idle
Brain and Nerd
Breakout Gaming
Bright Head Games
Cando 3D
Casey Games
CEX
Chocolate Lab
Circles Game Development
Conker
Conquest Dynamics
Creativecore Games
Crew Design Ltd
Cube Noir * new from NI
Culture Translate * new from Dublin
Deep Voodoo Games * new from NI
Demonware
Digit Game Studios
Digital Media Choices
Dispersion Studio
DogWok Studio * new from Dublin
DoomCube
Dugong Games
Dysteric Skies
EA Ireland
Eirplay Media
Epic Online Entertainment
eRepublic
exGamers Studios
Eyesodic Games
Fantasy Games Ltd
Fantom
FearedFutureGames
Firebird Games
Fitch Sounds
Footbridge Interactive
Freshly Baked Games
Frontier Management
Galvanic * new Dublin
GamersIreland
GamesLocalisation
GameSparks
GameStop
Gametango
Giant Oak Studios
Glass Robot
Gone Gaming
GoPrezzo
Hail Studios
Haunted Planet
Havok
High Caffine Content
Iglu Media
Infurious Republic
Inlifesize
Instinct Engine
Italic Pig
Kahoot Studios
Keywords International
Lame Name Games * new from NI
LightUp Warrior Games * new from NI
Little Bee Studio
Little Snail Studio
Locomotion Games *new from NI
Logical Arts * new from NI
LoPoly Games
Lost Number
Mavenhut
McMullan Multimedia * new from NI
Meez
Mell and Andy
Metaverse.ie
Microsoft
Microsoft (Xbox)
Nevermind Games
Nicola Watkins PR
n00b gaming * new from Cork
Noise Sauce (Formerly DPH Sound)
nonzerosum * new from NI
O’Leary PR
Omnimotion Technologies
Online Racing Championship
Open Emotion Studios
OteetO
Outsider Games
Pewter Game Studios
Pixel Wolf Studios
Play For Kicks
Playfirst
Playtank
PolyPusher
Project Zebra
Pufferfish Games
Red5 Studios * new from Cork
Redwind Software
Riot Games
Rocket Rainbow Studios * new from Dublin
Rongella
Scale Front
Scraggly Dog Games
Scream Technologies
Selatra
Seoige Technology
Siege Labs * new from Mayo
Silverfish Studios * new from NI
Simple Lifeforms Publishing
Simteractive
Six Echo
SixMinute Studios
Smyths
SN Systems
Sneaky Vegetables
SnowGlobe Games
Sony Computer Entertainment Ireland
Starcave Entertainment
StoryToys
Straandlooper
Studio POWWOW
Sugra Games * new Dublin
SuperFunPlay
SuperHippo
Swrve
Team Pontification * new Dublin
Team Traders
The Creativity Hub * new from NI
The Gaming Liberty
The Mighty Kraken * new from Dublin
ThoughtBox * new from Dublin
Time Machine Games
TopHat
Tribal City Interactive
Trilabyrinth
Troll Inc
Two Way Studios
Upfront Analytics
Webzen Dublin
Wee Man Studios
Working Title Games
Xtravision
Zenimax
Zombiesaurus Games
Zoodazzle
Zynga

Colleges providing games courses
DIT
Trinity
LIT Thurles
Carlow IT
BFCE
BIFE
GCD
Clane College
Dorset College
IT Tralee
Pulse College
St. John's College Cork
Ballymoney
DLIADT
LYIT
NWRC
WIT
UU/Col
DKIT
QUB
UL
UCC



Not sure (not included in numbers)
Pump Station Studios - mainly apps? http://www.siliconrepublic.com/new-media/item/30663-irish-games-developers-revi
All Points West Audio Productions - has supplied audio to games, but not main business

Removals

2 Paper Dolls - Closed September 2012
G4X Online - Folded?
EclipticLabs - Removed More apps than games
Manwin - Duplicate
Raptor Games - Duplicate

Company Name Changes
Gala Networks Europe now Webzen Dublin

Please if you could reply, send a pm to jamiemc or a tweet to @DublinJammers to let me know if there are ones missing, folded, merged, emigrated, or changed name to help me narrow down any duplicates.

4/6: Thanks to Matt Johnson and Tracy in InvestNI for help completing the NI list. Thanks to Linda in EI and Laoise in IDA for help completing their lists.

19/6: Discovery Stage complete. A supplemental list will be created for any new ones from now on.

Supplemental List from 19/6
None yet

This will also be at http://irishgamessurvey.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/the-games-industry-in-ireland-2013-report-discovery-stage-complete/ and http://www.gamedevelopers.ie/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7208

jamiemc

To accompany this, a blog post has also been published at http://gamasutra.com/blogs/JamieMcCormick/20130619/194663/Meanwhile_over_in_Ireland_A_Games_Industry_is_Born.php

If you know people abroad who could do the expat survey, it would be really appreciated if you could share the link http://tinyurl.com/irishexpatgamessurvey2012 and get them to check in, it would be appreciated.