Flying Squirrel Games
Flying Squirrel Games (FSG) is Malta’s leading independent video game studio. Founded in February 2015, the team at FSG specialises in Mobile Free to play and Premium video games and entertainment content. We are the developers of the popular Dirt Trackin & Dirt Trackin Sprint Cars mobile racing games. Both of these games continuously rank in the Top 10 charts on the Apple AppStore and Google Playstore, battling other major titles
like Need for Speed™ Most Wanted by EA and F1 2016 by Codemasters. Other games developed include Airside Andy, Nothing to Declare and ForgeVille.
Flying Squirrel Games is also working on interactive digital books, city builders, story-based games and experiences using AR, VR and MR technologies. FSG provides game development services ranging from concept, design, user interface, user experience, software development, quality assurance, community management and live operations. Flying Squirrel Games uses the Scrum methodology.
One of their recent projects is SPEECHIE, a therapeutic smart device targeted at young kids having developmental language delays. The project is carried out in collaboration with the University of Malta. Flying Squirrel Games is taking a leading role in the device design and modelling, brand building, game design, software development and building complementary applications to support speech language pathologists (SLPs) making use of this device.
Role in the project
- Flying Squirrel Games is responsible in the role of leader and support in different tasks in WP6, focusing mainly on the game implementation. Given their experience in game design, development and testing this is where FSG will spend most of their time.
- FSG will also produce conceptual artwork and ultimately develop the virtual environments and user interfaces.
- FSG will also be involved in the Client platform framework implementation, Server and back-end implementation, and Validation tools and baselines task, whilst supporting the API design.
Team Members
Anthony Demanuele
Marie Laundhardt
Alessandra Lizzit
Matthew Azzopardi
Ashley Potter
Matthew Farrugia
Founder and Lead Developer at FSG
Anthony Demanuele
Anthony Demanuele is the founder and lead developer at Flying Squirrel Games. He worked at TRC game studio before founding his own company back in 2015. He is experienced in application development on a number of platforms including PC, Android and iOS and successfully shipped more than 15 titles over the last 10 years. Areas of expertise: Application, Game and content development using the Unity Engine, C# programming language and Javascript for backend scripting. Anthony Demanuele will assist the Platform implementation (WP6) to enable his team in building the Virtual Reality experience, the complementary application, cloud services and art support. Anthony will also contribute in WP2 to provide expertise in identifying software specifications for the platform and identifying communication protocols between the different modules of the VRHAB-IT platform.
3D Artist
Marie Laundhardt
Game Environment Designer at FSG
Alessandra Lizzit
Alessandra Lizzit is a Venetian concept artist, who studied at the renowned NEMO Academy of Digital Arts between 2008 and 2012. She is fluent in over 5 languages including Italian, English, German, Norwegian and Spanish. Alessandra has been a keen video game player since she was a kid and has vast experience in creating fantastical game environments to lead people through her imagination. Areas of expertise: Game environment concept and design.
Game Designer
Matthew Azzopardi
It was the year 1989 when Matthew was first introduced to the Gameboy and the rest, as we know it, is history. He now spends most of his days collecting, fixing and playing old video games, tinkering with game development, breaking software and other miscellaneous random day-to-day “stuff”. The rest is classified!
Matthew is the lead Quality Assurance person at Flying Squirrel Games. Matthew is a hard working person who revolutionised the testing process within the FSG studio since he joined in 2015. The procedures and documented processes he sets in place are used to prevent major issues on any of our online live products. Areas of expertise: Quality Assurance.
Game Developer
Ashley Potter
From an early age, Ashley was always curious in how video games were created and after finishing secondary education started delving into software development. Ashley holds a bachelor degree in Game Graphics and Visual Design and joined Flying Squirrel Games to improve and further his current skills. He is open to implement different game concepts and experiment with various technologies. Ashley’s interests are TV series, anime, manga and of course video games.
Game Developer
Matthew Farrugia
Matthew studied at the Institute of Information and Communication Technology at MCAST. His hobbies are mostly playing PC games, but he tries to find time to spend with his family too. From a computing background Matthew is a very keen programmer using Unity C# and he’s proud to say he’s been receiving very good grades in subjects involving any form of coding.