Glitchers

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GLITCHERS
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Founded10 September 2013
Headquarters Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
Founder(s) Maxwell Scott-Slade
IndustryIndie game design and development
URL glitchers.com

Glitchers is a British video-game company based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was founded in 2013 by Matthew Hyde, Hugo Scott-Slade, and Maxwell Scott-Slade (of Johnny Two Shoes). [1] [2] [3] Glitchers is best known for developing Sea Hero Quest in 2016. The game was developed in collaboration with Alzheimer's Research UK to help dementia research by tracking players' 3D navigation. [4]

Contents

The company's name was GLITCHE.RS from 2013 to 2016. [5] It uses the tagline "Games for Good", [6] and aims to "create games that could make a positive impact on the world". [7]

Games

In a 2023 blog post marking the 10th anniversary of the company, two forthcoming games were described: [7]

Awards

In 2018 Sea Hero Quest was nominated for a British Academy Games Awards BAFTA in the category: Game Beyond Entertainment, [24] a new category for games which "deliver a transformational experience beyond pure entertainment". [25] Sea Hero Quest also won bronze in the 2018 The One Show awards. [26]

Also in 2018 Glitchers won a Webby award for Social Impact. [27]

In 2020 Sea Hero Quest was nominated for the Coney Island Dreamland Award for Best AR/VR Game at the New York Game Awards. [28]

In 2022 the company was awarded funding from the UK Games Fund to support the development of Cone Wars. [29] [30]

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