Snapshot Games

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Snapshot Games
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryVideo game developer
Founded2013 (2013)
Founders
Headquarters
Sofia
,
Bulgaria
Number of employees
64[1] (2021)
Parent
Websitesnapshotgames.com

Snapshot Games is a Bulgarian video game developer headquartered in Sofia.[2][3] Snapshot Games was founded in 2013 by Julian Gollop and David Kaye.[2][4] Gollop is recognized for creating the X-COM video game franchise in the 1990s with X-COM: UFO Defense and X-COM: Apocalypse.[5][2][6][7][8][9] Gollop also is the CEO of Snapshot Games.[9] In addition to Gollop, the company includes about eight developers who are industry veterans with years of previous experience working for Ubisoft Sofia, Crytek Black Sea, and other Bulgaria studios.[2]

History

On November 12, 2013, Snapshot Games was founded as a privately held corporation in the state of California of the United States.[4] However, it is based in Bulgaria where its CEO, Julian Gollop, lives and where video game development costs are about one-third of what they would be for a similar studio in the United States.[2][3][9]

In April 2014, Snapshot Games launched a Kickstarter to crowdfund the development of its first video game, Chaos Reborn.[10] The effort was successful, generating over $210,000.[10] The game was made available through the Early Access program of Steam on December 9, 2014 before it was released officially on October 26, 2015.[11] The game received a score of 86/100 on review aggregation website Metacritic.[12] PC Gamer awarded it a score of 87%, saying "A true wizard’s wheeze, and a fine return for one of gaming’s oldest tactical classics."[13] The game also was nominated for a Golden Joystick Award in the 2015 Best Indie Game category but lost to Kerbal Space Program.[14][15]

Julian Gollop teased the development of a new video game, Phoenix Point, on Twitter on March 18, 2016.[16][17] For the next year, Snapshot Games worked on designing and producing the game.[18] After investing $450,000 into this first year of development, the company launched a Fig crowdfunding campaign in April 2017 to obtain the $500,000 they budgeted to complete the game.[3][19] The future of Snapshot relied on the success of the campaign.[18] "There is no Plan B," Gollop said to the press at the time.[18] The campaign was successful, raising more than $765,000 from over 10,300 different contributors.[19] Snapshot Games has committed to release Phoenix Point in 2019.[20][21]

In November 2020, Embracer Group announced that it acquired the company through Saber Interactive.[22] In March 2024, Embracer sold Saber and many of its studios to Beacon Interactive. However, Snapshot was not included in the deal and remains under Embracer.[23]

Video games

Year Title Platform(s)
2015 Chaos Reborn Linux, Macintosh, Windows
2019 Phoenix Point Macintosh, Windows
2020 Phoenix Point: Year One Edition
2021 Phoenix Point: Behemoth Edition PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Phoenix Point: Year One Edition Stadia

References

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  4. ^ a b "Business Search - Business Entities - Business Programs | California Secretary of State". businesssearch.sos.ca.gov. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
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  7. ^ "Phoenix Point, the Spiritual Successor to X-Com, Can Be Backed on Fig". geekreply.com. 29 April 2017. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
  8. ^ Williams, Mike (26 April 2017). "X-COM Designer Returns To the Genre With Phoenix Point". USgamer. Archived from the original on 2017-07-04. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
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  10. ^ a b "Chaos Reborn - From the Creator of the Original X-COM". Kickstarter. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
  11. ^ Meer, Alec (2015-10-09). "X-COM Creator's Chaos Reborn Is Born This Month". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
  12. ^ "Chaos Reborn". Metacritic. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
  13. ^ "Chaos Reborn review". PC Gamer. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
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  17. ^ Morrison, Angus (2016-03-18). "Julian Gollop announces new game, Phoenix Point". PC Gamer. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  18. ^ a b c "There is no Plan B". Gameindustry.biz. 2017-04-26. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  19. ^ a b "Phoenix Point Crowdfunding Campaign". Fig. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
  20. ^ "X-COM spiritual successor Phoenix Point hits $500K crowdfunding goal". Polygon. 2017-05-02. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  21. ^ "Phoenix Point by X-COM Creator Seeks Funding on Fig". wcctech.com. 2017-04-26. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  22. ^ Takahashi, Dean (November 17, 2020). "Embracer Group acquires 10 game studios and a PR firm". Venture Beat. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
  23. ^ McEvoy, Sophie (2024-03-14). "Embracer sells Saber Interactive for $247m". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved 2024-03-15.