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Early on Thursday morning, Blitz called an end to 23 years working in the video game industry. Founded by the Oliver Twins, two sparky developers who had made their name with the Dizzy series, Blitz never had a big game to its name but the studio had countless successes, and its work for the UK industry was priceless. Its legacy isn't perhaps in the games it produced but the games it helped make possible, and the people that Blitz helped establish careers. Mike Bithell, creator of Thomas Was Alone, was one of them. He worked at Blitz before finding his own success as an indie, and here he shares why Blitz was important, and why the studio's legacy's worth remembering.
It started, as most things do, on an internet forum.
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