Idol Minds
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- Founded
- 1997
- Employees
- 51-200
- Offices
- 1
About Idol Minds
Idol Minds, LLC, doing business as Deck Nine Games, is a private video game development studio founded on April 1, 1997. The studio is headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, USA.
Specialization: The company focuses on narrative-driven AAA games, interactive storytelling, and technically challenging game development.
Services: They offer full-cycle game development, narrative design, proprietary tool development (including their StoryForge toolset), motion capture, and audio recording.
Mission: To bring together meaningful storytelling and rich gameplay by tackling emotionally challenging themes and responsive stories that embrace player choice.
Key Projects: Their portfolio includes critically acclaimed titles such as Life Is Strange: Before the Storm, Life Is Strange: True Colors, The Expanse: A Telltale Series, PAIN, Cool Boarders 3 & 4, and the Ratchet & Clank Collection.
History: Originally a smaller studio averaging 20-30 employees during the Idol Minds era, the team has grown to approximately 100-150 employees. The studio was founded by Mark Lyons, a former lead programmer for Sony who created games for the PlayStation 1 launch.
More about Idol Minds
Leadership:
- Mark Lyons (President, CEO, and CTO)
- Jeff Litchford (COO)
- Lucie Lyons (Treasurer)
- Scott Atkins (Co-Founder)
- Stephan Frost (Game Director)
- Todd Bolinger (Technology Director)
- Andrew Weatherl (Art Director)
- Jonathan Zimmerman (Narrative Director)
Partners & Publishing: Square Enix, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Telltale Games, Activision, THQ, Capcom, DeNA, and ZQGame.
Awards: The studio has received multiple industry recognitions for narrative excellence and technical innovation.
Tools & Technology: Utilizes proprietary tools like StoryForge, as well as industry-standard engines such as Unity 3D and Unreal Engine.
Notable Historical Info: The studio's first major hit was Cool Boarders 3 for the PlayStation 1. Other successful projects include PAIN for the PlayStation 3, featuring celebrity characters like David Hasselhoff and George Takei. More recent mobile titles Tales of Honor and Qube Kingdom were featured by Apple and Google. In early August 2015, Idol Minds launched a Kickstarter campaign for Shutterbug, a nature photography game.
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Where Idol Minds is based
- Westminster, Colorado, United States
Westminster office
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