Rockstar North
Rockstar North Limited (former DMA Design Limited) is a Scottish video game developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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| Industry | Video game industry |
| Founded | 1984 in Dundee, Scotland |
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| Headquarters | , Scotland |
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Number of employees |  360+[1] (2013) |
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| Website | rockstarnorth |
The company was founded as Acme Software in Dundee in 1984. The founders were classmates David Jones, Russell Kay, Steve Hammond, and Mike Dailly. It was renamed DMA Design in 1987. During its early years, the publishing company Psygnosis backed DMA Design, and it focused mainly on making games for the Amiga, Atari ST and Commodore 64 game systems. During this time, DMA created successful shooters such as Menace and Blood Money, but it soon turned to platform games after the release of Lemmings in 1991.[2] Lemmings was an international success and led to several sequels and spin-offs. After developing Unirally for Nintendo, DMA Design was set to become one of their main second-party developers, but this partnership ended after Nintendo's disapproval of Body Harvest.
Rockstar North Media
Sculpture of lemmings in Seabraes Park, Dundee
The offices of DMA Design's satellite studio in Boulder, Colorado, and the Devil's Thumb rock formation after which the studio was later named (pictured in 1996)
Until 2014, Rockstar North leased part of this office block on Greenside Row in Edinburgh.
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References
- ↑ French, Michael (4 October 2013). "Inside Rockstar North – Part 2: The Studio". Develop. Archived from the original on 27 March 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
- ↑ "The History of DMA - Part1". www.javalemmings.com. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
