Team17
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| Team17 | |
| Private | |
| Industry | Video game industry |
| Founded | 7 December 1990 |
| Headquarters | Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England |
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Key people
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Deborah Bestwick |
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Number of employees
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75 (2015) |
| Website | Team17.com |
Team 17 Digital Limited (formerly 17-Bit Software and later Team 17 Software Limited), doing business as Team17, is a British video game developer best known for creating the Worms and Alien Breed video game series. Most of their early releases were on the Amiga home computer system and featured trademark smooth scrolling, and detailed cartoonish art. Team17 now develops for Microsoft Windows, Android, iOS, and video game consoles.
The company were originally called 17-Bit Software, which grew out of the Microbyte retail chain in 1987, and specialised in cataloguing, producing and publishing an Amiga public domain software library. Most sales were made for freeware games and utility disks such as the virus checkers. During the formation of Team17, Martyn Brown actively recruited coders and artists from the Amiga demo scene to program games for Team17.
In 1990, a developer called Team 7 approached 17-Bit to publish their new game. They combined to form Team17, and in 1991 published the fighting game Full Contact for the Amiga, with the intention to produce a game that made use of this computer's unique capabilities. Team17 then went on to develop further Amiga games, including the Alien Breed and Body Blows series. Team17 also published titles in the UK for other developers such as AUDIOS and Eclipse UK. Almost all early titles were the result of liaising with freelance developers; there were few in-house developers.
In 1995, Team17 entered into an agreement with Ocean Software whereby Ocean would co-publish Team17's titles worldwide. The first title to be released under this agreement was Alien Breed 3D for the Amiga and Amiga CD32 systems. The second title was Worms, Team17's biggest success to date, and Team17's first multiple format release; the game was published in late 1995 and early 1996 for the Amiga, PC MS-DOS, Apple Macintosh, PlayStation, Super NES, Game Boy, Atari Jaguar, Mega Drive/Genesis and Sega Saturn, with a version planned for release on the Virtual Boy, although this was cancelled following the poor release of the console in Japan. Worms outsold FIFA 96 and Tomb Raider, topped the UK all-formats video game chart and won several awards. Team17 developed some of the console ports themselves, the others were produced by East Point Software.
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