Q-Video games and Chuhai Labs builders have teamed as much as create a model new Kyoto-based indie sport studio.
Denkiworks is the most recent creation of co-founders Liam Edwards, Taki Arioka, and Jan de Graaf. The skilled group has beforehand labored on Apple Arcade titles akin to Pixeljunk Scrappers and Cursed to Golf, additionally obtainable on Xbox Sequence X|S, PS5, Nintendo Swap, and PC.
“Our expertise working collectively on Pixeljunk Scrappers was a very particular collaboration,” programmer Jan de Graaf stated. “We joked again then that at some point we’d reunite to make a sport once more. I don’t suppose we really thought it could occur, however right here we’re”.
Denkiworks is predicated in Kyoto, the place the three builders first met whereas working at their earlier corporations. Regardless of the studio being extremely younger, the builders are set on its philosophy of making video games which can be progressive and embody the distinctive “East meets West” perspective.
It is this attitude that has seemingly impressed Denkiworks’ latest title, codenamed Challenge Tanuki. Whereas little is understood concerning the debut sport, it is going to embody the Japanese countryside and rural tradition.
“We’ve been exhausting at work on our first title, impressed by our experiences of life in Japan, coming from an expat and native perspective,” designer Liam Edwards stated in a press launch. “It’s primarily a love letter to this nation and its stunning tradition. All of us have an idealised imaginative and prescient of what Japan is, particularly its beautiful countryside, popularised in artwork and media over centuries. Challenge Tanuki can be our tackle that!”
Our profile on the up-and-coming indie studio detailed extra than simply its debut sport, codenamed Challenge Tanuki, so if you wish to know extra about this new studio, go test it out.
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