German adventure game developer and publisher Daedalic Entertainment have announced plans for a new studio - Daedalic Studio West in Düsseldorf.
"Our new studio continues our strategy of developing high quality story- and character-driven games. At Daedalic Entertainment Studio West, there will be a lot of similarities to what we're doing at Daedalic's head offices in Hamburg, however, the new Duesseldorf studio will rather be focusing on genres other than adventure games", explains Daedalic founder and Managing Director Carsten Fichtelmann. "We'll soon reveal details on Daedalic Studio West's first project", he adds. "Together with our industry veteran partners Andreas Suika and Dirk Steenpaß, we‘re very happy to not only start a new adventure for Daedalic, but also to secure Daedalic's future development."
"Making the dream of creating a really good game come true does not only require a partner who is ready to commit to bring it what it needs on the development-side of things, but also excels in marketing a product. It's not easy to develop an outstanding game, but Daedalic is the right partner and gives the right set up to do so. Now, Daedalic opens up another base for developing great games", says Daedalic Entertainment Studio West Creative Director Andreas Suika. "Over the past weeks, we realized that we share important values and ideas, and that we complement one another perfectly. Since the very first minute we met, we are seeing a very creative exchange happening between the creatives of both teams", Andreas Suika adds.
One of the reasons for a second studio mentioned in the press release is that it will allow Daedalic a wider recruitment of talent. It is said that the first project from Daedalic Studio West will be announced soon, perhaps even at Gamescom next month.