Oliver Twins

The Oliver Twins are two British brothers, Philip and Andrew Oliver, known for their work as video game developers. They began to professionally develop computer games while they were still at school, contributing their first type-in game to a magazine in 1983. They worked with publishers Codemasters for a number of years following their first collaboration Super Robin Hood, most notably creating the Dizzy series of games and many of Codemasters popular Simulator Series. At one point during the 1980s it was reported that 7% of all UK games sales were attributable to the Oliver Twins. In 1990 they founded Interactive Studios which later became Blitz Games Studios. In October 2013 they founded Radiant Worlds, based in Leamington Spa, UK, with long time friend and colleague Richard Smithies.

Philip and Andrew Oliver first began programming computer games while at school (Clarendon School in Trowbridge ), having their first game published as written code in Computer and Video Games magazine in 1983. Their first full release game, Super Robin Hood for the Amstrad CPC, was published in 1985 by Codemasters.

The Codemasters publishing relationship led to the origin of the Dizzy series and the Simulator series. Whilst with Codemasters, they were responsible for over 10 UK number one best sellers and over 3 million sales. In 1986, it was reported that an estimated 7% of all UK games sales were attributable to the Oliver Twins.

In 1990, at the age of 22, they started Interactive Studios, now called Blitz Games Studios. Apart from their own games, the Oliver Twins were also responsible for porting a number of other prominent games to the Sega platforms, including Theme Park and Syndicate. In October 2013 they founded Radiant Worlds, based in Leamington Spa, UK, with long time friend and colleague Richard Smithies to develop SkySaga for Korean-based Smilegate. SkySaga is an ambitious online voxel based game based on an original concept by Philip Oliver developed during his Christmas 2011 holidays.

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