Inside The Creative Assembly
Winning a BAFTA and shipping a massive expansion, celebrating a quarter of a century in the industry and managing to be one of the few outfits expanding against an increasingly bleak economic backdrop – that’s not bad work, all in all, but the team at The Creative Assembly aren’t exactly ones to shout about their success. Over 25 years, the studio that’s situated in peaceful, unassuming Horsham has quietly earned a reputation for excellence, built largely around its long-running Total War series. The BAFTA, won in this year’s best strategy category, is the third that the series has been awarded to date. “This year we were up against Deus Ex,” Mike Simpson, Total War’s studio director tells us, “and the original Shogun in 2000 was up against the original Deus Ex – which they then won. We were so upset having lost that time round when we got nominated the following year we didn’t go – and we won that one.” Read more…
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