About Positech Games

ABOUT POSITECH GAMES

Positech Games is a one man company based in the UK (England). It was formed by gaming geek Cliff Harris in 1997 when he was working as an IT support guy. Cliff has been writing and selling games for 27 years now. Cliff does ALL the programming and design for all of his games, which use an engine he coded from scratch He also handles all the tech support and marketing of the games. Yup, Cliff works pretty darned hard. He also has to contend with his highly demanding cats Juno and Willow during his working day. Cliff used to work for a UK company called Elixir, who did Republic and Evil Genius. After that he worked at Lionhead as an AI / Game coder for 'The Movies' When that game finished he left to work for himself fulltime.

At the start of 2006, Cliff worked for Maxis on a 'gameplay prototype' for the 'Sims' franchise, then he started making games just for his own company.Positech Games has been Cliff's full-time job ever since.

THE CORPORATE FAT CATS

All proper programmers have cats. Cat's are low-maintenance pets that you can ignore during debugging difficult problems, and then watch them ignore you when you in the mood for company. Cats also help reduce the stress levels caused by debugging directx in a multi-threaded application. Because of these positive qualities, Positechs office is shared with two cats. juno and willow:


More cat pictures here.

Big companies have a bland 'mission statement'. We don't have that, but there are a few things we do believe in...

NO CORPORATE NONSENSE

You want to play a game, not watch some adverts right? We would NEVER sell your personal information. We don't have any adverts, product placement or other corporate nonsense in our games.

PC CENTRIC GAMES

Personally I am a big PC-gamer. I do not even own any consoles. I hate it when supposedly PC-games ask me to press button X, or have a main menu designed purely for a gamepad. I make games for PC monitors and Mouse&Keyboard. I support modding, and code my games to run on a range of screen resolutions and video card capabilities. PC gaming FTW.

SCHOOLS

In 2015, Positech donated money to build a school in Africa. To be precise, in in the village of Mbalengue in the East Region of Cameroon. A few years later we funded another, larger school.

RENEWABLE ENERGY

We are BIG believers in renewable energy. In 2024, after 3 years of bureaucracy our self-funded 1.2MWP solar farm got connected to the UK grid. This was managed through the other company we own - Positech Energy.

WHERE TO BUY?

When you buy games direct from us, we get about 95% of the money. the 5% goes to our credit card payment provider. Obviously a lot of people buy our games through Steam and similar services. that's fine. We do get asked which sales channel means we get the most money, and the answer is to buy direct from us.