It’s been a fantastic start to February here at Tag Games, as we announce that we are among the first companies to win support from the UK Games Fund.

The UK Games Fund is a government-sponsored initiative aimed at supporting growth in the UK games industry. Through funding, the UK Games Fund encourages developers to build new IP, innovate, expand and grow. Studios that submit successful proposals receive a grant of up to £25,000 for an initial game prototype, with potential for additional funding should the project go beyond this stage.

Since Tag Games opened in 2006, we’ve been lucky enough to be hired by a steady stream of publishers, broadcasters and IP owners looking to work with a reliable, talented studio. Back in those early days the work-for-hire model was very much the standard between developers and publishers and at Tag things were no different. Make game, ship game, get paid, handshake. All very simple.

It was a straightforward way of doing business, but not necessarily one that encouraged long-term client relationships. Once we realised the potential of the free-to-play (F2P) market however, the goalposts moved both in terms of the games we made and the way we worked with publishers.

2016 is shaping up to be a big year for us here at Tag. Not only do we have some seriously exciting projects we’ll be revealing in the coming months, but we'll be celebrating our 10th birthday!

With the current year of the monkey now over a week old, the Tag team felt it was as good a time as any to celebrate some of the great simians to grace the gaming industry.  Have a peek below to find out some of our favourites and be sure to get in touch if you disagree.

2015 has been a great year for Tag Games with a lot of exciting growth. We recently we hit a pretty significant milestone in the story of our studio and 50 is the magic number!
 
It turns out that our latest title Downton Abbey: Mysteries of the Manor was the 50th game we’ve developed in our nine year history. In the same period we also reached the highest staff count to date with, yes you guessed it, 50 people!
 
So feeling a bit nostalgic, we chose our top five highlight projects over the years and what made them memorable.

Tag Games has always been forward thinking in our approach to the tools and services we develop to support our games and in 2015, we were able to take some of these tools and services and make them available to developers for the first time through the ChilliWorks product suite.

We're just back from Ninewells Hospital, where we teamed up with Get-Well Gamers UK o help raise funds for The Archie Foundation Taysid. As you can see we handed over loads of consoles and games which were donated by the staff at Tag Games and Get-Well Gamers.