gaming founded illinois 2002 headquarters chicago illinois key people tim harris ceo ; mike mccarthy cco ; dave shuck coo products the continuum corporate bloodbath the pulse gate website http www.sevenlights.com seven lights was a privately held american developer publisher of multiplayer online games headquartered in chicago illinois . contents 1 history 2 executives 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit early in 2002 founders tim harris mike mccarthy and dave shuck conceived a game development process for hardcore games done entirely in the browser using flash technology . the idea as harris told firing squad as the company announced itself was that they had accumulated a ton of ideas about the way that the internet can create new and different takes on the games we ve all played . we looked at the overhead required to get into the games business in a traditional way and thought wait a minute ... we can take a different angle . that angle is to create extremely lean development teams and launch in the web environment to give ourselves the ability to create a constant stream of new content iterate the game experience itself and ultimately build game franchises from the ground up with the players helping guide us every step of the way . 1 the team began working on their first title the continuum an online collectible wargame with characters that develop in an rpg type fashion . to facilitate the creation of many games in this vein the company created a real time content management system so that new characters abilities equipment and battle maps could be introduced in a much quicker fashion than the typical development cycle for game expansions . this platform was completed prior to the introduction of the continuum and is forming the basis for all future seven lights games . the continuum which launched in june 2008 and is introducing its first expansion in august 2008 2 represents a leap forward for hardcore gaming in the browser and it features an extremely deep level of customization that users can put into the building and fine tuning of their armies but this is all just buildup to the game itself which consists of a turn based one on one war . the battle system uses tiles to determine how far each character can move and each action be it attack cast a spell or any number of special abilities is activated through an onscreen menu . 3 executives edit according to the company s website as of august 2008 the executives of seven lights are 4 tim harris chief executive officer mike mccarthy chief creative officer dave shuck chief operating officer see also edit multiplayer online games role playing games references edit firing squad cover story 1206 friday december 1 2006 tcgplayer.com the continuum launch interview 0708 tuesday july 22 2008 techcrunch the continuum flash gaming goes hardcore 0708 friday july 11 2008 seven lights website 0708 external links edit the continuum seven lights website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title seven lights & oldid 694456904 categories companies established in 2002multiplayer online gamesvideo game companies of the united statesvideo game development companies2002 establishments in illinois navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 december 2015 at 11 00 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view