Company

Claymore Games started life as Dinky Dino Games way back in 2004. However after a year of correcting people on the spelling, Brian, the owner, decided a name change was in order. The name Claymore Games was immediately decided upon because of its Scottish origins.

Claymore Games is run by two very talented individuals, Brian Hackett and Alan Grier (see the panels on the left for individual back stories and experience). Jana Moravcova (PR and design) occasionally helps out when the other two finally admit they don't know what they're doing.

We specialise in mobile phone games, however we are expanding into other territories, including iPhone and Android games, as well as web based titles. We pride ourselves in getting the most out of what little resources these platforms provide and always rate fun above anything else.

Primordial Soup is a custom built Build System and Engine designed to streamline development of Mobile Phone Games. Primordial Soup takes the hassle out of creating Mobile Phone Games by providing many of the basic framework features in an easy to use Engine (called Protein) and also automates the build process, which not only allows you to work from one code and resource base, but automatically arranges and sorts the different builds for each phone into separate folders (J2ME Version).

Primordial Soup is constantly being updated and expanded to support new features and new devices. All of Protein's classes are fully documented using the JavaDoc system and contains all of the information necessary to get the most out of each and every class.

With all of these features combined you will be able to squeeze more that you ever though possible into a JAR and do it in a shorter time period!

You can also download a more detailed and technical description of Primordial Soup here: Primordial Soup Features

Primordial Soup is now also available on iOS, with a few modifications to suit the platform (including being able to build and use Texture Atlases).

Past Games

(not associated with Claymore Games)

Brian Hackett

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Brian started life as a lowly coder at DC Games (now Firebrand Games) and soon rocketed up the employment ladder to work at Rockpool Games, quickly followed by a stint at Picsel Tecnologies and Aarkid Ltd., before taking the plunge and committing to Claymore Games 100%.

Brian takes care of the day to day stuff like communicating with publishers and translation houses as well as handling the majority of the programming of the titles and tools produced at Claymore Games.

Much to Alan's detriment, Brian also has a say in some of the design work, so if you see something that doesn't quite fit, you can probably blame him.

Alan Grier

Alan is the art monkey of this operation. He has had over 20 years experience in the games industry, working on many of the early consoles, which has set him up to be ideally suited to mobile game development.

Alan has a very diverse and long background, but we won't go into that here as he doesn't want everyone to know just how old he is.

The majority of the design work is handled by Alan, including writing design documents, proof of concept drawings and many other talented things.

Jana Moravcova

Jana helps out by doing all of the dirty work that Alan and Brian don't want to do, such as press releases and advertising. She is our PR and marketing expert and chips in on the design aspect every now and then (including the majority of this website).

But, we don't hold that against her as we know these are necessary evils in this industry, because if it wasn't for her we wouldn't make any money and then we wouldn't be able to make such superb games!