The Creative Assembly Limited (trade name: Creative Assembly) is a British video game developer based in Horsham, founded in 1987 by Tim Ansell. In its early years, the company worked on porting games to MS-DOS from Amiga and ZX Spectrum platforms, later working with Electronic Arts to produce a variety of games under the EA Sports brand. In 1999, the company had sufficient resources to attempt a new and original project, proceeding to develop the strategy computer game "" which was a critical and commercial hit, and is regarded as a benchmark strategy game. Subsequent titles in the "Total War" series built on the success of "Shogun: Total War", increasing the company's critical and commercial success.