Tilted Mill Entertainment

Infobox Company
company_name = Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc.
company_
company_type = Private
foundation = 2001
founder = Chris Beatrice, Peter Haffenreffer
location_city = Framingham, Massachusetts
location_country = United States
industry = Software & Programming
products = "Children of the Nile"
"Caesar IV"
"SimCity Societies"
""
"Hinterland Mosby's Confederacy
num_employees = 57
homepage = [http://www.tiltedmill.com Tilted Mill web site]

Tilted Mill Entertainment is a video game developer located in Framingham, Massachusetts. It was founded in 2001 by former Impressions Games lead designer and general manager Chris Beatrice, business manager Peter Haffenreffer, and designer Jeff Fiske.

The company employs 50 staff in design, programming, creative, and administrative roles. Tilted Mill is a reference to Don Quixote. Tilted Mill developed the fifth sequel of the "SimCity series", titled Simcity Societies (all previous titles had been developed by Maxis). [cite web|url=http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3160086|title=SimCity Societies Under Construction|publisher=1up.com|accessdate=2007-06-05|first=Garnett|last=Lee|date=2007-06-05]

On July 11 2008 Tilted Mill announced the creation of their first independent game entitled Hinterland. [cite web|url=http://tiltedmill.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17000|title=The day has finally arrived!|publisher=tiltedmill.com|accessdate=2008-07-12|first=Garnett|last=Lee|date=2008-07-11] According to Tilted Mills website "In Hinterland, you build up and lead a small village, populated by simple townsfolk struggling to survive and prosper in the wild back country of a medieval fantasy world." The game was released on Steam on 30 September 2008.

Video games developed

* "Children of the Nile", a city-building game set in ancient Egypt and published through Myelin Media
**"Children of the Nile: Alexandria", city pack for Children of the Nile.
* "Caesar IV", a city-building game set in ancient Rome and published through Sierra Entertainment
* "SimCity Societies", a city-building game that is part of the Sim franchise.
**"", expansion set for SimCity Societies.
* "Hinterland"
* "Mosby's Confederacy"

References

External links

* [http://www.tiltedmill.com Tilted Mill Entertainment web site]
* [http://www.immortalcities.com/cotn/ Children of the Nile web site]
* [http://www.caesariv.com/ Caesar IV web site]
* [http://www.mobygames.com/company/tilted-mill-entertainment-inc Tilted Mill Entertainment] entry at MobyGames
* [http://simcity.ea.com SimCity Societies website]
* [http://www.tiltedmill.com/hinterland/ Hinterland web site]