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The founders of defunct Microsoft studio Press Play have opened a new development studio, Lightbulb Games.
The Copenhagen-based studio describes itself as a “small startup… with big ambitions”, with its first game set to be a vehicle-creation game called Pioneers.
“Our vision is to create games we and someday our children will be proud of!” says Lightbulb. “We create games that you play with – not just play. Games that give players unrestricted tools and environments to create their versions of fun.”
It continued: “Pioneers is a game about building complex machines out of simple blocks. With Pioneers we want to bring out the inventor in everybody and let them have an awesome time in a unique world of playfulness. We want make the construction game genre social on a new level.”
Pioneers actually began life back at Press Play under the working title ‘Project Karoo’ prior to the studio’s closure earlier this year. GamesIndustry.biz reports that the game is due to release on PC in the second half of 2017.
Press Play was closed by Microsoft around the same time as Lionhead, with the studio having previously developed Max: The Curse of Brotherhood for Xbox One and Xbox 360, and its predecessor Max & the Magic Marker.
Source: lightbulbgames.net, gamesindustry.biz
