Lark Games

Factsheet

Developer:
Lark Games
Based in Sheffield, England

Founding date:
September 2, 2016

Website:
lark-games.com

Press / Business contact:
jonathan@lark-games.com

Social:
twitter
facebook
Skype

Releases:
Shell Quest

Address:
Block B, Parkwood Business
Park, Parkwood Road
Sheffield
S3 8AL
England

Phone:
+44 (0784) 9942647

Description

Lark Games, Carefree Gaming Anywhere. The games studio with a social heart.

History

Jonathan our founder, Boss and software neurosurgeon. With over 30 years experience in making computer games and is the main driving force behind Lark Games. He has been involved in the computer game industry for many a year, going back to the 1980`s

He grew up in Gremlin Graphics offices exchanging code with other programers, being amazed at full colour scrolling on the Commodore 64 and the first synthesis speech, it took almost half an hour to upload to the Commodore 64 from a tape for 10 seconds of the synthesis music 'Kung Fu Fighting' In the 1990`s he got involved in the music side of the industry and patent a MP3 Jukebox with in UK. He has been a game maker for 30+ years, with a passion for the old style game play as well as being involded in programing and developing of business Apps (many for Ancient Wisdom)

I did not want to remake the classic Match3 game, to many were copys of Candy Crush and games of that type, I wanted to make an anty Candy Crush game. As with other games I have made I started by making it with Phaser, after the first demo I scrapped it and restarted as I wanted to make things faster and change some basic setup with screen resizing. I was given a full time job outside of England in Thailand for a few years, a amazing place to live but the job took up all my time and the game got put on hold. If anything my time in Thailand showed me just how you can take a paradise and spoil things, now Thailand is no where near as bad as other spots around the world, but to see beaches full of rubbish in tourists area was sad to see, they are trying cleaning them up, but makes me fear for the rest of the world seas.

I got to thinking what if a percent from a game was given to charity to help clean up the seas, as well as the game also being about cleaning up our seas, to also inform in a fun and addictive way. On getting back home to England I put aside 6 months to work on the game with the game play I had developed in the previous versions, having spent 6 months beforehand learning Unity, I then put every of bit of my passion, years of classic gaming, my love for games as well as my understanding of phone game market into Shell Quest This game is not just 12+ months of my life, with early mornings and late nights, but 30 years of hard work. But it is not just me, I have also had help along the way from other codes, graphic artists and a cool team that have shared in my passion.

Projects

• Shell Quest

Team & Repeating Collaborator

Jonathan Hardie
Owner, Designer, founder and software neurosurgeon

Mounty
3d modeling

Adam Kent
Cartoon Artwork

Mauro
Tester and translator

Contact

Inquiries
jonathan@lark-games.com

Twitter
twitter.com/lark_games

Facebook
facebook.com/reallarkgames

Web
lark-games.com