Industry Video games Headquarters London, United Kingdom Number of employees 200 | Website www.splashdamage.com Founder Paul Wedgwood Type of business Limited Company | |
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Founders Paul Wedgwood, Richard Jolly, Arnout van Meer Products Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Doom 3
ET:QUAKE Wars
Brink
Batman: Arkham Origins
Gears of War 4
Dirty Bomb Founded May 2001, Bromley, United Kingdom Video games Dirty Bomb, Brink, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Enemy Territory: Quake W, Batman: Arkham Origins Profiles | ||
Splash Damage Ltd. is an independently owned British video game developer that specializes in multiplayer first-person shooter video games. The studio is best known as the creator of the Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.
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History
Splash Damage was formed in May 2001 by the creators of mods such as Quake 3 Fortress. The studio began life working with Now TV and Gamer.tv, providing both custom maps and an in-game television production solution. Splash Damage staff also worked to produce and present over 150 TV shows based on Quake III Arena Capture the Flag.
In March 2002, Splash Damage partnered with Games Domain to produce a number of multiplayer maps for their online gaming service. One of these was a map for id Software's Return to Castle Wolfenstein based on Operation Market Garden; this map was hugely successful online and instantly became the most played third-party map for the game.
Following Market Garden's success, Activision and id Software asked Splash Damage to produce three additional multiplayer maps for the Return to Castle Wolfenstein Game of the Year Edition. The same year, Splash Damage partnered with the two companies to develop Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, a stand-alone expansion based on Return to Castle Wolfenstein. The Windows version of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was released online for free on 29 May 2003, with Linux and Mac versions following later. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory won several Game of the Year and Editor's Choice awards and remains one of the most popular online first-person shooter titles.
In June 2003 and once again working with id Software, Splash Damage created all the maps for Doom 3's multiplayer mode and at the same time began pre-production on Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, a follow-up to Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory using a heavily modified version of the id Tech 4 engine and set in the QUAKE universe. Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars shipped on 28 September 2007, and has won dozens of awards to date, including several Game of the Year awards and over 25 Editor's Choice awards.
In August 2016 Leyou entered into a Sale and Purchase Agreement with Splash Damage with the Intention to Buy.
Awards
The full list of awards can be found on their web site.