Private Division pivots vision with smaller additions
Brendan Sinclair
Managing Editor
Wednesday 16th March 2022
Private Division today announced its next slate of projects, teaming up with indie studios Die Gute Fabrik, Evening Star, Piccolo Studio, and Yellow Brick Games to publish their next titles.
Copenhagen-based Die Gute Fabrik will be following up its 2020 IGF Award-winning Mutazione with another story-driven game.
The developers at Evening Star -- best known for their work on Sonic Mania -- are working on an original 3D action platformer using their own proprietary engine.
Arise: A Simple Story developer Piccolo Studio has also signed on with Private Division to work on a new IP.
Finally, Quebec City-based Yellow Brick Games is parlaying its founders' experience at AAA publishers like Electronic Arts and Ubisoft to create an action RPG with emergent, systems-driven gameplay.
Mutazione studio Die Gute Fabrik doesn't fit the mold of Private Division's original partners
It's been four years since Take-Two's indie publishing label arrived on the scene, and these four signings reflect a change in how Private Division operates. The initial wave of the label's partners fit a certain kind of mold: Patrice Desilets' Panache Digital, David Goldfarb and Ben Cousins' The Outsiders, Marcus Lehto's V1 Entertainment and Obsidian Entertainment. They were high-end indies that had AAA experience and sensibilities, but weren't signing on to make the usual full fat 50-hour AAA games.
Speaking with GamesIndustry.biz, Private Division VP of production Allen Murray and VP of marketing Tom Bass say things have changed since then, and not just with the acquisitions that saw Obsidian Entertainment join Microsoft or Take-Two acquire Private Division partner Roll7 and Kerbal Space Program.
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