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Firefly Studios is a British computer game developer that has offices in London, England and Canton, Connecticut, with a QA department in Aberdeen, Scotland. The Company was formed in August 1999 by Simon Bradbury, Eric Ouellette and David Lester who had worked together on numerous titles such as the highly successful ''Caesar''〔(Caesar III - MobyGames )〕 and ''Lords of the Realm''〔(Lords of the Realm II - MobyGames )〕 series. Upon forming, Firefly released a mission statement that set out their vision for their company: ''"FireFly Studios goal is to create compelling new worlds for people to play in. We aim to provide a richer environment for the player by continually increasing the level of visual and coded detail in our game worlds. Our expertise is in creating strategy based sim games and we will continue to evolve the genre by combining detailed visuals, in depth game play, compelling characters and an easy learning curve. If we have done our job well, players will be able to see the world they have built come to life and take on a personality of its own"''.〔(Game Chronicles - Company Profile )〕 The company has focused on historic real-time strategy titles for the PC and Macintosh systems, and is best known for its ''Stronghold'' series of games. ==History== Firefly's first title, ''Stronghold'' was wildly successful both critically and commercially,〔(stronghold meta score )〕 and the sequel ''Stronghold: Crusader'' replicated the high standards of the original.〔(stronghold crusader meta score )〕 The company has however struggled to recreate the popularity of its original ''Stronghold'' and ''Stronghold: Crusader'' titles; ''Stronghold 2'' and ''Stronghold Legends'' both reviewed poorly with metascores of 63%〔(stronghold 2 meta score )〕 and 57% respectively,〔(stronghold legends meta score )〕 and the last of the series, ''Stronghold: Crusader Extreme'', has received the worst reviews to date, receiving average 40% scores.〔(crusader extreme meta score )〕 Their latest title ''Stronghold 3'' has again had negative reviews by multiple gaming sites and fans for errors in the game (i.e. Hard to build walls, no kingmaker, etc.). Although there are many problems with this game, Firefly Studios is saying they will try to patch this game every week. A brief collaboration with Firaxis Games produced ''CivCity: Rome'', which again reviewed poorly,〔(civcity:rome meta score )〕 and was in fact the last Firefly title published by Take-Two Interactive. The latest title, ''Stronghold Kingdoms'', is Firefly's first foray into the MMO genre and was launched as an open beta in November 2010. Firefly has also previously stated in 2008 that they would be working on ''Stronghold 3'' then ''Crusader II'' due to the high demand by fans but only after the completion of ''Dungeon Hero''. In 2009 when asked if they had any other unannounced game in development other than ''Dungeon Hero'' and ''Stronghold Kingdoms'', the answer was that they still had one more game in development.〔(stronghold kingdoms interview )〕〔(Stronghold 3 and Crusader 2 coming at some point )〕 In Firefly's second newsletter, they stated that they had "something very big in the pipeline" which will be revealed in 2010.〔(Firefly Newsletter - Issue #2 )〕 ''Stronghold 3'' was officially announced on May 14, 2010 by SouthPeak Interactive. It was released in October 2011. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Firefly Studios」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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