Tag Games
UK video game developer
Tag Games Ltd was a video game developer and publisher based in Dundee, Scotland. Established in 2006, the company developed games for mobile, tablet and wearable platforms and was an early European developer of titles for both the iPhone and iPad.
Tag Games was a certified member of the United Kingdom game industry trade association The Independent Games Developers Association (TIGA).
History
Paul Farley, Jamie Bryan and Robert Henning founded Tag Games in 2006. Paul Farley and Jamie Bryan had previously been part of development teams at DMA Design and Vis Entertainment where they worked on titles such as Grand Theft Auto, Space Station Silicon Valley and State of Emergency.
The studio's output consists of a mix of original IP development and commissioned work. Tag's clients include Rovio, Activision, EA, Ubisoft, Namco Bandai, Channel 4, Big Fish Games and Wooga.
In June 2011, the studio released its first free-to-play mobile game, Funpark Friends. The game was later nominated for the International Mobile Gaming Awards, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and The Herald Scotland mobile games awards, winning the Herald Scotland best Scottish Mobile Game 2011.
In June 2023, Scopely acquired Tag Games.
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