| Impressions Games | |
|---|---|
| Type | defunct |
| Founded | |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Key people | David Lester: founder |
| Industry | computer and video game industry |
| Products | Caesar series Lords of the Realm series |
Impressions Games was a video game developer founded by David Lester (currently of Firefly Studios) in the UK. Cambridge Massachusetts is a City in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the David Lester is the guitar player in the Vancouver Canada based band Mecca Normal, as well as a painter graphic designer and publisher at Get to the Point Press. For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" The video game industry (formally referred to as Interactive entertainment) is the economic sector involved with the development, Marketing In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual that creates Video games A developer may specialize in a certain video Firefly Studios is a Computer game developer that has offices in London England and Canton Connecticut, with a QA department in Aberdeen The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located He sold the company to Sierra Entertainment, who was then bought out by Cendant and eventually, Vivendi Universal (now known as Vivendi SA). Sierra Entertainment Inc is a Worldwide American Video game developer and publisher founded in 1979 by Ken and Roberta Cendant Corporation was a New York -based provider of business and consumer services primarily within the real estate and travel VIVENDI is a software package for care management and staff organisation published by the German software company CONNEXT and introduced in 1995
Impressions specialized in historical strategy games, and is most well-known for its City Building Series, which include Caesar, Pharaoh, and Master of Olympus - Zeus. City Building Series is the collective name of a series of historical City-building games for personal computers developed Caesar is a city-building Computer game where the player undertakes the role of a Roman governor, building ancient Roman Pharaoh is an isometric City-building game set in Ancient Egypt Master of Olympus - Zeus ( Zeus Master of Olympus in the US is the fifth full title of the City Building Series developed by Impressions Games
Mike Ryder, former president of Sierra Entertainment, forced a change in management in October 2001, during development of Lords of the Realm III. October 2001: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - Lords of the Realm III is a Real-time strategy Computer game published by Sierra Entertainment. Rod Nakamoto was installed as the new director. Lords III became Impressions's final game, and was released to mediocre reviews in March 2004. March 2004: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September
The studio was shut down in April 2004 when Vivendi Universal closed most of their game development studios. 2004: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September Many members of the studio moved on to form Tilted Mill Entertainment. Tilted Mill Entertainment is a Video game developer located in Framingham Massachusetts.
Former notable employees of Impressions include Chris Beatrice and Peter Haffenreffer, co-founders of Tilted Mill Entertainment. Chris Beatrice is a Game designer noted for primary creative development of popular historical City-building games including Caesar, Lords of the Realm