Full-service writer Curveball Video games breaks cowl

Welsh distributor Curveball Leisure has launched a brand new full-service publishing division known as Curveball Video games that can provide financing choices and manufacturing help to impartial and double-A builders.

The nascent division will likely be helmed by former PQube senior world industrial supervisor Ed Gregory, who advised the corporate will work to nurture the “inexperienced shoots of restoration” which have sprouted amid a turbulent interval within the sport business. 

“This second requires a recent method and that’s the place Curveball Video games is available in. Ardour drives this business, however studios want greater than ardour to thrive. Our function as a writer is to champion builders, nurture creativity, and supply the help they honestly want,” stated Gregory. 

“With our crew’s expertise and the backing of the broader Curveball group, we really feel we’re in a powerful place to assist floor the following wave of standout expertise.”

Curveball has beforehand labored on titles corresponding to Unholy, Choo-Choo Charles, and Jetrunner. The corporate’s publishing division will present all the pieces from funding and advertising help to QA, localization, PR, platform help, and choices for bodily releases. Notably, it claims builders can tailor a publishing deal to go well with their actual wants. 

“Want the entire toolkit? Nice. Simply want assist in a number of key areas? Effective by us! Our help could be wholly formed round what your venture wants most,” reads an explainer on the Curveball web site. 

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Curveball CEO Stuart Harries defined the corporate has been exploring the world of publishing for the previous yr and finally selected to launch its personal devoted division to show each its confidence within the sport business and its dedication to builders.

“We’re right here to help, not simply as we speak, however for the long run,” added Harries. “We’re not chasing in a single day success. It is a sustained funding and and I’ve full confidence that Ed and his crew will construct one thing actually significant over time to return.” 

Curveball Video games has already established partnerships with Wales Interactive, Prime Hat Studios, Duality Video games, Reignite Group, Riddlebit Software program, and others on a number of upcoming bodily and digital releases.