Denki

Denki is an interactive television and console game developer based in Dundee, Scotland. The company is the developer of over 180 console and interactive television games, covering a range of platforms. Denki has worked extensively in the digital interactive television (DiTV) market, with the majority of their titles created specifically for digital interactive television DirecTV platform.

Denki created Tomb Raider: The Reckoning, an interactive TV game available only in Canada through Bell ExpressVu. When Tomb Raider launched on Canadian channel Bell ExpressVu, it gave the station the best sales figures it had ever had on a games channel.

History
Denki was founded on 20 March 2000 by four former DMA Design employees. The company was set up to be a design-driven development studio, focused on the creation of video games. Denki's intention was to develop games for a variety of smaller platforms, including the Game Boy Advance, which the company saw as opening the games market up to a new, more "casual" audience.

The company created two original new games for the Game Boy Advance. The first was a puzzle game called Denki Blocks! Published by Rage Software in September 2001. This was followed by a platform-style game called Go! Go! Beckham! Adventure on Soccer Island – based on the famous English footballer – also published by Rage in August 2002. Both games picked up widespread critical acclaim and Denki Blocks! received several awards. However sales for both titles did not meet expectations.

As part of the promotional campaign for Denki Blocks!, the company created a version of the game for the newly launched games service on Sky Television in the UK. The response to the game was positive and Denki made the decision to focus on this new platform.

Over the next seven years, Denki focused on DiTV games. The company refined their design and development process to the point where it could take an agreed design document and produce a completed title in under ten weeks.