Firefly Studios
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Logic Issue Limited (1999) |
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| Industry | Video game industry |
| Founded | April 21, 1999 |
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| Headquarters | London, England |
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Number of employees
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30 (2017) |
| Website | fireflyworlds |
Firefly Studios Limited is a British video game developer based in London, England. The company was formed in 1999 by Simon Bradbury and Eric Ouellette. The company has focused on historic real-time strategy titles for the PC and Macintosh systems, and is best known for its Stronghold series of games.
Firefly's first title, Stronghold was successful both critically and commercially,.
The company has however struggled to recreate the popularity of its original Stronghold and Stronghold: Crusader titles; Stronghold 2 and Stronghold Legends both reviewed poorly with metascores of 63% and 57% respectively, and the last of the series, Stronghold: Crusader Extreme, has received the worst reviews to date, receiving average 40% scores. Their latest title Stronghold 3 has again had negative reviews by multiple gaming sites and fans for errors in the game (i.e. Hard to build walls, no kingmaker, etc.). Although there are many problems with this game, Firefly Studios is saying they will try to patch this game every week.
A brief collaboration with Firaxis Games produced CivCity: Rome, which again reviewed poorly, and was in fact the last Firefly title published by Take-Two Interactive.
The latest title, Stronghold Kingdoms, is Firefly's first foray into the MMO genre and was launched as an open beta in November 2010.
Firefly has also previously stated in 2008 that they would be working on Stronghold 3 then Crusader II due to the high demand by fans but only after the completion of Dungeon Hero. In 2009 when asked if they had any other unannounced game in development other than Dungeon Hero and Stronghold Kingdoms, the answer was that they still had one more game in development. In Firefly's second newsletter, they stated that they had "something very big in the pipeline" which will be revealed in 2010.
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