TIGA, the trade association representing the UK gamesindustry, has welcomed Born Ready Games as its latest member.
The independent games developer from Guildford has years of
cumulative experience in the industry, having worked with all manner of
consoles, licenses and publishers. Now fully independent, It has a very grand and ambitious
future ahead of it. Before the formation of the new studio in June, the team had
shipped All Zombies Must Die!, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Special
Editions, Let’s Go South Park Tower Defense and Burn Zombie Burn.
The company is currently hard at work on Strike Suit Zero, a title it is hoping
will revive the ailing space combat genre. The game is due out on January 24.
It has enlisted the services of Junji Okubo (Steel Battalion, Infinite
Space, Appleseed) to design the
mechs and Paul Ruskay (Homeworld) to
produce an original score.
Samantha Sinclair, Born Ready Games co-founder, said:
“TIGA is important for the UK games industry and we
feel it important to support TIGA. TIGA is supporting us and many others in the
UK through its activities, discounts, promotion and more. “We hope that TIGA will grow as we do and help promote
the games industry and companies like us so that we can all get the recognition
as being the great and large revenue generating industry that it is.”
Dr Richard Wilson, CEO of TIGA, said:
“The wealth of experience at Born Ready Games gives
this fledgling company a great base on which to build in the years to come. It
is great that they have joined TIGA and I hope that they take advantage of the
many benefits membership has to offer.”
Notes
to editors:
About
TIGA:
TIGA
is the trade association representing the UK’s games industry. The
majority of our members are either independent games developers or in-house
publisher owned developers. We also have games publishers, outsourcing
companies, technology businesses and universities amongst our membership. TIGA
was awarded ‘Trade Association of the Year’ and the ‘Member Recruitment Award’
at the Trade Association Forum Best Practice Awards 2010. TIGA has also been
named as a finalist in the 2010 Chartered Management Institute (CMI) National
Management and Leadership Awards in the category of ‘The Outstanding
Organisation of the Year Award (SME)’.
TIGA is an ‘Investors in People’
accredited organisation. TIGA's
vision is to make the UK the best place in the world to do games
business. We focus on three sets of activities: political representation,
generating media coverage and developing services that enhance the
competitiveness of our members. This means that TIGA members are
effectively represented in the corridors of power, their voice is heard in the
media and they receive benefits that make a material difference to their
businesses, including a reduction in costs and improved commercial
opportunities.
For further
information, please contact Dr Richard Wilson, TIGA CEO on: 07875 939 643, or
email richard.wilson@tiga.org.