game industry founded 2009 founder amir rao gavin simon headquarters san francisco california u.s. products bastion transistor website supergiantgames.com supergiant games is an american video game development company based in san francisco california . it was founded in 2009 by amir rao and gavin simon and currently consists of employees in san francisco and other locations . 1 the studio is known for their critically acclaimed titles bastion and transistor . contents 1 history 2 titles 3 references 4 external links history edit amir rao co founder of supergiant games during a presentation at gdc 2012 supergiant games was formed by amir rao and gavin simon in 2009 . both had been working at the los angeles studio of electronic arts involved with the command & conquer series . in 2009 they agreed to quit their job move into the same house and begin to work on a new game together . at that time they had also hired musician darren korb for audio and music work . they also used a number of freelancer programmers and developers they could call on for help at various times during the development of this first game . 2 3 4 their first game bastion received high critical praise including being listed among several game of the year lists from game journalists . it was first shown in mid development at the 2010 penny arcade expo as part of its pax 10 highlight ten upcoming independently developed games . 3 this attracted several publishers who wanted to help distribute the game but supergiant games found that warner bros. interactive entertainment shared the same vision they had for the game . supergiant selected them as their publishing partner enabling them not only to distribute the game to xbox live arcade but as a premiere title during the 2011 summer of arcade promotion . 5 in march 2013 supergiant games announced their next title transistor released on may 20 2014 . a promotion video was released march 19 . 6 the game features a female protagonist red in a cyberpunk like city who had gained possession of a powerful weapon that she is nearly killed for possessing . the game features a similar isometric viewpoint to bastion . 7 transistor was similarly met with critical acclaim with an average critic score of 83 on metacritic . in april 2016 supergiant games announced their third game pyre to be released in 2017 for microsoft windows and playstation 4 . it was described as a party based role playing game . 8 titles edit bastion 2011 transistor 2014 pyre 2017 references edit greg kasavin on the giant bombcast . retrieved 2014 05 13 . caoili eric march 12 2010 . gdc ea la vets form digital download dev supergiant . gamasutra . retrieved april 19 2016 . a b from command & conquer to bastion . metro . 2010 09 03 . retrieved 2011 12 31 . marie meagan 2010 09 04 . supergiant s bastion is beautiful . game informer . retrieved 2011 12 31 . cullen johnny 2011 07 19 . supergiant warner bought into our vision of bastion . vg247 . retrieved 2011 12 31 . transistor reveal trailer . youtube . 19 march 2013 . nunneley stephany 2013 03 19 . transistor from supergiant games gets a reveal trailer . vg247 . retrieved 2013 03 19 . matulef jeffrey 2016 04 19 . bastion and transistor dev announces rpg pyre . eurogamer . retrieved 2016 04 19 . external links edit official website this united states video game corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title supergiant games & oldid 719793351 categories companies based in san jose californiacompanies established in 2009video game companies of the united statesvideo game development companiesunited states video game company stubshidden categories all stub articles 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 edit links this page was last modified on 11 may 2016 at 20 26 . 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