Radiant Entertainment

Radiant Entertainment, Inc.
Subsidiary
Industry Video game industry
Founded 2013 (2013)
Founders
  • Tom Cannon
  • Tony Cannon
Headquarters Los Altos, California, U.S.
Key people
Products
Parent Riot Games (2016–present)

Radiant Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Los Altos, California. Founded by twin brothers Tom and Tony Cannon in 2013, the company has developed Stonehearth, a city-building game, which was released in July 2018. Radiant Entertainment was acquired by Riot Games in March 2016.

History

Radiant Entertainment was founded as an indie game developer in Los Altos, California in 2013.[1] Founders and twin brothers Tom and Tony Cannon were previously employed as software engineers for VMware,[2] and started developing video games full-time in 2011.[3] Other pre-Radiant Entertainment ventures by the Cannon twins include the Evolution Championship Series eSports tournament and the GGPO middleware platform for fighting games.[3] Radiant Entertainment launched a Kickstarter campaign for their first game, the city-building game Stonehearth, on April 29, 2013.[4] Initially seeking US$120,000, the funding concluded one month later with a total of $751,920 pledged by backers.[5] The game was released into early access on June 3, 2015,[6] and it was fully released in July 2018.[7] Following the game's release, in a June 2015 round of seed funding, Radiant Entertainment raised $4.5 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, London Venture Partners and General Catalyst.[8][9]

Radiant Entertainment announced their second game, Rising Thunder, a fighting game, on July 20, 2015.[10][11] To develop the game, the company was joined by Seth Killian, who previously departed from Santa Monica Studio.[12] The game's technical alpha opened to a handfull of players at the end of the month,[13] and to the public on August 10.[14][15] On March 8, 2016, Radiant Entertainment announced through their website that they had been acquired by Riot Games, the developer of League of Legends, for an undisclosed sum.[16][17][18] Alongside the acquisition, it was announced that Rising Thunder had been canceled and would be effectively shut down on March 18.[19] The development team behind Rising Thunder was subsequently re-allocated to a new, unannounced title.[20] A free, open-source version of the game, titled Rising Thunder: Community Edition, was released on January 18, 2018.[21]

Games developed

Year Title Platform(s)
Canceled Rising Thunder Microsoft Windows
2018 Rising Thunder: Community Edition
Stonehearth macOS, Microsoft Windows

References

  1. ↑ Wawro, Alex. "Stonehearth studio nets $4.5M to keep making PC games". gamasutra.com. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  2. ↑ Narcisse, Evan. "They Changed Fighting Games, Now They're Making Something New". kotaku.com. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  3. 1 2 "EVO founders Kickstart first game, Stonehearth - VG247". vg247.com. April 30, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Evo founders launch Kickstarter for new game Stonehearth". destructoid.com. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Stonehearth Kickstarter gets successfully funded, and then some". pcgamer.com. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Stonehearth is out now on Steam Early Access". destructoid.com. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Stonehearth's development will end this month, without meeting all its Kickstarter stretch goals". pcgamer.com. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  8. ↑ "Radiant Entertainment raises $4.5m in seed funding". gamesindustry.biz. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Stonehearth studio Radiant Entertainment raises $4.5m". mcvuk.com. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  10. ↑ "Rising Thunder is a new fighting game from Seth Killian". polygon.com. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  11. ↑ "Rising Thunder is a F2P fighting game for PC from the founders of EVO". pcgamesn.com. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  12. ↑ Wawro, Alex. "Seth Killian joins Radiant to pitch in on new F2P fighting game". gamasutra.com. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  13. ↑ "Rising Thunder Technical Alpha Opens". USgamer.net. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  14. ↑ "Fighting game Rising Thunder's alpha is now open to all". polygon.com. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  15. ↑ "The Rising Thunder technical alpha is now open to all". pcgamer.com. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  16. ↑ "Riot Games acquires Rising Thunder and Stonehearth studio Radiant Entertainment". polygon.com. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  17. ↑ "Riot acquires Radiant". gamesindustry.biz. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  18. ↑ "League of Legends Publisher Picks Up Stonehearth/Rising Thunder Studio". USgamer.net. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  19. ↑ Wawro, Alex. "Acquired by Riot, Radiant shuts down Rising Thunder". gamasutra.com. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  20. ↑ "Riot Games acquires Radiant Entertainment, Rising Thunder no more". pcgamer.com. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  21. ↑ "The free, open source edition of cancelled fighter Rising Thunder is now available". pcgamesn.com. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
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