Slitherine Group acquires Shenandoah Studio

[Surtur]

Fine makers of strategy games to continue evolution of portable wargaming.

The Slitherine Group announces that it is partnering with Shenandoah Studio to ensure that their innovative titles have the benefit of multi-channel distribution, backed by the development resources needed to achieve their full potential. Shenandoah Studio, the development house behind iPad successes such as Battle of the Bulge and Drive on Moscow, is the winner of many awards. The US-based developer was a breath of fresh air, bringing innovation to the strategy genre on iOS thanks to a clever, streamlined game design and a state-of-the-art game engine.

“As Shenandoah has grown, the needs of supporting, upgrading, and distributing our current titles imposed ever-increasing burdens on our ability to move ahead with the new material our customers want“, said Eric Lee Smith, founder and CEO of Shenandoah. “Slitherine has the scale and reach to ensure that Shenandoah moves ahead productively and delivers exciting new games for our audience to enjoy”.

The Slitherine Group adds a key player to its already impressive roster of brands, to focus especially on bringing strategy games to a wider audience.

“Our continued efforts to expand the wargames and strategy games audience and to attract new players through innovative game play and new platforms, external licenses and internal franchises are testament to the consistency of our mission statement that we started with fifteen years ago”, said JD McNeil Chairman of the Slitherine Group. “We are looking forward to partnering with Shenandoah’s founders to amplify this vision to conquer new ground and expand the boundaries of strategy gaming even further”.

All Shenandoah’s previously released games will be added to the Slitherine Group’s stores across the web. New projects that were already under development will also be joining the group’s production schedule, with special attention given to Gettysburg: The Tide Turns, a project designed by Eric Lee Smith that was successfully funded on Kickstarter in August last year.

“We are looking forward to working with Eric to bring this game to completion and releasing it as a key part of our future lineup”, said Iain McNeil, Development Director at Slitherine. “Eric’s design vision is a key asset we want to leverage on in order to make sure Gettysburg is the game that all Kickstarter backers were looking for”.

[MrsWargamer]

Good news as wargaming goes

I don't have access to an Apple tablet, so I have missed out on the iOS market's games, but I'm at least aware there are some good titles out there.

It's always a good day when the market's games gain strength in numbers.

[guardsman]

Perhaps we now may see Gettysburg.

[thenewromance]

Android and PC versions of all the great games? Please?

[best75]

Battle of the Bulge and Drive on Moscow are some of my favorite games on the IPad so this sounds good to allow them to make more games faster

[Tac2i]

Ditto... Other than 'Small General: Eastern Front' l don't know of another good WW2 game or any Civil War game for Android from the Slitherine group of companies.

Android and PC versions of all the great games? Please?

[ruskicanuk]

A match made in heaven - both shops have done fantastic work - hopefully this will lead to synergies

[mdavis41]

Really? Love Slitherine. When and how will this work with Sheneandoah? Is there a problem with Mr Smith, the designer? I hope not. But the development process has been quite odd to date and tie in with Clash of Arms left very ambiguous. Time for some straight talk please. I'm getting fed up with the liberties being taken with Kickstarter and it will be the end of a very promising business model if designers don't shape up for their investors.

[mdavis41]

Any further progress with Shenadoah's Gettysburg?

[IainMcNeil]

If you post any queries in the Shenadoah forum here that's probably best.

We're hoping to start a beta test for Gettysburg soon!