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Whats the history of Dynamo Games and how did you end up making the Championship Manager titles?

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Whats the history of Dynamo Games and how did you end up making the Championship Manager titles?

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Stuart Reid: Myself, Stuart Anderson and Brian McNicoll all graduated from Dundee University back in 2003 and set up our own software company. We weren’t making games, though. We did software engineering for local companies, but when Brian got a new phone, we thought a football management game would be good for mobile. So we sat down and it became a side-project that eventually consumed everything. Were you all big Champ Manager fans then? Absolutely. It eventually got to the stage where we thought we had something that was quite playable so we started to pitch it around. We went to London to see Sports Interactive and Eidos. It was at the time when they were splitting, with Sports Interactive doing Football Manager and Eidos Championship Manager, but Eidos liked the game, and before we knew it, games were [our] company’s core business. It was an unusual way into the industry I suppose. We’d dabbled in games as programmers but we weren’t trained as games programmers. Now though, this i

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