Elixir Studios
Moby ID: 4001
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Elixir Studios was a British game developer, based in London, founded by Demis Hassabis in 1998. Previously, he had worked with Peter Molyneux at Bullfrog Productions and Lionhead Studios, until he founded his own studio. As an independent developer, they created their own IP instead of licensing it from other companies. Elixir released two games: Republic: The Revolution (2003) and Evil Genius (2004). Both were highly original games, but this was not reflected in the sales numbers.
In April 2005, it was announced the company would cease all day-to-day operations. This followed the cancellation of development on a major project, Blue Vault, which had been underway for two years, due to "the current risk averse publishing climate". They had taken the project to various publishers, who were interested and even wanted to put a license like Men in Black on top of it, but in the end they could not get a publisher to bite. Another project, Dreams, was also cancelled and sold to another company.
In March 2006, Rebellion announced to have bought Elixir's IPs, including Evil Genius. Aamar Rana, Ian Harper and Chris Dawson went on to found mobile developer Shadow Light Games.
Credited on 2 Games from 2003 to 2004
| Evil Genius (2004 on Windows, OnLive, Macintosh) |
| Republic: The Revolution (2003 on Windows, Macintosh) |
History +
- March 3rd, 2006
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Rebellion acquires the company's IP.
- April 28th, 2005
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Officials from British developer Elixir Studios have announced that the company is ceasing day-to-day operations, as all remaining assets and IP are sold.
Source: Gamasutra
- June 2003
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Mark Hewitt takes over the CEO duties of Demis Hassabis. Previously, Hewitt worked at Liberty Livewire, a provider of post-production services.
- 1998
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Founded by Demis Hassabis.
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Elixir Studios
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Frequent Collaborators
Companies- 2 games with Rebellion Developments Ltd.
- 2 games with GOG Limited
- 1 game with Valve Corporation
- 1 game with Leader S.p.a.
- 1 game with Activision Blizzard France SAS
- 1 game with Activision Blizzard Deutschland GmbH
- 1 game with Application Systems Heidelberg Software GmbH
- 1 game with Epic Games Tools LLC
- 1 game with Namco Bandai Partners Pty Ltd.
- 1 game with Eidos, Inc.
- 2 games with Simon Mathews
- 2 games with Adrian Bolton
- 2 games with Alex Thomson
- 2 games with Malin Arvidsson
- 2 games with Andy Mucho
- 2 games with Richard Joseph
- 2 games with James Hannigan
- 2 games with Adrian Carless
- 2 games with Demis Hassabis
- 2 games with Kristian Davies
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