This month, Sumo Digital celebrates its 15th Anniversary and as part of our celebrations, we’ve been collating some of the team’s favourite memories to share with you all. In 2016 we opened our second UK studio, the third in the Sumo family. Now 2 years on, Nottingham studio director Karl Hilton tells us the story of how the studio was founded and what it’s been like since he joined the Sumo family!
“Sumo are thinking about opening a new studio in Nottingham.”
That sentence started a journey that has been interesting, challenging, rewarding and also great fun.
For years Sumo, working diligently up in Sheffield, keeping their heads down, had been successfully making games for companies like Sega and Microsoft. Building up their reputation and business for being, at heart, gamers who knew how to make fun games and were keen to jump in to franchises like Sonic The Hedgehog and Little Big Planet and develop new adventures for the players who love those games.
