Rockstar Leeds
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| Founded | ca. 1989 |
| Headquarters | UK |
| Other Names | Twilight Hookstone Ltd. Möbius Entertainment |
Rockstar Leeds Limited (formerly Möbius Entertainment Limited, Hookstone and Twilight) is a British video game developer and a studio of Rockstar Games based in Leeds. The company was founded in 1989 as Twilight by Andrew Swann, Peter Tattersall, Jason McGann, Stuart Cook, Mark Mason, Finlay Munro, Dave Box, Wayne Billingham, Mark Barker, Noel Hines, James Smart and Rob Holman, before being renamed in 1994 as Hookstone, and it was renamed in December 1997 as Möbius Entertainment, while finishing Sentinel Returns, by Gordon Hall, Jason McGann, Dave Box and Ian J. Bowden.
The company, when it was Twilight, known for creating the Alfred Chicken series, when it was Hookstone, developing Zoop, and when it was Mobius, developed numerous titles for Game Boy Advance, including an adaptation of Remedy Entertainment's Max Payne (2001), which was published by Rockstar Games in late 2003. In late 2003, Spellbound Interactive was merged into Mobius. In April 2004, Rockstar Games' parent company, Take-Two Interactive, announced that they had acquired Möbius Entertainment. As part of the agreement, the company became part of the Rockstar Games label, and was renamed Rockstar Leeds.
Contents
Games
Music Development
NES
David Whittaker was hired to compose the music when he was making Alfred Chicken (NES), when using the name Twilight.
GB
David Whittaker was selectly hired to compose the music for the games when the company was at Twilight. For Cool World, Mark Cooksey wrote music using Notator for Atari ST and converted his MIDI files to his own sound driver. For Zoop (GB), Eric Swanson was hired to compose the music. On Yogi Bear's Goldrush Martin Walker composed music and converted music files to his own sound driver.
GG
Their unreleased game Yogi Bear's Goldrush uses David Whittaker's sound driver.
SNES
On Super Alfred Chicken, Mark Knight used Sculptured Software's BMus sound driver.
Zoop uses Visual Concepts' sound driver.
GEN
Zoop uses unique sound driver by Brian Schmidt.
GBC
On their unreleased games 40 Winks and High Heat Major League Baseball 2002, Allister Brimble and Will Davis used QuickThunder sound driver by Michael Delaney.
Alfred's Adventures uses same sound driver by David Whittaker with addition of new sound effects.
GBA
On their GBA titles, audio was outsourced to Engine Software. Bart Roijmans wrote music using MadTracker and converted his files to developer's sound driver by Jan-Lieuwe Koopmans.
Both High Heat Major League Baseball games use unique sound driver by Jonathan Mitchell.
Audio Personnel
- AudioArts
- Allister Brimble
- Michael Delaney - Sound driver provider.
- Will Davis
- Bobby Scumaci
- Brian Schmidt
- David Whittaker
- Jeremy Taylor (under contract from Dark Technologies)
- Jim Croft (under contract from VoodooSound)
- Jonathan Mitchell
- Justin Johnson
- Kevin Bateson (under contract from Dark Technologies)
- Mark Cooksey
- Mark Davis
- Mark Knight
- Martin Walker
- Tom Kingsley
These people were sub-contracted via Engine Software:
- Bart Roijmans
- Jan-Lieuwe Koopmans - Sound driver provider.
- Ruud van de Moosdijk
These people were sub-contracted via Realtime Associates:
- David Warhol - Sound driver provider.
- Eric Swanson
Logo History
Twilight (1989-1994).
Hookstone Ltd (1994-1995).
Möbius Entertainment (2000-2005).
Rockstar Leeds (Current logo).
