Stephen Rippy “What Ive learnt at Bonfire”

Hot on the heels of Robot Entertainment’s one year anniversary comes Bonfire’s own anniversary and is blogged about by musical genius Stephen Rippy.

This evening, Bonfire Studios will have a small party celebrating the end of our first year as a company and the beginning of our second.  In honor of that sort-of startling milestone, I wanted to take a minute to look back at the past twelve months and maybe share a couple of things I’ve picked up along the way.

Stephen talks about the transition from Ensemble Studios to Bonfire Studios. Turns out they didn’t move very far, just down a few floors in the same high rise building:

The end of Ensemble Studios as an entity also meant the shuttering of the space we’d occupied for the previous ten years.  We were nearing the end of our jobs and our lease, and had nowhere to go but down.  So down we went, literally – ten floors lower in the same building.  And we did it ourselves.  Over a single feverish weekend, fueled by junk food, beer, and months’ worth of accumulated angst, we grabbed our inherited computers, desks, and full-sized arcade machines and hauled them down, one armload at a time.  There were cuts, bruises, and people walking around with refrigerators strapped to their backs, but at the end of it all, we had something that was our own:  a new home.

The team at Bonfire have been working incredibly hard over the past year and while there is nothing to show just yet you can be sure these hard working developers will come up with a great game, perhaps more will be revealed at E3 this year.

For all of that, though, we’re confident and excited about the future – and we hope you’ll come along with us!  To everyone here, congratulations on our first anniversary.  See you back here this time next year.

Keep an eye on and read the full blog over at the Bonfire Studios website!