22cans Ltd is a British video game developer based in Guildford. It was founded in February 2012 by

Peter Molyneux Peter Douglas Molyneux (; born 5 May 1959) is an English video game designer and programmer. He created the god games '' Populous'', '' Dungeon Keeper'', and ''Black & White'', as well as ''Theme Park'', the ''Fable'' series, '' Curiosity: ...

, previously of Bullfrog Productions and Lionhead Studios.

History

, who had previously founded Bullfrog Productions and Lionhead Studios, established 22cans on 20 February 2012 in

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. To do so, he left Lionhead and partnered with Tim Rance and Peter Murphy, Lionhead's former chief technology officer and company director, respectively. Molyneux first announced the establishment on 7 March. By April that year, he had received more than 1,000 applications. Significant hires were Jack Attridge in July 2012 and Jamie Stowe in April 2013. 22cans' first game was '' Curiosity: What's Inside the Cube?'', which was released for

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and iOS on 6 November 2012. In 2015, following the troubled launch of ''

Godus ''Godus'' is a god video game developed by the independent company 22cans and published by DeNA. The company launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds and met their funding goal of () on 20 December 2012. ''Godus'' was designed by Peter ...

'', Simon Phillips was hired as the company's

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, replacing Molyneux, who would henceforth focus on game design. Attridge had left the studio by April 2015, while ''Godus'' designer, Konrad Naszynski, left in June 2016. In February 2019, 22cans announced ''Legacy'', a game inspired by Molyneux's first released game, ''The Entrepreneur'' (1984). The studio underwent an undisclosed number of layoffs in February 2021, though confirming that development would continue. Molyneux announced in December 2021 that ''Legacy'' will incorporate

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-based elements including

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s, which will allow players to sell and purchase virtual goods as part of the business simulation gameplay.

Games developed

References

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