Personal and Professional Practice 3: 'Research' Studio Brief - Team17

The next company that I wanted to look at was Team 17 as they are a brilliant and local company to myself, being located in Wakefield, Yorkshire. I have always grown up with Team 17 being close by and have always been a huge fan of the Worms games that they created as they are really good fun and have great replay value and great for when you have friends round. I have recently started looking at more of their newer games as well like Schrodinger's Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark, The Escapists and Flockers.

team 17 is made up from a really small team of people and they are still classed as an independent games company after 24 years of creating games! They are a really inspiration company but what makes them really special is that they strive to also help other companies with whatever problem that they have and Team 17 will try their best to help you and get you in touch with the right people as well.

Below is what they can provide for companies and people in the industry and they generally seem that they want to help you with everything that you do and they can do so much for when, especially when your starting out. This could definitely be a route I could see myself going down if I was to ever start making a game by myself or with a small team.

'WE can help YOU…
-Grow and develop your studio with friendly but critical advice.
-Produce and Develop your game, by calling on the experience of a very talented team.
-Get the word out with expert marketing, PR and cross-promotion opportunities.
-Localise, Usability Test and QA your game, and offer Age Ratings support.
-Sales, Distribution and Lifecycle Management help keep your title relevant post launch. Our Business Development team won the Develop 2014 Award!
-We can supply additional Development Resources along with select funding to help get you across the line!
-Reach store holders by presenting and selling your game to Steam, Amazon, Microsoft, Sony, Apple, Google, Samsung and MANY others for bundle sales direct to customers.
-We have Customer Support staff working full time on the message boards of the various platforms to trouble shoot and fix problems as they arise.
-Compatibility test your game with up to 150 different machine specifications.
-Reach a small army of engaged users through social networks. (Our Worms Facebook page alone has almost one million likes!)' (Source)