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Lightwood Games Press Kit
Company Overview
Lightwood Games is a trading name of Lightwood Consultancy Ltd, a small company based on Stoke-on-Trent, UK. Established in 1999, Lightwood gained a reputation for producing high quality software for clients around the world.
After a decade of delivering web-based projects for clients as diverse as motor traders, stock photography sites, roleplaying games and licensed real money poker operators, the developers found the lure of the new generation of mobile phones too strong to resist and extended their skills to provide consulting services in this sector.
The company began developing games for iOS in 2010 and the first app released by Lightwood Games - Word Search Party - was launched later that year. It has now been downloaded more than one million times.
Since then, the company has continued to focus on producing high quality applications in the puzzle game genre, and now concentrates exclusively on its game output, most recently by porting a number of titles to Windows 8.
In April 2012, Lightwood's developers won two awards at the UK's first GameHack event for their game Plasma Party. They won "Best Use of Mobile" and "Most Innovative App" for developing a unique multiple screen gaming platform in just 24 hours.
In September 2012, Lightwood Games was shortlisted for consideration in the category "App Developer 2012" at the Appsters Awards.
Biographies
Chris Newman
Chris is the founder and managing director of Lightwood. He is a database
expert and has
written books about MySQL and SQLite. For many years, he built
online gambling software and has a reputation for making systems that are as
robust as they come.
He is responsible for the server backends that drive Lightwood's games
and frequently he can be found extracting a wide range of often useless statistics from
the games' databases.
Chris loves playing music games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band and is a
virtuoso with several different plastic instruments.
Katherine Gordon
Katherine joined Lightwood with a rich portfolio of mobile game development,
having previously worked on licensed titles for the likes of Sony
Entertainment and PopCap.
She builds iPhone apps at lightening speed, and would be so much faster
if it wasn't for that pesky compiler. Often you'll find her knitting
while waiting for the technology to catch up.
Katherine has a lasting fondness for point-and-click adventure games, in
particular Zork Nemesis and Monkey Island, and she
still treasures her Commodore Amiga.
Downloads
Lightwood Games logo @ 300dpi TIFF | JPEG | PNG
Screenshots: Daily Word Bingo (Windows)
Screenshots: Head Hunter Challenge (Windows)
Screenshots: Head Hunter Challenge (iOS)
Screenshots: Plasma Party (iOS)
Screenshots: Splat the Difference (iOS)
Screenshots: Splatter the Difference (iOS)
Screenshots: Sudoku Party (iOS)
Screenshots: Word Search Party (Windows)
Screenshots: Word Search Party (iOS)
Lightwood's iOS Catalogue
Media Contact
Chris Newman
Email: chris@lightwood.net
Mobile: +44 7976 714632
Social Media Links
Lightwood Games on FacebookTwitter @lightwoodgames
Recent News Coverage
Get Four Times The Fun Of Connect Four With Foursies, AppAdvice, April 4th, 2013.Coding in class - teachers told to take a back seat, BBC News met Lightwood's Katherine and Chris, February 1st 2013.
App attack: Microsoft could comfortably cull 75% of the Windows Store, reckons Lightwood Games, Pocket Gamer, December 13th 2012.
Creating Word Search Party for Windows 8 - Developer Interview, Ubelly.com, October 12th 2012.
The iOS 6 App Store 'is a disaster' for developers, Develop, September 25th, 2012.
App Store alterations puts iOS's premier platform status under threat, claims Lightwood Games, Pocket Gamer, September 24th, 2012.
Developer calls out Apple's 'disastrous' App Store update in iOS 6, Pocket Gamer, September 24th, 2012.
Lightwood Games' Chris Newman on the thrill of the studio's five day game hack, Pocket Gamer, August 2nd, 2012.
GameHack sponsor BlueVia interviews Lightwood Games, May 16th, 2012.
Plasma Party on iOS takes the idea of "social" back into the real world, Games.com, May 13th, 2012.
Software firm wins praise for clever new app, The Sentinel, May 7th, 2012.
Sudoku Party Review: Surprisingly Fun, 148Apps.com, February 21st, 2012.