Skybound introduced at present that it has launched its first inner improvement studio, Quarter Up. The brand new studio is engaged on Invincible VS, a brand new combating recreation set within the franchise of the identical title created by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley. Skybound revealed the brand new studio at present, shortly after revealing the brand new title, which is ready for launch someday in 2026.
Based on Skybound, Quarter Up is a Los Angeles-based workforce with round 40+ members. The workforce has collective expertise in studios akin 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 with the intention to hold your gameplay going. A number of members of the workforce have earlier expertise engaged on combating video games, specifically 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 combating video games. We’re a hyper passionate workforce with intensive expertise in aggressive and combat-focused video games. From the beginning, our purpose and imaginative and prescient has at all times 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 combating video games are the place we wish to depart our mark!”
As for the way the studio began, Willette added, “A number of of our key workforce members had been a part of the Double Helix Sport’ Killer Intuition improvement workforce, which was ultimately bought by Amazon. We’ve at all times felt like we had unfinished enterprise within the combating recreation style and we had dreamed too lengthy about beginning our personal studio – we owed it to ourselves. I approached the workforce at Skybound about creating an Invincible combating 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 time Sport Fest. Invincible VS is a 3v3 tag combating 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 guide 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 intently 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 prime 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 mission to life. This workforce carries a deep legacy in combating 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 workforce 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.”