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Team17 Digital Ltd, founded as 17-Bit Software and later named Team17 Software Ltd, is a British video game developer. They are 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 and video game consoles. == History == The company was 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Amiga PD-disks )〕 17-Bit Software was controversial as it sold demos from the Amiga demoscene which were not released as public domain, without having any agreements with the demo groups, or attempting to reimburse them as most were busy with pirate games BBS. Having said this, the early 17 Bit Software Club was actually submission based since internet was not about for most people. Cracktro intros for the early intro packs largely submitted by the coders in 1988. The intro disk later saw the start of the Amiga mega demo to some extent. During the formation of Team17, Martin Brown actively recruited coders and artists from the Amiga demo scene, to program games for Team17. Few demo disks were ever sold, most sales were made for freeware games and utility disks such as the virus checkers. In 1990, a group of developers called Team 7〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Miami Chase - Amiga Game / Games - Download ADF, Music - Lemon Amiga )〕 approached 17-Bit to publish their new game. During the formation of Team17, Martin Brown actively recruited coders and artists from the Amiga demo scene, to program games for Team17. They combined to form Team17,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Team 7 - Team17 - English Amiga Board )〕 and in 1991 published the fighting game ''Full Contact'' for the Amiga. Team17's intention was to produce a game that made use of the Amiga's unique capabilities and was not just a port of an Atari ST game. Team17 then went on to develop further Amiga games, including ''Alien Breed'', ''Body Blows'', ''Assassin'', ''Project-X'' and ''Superfrog''. 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 Nintendo, Game Boy, Atari Jaguar, Sega 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 several of the console ports themselves, the others were produced by East Point Software. Since the release of ''Worms'', the franchise has gone on to be very successful, selling over 12 million units worldwide. This all-platform success contributed towards Team17's decision to cease publishing Amiga titles in 1997, as the platform had long been in a state of decline. They released ''Worms: The Director's Cut'' exclusively on the Amiga as a swan song. Team17 then focused on the PC market, releasing titles such as ''Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy'' (although this game was then adapted and released for the Amiga by ClickBoom) and ''Addiction Pinball'', although they also produced some console-exclusive titles such as ''X2''. In 2003, Team17 released ''Worms 3D'' for the PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube, the first title in the franchise that brought the game into three dimensions. Team17 went on to release ''Worms 4: Mayhem'' in 2005 for PC, PS2 and Xbox. For the handheld DS and PSP consoles, Team17 developed ''Worms: Open Warfare'' in 2006, and ''Worms: Open Warfare 2'' in 2007, both published by THQ. Team17 brought ''Worms'' to Xbox Live in 2007, this new release being largely based on ''Worms: Open Warfare'', but featuring online multiplayer and downloadable content; this game also made it to the PlayStation Network in 2009 with some additional content. Team17 developed not only their own titles during the 2000s, but also wrote games for other publishers' franchises. They made ''Army Men: Major Malfunction'' in 2006, ported ''Lemmings'' to the PSP, and created ''Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust'' in 2009. During this period, they were also short-listed for the "British developer of the year" by The Golden Joystick Awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Golden Joysticks UK Developer Of The Year: Team17 )〕 In 2009, Team17 returned to their own franchise with the launch of ''Alien Breed Evolution'' for the Xbox Live Arcade,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Exclusive: All New Alien Breed Confirmed )〕 later ported to the PlayStation Network and the PC under the new title ''Alien Breed: Impact''. In 2010, Team17 released ''Worms Reloaded'' and ''Worms: Battle Islands'' for Wii and PSP was announced with THQ. In 2013, Team17 released ''Worms 2: Armageddon'' on Google Play for Android.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Worms 2: Armageddon - Android Apps on Google Play )〕 Team17 is still an independent games studio with dozens of staff members. This makes it one of the longest surviving independent developers, now into its year. 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「Team17」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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