Exient

Exient Limited
Company type	Private
Industry	Video games
Founded	2000 (25 years ago)
Headquarters	Kings Langley, England, UK
Website	Official website

Exient Limited is a British video game developer and publisher based in Kings Langley, England. Developing for handheld, mobile, console, VR and PC platforms, Having studios in the United Kingdom and Malta, Exient grew a name for designing and developing popular series' games to portable systems. It is known for its ports of various games in the Madden NFL, FIFA, Need for Speed, and Tiger Woods PGA Tour series for Electronic Arts and for developing numerous titles in the Angry Birds series. The company was incorporated in 2000 and began operations in January 2001.

History

Exient was founded by Charles Chapman and David Hawkins in 2001. Chapman began developing computer games at age 14 and graduated with a mathematics and computation degree from Keble College, Oxford. Hawkins worked with software engineering in automotive and switched to project management in games. They met when Hawkins, working for Atari, was looking for ideas for games and Chapman, impressed by Hawkins works, decided to found a development company.^[1]

Up to 2013, the bulk of their development was for gaming platforms such as PSP, Nintendo DS, and Game Boy Advance but since 2014 their games have been developed for platforms including Android, iOS, PC and Console. Exient currently develops its games on a proprietary, in-house developed, engine named XGS, the Unity and Unreal Engine platforms.

In 2020, the company rebranded its publishing labels, Sad Puppy and Donut, to Exient Publishing.^[2]^[3] In July 2022, an anonymous source told MCV/Develop that Exient was restructuring resulting in redundancies.^[4] In August 2022, Exient produced a two hour long documentary titled "Lemmings: Can you dig it" on the history of the Lemmings series, featuring the original developers, alumni of DMA Design. The documentary was premiered at the Dundee Centre of Contemporary Arts (DCA) and released free to watch on YouTube.^[5]

Games developed

Release	Game	Format	Publisher	Ref
2024	The Grinch: Christmas Adventures	iOS, Android	Outright Games
	Angry Birds Fury Road	Arcade Motion Platform	DOF Robotics
	Parlini Land	iOS, Android	Magic Games Factory
	Nina u Ninu	iOS, Android	Magic Games Factory
2023	Ultimate Sackboy	iOS, Android	Exient Publishing
2023	CoComelon: Play with JJ		Netflix, Inc.
2019	Lemmings		Exient Publishing
2017	Top Gear: Donut Dash		BBC Worldwide	^[6]
2016	Dancing with the Stars		Donut Publishing
	Furby Connect World		Hasbro
	Strictly come Dancing		Donut Publishing
	F1 2016		Codemasters
2014	Angry Birds Transformers		Rovio
2014	Bake Escape	iOS	Donut Publishing
2013	Angry Birds Go!	Android, iOS, Blackberry 10	Rovio
	Diggs Nightcrawler	PlayStation 3
	Angry Birds Trilogy	PlayStation Vita	Rovio
	Angry Birds Star Wars	PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS	Activision
	CSR Racing	Android	NaturalMotion
2012	Angry Birds Trilogy	Nintendo 3DS
	Fireworks	PlayStation Vita
	Pulzar	PlayStation Vita
2010	Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit	Wii	Electronic Arts
	The Sims 3	Nintendo DS
	FIFA 11	Nintendo DS
	X2 Football 2010	iOS	X2 Games
	X2 Snowboarding	iOS	X2 Games
2009	FIFA 10	Nintendo DS	Electronic Arts
	DJ Hero	Wii, PlayStation 2
	Tiger Woods PGA Tour	iOS
	X2 Football 2009	iOS
2008	FIFA 09	Nintendo DS
	Madden NFL 09	Nintendo DS
	Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09	PS, PSP2
	Skate It	Nintendo DS
	Need for Speed: Undercover	Wii, PlayStation 2
	FIFA Street 3^[7]	Nintendo DS	Electronic Arts
2007	NASCAR 08	PlayStation 2
	FIFA 08	Nintendo DS
	Madden NFL 08
	Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08
	Need for Speed: ProStreet
2006	FIFA Street 2
	2006 FIFA World Cup	Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable
	Madden NFL 07	Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS
	FIFA 07	Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS
	NASCAR 07 ^[8]	PlayStation Portable	Electronic Arts
	Need for Speed: Carbon	Nintendo DS
2005	FIFA Football 2005	Gizmondo
	SSX 3	Gizmondo
	Madden NFL 06	Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS
	FIFA 06
2004	Madden NFL 2005
	FIFA Soccer 2005	Game Boy Advance, N-Gage
	SSX Out Of Bounds	N-Gage
	WWE Aftershock	N-Gage	Electronic Arts
2003	Total Soccer	Mobile devices
	FIFA Soccer 2004	Game Boy Advance, N-Gage	Electronic Arts
	NCAA Football 2004	N-Gage
2002	Alex Ferguson's Player Manager 2002	Game Boy Advance	Ubisoft
	FIFA Soccer 2002	PDA	Electronic Arts
	NHL Hitz 20-03	Game Boy Advance
	FIFA Football		Electronic Arts
2001	Steven Gerrard's Total Soccer 2002		Ubisoft

