founded 2011 founder jordan weisman mitch gitelman headquarters seattle washington u.s. website harebrained schemes.com harebrained schemes is an american video game studio based in seattle washington . it was co founded in 2011 by jordan weisman and mitch gitelman . prior to founding harebrained schemes weisman and gitelman worked together on the mechcommander and crimson skies franchises at fasa another company founded by weisman . 1 2 as of mid 2015 the studio had just under 60 employees . 3 contents 1 history 2 titles 3 references 4 external links history edit studio co founder jordan weisman in 2006 in 2011 weisman and gitelman reunited to work on the mobile game crimson steam pirates which became harebrained schemes first game . the following year the studio released a second mobile game strikefleet omega . both games were well received with crimson steam pirates making metacritic s best iphone games of 2011 list and strikefleet omega making the google play store s best games of 2012 list . 1 hairbrained then went on to develop several games in the shadowrun franchise . in 2012 the studio raised 1.8 million through kickstarter to fund the development of shadowrun returns 4 becoming only the third studio to raise 1 million on kickstarter . 5 the studio had been considering using kickstarter as a funding source since 2011 but it was not until the kickstater for broken age raised over 3 million that harebrained schemes felt that the crowdraising platform could be a viable funding option . 1 the game was released in mid 2013 . 6 one of the campaign s stretch goals was a second city which became the expansion campaign shadowrun dragonfall . dragonfall was released free to backers of shadowrun returns and in september 2014 was re released still free to backers as a stand alone game shadowrun dragonfall director s cut . 7 8 the studio returned to kickstarter to fund shadowrun hong kong in early 2015 . 5 work on shadowrun hong kong had already begun using the studio s own funds by the time that the kickstarter campaign was launched ; the money raised through kickstarter instead went towards expanding the amount of content that they would be able to put into the game . 5 the studio set a funding goal of 100 000 which it reached in two hours ; 9 the campaign would go on to raise 1.2 million . 10 the series has been well reviewed by critics . shadowrun returns received an aggregate rating of 76 100 on metacritic . as an expansion shadowrun dragonfall received a score of 81 100 while the stand alone re release received a score of 87 100 . shadowrun hong kong received a score of 81 100 . 11 in addition to its shadowrun titles harebrained schemes also funded the development of the board game golem arcana through kickstarter . released in august 2014 golem arcana uses a physical game board and miniatures supported by a mobile app that manages fog of war the game s rules and gameplay events . the board and app communicate using a bluetooth stylus . 1 12 13 14 the kickstarter for golem arcana raised just over 500 000 . 15 in 2014 the studio also announced that they were developing necropolis an action roguelike set for release in 2016 . a pre alpha version of the game was featured at the 2015 pax east conference . 16 17 in mid 2015 the studio announced that they were preparing to hold a fourth kickstarter to fund a new game in the battletech franchise set to be titled battletech . 18 there had been speculation that the studio would create a game in either the battletech or crimson skies franchise owing to weisman s role in the creation of those franchises . 3 4 the kickstarter campaign for battletech was launched on september 29 2015 . like shadowrun hong kong harebrained schemes already allocated funding for battletech and the intention of the kickstarter was to raise funds for additional features . 19 the major goals for the kickstarter were a single player campaign if 1 million was raised an expanded campaign if 1.85 million was raised and multiplayer if 2.5 million was raised . 20 the kickstarter s initial goal was 250 000 which it reached in under an hour . 21 titles edit crimson steam pirates 2011 strikefleet omega 2012 shadowrun returns 2013 shadowrun dragonfall 2014 golem arcana 2014 shadowrun hong kong 2015 necropolis 2016 battletech planned 2017 references edit a b c d nichols derek 27 february 2014 . know your developer an interview with shadowrun returns creator harebrained schemes . venturebeat . retrieved 25 september 2015 . bergfeld carlos 6 december 2007 . fasa founder regains rights to mechwarrior shadowrun crimson skies from microsoft . shacknews . retrieved 25 september 2015 . a prolific entrepreneur weisman founded the original fasa role playing company ... a b futter mike 21 may 2015 . harebrained schemes hints at another classic ip reboot could be battletech or crimson skies . game informer . gamestop . retrieved 25 september 2015 . a b chalk andy 20 may 2015 . harebrained schemes hints at something new from an old franchise . pc gamer . future plc. retrieved 25 september 2015 . a b c futter mike 13 january 2015 . shadowrun team s third project will change the way you think about kickstarter . game informer . gamestop . retrieved 25 september 2015 . it s happening . kickstarter . retrieved 26 september 2015 . morrow rob 18 august 2014 . shadowrun dragonfall director s cut will release on september 18 . destructoid . retrieved 26 september 2015 . sykes tom 13 september 2014 . shadowrun dragonfall director s cut detailed ahead of release next week . pc gamer . retrieved 26 september 2015 . chalk andy 12 january 2015 . harebrained schemes reveals shadowrun hong kong . pc gamer . retrieved 26 september 2015 . shadowrun hong kong . kickstarter . retrieved 26 september 2015 . harebrained schemes llc . metacritic . cbs interactive . retrieved 25 september 2015 . hsu dan 7 august 2014 . golem arcana the hybrid tabletop video game that s going to make a lot of money but off just a few of you . venturebeat . retrieved 26 september 2015 . smith mike 4 september 2014 . golem arcana turns your tablet into a board game overlord . yahoo tech . yahoo . retrieved 25 september 2015 . miller matt 14 october 2013 . golem arcana . game informer . gamestop . retrieved 25 september 2015 . golem arcana . kickstarter . retrieved 26 september 2015 . meet alec 6 november 2014 . shadowrun return devs return with necropolis . rock paper shotgun . retrieved 25 september 2015 . narcisse evan 13 march 2015 . a gameworld that changes every time you die . kotaku . gawker media . retrieved 25 september 2015 . carey gabe 29 july 2015 . harebrained schemes bringing battletech to kickstarter later this year . digital trends . retrieved 25 september 2015 . battletech . kickstarter . 29 september 2015 . retrieved 30 september 2015 . ... harebrained schemes has budgeted over a million dollars to self fund the stage 1 skirmish game see below and we ve already started pre production . grill scott 29 september 2015 . battletech revived creator returns with kickstarter that s already hitting goals for pc release . inquisitr . retrieved 30 september 2015 . birnbaum ian 29 september 2015 . a new turn based battletech game is in development . pc gamer . retrieved 30 september 2015 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title harebrained schemes & oldid 737200915 categories video game companies of the united statesvideo game development companiescompanies based in seattleentertainment companies established in 2011 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 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