Majestic Studios

Infobox Company
company_name = Majestic Studios
company_
company_type = Private
foundation = ca. 1993
location_city = London
location_country = United Kingdom
key_people = Steve Bovis,
Tim Croucher,
Laurence Francis
industry = Interactive entertainment
products = "Limbo of the Lost"
revenue =
operating_income =
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homepage = :"Not to be confused with video game publisher, Majesco Entertainment"Majestic Studios is a computer game developer known for its controversial adventure game "Limbo of the Lost". Majestic Studios was established as Tri-Logik Studios in London in the early 1990s by Steve Bovis and Tim Croucher. The studio initially aimed to bring back the graphical text adventure genre on the Atari ST, but found difficulty attracting developers. As the Atari ST market sunk, Tri-Logik Studios shelved their in development game "Limbo of the Lost". [http://hol.abime.net/hol_search.php?N_ref_developer=81 The Hall of Light: Database of Amiga Games] ]

In 1995, attempted to move the project onto the Amiga as a Point-and-Click adventure game. Laurence Francis was hired for music and puzzle design. Tri-Logik Studios signed a publishing deal with Rasputin. They developed a demo for the Amiga 500 that was shown at the ECTS.

Development was later moved to the A1200 and CD32. A demo was released for CD32 Gamer. However, due to the dying Amiga market, Limbo of the Lost was not released.

In 2003, Tri-Logik Studios reformed as Majestic Studios, and in March 2008 they released their first, and so far only, game: "Limbo of the Lost" for the PC. On 12 June,2008 ,the game was pulled from release when multiple sites and forums posted screenshots showing items, environments, menu graphics, characters, even fonts allegedly stolen from more than a dozen games as well as several movies. Similar screens revealed the company's alleged theft of graphics goes back even to the original version for the Amiga.

On July 30, 2008, Tim Croucher and Laurence Francis announced their departure from Majestic Studios with the following statement:cite web|url = http://frankyweb.org/indexhtml.html |title = Limbo of the Lost Announcement |publisher = frankyweb.org |accessdate = 2008-08-10 ]

:"Due to the behaviour of certain members of the Majestic Studios team, Mr T.Croucher and Mister L.Francis would like to announce their departure from Majestic Studios; and would like it known that they have severed all connections, ties and links with the remaining members of the majestic team.:"Mister Croucher would like it known that his input responsibility for Limbo of the Lost was: Research, some vocal acting and puzzle design.:"Mr Francis would like it known that his input responsibility for Limbo of the Lost was: Original opening theme and outro music, character Script writing for Darkmere, puzzle design and voice acting, particularly that of B.S.Briggs.:"Neither Mister Croucher nor Mister Francis had any say or control over: Graphics, rendering, coding or game screen design.:"As far as both Mr Croucher and Mister Francis were aware, all submitted material was to be original; both Mr Croucher and Mister Francis adhered to this contractual clause."

"See also: Limbo of the Lost Controversy."

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