Coffee Stain Malm is set on mobile
Brendan Sinclair
Managing Editor
Wednesday 9th February 2022
Coffee Stain is spreading. The company today announced the formation of Coffee Stain Malmö, a new office that will look to grow the company's mobile publishing and development ambitions.
Leading the Malmö studio is the company's VP of mobile Daniel Persson, alongside VP of publishing Albert Säfström.
"I think Coffee Stain has such an exciting portfolio of games that's really appreciated by the players, and I think it's such a shame [that the games haven't been available on mobile] and a huge opportunity to make sure these games get into the hands of these players," Persson tells GamesIndustry.biz.
"The way Coffee Stain does games -- the product feel, fun and innovation -- could really make a huge impact on mobile and this is what we want to transfer over."
"The way Coffee Stain does games could really make a huge impact on mobile"
Daniel Persson
The company already has a mobile presence, albeit a limited one. It has premium and free-to-play versions of Goat Simulator available on iOS and Android, and last year released adaptations of its side-scrolling action game Huntdown.
Persson says Coffee Stain is looking at all of its properties for possible mobile adaptations, but wants to make sure whatever comes over feels native to the platform. Everything needs to be adapted to some extent, of course, but recent years have seen a number of mobile adaptations that look and play a lot closer to their console and PC cousins than the ports of a decade ago.
"I definitely think it's changing," Persson says. "The audience is getting used to these mechanics that are much more similar to the console experience.
"The fact that first-person and third-person shooters can be close to the
Read more on gamesindustry.biz
