Dark Rock Games is a Welsh based game studio set up by Adam Griffiths. Dark Rock is a studio that is both making their own casual games, and outsourcing for other projects.

Adam went to the University of Wales Newport and completed a games design course along with a group of friends. After completing his course Adam was faced with a choice of what to do, he had the possibility to get a job in England and commute, move to England or to take the choice he did, set up his own game studio.

This is what he did along with his friends thanks to a grant from the University. They set up shop in Newport and have been working hard ever since.They currently have two completed projects.

Firstly there is Transitions a mod for Half-Life 2 created by Adam as his final year project at University.

Their second project was Dear Esther (site coming soon) which they were called in by Dan Pinchbeck to help work on.

Now Dark Rock are working on, in Adams words;

several titles, our two main titles (our own projects) are based on some old retro style games but re-invented, with new worlds, characters, environemnts and gameplay, they’re both geared towards the casual market due to our lack of capitol, which prevents us from making anything mainstream.

While Adam and the team are not yet ready to show anything off about these games he promises to get out more information on them as soon as possible. They will hopefully be released in the next few months while the team continue to work on outsourced projects.

Dark Rock Games are a shining light to other Welsh students that there is always a chance to go it your own and make something happen.

I plan to write more on Welsh Gaming over the coming months, so keep your eyes peeled!

Tags: Dark Rock Games, Newport, Welsh Gaming

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