Gregorios Kythreotis, the inventive director of sci-fi hoverbike journey Sable, has a brand new factor. He is heading up a recent studio dubbed Eteo, who’ll be aiming to launch their first sport in 2027. Till then, the studio plan to start out placing out a e-newsletter known as Archetypes, which’ll debut in January and talk about totally different parts of sport design.
Eteo shall be targeted on “making vibrant sport worlds with a distinctly mischievous flavour”, and have funding in place from Outersloth, the indie sport fund run by Amongst Us builders Innersloth, for that unnamed first sport.
“We began [Sable studio] Shedworks a few week after I graduated from finding out structure,” Kythreotis remembers within the studio announcement video above. “We have simply mainly been instructing ourselves on the job for a decade now. Sable was our first actually large sport, it modified my life utterly. Eteo is kind of the following step with that. Taking every thing I’ve discovered from finding out structure, from shedworks, from Sable, and making use of that to new inventive explorations, tasks which can be actually private, however keep it up with that lineage of world constructing, of storytelling, and video games that actually interact individuals on an emotional degree.”
Beginning in January 2026, the studio shall be placing out Archetypes, a free month-to-month e-newsletter. For the following half a 12 months making up a primary quantity, it will see three writers per thirty days “look at unsung features of online game design with every article inspecting themes related to Eteo’s design philosophies”. The primary month’s theme is “Flying Cities”, with Citizen Sleeper creator Gareth Damian Martin having been drafted in to contribute, alongside Eteo Neighborhood Supervisor Emma Kent and two-time RPS contributor Christian Donlan.
Should you’re occupied with Archetypes, you possibly can join to obtain it by way of Eteo’s web site. Then perhaps spend the wait till the primary difficulty re-reading former RPSer Alice B’s overview of Sable. Come on, you understand you wish to.
