Thunder Lotus Games is an independent

video game development Video game development (or gamedev) is the process of developing a video game. The effort is undertaken by a developer, ranging from a single person to an international team dispersed across the globe. Development of traditional commercial PC ...

studio based in

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple ...

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

. Founded in 2014, the company is most known for developing '' Jotun'' (2015), '' Sundered'' (2017) and ''

Spiritfarer ''Spiritfarer'' is an indie management sim and sandbox action game developed and published by Canadian studio Thunder Lotus Games and released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Android and Sta ...

'' (2020).

History

The studio was founded in 2014 after founder Will Dubé quit his original job at a mobile video game studio to launch his own project, '' Jotun'' on Kickstarter for funding. He originally wanted to name the studio "Lotus Games", though he ultimately avoided this name due to confusion with another company named Lotus Entertainment. The game had a successful crowdfunding campaign which raised over $64,000, surpassing Dubé expectations. The game became a financial success after its launch in 2015, attracting more than 1 million players. The success of the first game allowed the company to start development on their next game, '' Sundered'', a

Metroidvania Metroidvania is a sub-genre of platform video games focused on guided non-linearity and utility-gated exploration and progression. The term is a portmanteau of the names of the video game series ''Metroid'' and ''Castlevania'', with games in the ...

game inspired by ''

Rogue Legacy ''Rogue Legacy'' is a 2013 platform game with roguelike elements developed and published by Cellar Door Games. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, a ...

'' and ''

Super Metroid is an action-adventure game developed by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994. It is the third installment in the ''Metroid'' series, following the events of the Game Boy ...

''. It reached its crowdfunding target a day after its Kickstarter campaign was launched. Following the release of ''Sundered'', the company signed with investment fund Kowloon Nights for the release of their next game, ''

''. It was a commercial success, selling more than 1 million copies. The company currently has 16 employees. 14 of them are full-time developers, while the remaining two are responsible for publishing the games.

Games

References

External links

* {{Thunder Lotus Canadian companies established in 2014 Companies based in Montreal Video game development companies Video game companies established in 2014 Video game companies of Canada Indie game developers 2014 establishments in Quebec Thunder Lotus Games