We are pleased to announce that Tag Games is 5 years old this week. It’s been a rollercoaster ride for sure, yet despite the ups and down of independant game development and publishing we’ve never been in better shape for the challenges and opportunities ahead. We’ve come along way from humble beginnings in a small cottage in Fife and our first game Dead Water, to an expanding studio with cross platfrom, social, connected and game analytics capability. Not to mention the vast creative capacity and general greatness of our team!

We’re excited because we know the best is yet to come from Tag, this year is a big one for us as we look forward to the release of some of the biggest and most ambitious work for hire and own IP projects we’ve ever undertaken. Thanks must go to all our friends, family, players, users, customers, current clients, future clients and everyone else that has in some way been a part of the story so far. We look forward to the next exciting chapter with anticipation!

Happy 5th Birthday to us!

As part of the Tag birthday celebrations we’ve been running the first ever Tag Hack Day. Five brave teams worked for 24 hours to create a finished game and earn the right to be crowned Tag’s Hack Champions of 2011! It was a close contest with all of the teams demonstrating a large degree of creativity, skill and commitment. Much fun was had, but Hack has a serious side as we learnt again the value of rapid prototyping and iteration in the game development process. It was also great to see our own moFlow and moConnect game engines/platforms going head to head against Unity and bespoke solutions and holding its own! Now that we’ve had a taste of the Hack experience we’ll be going back for more later in the year. Now it’s time for some drinks. Cheers for the good times and the bad, Heres to another five years of fun and games!

Tag Hack 2011 Table of Glory

1. Bath Toaster – Cantankerous 234.5 points

2. TEAM – Rescue Robots 195.5 points

3. Lowest Visable Sandwich Layer – Immunoglobulin 176 points

4. Roger Moore Adventure Club – Flaming Eamon 169 points

5.  Thunderdeth – Super Rescue Buoy137 points

** Congrats to team Bath Toaster our Tag Hack 2011 winners! **