Bizarre Creations dev founds Totem Games

Fri 08 Jul 2011 11:59am GMT / 7:59am EDT / 4:59am PDT
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Matt Cavanagh announces new independent studio

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Blur lead designer and former Bizarre Creations employee Matt Cavanagh has formed a new independent studio, Totem Games.

"Formed by ex Bizarre Creations Matt Cavanagh, Totem Games is joining all the shiny new indie games companies in their mission to make the world a happier place," stated the studio’s official Twitter page.

Little has been revealed about the new start up, but so far it seems to be a solo project, with the company registered only to Cavanagh.

Cavanagh was made redundant after the closure of Bizarre Creations in February. Since then there has been a number of studios formed by ex-Bizarre employees, including Hogrocket and Lucid Games.

19 Comments

Khaled Al-Hurby
Student

University of Abertay Dundee

Best of luck guys! Good to see a British developer get back on its feet.

Posted:A year ago

#1

Alex Wright-Manning
Talent Acquisition Manager

The Creative Assembly

Congrats Matt. Nice to see the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and kicking here in the UK. I wish you all the best.

Can't wait to see what gems come out of all of these new ventures. The revolution starts here!!

Posted:A year ago

#2

Joshua Wordlaw
CEO & President

Runic Raven Entertainment, LLC

Congrats and good luck!

Posted:A year ago

#3

Dave Cullinane
Account Director

RealtimeUK

Good to hear the North-West is recovering after a run of bad news! :0)

Posted:A year ago

#4

Dr. Chee Ming Wong

Opus Artz Ltd

The great thing to come out of all of these are the new blood of new game studios and IPS. Love to see what fruits they bear in the next 5 years

Posted:A year ago

#5

Caspar Gray
Acquisitions Manager

Square Enix London Studios

There's already a Russian developer called Totem Games - http://www.totemgames.ru/

Posted:A year ago

#6

Fran Mulhern

Recruit3D

What Caspar said.

All the best though, Matt - well done on getting started.

Posted:A year ago

#7

Paul Ripley
Founder

Phasic Labs Ltd.

Great stuff - the Northwest is rapidly becoming an Indie hub :

http://www.nwindies.org.uk/Indies

Posted:A year ago

#8

Lee Hutchinson
CEO

Double Eleven Limited

Well spotted Caspar and good luck Mr Cavanagh :-)

Posted:A year ago

#9

Simon Tomlinson
Programmer

Good luck from not so sunny Cheshire. Good to see the NW isn't finished yet!

Edited 1 times. Last edit by Simon Tomlinson on 8th July 2011 5:05pm

Posted:A year ago

#10

Feargus Carroll
Producer

Hey Matt!
Props to you and all the best!

Posted:A year ago

#11

Peter Doidge-Harrison
Producer

Slant Six Games

Hey Matt!
Nicely done. Let us all know how it goes.

Best of luck.

Posted:A year ago

#12

Alexey Menshikov
Founder and CEO

Beatshapers

There are atleast 4 active totem games:
[link url=http://www.totemgames.com
]http://www.totemgames.com
[/link]
[link url=http://www.totemgames.ru
]http://www.totemgames.ru
[/link]
[link url=http://www.totem-games.org
]http://www.totem-games.org
[/link]
[link url=http://www.tatemgames.com
]http://www.tatemgames.com
[/link]

Posted:A year ago

#13

Alan Mealor
Lead Artist

Lucid Games

All the best Matt!

Posted:A year ago

#14

Neil Thompson
Director of Art & Animation

EA BioWare

Go for it Matt, all the best mate.

Posted:A year ago

#15

Gareth Wilson
Chief Games Designer

SUMO Digital

Good luck buddy :-)

Posted:A year ago

#16

Jason Stewart
Associate Producer

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

Good luck!

Posted:A year ago

#17

Nadia Sydorenko
PR & Community manager

Tatem Games

All the best Matt and hope for no names confusion

Posted:A year ago

#18

Toby Rodriguez
Associate Producer

EA Montreal

Good luck Matt :)

Posted:A year ago

#19

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