Awards

Game	Year	Ceremony / Publication	Award	Result	Ref
Ultimate Sackboy (mobile)	2023	TIGA	Best Arcade Game	Nominated
	2023		Best Casual Game	Nominated
	2023		Best Small Studio	Nominated
Diggs Nightcrawler	2013		Best Casual Game	Nominated
The Sims 3	2010	BAFTA	Best Handheld Game	Nominated
The Sims 3 (NDS)	2010	Gamescom	Best Mobile Title	Nominated	^[9]
	2009	Develop 100	The World’s Most Successful Game Studios - 2009 Edition^[10]	67th
	2007	Develop 100	The World’s Most Successful Game Studios - 2007 Edition ^[11]^[12]	50th
	2005	TIGA	Best Handheld Games Development Studio^[13]

References

^ Hartford, Maggie (20 November 2008). "Game, set and match". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
^ Wallace, Chris (26 August 2020). "Exient rebrands its publishing labels as Exient Publishing". MCV/Develop. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
^ Partleton, Kayleigh (25 August 2020). "Exient rebrands Sad Puppy and Donut under Exient Publishing". PocketGamer.biz. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
^ Pavey, Vince (7 July 2022). "Exient restructuring to result in "unavoidable" redundancies — worse to come, says anonymous source". MCV. ISSN 1469-4832. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
^ Paprocki, Matt (25 August 2021). "Documentary about Amiga classic Lemmings due for game's 30th anniversary". Ars Technica.
^ "Ian Bickley at Exient Talks Bake Escape and Playtesting Mobile Games". Gamasutra. 17 May 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
^ IGN, February 28, 2008 - FIFA Street 3 Review. A vast improvement over last year's mess, but still not a portable hit. by Craig Harris
^ Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, 01-NOV-2006. Review of NASCAR 07.
^ "EA nominated for several gamescon awards". Gaming Nexus.
^ "Home". develop100.com.
^ Develop 100 Retrieved 8 April 2008.
^ "MCV, Mar 12 2008, 4:17pm – Develop 100: UK studios triumphant in 2007. Michael French". Archived from the original on 13 March 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2008.
^ Tiga – List of 2006 finalists

External links

Official website
Exient at MobyGames

[1] Hartford, Maggie (20 November 2008). "Game, set and match". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 5 January 2025.

[2] Wallace, Chris (26 August 2020). "Exient rebrands its publishing labels as Exient Publishing". MCV/Develop. Retrieved 1 October 2023.

[3] Partleton, Kayleigh (25 August 2020). "Exient rebrands Sad Puppy and Donut under Exient Publishing". PocketGamer.biz. Retrieved 1 October 2023.

[4] Pavey, Vince (7 July 2022). "Exient restructuring to result in "unavoidable" redundancies — worse to come, says anonymous source". MCV. ISSN 1469-4832. Retrieved 1 December 2023.

[5] Paprocki, Matt (25 August 2021). "Documentary about Amiga classic Lemmings due for game's 30th anniversary". Ars Technica.

[6] "Ian Bickley at Exient Talks Bake Escape and Playtesting Mobile Games". Gamasutra. 17 May 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.

[7] IGN, February 28, 2008 - FIFA Street 3 Review. A vast improvement over last year's mess, but still not a portable hit. by Craig Harris

[8] Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, 01-NOV-2006. Review of NASCAR 07.

[9] "EA nominated for several gamescon awards". Gaming Nexus.

[10] "Home". develop100.com.

[11] Develop 100 Retrieved 8 April 2008.

[12] "MCV, Mar 12 2008, 4:17pm – Develop 100: UK studios triumphant in 2007. Michael French". Archived from the original on 13 March 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2008.

[13] Tiga – List of 2006 finalists

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