User:PGHarris/BlazingGriffin

Blazing Griffin is a British video game developer founded in August 2011. The developer was formed by Peter van der Watt, Trevor Fountain and Stephen Hewitt. Blazing Griffin consists of independent developers and members of Realtime Worlds, Dynamo Games and SquareGo. They are the current developing Distant Star, a sequel to the iOS game of the same name, publishers of The Ship and in the process of developing a sequel.

History
Formed in August 2011, the company acquired the rights to (an iOS title) and obtained the rights to publish The Ship: Murder Party, in October 2011.

Using the funds from these two products to build the company they received a prototype fund grant from Abertay University in August 2012 allowing them to produce a new version of Distant Star.

In the meantime they continue to develop The Ship: Full Steam Ahead, a sequel to The Ship: Murder Party.

Distant Star
Distant Star is a 4x space strategy game based on an original iOS title of the same name, developed and published by Trevor Fountain. The new game has a far deeper developed history, written by Stephen Hewitt and Philip G Harris, concerning an alien device called the Arc of Ascension and the split of humanity into differing warring tribes. The game is being developed in Lua and C+ and is due for release in the second quarter 2013.

The Ship: Full Steam Ahead
The Ship: Full Steam Ahead is being developed as a sequel to The Ship: Murder Party. The game is set in a steampunk environment and promises new locations, characters and weapons from the original

Kickstarter
In November 2011 Blazing Griffin launched a Kickstarter campaign in order to fund a direct, steampunk themed, sequel to The Ship titled The Ship: Full Steam Ahead. After several months Blazing Griffin was unable to secure the funding goal of £128,000/$208,000, only amassing £18,247/$29,657. Blazing Griffin spoke openly about the Kickstarter's failure on their own webpage and to the New York Post