Artifice Studio Explained

Artifice Studio
Type:Private
Foundation:Boucherville, Quebec, Canada (2010)
Location Country:Longueuil, Quebec, Canada
Area Served:Worldwide
Industry:Computer software
video games
Products:Sand-Froid: Tales of Werewolves, Conflicks
Homepage:artificestudio.com

Artifice Studio is a Canadian video game development company based just south of Montreal in Longueuil, Quebec. It was founded in 2010 and currently consists of eight employees in the greater Montreal area and other locations. Several of the team members are former developers from Electronic Arts Montreal,[1] which developed the Army of Two series and was later closed in 2013.[2]

Their first game,, received generally favorable reviews, and was nominated for a number of Canadian Videogame Awards.[3]

In June 2014, Artifice Studio announced their next game, Conflicks. A cinematic trailer was released June 12.[4] Set during a re-imagined French Revolution, Conflicks is a physics-based RTS in development for PC, Mac and Linux.[5] The game was released to Steam on November 5, 2015.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Interview with Yan Pepin . 2015-02-26 .
  2. Web site: Visceral Montreal Employee Confirms Entire Staff Let Go. https://web.archive.org/web/20130224024835/http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/02/21/report-army-of-two-developer-suffers-layoffs.aspx. dead. February 24, 2013. Marchiafava. Jeff. Game Informer. 2013-02-21. 2013-03-11.
  3. Web site: Sang Froid CVA nomination page . https://archive.today/20150227053856/http://www.canadianvideogameawards.com/2014/01/08/ensangfroid-tales-werewolvesfrsangfroid-tales-werewolves/ . dead . 2015-02-27 . 2015-02-26 .
  4. Web site: Conflicks Cinematic Trailer. YouTube. 2014-06-12. 2015-02-26.
  5. Web site: Sang-Froid dev reveals physics-based RTS Conflicks. Matulef. Jeffrey. eurogamer. 2014-08-14. 2015-02-26.