Whatever happeded to the Bitmap Brothers?

[Golfman]

Does anybody remember during the days of the Atari ST and Amiga, there was a game developer called the Bitmap Brother's who's games broke new ground and were easily the most addictive at the time?
You probably remember the games - Xenon, Xenon 2 Megablast, Speedball, Speedball 2, Gods, Magic Pockets and the Chaos Engine.
With Gods and Magic Pockets - both platform games - they broke new ground in giving the enemies such advanced AI. They would follow you around, dodge your attacks, and find new routes around the stages to get to you.
And they were probably the first developers to have licensed music tracks in their games. Remember the title screen for Xenon 2?

Where are they now?

 

[Eric Demory]

In the past.......

 

[Golfman]

In the past.......

In the past they may be, but they could teach game developer's these days a thing or ten about quality gameplay.

 

[Eric Demory]

Check out their site.

 

[Dragonistic]

And whilst you're on that site keep this in mind

Site Updated: Thursday, 28th March 2005

That said past employees could be all over the place by now in other companies and there's a good chance many are still in the industry.

 

[Golfman]

Check out their site.

Many thanks. Just visited their site and downloaded Xenon 2000 for my laptop. Brings back memories of Xenon 2. Thanks again!