Motion Twin

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.

Games

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

All games developed by Motion Twin, with the exception of Dead Cells, 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.

Products

Nicolas Cannasse, a developer at Motion Twin has been responsible for the creation of freeware and open source compilers and multimedia technologies, many of which build on the Adobe Flash platform. His products include the ActionScript 2 compiler MTASC, and the multi-platform Haxe language.

His published products include:

• MTASC - fast ActionScript 2 compiler
• Haxe - multi-platform language similar to ActionScript 3
• Neko - language and VM-based runtime
• OpenFL - runtime similar to Adobe Flash Player