The Deviant Fighting Company

The Deviant Fighting Company is a worldwide video game publisher founded in 2014 by prolific developers who share their passion for Fighting Games.

The company serves as a venue for creator-owned IPs, in which developers could publish their material of their own creation without giving up the copyrights to those properties. Normally, this is not the case in the work-for-hire-dominated videogame industry, where the legal author is a company, such as Capcom or SNK, and the creator is an employee of that company.

Its best-known publications include Brutal Fists, Lord of the Underground, Battle Rhythm, Hallowteens and many others. The company's global headquarters are located in New York, with offices located in Mexico City, Toronto and London.

History
genius-spirit, a fighting game enthusiast, has expressed the idea of making original games in the genre, and he contacted with different studios who would finance him, but no company has approached him to fund and release his projects in the market. Jesse Ronald, a colleague of genius-spirit, contacted him to make a publishing company for games created by themselves. Deron Butler, Cesar Zamorano and PasokonMASTER joined them in the foundation of the company. They picked the name The Deviant Fighting Company, in reference to their fellowship in DeviantArt.

The first games released under The Deviant Fighting Company umbrella are genius-spirit's Brutal Fists and Jesse Ronald's Death Sport in 2014, followed by Deron Butler's Lord of the Underground, Cesar Zamorano's God of the Arena and PasokonMASTER's Top Strife in 2015. PasokonMASTER, one of the original founders, suddenly left the company after releasing Top Strife as his studio, Reality Crafters, closed its doors due to personal issues, but a compatriot of his, Saúl Saavedra H., picked the game to develop the post-release content in his stead. Saavedra himself would open Draconian Games in 2015, with his first game, Battle Rhythm, being released in 2016. Joshua Garriga, whose studio Ultima Games already released Dark Legends and Planet Protectors earlier on, joined the company in 2016 with Heavy Hitters and was assigned retroactively as a co-founder.

The Deviant Fighting Company's organizing charter had two key provisions:


 * The Deviant Fighting Company would not own any creator's work; the creator would. The Deviant Fighting Company itself would own no intellectual property except the company trademarks: its name and its logo, designed by Saúl Saavedra H.
 * No Deviant Fighting Company partner would interfere – creatively or financially – with any other partner's work.

In essence, The Deviant Fighting Company is the video game equivalent of Image Comics in terms of creator-owned philosophy.

List of studios
The company is composed of the following studios:

Current

 * Genisu Games, owned by genius-spirit
 * Dark Winter Entertainment, owned by Jesse Ronald (TheEternalMarkusDark)
 * Stylish Nored, owned by Deron Butler (Stylistic86)
 * Golden Sanctuary, owned by Cesar Zamorano (TheDeadstroke)
 * Ultima Games, owned by Joshua Garriga (ComicReadingGamer)
 * Draconian Games, owned by Saúl Saavedra H. (Dragon of Courage)
 * Neo Jota Games, owned by Jonathan Mukuasa (Jotarion)
 * Bushido Entertainment, owned by Kyle Young (TheYoungSamurai18)
 * Metallic Mythrill, owned by Bryan Falk (MetalHarbinger084)
 * Union Jack Games, owned by KingOfFiction
 * Ginga Studios, owned by Anton (7Swords7Lives)
 * MGW Productions, owned by Chris F. Clarke (GastricCuisine)

Former

 * Reality Crafters, owned by PasokonMASTER