Introversion Software

Introversion Software is a UK based company that labels itself 'The last of the bedroom programmers'. It was founded by three friends, Chris Delay, Mark Morris and Thomas Arundel. The coding for their first game Uplink was done almost exclusivly by Chris, while Mark and Tom handled marketing, materials and the other 'business' elements. Their small initial investment enabled them to buy CD-Rs, and printer cartridges, and early copies of the game were published in this way. They were able to fully make back their investment within a few hours of accepting orders, flying in the face of multinational developers and publishers which spend millions.

A large and loyal community formed, and the team, along with a new programmer Andy Bainbridge have been working on two new games, Darwinia and what is cryptically called <the next next game>. At the time of writing, a release for Darwinia is planned in January 2005, with the inital beta testing starting around August, although as the community will tell you, Introversion Software deadlines are highly subject to change.