Software Creations

Software Creations, Ltd.

Founded	1987
Headquarters	Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
Other Names	Acclaim Studios Manchester

Not to be confused with Software Creations (USA).

Software Creations, Ltd. was a British game developer founded by Mike Webb and Richard Kay. The company was known for developing arcade, movie, TV and comic tie-ins and for producing some of their own titles such as Solstice. They also employed Tim and Geoff Follin.

When they made NES games, the company usually didn't put staff credits in their games, however, most of the time, the credits can be found in the game's ROM.

In the early 2000s, Creations was bought by Acclaim and renamed Acclaim Studios Manchester.

Games

Music Development

Commodore 64

Every arranger had his own choice, but Tim Follin designed a sound driver, Stephen Ruddy programmed it, and both Follins used it.

Nintendo 64

Sound Images' Tony Williams and Paul Tonge programmed a piece of software. Music was input through a piano roll editor.

NES

Stephen Ruddy programmed Software Creations' music drivers for the NES and Tim and Geoff wrote in hexadecimal.

SNES

The SNES sound driver was programmed by Software Creations co-founder Mike Webb. Unlike most other SNES composers who used MIDI interfaces for their SNES music, Software Creations' SNES sound driver required composers to write their music in 65C816 assembly language. According to Tim, the instrument samples came from several sources, including a Ensoniq ASR-10 and real guitars and bass guitars.

Genesis/Mega Drive

Most of Software Creations' Genesis games' sound was done by Sound Images, mostly by Tony Williams. He would run MIDI files through a program that converted them to his sound driver.