Dorian acquires oteme game developer Nix Hydra
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Social storytelling platform Dorian has acquired Nix Hydra, a developer of interactive fiction such as “oteme” games.
Dorian will pick up a couple of Nix Hydra employees along with their flagship titles, Fictif and The Arcana: A Mystic Romance, which was named by Pocket Gamer as one of the best otome-style games of 2022. These are sexless romance games popular in Japan — and elsewhere too.
That’s why Dorian acquired the games and the interactive platform, as it is building a creator platform, which embraces the new and changing entertainment landscape by connecting fans and independent creators to popular intellectual properties, monetization features, and code-free creation tools.
“Our ambition is to become the largest gaming creation and streaming platform for female creators and other underrepresented groups,” said Julia Palatovska, CEO of Dorian, in an interview with GamesBeat. “Nix Hydra really fits in the most popular and best-performing content that Dorian already has. So it has a really high affinity with the community that we’re building and the content that we’re building.”
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The company has also expanded its partnerships, technology and community teams with Nix Hydra members and new hires.
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