Floating Point Studios Limited
Overview
Floating Point Studios Limited is a development studio based in Swansea, Wales. Its formation was announced on 26th September 2008.
The company was founded by
Julian Hainsworth just after graduating from the Swansea Metropolitan University and financed at his own investment. Other members of the team at the time of formation are
Andrea Basilio,
Rich Morgan and
Chris Davies, all still studying Computer Games Design at the SMU.
Chris De Lloyd was also with the company for the first three weeks.
The company works on downloadable PC games.
Trivia
The name Floating Point Studios comes from two places, the first of which is the floating point variable which is used in programming and mathematics, two of the fundamental aspects of game development. The floating point variable can have decimal places where as integers can only be a whole numbers. Floating points have now almost completely replaced integers in game development as they allow smooth animation and highly dynamic interactions as well as other advantages. Naming the studio Floating Point is to connote that FPS is a non-linear, multifaceted, dynamic team. The other reason is a joke at the games industries expense as the abbreviation for Floating Point Studios is FPS, in the gaming universe FPS is an abbreviation for the genre of First-Person Shooter.
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