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A gaggle of veteran Fall Guys builders have launched Panic Stations, a new developer centered on “enjoyable, foolish, slapstick” co-op multiplayer games, with the said ambition of releasing a number of titles every year.
The founding group of Steve Taylor, Dan Hoang, Joe Walsh, and Oliver Hindle all held senior positions engaged on the smash hit Fall Guys at Mediatonic, and fellow founder Paul Croft was the co-founder of that studio.
The studio’s said purpose is to make “enjoyable, recent, physics primarily based co-op games with a way of humour, and launch a number of yearly.” The primary can be revealed “quickly”. The studio’s branding is closely pigeon-themed, and contains an in-universe trailer and social network.
“I could not go up the chance to get the proverbial band again collectively and make the silliest attainable games we are able to dream up,” mentioned Walsh, who’s serving as Design Director on the studio.
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“I am an enormous fan of the web co-op house and it has been superb to see it evolve over the previous few years,” mentioned Paul Croft. “It’s actually thrilling to team-up with some previous associates – we’re aiming to construct games that carry rapid pleasure to gamers and convey individuals nearer collectively.”
Mediatonic was acquired by Epic Games in 2021 following the breakout success of multiplayer problem title Fall Guys, which shipped in the course of the pandemic and located an enormous viewers at a time when in-person encounters had been strictly restricted. The studio later suffered important job losses when Epic reduce workers in 2023.
Panic Stations is the primary brand-new studio launched below Skeleton Crew, a new initiative introduced by Croft earlier this month. It is described as “a new group of unbiased games corporations linked by shared values – small groups, focus, creativity and kindness” with the ambition “to construct and empower nice studios like Panic Stations, in order that proficient individuals can do their greatest work.” The founding groups had been Payload, Brightrock and Mythwright, who beforehand collaborated on PC releases together with TerraTech and Kaiju Cleanup.
The studio is currently recruiting for a small variety of artwork, engineering and stage design roles.