Headfirst Productions
{{Short description|UK video game developer}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Headfirst Productions
| type = Private
| founder = Mike Woodroffe
Simon Woodroffe
| defunct = 2006
| location = Canwell, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, UK
| industry = Video games
| homepage = [https://web.archive.org/web/20061205185548/http://www.headfirst.co.uk/html/index.php headfirst.co.uk]
}}
Headfirst Productions was a British video game studio established by father and son Mike and Simon Woodroffe (Adventure Soft) in 1998. The studio was an independent developer of games for both the console and PC market.
Games
- Battle of the Planets (cancelled)
- Call of Cthulhu: Beyond the Mountains of Madness (cancelled)
- Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (2005)
- Call of Cthulhu: Destiny's End (vaporware, cancelled)
- Call of Cthulhu: Tainted Legacy (cancelled)
- Deadlands (cancelled)
- Simon the Sorcerer 3D (2002)
Bankruptcy
After having published Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Headfirst had problems with publisher Bethesda Softworks regarding finances. Some time after that, about half of the company left, so the second project's team (Call of Cthulhu: Destiny's End), along with some people from the Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth production team, stayed on board trying to keep working on the project, porting it to the next-gen consoles, while the directors were trying to secure a publishing deal for the game. After several months of struggle the company went into administration.
Most of the staff went on to other West Midlands game companies, namely Codemasters, Eurocom and Sega Racing Studio. In February 2006, Headfirst Productions went into administration in an effort to pay off outstanding debts owed because of production costs associated with the many years of Cthulhu development, and other unsigned projects. Assets were liquidated, employees were laid off, and the company was dissolved less than a month later.{{cite web|title=Headfirst Productions Company Profile |publisher=GameSpy |url=http://au.gamespy.com/company/027/027107.html |accessdate=17 January 2007 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116153639/http://au.gamespy.com/company/027/027107.html |archivedate=16 November 2007 }}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20061205185548/http://www.headfirst.co.uk/html/index.php Headfirst Productions' official website (archived)]
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Category:Video game companies established in 1998
Category:Video game companies disestablished in 2006
Category:Defunct companies based in the West Midlands (county)
Category:Privately held companies of the United Kingdom
Category:Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom
Category:Video game development companies