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 sport 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 group with round 40+ members. The group has collective expertise in studios reminiscent of 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 preserve your gameplay going. A number of members of the group have earlier expertise engaged on combating video games, particularly 2013’s Killer Intuition.
Mike Willette, Invincible VS govt producer, informed GamesBeat in an interview, “Quarter Up is the primary in-house sport improvement studio at Skybound (second main in-house studio) devoted to creating combating video games. We’re a hyper passionate group with intensive expertise in aggressive and combat-focused video games. From the beginning, our aim and imaginative and prescient has all the time been to create experiences that make gamers soar 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 need to depart our mark!”
As for a way the studio began, Willette added, “A couple of of our key group members have been a part of the Double Helix Sport’ Killer Intuition improvement group, which was finally bought by Amazon. We’ve all the time felt like we had unfinished enterprise within the combating sport style and we had dreamed too lengthy about beginning our personal studio – we owed it to ourselves. I approached the group at Skybound about creating an Invincible combating sport; they believed and trusted in our imaginative and prescient and have been big advocates in serving to convey 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 combating sport 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 sport, but in addition its gory, hyper-violent fight, as proven within the reveal trailer.
Chris Paulson, Skybound Video games EVP and common 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 collection 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 mirror the true stakes of superhero fight — the sort 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 convey this daring challenge to life. This group 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 group are a part of Skybound and we will’t wait to see our imaginative and prescient come to life — on this sport and past.”
