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Post by 1983parrothead on Aug 25, 2014 17:08:03 GMT -5
This is a list I can come up with:
G. rev = former Taito employees
Paon, Technos Japan/Million Co. Ltd, TAD Corporation, Cattle Call, and Idea Factory = former Data East employees
Use Co. Ltd. = former TAD Corporation employees
Almanic/Givro and Avit = former Technos Japan/Million Co. Ltd. employees
Arsys Software/Cyberhead and CA Productions = former Tecno Soft employees
Treasure = former Konami employees
Anchor and Genki = former SEGA and Namco employees
Psikyo = former Video System employees (not a successor)
R.U.N. = Masatoshi Imaizumi (Fill-in-Cafe) and Masaki Ukyo (Treasure)
Cave, 8ing/Raizing, Takumi and Gazelle = former Toaplan employees
Scarab/feelplus = former UPL employees
Activision = former Atari employees
Absolute Entertainment = former Activision employees
Skyworks Interactive = former Absolute Entertainment employees
NetherRealm Studios = former Midway Games employees
MOSS = former Seibu Kaihatsu employees
Game Studio = former Namco employees
That's all I can think of for now. If there is any I am forgetting, post it.
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Post by Scylla on Aug 25, 2014 17:20:19 GMT -5
Well, it would probably be more accurate to say FOUNDED by former employees of another company because pretty much no developer consists solely of those with roots in another company. Once they get off the ground, they'll start hiring people who have no past affiliation with other companies.
Anyway, tri-Ace was founded by former Telenet employees (specifically those on the Wolf Team development team), and Westone was founded by former Tecmo employees.
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Post by wyrdwad on Aug 25, 2014 17:28:33 GMT -5
One other famous one is Quintet (makers of the Gaia games), who consisted of former Falcom employees. Recently, there's Yacht Club Games, made up of former WayForward employees. And technically, XSEED was started by former Square Enix employees.  -Tom |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2014 17:34:10 GMT -5
M2 recently absorbed most of the staff from CAVE's console and arcade development divisions.
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Post by shelverton on Aug 25, 2014 17:52:51 GMT -5
Platinum Games has a couple of Clover Studio people in it.
And Mistwalker probably consists of more Squeenix people than just Sakaguchi.
And then we have Access Games which ate Whoopee Camp whole, or so i've heard.
I'll think of more.
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Post by Terrifying on Aug 25, 2014 21:03:40 GMT -5
Aicom consisted of former IREM and Jaleco employees IIRC
Nazca Corporation consisted of former IREM employees...
Arika by former CAPCOM employees...
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Post by jorpho on Aug 25, 2014 21:16:52 GMT -5
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Post by The Great Klaid on Aug 25, 2014 21:18:52 GMT -5
Well, it would probably be more accurate to say FOUNDED by former employees of another company because pretty much no developer consists solely of those with roots in another company. Once they get off the ground, they'll start hiring people who have no past affiliation with other companies. Anyway, tri-Ace was founded by former Telenet employees (specifically those on the Wolf Team development team), and Westone was founded by former Tecmo employees. I knew you were going to beat me to this. Also, wasn't SNK founded by some of the Street Fighter creators. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2014 21:20:56 GMT -5
I believe Accolade and Acclaim were both founded by former Activision employees, as well.
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Post by Terrifying on Aug 25, 2014 21:27:54 GMT -5
How could I forget my favorite company, Vanillaware? They are former ATLUS employees.
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Post by 1983parrothead on Aug 25, 2014 21:37:43 GMT -5
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Post by Terrifying on Aug 25, 2014 21:43:24 GMT -5
Monolith Soft was also founded by (two) people who left Square.
Avalanche Software was founded by people from Sculptured Software...
Ion Storm was founded by John Romero and Tom Hall of id Software...
Free Radical Design by people of RARE Ltd.
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Post by Sac (a.k.a Icaras) on Aug 25, 2014 21:53:45 GMT -5
Well, it would probably be more accurate to say FOUNDED by former employees of another company because pretty much no developer consists solely of those with roots in another company. Once they get off the ground, they'll start hiring people who have no past affiliation with other companies. Anyway, tri-Ace was founded by former Telenet employees (specifically those on the Wolf Team development team), and Westone was founded by former Tecmo employees. Haha, damn too slow. Soon as I saw the thread name I was gonna say Tri-Ace (Kinda helps that I'm 57 hours into Star Ocean: The Last Hope ATM, lol) |
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Post by Gendo Ikari on Aug 26, 2014 1:14:16 GMT -5
Curiosly, members of Gazelle and Raizing later went to Cave. Family reunion!
Red Barrels, the French-Canadian developer of Outlast, was founded by people who mostly worked several years under Ubisoft Montreal.
11Bit (the Anomaly series) and Flying Wild Hog (Hard Reset, Shadow Warriro 2013) originated from some of Poland's bigger studios. Reportedly, 11Bit was founded by members of Metropolis Software who were unhappy of their studio being reduced to a satellite of CD Projekt after being bought by the latter. FWH has members from People Can Fly, who brought their previous expertise from Painkiller.
I remember a studio called Granzella being founded by former key members of Irem after they finally abandoned the empty husk of it.
22Cans is a small studio founded by Peter Moulinex after he left Lionhead in 2012.
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Post by yause on Aug 26, 2014 1:50:08 GMT -5
Brownie Brown, yes. 1-Up is unclear because all notable staff from the Square era had left the company by then (AFAIK, Shinichi Kameoka was the only one left by the time Fantasy Life neared completion, and he resigned after the game was released. 1-Up is now an asset shop for Nintendo). ....which makes things difficult to classify. Some studios were established by former staff of a particular studio who've since moved on. Other studios were started by execs from a particular company but without the creative talent. |
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