Defendant
1 case as defendant.
ArtCraft Entertainment, Inc. is a private video game development company founded in 2013 by industry veterans J. Todd Coleman and Gordon Walton. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company has had around 50 employees. In December 2021, ArtCraft sold its primary asset, the game Crowfall and its development team, to another Austin-based studio, Monumental, LLC. The original ArtCraft entity and its founders are reportedly working on a new, unannounced project.
ArtCraft's business was focused on developing and publishing massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). Its flagship and only released product was Crowfall, a fantasy game described as a "Throne War Simulator" centered on player-versus-player (PvP) combat, political alliances, and territorial conquest. After a successful Kickstarter campaign and multiple funding rounds, the game officially launched in July 2021. The company also established a division to license its proprietary "Artisan Engine" technology, the software platform built for Crowfall, to other game developers.
The company's patent litigation history consists of a single case in which it was named as a defendant, with no record of it acting as a plaintiff. This posture is typical of an operating company defending against patent assertions. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, a common venue for patent litigation.
The only tracked case is Aml Ip LLC v. ArtCraft Entertainment, Inc., filed in January 2021. This case was filed less than a year before ArtCraft sold the Crowfall game and its associated development team to Monumental in December 2021.
A lawsuit filed by Aml Ip LLC in the Western District of Texas. The status is not publicly available, and the case is likely settled or dismissed.