IO Interactive co-founder and former Sq. Enix chief artistic officer Janos Flösser has introduced the founding of Copenhagen-based studio Wombo Video games.
The studio has been engaged on its debut title Raiders of Blackveil for the previous two years. The studio’s debut recreation is an motion roguelite that mixes in components from the MOBA and PvE extraction genres, and it‛s set to launch on Steam Early Entry this summer season.
Flösser, the CEO of Wombo, mentioned the studio shall be run in a extra “consensus”-focused method than the earlier firms he is labored at. “Raiders of Blackveil is our first title so it’s very particular to us,” Wombo Video games CEO Janos Flösser mentioned in an announcement. “It’s a blueprint of our studio as a result of each particular person at Wombo has contributed on to its improvement.”
“At Wombo, we make selections by consensus, and plan to proceed that with suggestions from our gamers as soon as we launch in early entry later this 12 months.”
Through GameIndustry.biz, Wombo Video games consists of 21 builders, together with veterans of long-running collection like Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Simply Trigger, and Hitman.
Flösser‛s portfolio contains managerial credit score on 5 Hitman video games, spanning over a decade, from Hitman: Codename 47 within the 12 months 2000 to Hitman Absolution in 2012. He additionally labored on Kane & Lynch: Lifeless Males and Freedom Fighters as supervisor, and is listed as producer for 2007’s Hitman movie adaptation.
The co-founder was additionally a part of Reto-Moto, a studio fashioned in 1997 by fellow IO Interactive co-founders Jesper Vorsholt Jørgensen, Rasmus Guldberg-Kjær, Karsten Lemann Hvidberg, Martin Munk Pollas, Jacob Andersen, and David Guldbrandsen.
Reto-Moto went bankrupt in 2022. Previous to the shutdown, the corporate bought its sole recreation, 2016‛s free-to-play MMO Heroes & Generals, to TLM Video games. The brand new proprietor shut down the servers in Could 2023, sharing the determine of twenty-two million gamers registered within the recreation‛s lifetime. The developer launched a Kickstarter marketing campaign to fund a sequel in early 2023, nevertheless it didn‛t attain its purpose.
