Ant Workshop

Factsheet

Developer:
Ant Workshop
Based in Edinburgh, Scotland

Founding date:
January 12, 2015

Website:
ant-workshop.com

Press / Business contact:
press@ant-workshop.com

Social:
Ant Workshop's Twitter
Ant Workshop's Facebook
Tony's Twitter
Skype

Releases:
Binaries
Dead End Job
Run From The Sun
Taps Aff

Description

Ants - tiny, strong, focussed, good at working with others to achieve their goals and often with a nasty bite. Some of these characteristics (not so much the bitey ones) are also shared by Ant Workshop, a small independant game developer and game design consultancy based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

History

Ant Workshop is a Develop and TIGA Award nominated microstudio founded in January 2015 by Tony Gowland to focus on developing original IP and interesting games with an off-beat sense of humour.

The company's first title was Binaries, a BAFTA nominated controller-smashingly tough 2D puzzle platform game, released for Windows and Mac in April 2016, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in August 2016, and Nintendo Switch in August 2017.

Ant Workshop also helps other indies bring their games to Nintendo Switch (most notably, Mike Bithell's Subsurface Circular) and is currently developing its next title, Dead End Job - a cartoon twin-stick shooter for PC & consoles about a Paranormal Pest Control worker.

Tony has been a professional game designer for over eighteen years. He has held senior and lead positions at Rockstar Games (working on hits such as the Grand Theft Auto: Stories series, GTA: Chinatown Wars, and 2010 Game of the Year Red Dead Redemption) and been Associate Creative Officer of Mobile at ActivisionBlizzard, bringing a brand new Call of Duty experience to mobile.

Ant Workshop was supported through its early development by Starter for 6. This prestigious enterprise training programme is run by Cultural Enterprise Office, Scotland's only specialist business support and development service for creative micro-businesses and cultural practitioners with investment from the Scottish Government via Creative Scotland’s Innovation Fund. Starter for 6 offers tailored support to help develop micro-businesses, optimising the economic potential of new starts in the creative sector, which currently has a £5billion annual turnover in Scotland.  As well as providing the grounding in structured business start-up and planning specifically for innovation and growth through a five month training programme, the programme uniquely offers participants the opportunity to pitch for up to £10,000 cash investment to take their idea to market. Since 2010, 186 businesses have been supported by Starter for 6. For further information visit www.culturalenterpriseoffice.co.uk/starterfor6

Projects

• Binaries
• Dead End Job
• Run From The Sun
• Taps Aff

Team & Repeating Collaborator

Tony Gowland
Founder

Martin Scott
Programmer

Contact

Inquiries
press@ant-workshop.com

Company Twitter
twitter.com/AntWorkshop

Facebook
facebook.com/AntWorkshop

Web
ant-workshop.com

Personal Twitter
twitter.com/FreakyZoid