Skybound introduced as we speak that it has launched its first inner improvement studio, Quarter Up. The brand new studio is engaged on Invincible VS, a brand new preventing recreation set within the franchise of the identical title created by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley. Skybound revealed the brand new studio as we speak, shortly after revealing the brand new title, which is ready for launch someday in 2026.
In line with Skybound, Quarter Up is a Los Angeles-based group with round 40+ members. The group has collective expertise in studios equivalent to Activision Blizzard, Riot Video games, Naughty Canine, Netflix, Amazon Video games and Double Helix, amongst others. The title is a reference to placing quarters in arcade machines as a way to hold your gameplay going. A number of members of the group have earlier expertise engaged on preventing video games, particularly 2013’s Killer Intuition.
Mike Willette, Invincible VS government producer, informed GamesBeat in an interview, “Quarter Up is the primary in-house recreation improvement studio at Skybound (second main in-house studio) devoted to creating preventing video games. We’re a hyper passionate group with in depth expertise in aggressive and combat-focused video games. From the beginning, our objective and imaginative and prescient has all the time been to create experiences that make gamers leap out of their seats and really feel heroic…really feel like a badass… We’re a combat-focused studio and preventing video games are the place we need to depart our mark!”
As for a way the studio began, Willette added, “A number of of our key group members had been a part of the Double Helix Sport’ Killer Intuition improvement group, which was ultimately bought by Amazon. We’ve all the time felt like we had unfinished enterprise within the preventing recreation style and we had dreamed too lengthy about beginning our personal studio – we owed it to ourselves. I approached the group at Skybound about growing an Invincible preventing recreation; they believed and trusted in our imaginative and prescient and have been big advocates in serving to deliver Invincible VS to life.”
Bringing the Invincible universe to bloody, violent life
Skybound and Quarter Up revealed the sport over the weekend through the Xbox Video games Showcase for Summer season Sport Fest. Invincible VS is a 3v3 tag preventing recreation set within the Invincible universe and starring a number of of its acquainted characters, together with Mark “Invincible” Grayson, Atom Eve, Omni-Man and extra. Quarter Up has not solely recreated the comedian e book settings within the recreation, but additionally its gory, hyper-violent fight, as proven within the reveal trailer.
Chris Paulson, Skybound Video games EVP and normal supervisor, informed GamesBeat in an interview, “We’re big followers of Invincible, and every of us connects with the story and characters in numerous methods. We’re lucky to work very carefully with Robert Kirkman – he’s extremely engaged and deeply concerned within the course of. We’ve had unprecedented entry to groups behind the franchise throughout all mediums; the creators behind the hit TV sequence are main cost on the story for Invincible VS. Capturing the franchise’s signature brutality and destruction is high precedence; we would like the sport to replicate the true stakes of superhero fight — the type followers already know and love.”
Paulson additionally added in a separate assertion, “The roster of expertise at Quarter Up proves there’s no higher studio to deliver this daring undertaking to life. This group carries a deep legacy in preventing video games, and Invincible was the right title for in-house improvement by their fearless and assured crew. We’re thrilled that Mike and the group are a part of Skybound and we are able to’t wait to see our imaginative and prescient come to life — on this recreation and past.”