Tin Man Games

Factsheet

Developer:
Tin Man Games
Based in Melbourne, Australia

Founding date:
September 26, 2008

Website:
tinmangames.com.au

Press / Business contact:
press@tinmangames.com.au

Social:
twitter.com/TinManGames
facebook.com/TinManGames

Releases:
Choices - And The Sun Went Out
The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain
Legacy Of Dorn - Herald Of Oblivion
To Be Or Not To Be
Table Of Tales: The Crooked Crown
Miss Fisher And The Deathly Maze
The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain IOS
The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain: Goblin Scourge Edition!
Fighting Fantasy Classics

Address:
Level 2
164 Kings Way
South Melbourne 3205

Phone:
N/A

Description

Tin Man Games is a game development studio in Melbourne, Australia. Specializing in adventure games and digital gamebooks – Tin Man has developed and published over 35 titles across on a large number of handheld devices and computers.

History

Early history

In late 2009, Neil Rennison got in touch with Ben Britten. They met in a bar and decided to make gamebooks for iOS. Their first title, An Assassin in Orlandes, was released in March 2010. The next five titles in the Gamebook Adventures series released over the following 18 months. Tin Man continued with a strong release schedule, and at GCAP 2011 made the announcement that they had secured the rights to 2000AD's Judge Dredd for the upcoming Judge Dredd: Countdown Sector 106. In August 2012 when Tin Man was able to able to announce that they were working with Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson to produce titles in the beloved Fighting Fantasy series.

After that

Continuing to work with Steve and Ian on Fighting Fantasy, as well as Tin Man's own gamebooks, the company experimented with the genre in the dynamic, comic-styled Appointment With FEAR. They also worked with Ryan North on developing a digital version of To Be or Not To Be, a chooseable-path adventure version of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Tin Man then secured the rights to develop a game based on Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 gamebook series, creating a brand new first-person combat system to compliment the epic gamebook adventure.

Recent

In August 2016 Tin Man Games released an new 3D board game-styled adaptation of the very first Fighting Fantasy gamebook, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain. This new approach to visualising the interactive choice-based narrative then lead to Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown, a game where the Tin Man team leaned heavily on tabletop board game design and aesthetics, but this time using VR to bring it to life!

Projects

• Choices - And The Sun Went Out
• The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain
• Legacy Of Dorn - Herald Of Oblivion
• To Be Or Not To Be
• Table Of Tales: The Crooked Crown
• Miss Fisher And The Deathly Maze
• The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain IOS
• The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain: Goblin Scourge Edition!
• Fighting Fantasy Classics