Prior to the release of Serious Sam 3, Devolver Digital and Croteam experimented with the idea of shifting its focus towards publishing games of smaller independent companies. In 2013, the company opened their film distribution arm, Devolver Digital Films, which aims at helping independent filmmakers by digitally distributing and promoting their work. Alongside the release of Hotline Miami, Devolver Digital opened a second office in London, England. Their first major indie success was Hotline Miami by Dennaton Games in 2012. Devolver Digital continued publishing more Serious Sam games, but also began focusing on smaller video game developers. Working on the Serious Sam series Īfter partnering with the Crotian-based company Croteam for the Serious Sam series, they published their first game, Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter, in 2009. The First Encounter was originally published through Gathering of Developers, in a deal where Croteam retained the series' intellectual property, using which they chose to cooperate with Devolver Digital. They announced the company's establishment on June 25, 2009, coinciding with the reveal of their first game, a high-definition remake of Serious Sam: The First Encounter. Founding partners were Nigel Lowrie and Graeme Struthers, also business partners of Wilson. The three had previously co-founded Gathering of Developers in 1998, and later Gamecock Media Group in 2007. Devolver Digital also managed to have their own E3 booth at E3 2011 by renting out a part of a nearby hotel and inviting members of the gaming press to preview Serious Sam 3.ĭevolver Digital was founded in Austin, Texas, by Mike Wilson, Harry Miller and Rick Stults. They made a series of videos called about people calling to a fictional helpline for Serious Sam 3, with a sassy guy on the other side Rich Knuckles, dispensing advice. They decided to go a different route with Serious Sam 3. These ads featured things such as a Serious Sam HD-themed singalong, customer testimonials, and a series of fake infomercials involving an unhinged man rant and go crazy with footage of the HD version of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter played between his rants. They were the ones who thought up the original infomercial-style ads for Serious Sam HD. They are the people behind the unusual advertisements for Serious Sam HD and Serious Sam 3. If they like what they see, they'll help finance and publish it.ĭespite being a small publishing firm, they have made quite a few notable advertisements for Serious Sam games. To facilitate this, they have set up a bus near Game Developer Conference 2012 that will let indie developers walk in and pitch a game to members of Devolver Digital's staff. Their unofficial mascot, Fork Parker, has also made appearances in several Serious Sam games, such as The Random Encounter and as a player model in Serious Sam 3: BFE.Ĭurrently, they are interested in expanding towards publishing and financing games from other indie developers. His previous work made his company a natural choice for publishing the latest Serious Sam games.ĭevolver Digital has played an important role in the development of recent Serious Sam games, as they spearheaded the Serious Sam indie series, which lead to the creation of Serious Sam: Double D, Serious Sam: Kamikaze Attack!, and Serious Sam: The Random Encounter. He worked with Croteam back when he worked at Gathering of Developers, and was set to publish Croteam's T.E.O.R with GameCock, another publishing group started by him. It was founded by Mike Wilson, who's been in the video game publishing industry for over 14 years. Devolver Digital is a video game publishing company based in Texas.
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