GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

NetEase and industry veteran Greg Street have formed a new studio, Fantastic Pixel Castle, and have announced the start of development on its first game. Fantastic Pixel Castle will operate as a fully remote studio and is preparing to begin the hiring process for developing an MMO codenamed Ghost, which is based on a new fantasy IP.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 6, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox IO Interactive has opened a studio in the UK to work on its two big projects: Project Fantasy and Project 007. The new team is based in Brighton and there is already a small group of developers in place.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 17, 2023

Prytania Media has announced the opening of two new AAA development studios: Fang & Claw and Dawon Entertainment. The latest additions to Prytania Media will join sister studios Possibility Space and Crop Circle Games. This studio will focus on fantasy combat sports.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Bestiario has already surpassed $ 125.000 on its Kickstarter campaign

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It is a AAA fantasy shooter created by a 100-person dev team, led by a former Call of Duty creative director and published by EA. And a month after the game was released, developer Ascendant Studio laid off 40 employees. Immortals of Aveum was not made by a small developer. It was not made on a tight budget. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 12, 2024

The narrative of the game itself is of innocent goblins turning the tables on the adventurers that so frequently invade their home, inverting a typical fantasy trope. The story behind the game, meanwhile, is one of a married couple forming a new studio on the success of their mobile zombie game and moving from the US to the Philippines.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The cult horror game was made by a team who would go on to form Sledgehammer Games, a development studio funded by Activision Blizzard to create Call of Duty titles. One of those studios, Striking Distance, has even created a spiritual successor to that 2008 sci-fi horror.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 15, 2024

The studio's debut title — a fantasy mix of life simulation and MMORPG — launched last August with a PC open beta via its own website and launcher, followed by a release on the Epic Games Store in October. The game then launched on Nintendo Switch in December.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Sumo Group has acquired mobile developer Midoki, the studio behind successful titles such as Plunder Pirates. Midoki will join the Sumo Digital family of studios, the publisher's largest business of operations. Read more

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 25, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Unreal and Unity Humble Bundles There are not one but two game development Humble Bundles on right now, the Unreal Apocalypse Essentials Reloaded and the Unity based Fantasy Realms Bundle by Dragonsan Studios.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 30, 2023

Founder and CEO Olivier Madiba is pursuing his dream of creating the biggest African game studio by building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem which encapsulates games, comics, animation and even restaurants. Madiba humbly shared his studio’s struggles and how he was uncertain of its success. This is his story. She was right.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Feryaz Beer didn’t pick the easiest of genres for his debut game Super Fantasy Kingdom. Solo dev Feryaz Beer’s debut Super Fantasy Kingdom “A weird mashup of genres” Jordan Mochi has been working on his debut game Conscript for 6 years under the name of Catchweight Studio. It’s something different.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 1, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Developing and maintaining an MMO of any size is no easy task for any studio. The feat gets more challenging when it's multiplatform. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

” The team sought to break away from traditional sci-fi and fantasy genres, finding inspiration in gaslamp fantasy—a style that blends nineteenth-century history with magical elements. Sense of history Flynn sheds light on the studio’s design philosophy.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 8, 2024

And that’s precisely what Shalin Shodhan is doing with his studio, Masala Games. While there certainly are games which feature India as a setting, both from Indian studios and international companies, they tend to focus on fantasy or mythical aspects of the nation. ” “Our mantra is ‘constraints foster creativity’.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 12, 2023

First time game developers Max Nielsen and João Martinez form Grenaa Games , a Sweden based indie game studio. “We But I was missing a really good city builder in a fantasy setting. About the studio name Grenaa Games: “Grenaa is my family name from my mothers side, so it adds a nice personal touch I think!”

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Supercell announced over a year ago that they will be opening a studio in North America. Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. In Today’s Email ? Subscribe here!

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 10, 2023

Canadian indie game development studio Excellent Rectangle just launched their debut title Tape to Tape on Steam Early Access. But also games like Final Fantasy VI, Mega Man X, Earthbound, Super Metroid… I’m still playing all of these games today!” He reminisces: “1994 has got to be my favorite NHL.

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Game Industry News

APRIL 16, 2023

Art: The animation is pretty good from Studio Felix although it’s nowhere near ufotable quality. It’s still much better than anything by Studio Deen. Overall: A fun series that anyone who wants a fairly lighthearted fantasy series can enjoy. At least it isn’t grating, but it is absolutely not memorable.

