VoxelStorm

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VoxelStorm Ltd.
VoxelStorm
Limited company
Industry
Founded January 2, 2012 (2012-01-02) in Manchester, United Kingdom
Founder Eugene Hopkinson
Headquarters Manchester, United Kingdom
Products
Website voxelstorm.com

VoxelStorm Ltd, commonly referred to as VoxelStorm, is a British independent game development studio, video game publisher and music publisher. The company was founded by Eugene Hopkinson, and is based in England and Scotland.[1] VoxelStorm has developed and released a handful of games, most nostably AdvertCity and sphereFACE.[2]

VoxelStorm prides themselves on writing their game engines in-house,[1][3] allowing them to have full control over what they are producing. The developer also puts a lot of emphasis on the importance of performance and compatibility for their games.[4] The developers have been praised as "enthusiastic" and "talented".[5]

Themes

VoxelStorm's games tend to focus on Retrofuturism[3] and cyberpunk themes,[6] with dark cynical humour.[7] The settings of their games are frequently procedurally generated.[8][9] The graphics in VoxelStorm games tend to be heavily stylized rather than realistic.[10]

Distribution

VoxelStorm makes their games available on Windows, Linux and OS X.
A common trend with VoxelStorm's games is that there is no installer - simply a single executable which can be downloaded and run at any time.

Game Jams

VoxelStorm has taken part in multiple Game jams. AdvertCity, a published VoxelStorm game, was originally started in a CyberPunk Game Jam[11]
GolfXTRM was made in the Fuck This Jam Game Jam.[9]

Music

VoxelStorm has been described as placing a great deal of emphasis on creating rich original soundtracks for their games.[12] The AdvertCity Soundtrack has received critical praise for its unusual genre choices for video game music, variously described as "cyber-jazz"[13] and "postrock, jazz & glitch".[14] It has been called "A profound and stunning accomplishment, even as a standalone soundtrack."[12]

Games

Timeline of release years
2012 GolfXTRM
GolfXTRM soundtrack
2013 VoxelStorm Official Soundtrack 1
2014 Fractyr
AdvertCity Demo OST
Fractyr soundtrack
2015 AdvertCity
sphereFACE Demo OST
2016 sphereFACE

Discography

References

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External links

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