Kitfox Games
TypePrivate
IndustryVideo games
Founded2013 (2013)
Founder
  • Tanya X. Short
  • Jongwoo Kim
  • Xin Ran Liu
  • Mike Ditchburn
Headquarters
Montreal
,
Canada
Number of employees
8 (2019)
Websitekitfoxgames.com

Kitfox Games is an indie game development studio based in Montreal, Canada. It was co-founded by Tanya X. Short, Jongwoo Kim, Xin Ran Liu, and Mike Ditchburn in June 2013.

History

According to Short, the founders never worked together before and knew each other as semi-acquaintances at local independent developer meetup in Montreal. After forming a studio, the team participated in a game jam in which they created and submitted their jam entry Sculptorgeist which became a winning finalist. Kitfox Games began development of their first game Shattered Planet as a procedural death labyrinth game. Shattered Planet was released on iOS and later Android, Microsoft Windows, and MacOS in 2014.[1][2]

As of 2019, the studio had eight employees.[3] In March 2019, Kitfox Games partnered with Bay 12 Games to be its publisher for the Steam and itch.io version of Dwarf Fortress. According to a frequently asked questions post, Kitfox Games would manage its relationship with Steam and contractors while Bay 12 Games co-creator Tarn Adams would handle the technical side of the game.[4]

Games published

Year Title
2014 Shattered Planet
2016 Moon Hunters
2017 The Shrouded Isle
2018 BadCupid
2019 Fit for a King
2020 Lucifer Within Us[5]
2021 Boyfriend Dungeon
2022 Pupperazzi
2022 Dwarf Fortress

References

  1. ↑ Czikk, Joseph (2014-04-08). "Kitfox Games Doesn't Want Its Titles to be Pushovers". BetaKit. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
  2. ↑ Starr, Michelle (2014-04-03). "Shattered Planet: towards the perfect procedural death labyrinth". CNET. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
  3. ↑ "Kitfox: People are more important than projects". GamesIndustry.biz. 22 April 2019. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
  4. ↑ Hall, Charlie (2019-03-14). "The co-creator of Dwarf Fortress is getting older, but his work remains unfinished". Polygon. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  5. ↑ "Lucifer Within Us is Kitfox's new game about digital exorcism". VentureBeat. 2019-06-11. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
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