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Team17
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Team 17 Digital Limited (Team17) is a British video game developer and publisher based in Wakefield, England. The venture was created in December 1990 through the merger of British publisher 17-Bit Software and Swedish developer Team 7. At the time, the two companies consisted of and were led by Michael Robinson, Martyn Brown and Debbie Bestwick, and Andreas Tadic, Rico Holmes and Peter Tuleby, respectively. Bestwick later became Team17's chief executive officer until 1 January 2024. After their first game, Full Contact (1991) for the Amiga, the studio followed up with multiple number-one rele
Key facts
- Company.name
- Team 17 Digital Limited
- Company.logo
- Team17 logo (2018).svg
- Company.type
- Subsidiary
- Company.industry
- Video games
- Company.hq_location_city
- Wakefield
- Company.hq_location_country
- England
- Company.num_locations
- 2 studios
- Company.key_people
- Mike Delves (head of studios)
- Company.num_employees
- 200
- Company.num_employees_year
- 2019
- Company.parent
- Everplay (2018–present)
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Team17 Software Ltd.
- Employees
- 75
- Official website
- www.team17.com
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- inception
- 1990-12-00
- social media followers
- 158000
- name
- Team17 Software Ltd.
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Article
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Early history (1990–1995)
- ''Worms'' (1994–2010)
- Restructuring and expansion (2010–2018)
- IPO and management troubles (2018–present)
- Games developed and published
- References
- External links
Team 17 Digital Limited (Team17) is a British video game developer and publisher based in Wakefield, England. The venture was created in December 1990 through the merger of British publisher 17-Bit Software and Swedish developer Team 7. At the time, the two companies consisted of and were led by Michael Robinson, Martyn Brown and Debbie Bestwick, and Andreas Tadic, Rico Holmes and Peter Tuleby, respectively. Bestwick later became Team17's chief executive officer until 1 January 2024. After their first game, Full Contact (1991) for the Amiga, the studio followed up with multiple number-one releases on that platform and saw major success with Andy Davidson's Worms in 1995, the resulting franchise of which still remains as the company's primary development output, having developed over 20 entries in it.
Through a management buyout performed by Bestwick, both Robinson and Brown departed from Team17 in 2010, leaving Bestwick as the sole manager. In 2013, Team17 initiated a publishing venture focusing on indie games. The first game to release of this venture was Light (2013). Following a large investment from Lloyds Development Capital in September 2016, Team17 sought corporate expansion through various actions, including the acquisition of Mouldy Toof Studios, the developer behind Team17-published The Escapists (2015), and the hiring of multiple new key staff. In May 2018, the company was organized under the Team17 Group (later renamed Everplay), which became a public company listed on the Alternative Investment Market, valued around . As of 2019, Team17 employs 200 people across its three offices in Wakefield, Manchester and Nottingham.