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Motion Twin
TypeWorker Cooperative
Founded2001
Key peopleThe Team
SloganMake tranks games, not war!
HeadquartersBordeaux, France
IndustryInteractive entertainment
Employees11
Websitemotion-twin.com

Motion Twin is an independent studio specializing in online video games. Founded in 2001, the company is a worker cooperative enterprise based in Bordeaux, France.

The company initially gained notoriety through the release of games such as "My Brute", "Mush", "Die2Nite", "Alphabounce" and the social game platform, "Twinoid", and now has a community of 15 million registered users.

All Motion Twin games can be accessed and played for free with some games including a premium option (subscriptions and items) which create revenue for the company. In 2009, the company had a turnover of 4 million euros.

History

The company Motion-Twin was founded in 2001 by Benjamin Soulé and Nicolas Cannasse, joined shortly afterwards by Pascal Péridont, Laurent Bedubourg and Sébastien Bénard. The company name, Motion-Twin, refers to one of the basic techniques of Adobe Flash, known as « Motion Tween » , which involves identifying objects in an image and defining how they should move and change within a keyframe. The company's red star logo was chosen for its revolutionary connotations.

Awards

Creation

Motion Twin was created on 7th October 2003.

Programming and Development

Motion Twin, whilst well-known to the public for its online-games built in Flash, it also uses its own in-house technology and programming languages to create the games. Motion Twin invented and developed Haxe, an open-source high-level multiplatform programming language and compiler that can produce applications and source code for many different platforms from a single code-base.

List of games developed by Motion Twin

Game Game type Creation date Description
AlphaBounce Single-player 2007; 2010 for the DSiware version A brick-breaker game with an interplanetary role-play theme. This game was released for download on DSI and DSiWare. The game was developed in collaboration with MadMonkeys Studio.
Antiville Single-player 2007 The antithesis of Miniville, involves destroying mini-cities.
Arkadeo Single-player 2013 A huge video-game arcade.
My Brute Single-player 2008 Combat one-on-one battle game.
CaféJeux Game-portal 2007 Chat-room and mini-game site.
Carapass Single-player 2008 Skittles style game.
Conquisla Multi-player 2008 Multi-player strategy game. Closed down in January 2011.
CroqueMonster Multi-player 2007 Multi-player resource-management game.
CroqueMotel Management simulation 2011 Hotel simulation where the customers are monsters.
Dinocard Single-player 2006 Card-game based on the "Dinoz".
Dinoparc Single-player 2005(2 November) "Dinoz" breeding simulation game.
DinoRPG Single-player 2008 "Dinoz" Breeding simulation game. Thought of as a "Dinoparc 2"
Frutiparc Games portal 2002 The company's first ever games-portal. It is no longer possible to register.
Galaxy55 Action-adventure multi-player 2012 Explore a universe in 3D.
Hammerfest Multi-player 2006 Platform adventure game.
Hordes Multi-player 2008 Community based strategy/survival game.
Hyperliner Multi-player 2007 Virtual vehicle battles.
Kadokado Games portal 2004 More than 60 individual single-player games available; created solely by Motion Twin.
Miniville Single-player 2007 Game which involves creating and developing a city within a region of France.
Minitroopers Multi-player 2011(27 April) Traditional fighting and wargame strategy game.
MyMiniCity Single-player 2007 Same concept as Miniville but increased to a global-level.
Monlapin Single-player 2004 Rabbit breeding simulation game.
Mush Multi-player 2013 Survival game based in space.
Naturalchimie 1 et 2 Single-player 2005 for no.1; 2010 for no.2 Modified version of Tetris whereby the "elements" create recipes.
Muxxu Games-portal 2009 Comprises of 11 games : LaBrute, CroqueMotel, StudioQuiz, Fever, Snake, Odyssey, Kingdom, Intrusion, Majority, MotionBall 2 and Kube.
Twinoid Game-platform 2011 Games platform which regroups Muxxu along with 9 other games: Teacher Story, Arkadeo, Mush, KadoKado, MiniTroopers, Hordes, AlphaBounce, DinoRPG, Naturalchimie 2. Only one account is necessary for access to all the games.
Pioupiouz Single-player 2006 Single-player creative puzzle game.
Popotamo Multi-player 2006/07 Type of on-line Scrabble.
Socratomancie Single-player 2005 Game where Socrates answers your questions.
Studioquiz Multi-player 2007 Quiz game for up to 8 players.
SkyWar Multi-player 2008 Multi-player strategy game.
Teacher Story Single-player 2013 Tactical-RPG school-themed game.

List of translated games

  • MonLapin.net is also available in Spanish: miconejo.net.
  • Hordes.fr is available in German : dieverdammten.de, in English : die2nite.com and in Spanish : zombinoia.com. However, these are older versions of the game.
  • DinoParc.com is available in Spanish; es.dinoparc.com, in English : en.dinoparc.com and in Japanese : dinoparaiso.com.
  • classic.naturalchimie.com is also available in Spanish : naturalquimia.es, and in English : naturalchemist.com.
  • Hammerfest is available in Spanish : hammerfest.es and in English at : hfest.net.
  • MiniVille is available in Spanish : myminicity.es and in English at : myminicity.com.
  • AlphaBounce is available in English, Spanish and German under the French game title : alphabounce.com.
  • Dino-RPG is available in English : en.dinorpg, in Spanish : es.dinorpg and in German : dinorpg.de.
  • LaBrute is available in English at : mybrute.com in Spanish at: elbruto.es and in German at: meinbrutalo.de.
  • AlphaBounce DSiWare is available in English (UK/US), Italian, German and Spanish.
  • Popotamo is available in English at: en.popotamo.com.
  • Muxxu is available in English and Spanish.
  • Minitroopers is available in English at : minitroopers.com and in Spanish at: minitroopers.es.
  • Mush is available in English and Spanish.

Company Hierarchy

Motion-Twin is a company where each employer has an equal share in the company and a voting right regardless of their seniority or their qualifications. There is therefore no established hierarchy.

Employees

Motion-Twin is comprised of a team of 11 employees in a French workers cooperative, namely a SCOP, with each employee receiving the same salary and voting rights. All employees are made administrators for the Motion-Twin games and given special privileges, allowing them to moderate, carry out maintenance operations, and so forth.

Employees are each assigned roles in the development of their own game, aided by fellow colleagues.

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