Fri, Feb 25, 2011 | 08:35 GMT

Lucid Games formed by ex-Bizarre devs

Seven days after Bizarre Creations shut down, some of its ex staff has gone on to form Lucid Games.

The studio, based in the north west of England, is being led by former senior manager at Bizarre, Pete Wallace, with a handful of Bizarre alumni also on board.

It’s hoping to create at least 50 posts.

“With the great history of Bizarre behind us, we are proud to be part of Lucid and are committed to the UK game development community,” said Wallace.

“We plan to build a studio which encourages open communication with its partners, customers and other developers.”

Speaking in an interview with the Liverpool Daily Post, commercial director Andy Davidson said it looks to get back to the kind of level Bizarre was at which made it a key buy for Activision.

“We want to get back to the levels of innovation and creativity at Bizarre that made Activision so keen to acquire it,” he said.

Lucid will be out in force at GDC next week.

Via EG.

15 comments

Blerk
25/02/11, 8:34 am

Good luck, chaps!

Johnny Cullen
25/02/11, 8:42 am

Good news story for Friday after last week.

Freek
25/02/11, 8:56 am

“Why do we get fired from Activision?” So that we can learn to work for a better publisher.”

PenTaFH
25/02/11, 8:58 am

Awesome. I’d hated it to have seen the people from Bizarre to get fired, get up and just leave. This is nice. But just for good measure, Lucid’s logo needs more pumpkin.

Chockster
25/02/11, 9:03 am

Good luck Boys & Girls!

Joe Anderson
25/02/11, 9:46 am

Good stuff, I’m sure they will do well.

Gadzooks!
25/02/11, 10:13 am

Very glad to see that the Bizarre core has not completely scatteted.

Best of luck to them, and hopefully they can get up to speed and producing more top quality games soon!

Zana
25/02/11, 10:51 am

“We want to get back to the levels of innovation and creativity at Bizarre that made Activision so keen to acquire it”

And throw it away? Good luck to you but I don’t believe this is a proper way of introducing yourself, guys!

YoungZer0
25/02/11, 10:52 am

@9: They basically said: We don’t want to suck any more.

#10

ManuOtaku
25/02/11, 11:32 am

They basically said: you know we were good prior activision adquisition, then we were mediocre at best, under activision helm, now we are free from activision and we will be good again…therefore…activision is the picture in the dictionary for the very word “atila´s horse”

P.S just for the record atilas horse destroy everything he touches according to the folklore

#11

ManuOtaku
25/02/11, 11:32 am

And good luck to lucid, now can we get blur 2 and PGR 5, please

#12

Zana
25/02/11, 11:37 am

@YoungZer0: I like your wording better.

#13

Mike
25/02/11, 11:41 am

SOME of its ex staff HAVE. Not has.

#14

Freek
25/02/11, 12:16 pm