Templar Studios LLC is an American independent game development company, formed in 1997 by Peter Mack and several associates to create video games for clients looking to market products and services on the Internet, which in turn would fund internal development of proprietary titles. The company was originally located on the Lower East Side, but moved its offices to Chinatown in 2003. Templar continues to be managed by Peter Mack (President & Creative Director), Gordon Klimes (Animation Director), and Justin Luchter (Senior Audio Designer).

Templar and LEGO

For many years, The

LEGO Lego ( , ; stylized as LEGO) is a line of plastic construction toys that are manufactured by The Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of variously colored interlocking ...

Company was Templar's largest client. Templar produced a number of video games and specialized content for LEGO beginning with the Mindstorms product line in 1997/1998. In 2000, Templar began working with LEGO on a new concept in online gaming for LEGO's

Bionicle Bionicle was a line of Lego construction toys, marketed primarily towards 8-to-16-year-olds. The line originally launched in 2001 as a subsidiary of Lego's Technic series. Over the following decade, it became one of Lego's biggest-selling prop ...

toy line. Templar designed and produced a large-scale Flash-based adventure game entitled

Mata Nui Online Game ''Mata Nui Online Game'' (also known as ''Mata Nui Adventure Game'' or ''Mata Nui: The Online Game'') is a 2001 Adventure game#Point-and-click adventure games, point-and-click adventure browser game developed by Templar Studios to promote the ...

, with chapters introducing the various characters. Each chapter was added to the online game as LEGO released new toys in the product line. The online game received millions of visitors and Bionicle became one of the best-selling action figures in 2001. Templar produced several additions to the site for LEGO between 2001 and 2003. In 2003, Templar produced a next-generation sequel for the Bionicle line entitled The Final Chronicle.

Other clients and projects

Templar also produces PC and web games for other clients such as 20th Century Fox, Universal, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Office Max, Slim Jim, and Volkswagen. The company has won several industry awards, including a nomination for Mata Nui at the 2003 Flash Forward Festival, and a Golden Lion award by the International Advertising Festival in Cannes, for its work with Volkswagen. Television:
BBC America (''Footballers Wives'')

Cartoon Network Cartoon Network (often abbreviated as CN) is an American cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. It is a part of The Cartoon Network, Inc., a division that also has the broadcasting and production activities of Boomerang, Car ...

(''Ed, Edd n Eddy, Codename: Kids Next Door, BoBoBo-Bo)

HBO Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business unit is ba ...

(''The Sopranos'')
Movie Studios:

20th Century Fox 20th Century Studios, Inc. (previously known as 20th Century Fox) is an American film production company headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles. As of 2019, it serves as a film production arm of Walt Dis ...

(''Transporter 2'',''Pathfinder: Legend of the Ghost Warrior'')
Lions Gate (''Lord of War'')

Sony Pictures Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Sony Pictures or SPE, and formerly known as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.) is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio Conglomerate (company), conglom ...

(''Triple X 2: State of the Union'')

Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. or abbreviated as WB) is an American film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Di ...

(''Yu-Gi-Oh!)''
Advertising Agency & clients:
Arnold Worldwide: Truth Campaign
Bartle Bogle Hegarty: Axe Shower Gel

Crispin Porter + Bogusky Crispin Porter + Bogusky (also known as CP+B), a member of publicly traded MDC Partners, is an American advertising agency that employed around 700 people. It was founded in 1988 by Sam Crispin. Crispin then became partners with Chuck Porter ...

: Gateway Computers, Geeksquad, Slim Jim, Volkswagen, Virgin Atlantic

External links

Templar

Bionicle Site
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