TIGA, the trade association representing the UK gamesindustry, has welcomed Global Empire Soft as its latest member.
Global Empire Soft is an indie game and mobile apps
developer which also creates gamification apps for SMEs. It is a publishing
platform for mobile apps too. The company’s aim is to invent exciting and creative mobile
Apps and games and current titles include the platformer Man Alive and AVA –
Action arcade Simulator. It also participated in the Global Games Jam 2012, which
made it to the Guinness Book of World Records The company is also proud that it came in second place at
the Games Jam with its title, The Real
Pride of London.
Richard Hoffmann, CEO Global Empire Soft, said:
“I have been playing games for over 30 years now and
love to create fresh and exiting games. For many years I am working on video
games and mobile Apps together with my friends. At the moment we are working on
the title Man Alive and we believe
that this is a cool and very different type of platform game as we know
it.”
Mr Hoffman says he began playing games on the Commodore C16,
C64 and Amiga 500. His first PC was a 386 with 25 Mhz and 10 MB Hard drive. He
has also played games on most consoles from Super Famicon/NES to Nintendo 64
PS1 and many more since.
Dr Richard Wilson, CEO of TIGA, said:
“TIGA exists to strengthen the UK games industry and to
help indie developers like Global Empire Soft. It is clear that Mr Hoffman and
his team are passionate about games. The quality of those titles has been
recognised and we look forward to working with Global Empire Soft, welcoming
them wholeheartedly as new members of TIGA.”
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.