Signal Studios is a developer of both video games and interactive software applications. Signal is known for their game Toy Soldiers, one of the top 10 best-selling Xbox Live Arcade games.
As part of the Toy Soldiers franchise, they have also released Toy Soldiers: Cold War and a number of DLCs for both titles. At E3 in 2012, the studio announced their first action RPG, Ascend: Hand of Kul.
The studio is located in Kirkland, Washington with over 40 employees.
History In January 2008, Signal Studios was founded in Bothell, Washington by three individuals. Their first office was a house along the banks of the Sammamish River. In 2010, Signal relocated to a larger office building on the North Creek of Bothell. In 2012, the company moved to Kirkland, Washington, to reside in the offices of the now defunct Sandblast Games.
Games Signal has released several games, as well as additional downloadable content (DLC), for both Xbox 360 (XBLA) and Windows.
2010 Toy Soldiers (Xbox 360 + PC) Kaiser's Battle DLC Invasion DLC
2011 Toy Soldiers: Cold War (Xbox 360) - featured in XBLA's Summer of Arcade 2011 Evil Empire DLC Napalm DLC
2013 Ascend: Hand of Kul Toy Soldiers: Complete
2015 Toy Soldiers: War Chest (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC)
2021 Toy Soldiers HD (Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC)
Technology Signal Studios uses an engine that was specifically designed for the development of multi-platform 3D games and simulations, called SigEngine. This suite of tools and features includes a clean object-oriented code base, a level design and entity creation tool (SigEd), modeling package plugins, shader and material editors (SigShade and MatEd), and an animation engine with a powerful script interface (SigAnim).
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