Success and Life of Alexis Kennedy as a Game Developer
Alexis Kennedy is a successful entrepreneur, a game designer, and a video game writer who founded two game development studios. He is best known for founding the Failbetter games, which was originally focused on browser-based interactive fiction games such as Fallen London. Later the company progressed to producing narrative-centered mobile and PC games such as Sunless Sea under the directive of Kennedy. They also came up with an IOS port of Fallen London.
Kennedy started another company called Funbetter in 2016 to fund promising narrative games and interactive fiction game ventures. In early May, h company announced that it was currently finding five underway projects. In June the same year, Kennedy left Failbetter and decided to work on smaller game studios aspiring to work on a more significant variety of projects. He currently works at Weather Factory, which is a micro-studio.
Alexis Kennedy has been involved in several projects after he left Failbetter. He was working on a standalone DLC piece for Paradox’ Stellaris from August 2016 and was released in December the same year. The DLC, which was called Horizon Signal, was publicized as an “interactive cosmic horror novelette” and came out with the code name ‘Kennedy’ Stellaris Patch.
Kennedy also released an alpha version of an experimental game called Cultis Simulator. The game’s Kick-starter was founded in 12 hours and published on the 31st of May 2018. He also worked on a research and development project with the Telltale Games.
Alexis was born in Germany, and he first started working as a software developer and a teacher before he joined game development. He created his first game studio, the Failbetter games, one month before his daughter’s birth. This studio has helped him develop numerous award-winning interactive narrative games such as Fallen London, Dragon Age, and Young Dracula game.