Snapshot Games
Logo used 2014 to present.
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| Private | |
| Industry | Video game developer |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Founders |
Julian Gollop David Kaye |
| Headquarters | Sofia, Bulgaria |
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Number of employees
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30 (2018), 13 (2017), 9 (2016) |
| Website | snapshotgames |
Snapshot Games is an independent video game developer headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria. Snapshot Games was founded in 2013 by Julian Gollop and David Kaye.Gollop is widely recognized for creating the X-COM video game franchise in the 1990s with UFO: Enemy Unknown and X-COM: Apocalypse. Gollop also is the CEO of Snapshot Games. In addition to Gollop, the company includes about eight developers who are industry veterans with years of previous experience working for Ubisoft Sofia, Crytek Black Sea, and other Bulgaria studios. On June 8, 2017, the company announced that they will employ a team of about thirty developers by the end of the year.
On November 12, 2013, Snapshot Games was founded as a privately held corporation in the state of California of the United States. However, it is based in Bulgaria where its CEO, Julian Gollop, lives and where video game development costs are about one-third of what they would be for a similar studio in the United States.
In April 2014, Snapshot Games launched a Kickstarter to crowdfund the development of its first video game, Chaos Reborn. The effort was successful, generating over $210,000. The game was made available through the Early Access program of Steam on December 9, 2014 before it was released officially on October 26, 2015. The game received a score of 86/100 on review aggregation website Metacritic.PC Gamer awarded it a score of 87%, saying "A true wizard’s wheeze, and a fine return for one of gaming’s oldest tactical classics." The game also was nominated for a Golden Joystick Award in the 2015 Best Indie Game category but lost to Kerbal Space Program.
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