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Gamesbrief

DECEMBER 7, 2023

So, as my health improves – and I’m maybe 40% on the road to recovery – I’m going to step up to help Andrew Smith at Spilt Milk Studios make great games. It’s a cozy, shopkeeping game where you clean, upcycle and sell trinkets in a wholesome fantasy world. And our first game together will be Trash Goblin.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 10, 2023

The indie game that does this especially well is A Space for the Unbound by Mojiken Studio. Coming of age story Mojiken Studio is based in Surabaya, Indonesia and has been around for over ten years. It started as an outsource studio that focused primarily on illustration. ” “In 2015 we did a game jam at Mojiken Studio.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 22, 2023

Art: The art is very good, being done by Studio Nexus. For those who like: Reincarnation, Fantasy, Drama, and Action. Music: The music fits the series, and that’s about it. Not for those who don’t like: Any of the above.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Plot: The plot is okay, it’s a fairly standard Fantasy story with the premise “Hero journey out and defeat the Demon King” story. Art: The art is okay, and is done by Studios flad and Wolfsbane, but really doesn’t come anywhere close to the more Impressive works of ufotable or even lesser studios like Silver Link.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 10, 2023

First time game developers Max Nielsen and João Martinez form Grenaa Games , a Sweden based indie game studio. “We But I was missing a really good city builder in a fantasy setting. About the studio name Grenaa Games: “Grenaa is my family name from my mothers side, so it adds a nice personal touch I think!”

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 5, 2023

First time game developers Max Nielsen and João Martinez form Grenaa Games , a Sweden based indie game studio. “We But I was missing a really good city builder in a fantasy setting. About the studio name Grenaa Games: “Grenaa is my family name from my mothers side, so it adds a nice personal touch I think!”

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2024

Physics-based 2D platformer Bionic Bay is a collaboration between the Finnish one-man-studio Mureena and Taiwanese indie game company Psychoflow Studio. So, a fantasy setting instead of everyday environments would provide the most room to be creative without being too shackled to anything too specific.”

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Additionally, I love fantasy movies, which is why the entire game is themed around a fantasy world.” “I’m a retro gamer, and basically, I’ve incorporated all the elements into my game that I loved from arcade games. What’s the biggest lesson learned from this project?

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 10, 2024

Kevin Brock , founder of indie game studio Pastaspace Interactive , is the creative mind behind Underspace. There really aren’t a lot of fantasy-oriented space games out there”, he says. “I find something that doesn’t belong in space normally, and then I put it in space. I didn’t listen. I don’t usually listen.”

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 28, 2023

As co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) of Nigerian-based studio Dimension 11 , he provided leadership. He recently successfully released two balls and is currently solely focusing on Dimension 11 studios. I can’t forget because that year was very important not just for myself but also for Dimension 11 as a studio.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2023

But while everyone was working at larger studios or freelance, the En Garde! To dig a solid fantasy out of that ‘omelette’, we found ourselves essentially relying on a good ol’ helping of subtractive design. We are a studio of young developers, so there was a lot we had to figure out as we went.”

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

D-Day, all the time McCandlish was an early employee at studio Infinity Ward, which had been set up by his colleagues from previous studio 2015 Inc. Although the team mulled a variety of games, including a fantasy slasher and a sci-fi shooter. – Vince Zampella, Grant Collier, and Jason West.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 20, 2024

Mortal Glory 2 is a turn-based fantasy roguelike where players manage a team of traveling gladiators. “Mortal Glory 2 has been a financial success so far”, he says. “It It won’t make me rich, but it will give me peace of mind when making my next games.” It’s a sequel that offers ‘more variety and smoother gameplay’.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

They have all been warmly received (on the whole) by critics; have proven commercially successful, and have brought credit to the skills and imaginations of their respective studios. Bethesda’s long-established ability to create vast fantasy playgrounds that satisfy players’ need to escape to fantastical worlds.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

FINAL FANTASY XVI – After playing a bunch more Kingdomheartslikes and getting more used to that, I’ve gotta say, this is a very well made Kingdomheartslike. Whereas if you compare that to something like Final Fantasy 13, there is a pretty central thing that’s being headed toward the entire time. Bad FIGHT pacing.

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Game Industry News

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Art: The art is fairly good, although it’s done by a studio named ENGI that I’d never heard of before looking up that information, so it’s a newcomer to the Anime business. For those who like: LitRPGs, Fantasy, Consequences. The rest of the cast is okay, but they aren’t outstanding.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 8, 2024

This unique ability, previously unseen in Metroidvania games, represents a significant innovation for the genre that the creators at Canadian indie game company Lucid Dreams Studio so love. “In In the team, everyone is a fan of Metroidvania”, says Brand Manager Rayanne Berriche of Lucid Dreams Studio. “So

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Game Errors

AUGUST 4, 2023

When this issue appears, you will see the following message: Joining failed: You’re already connected Whether you encounter this issue or not, it’s better to know the troubleshooting methods to have the best experience with this fantasy RPG. Clear the Larian Studios folder First, close Steam and the game. Relaunch the game.

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