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Press release:
24 June 2021.
Image Games, a member of the Movie Games family, announced that it has entered into a partnership with Anshar Studios, an award-winning development studio from Katowice, Poland, specializing in role-playing games.

The companies will jointly produce an AA-class RPG game with a gangster theme. The first presentation of the title is likely to take place in the first quarter of next year.

Image Games is a company founded by Movie Games, a video game developer and publisher, and Platige Image, a production and post-production studio known for cinematics for the world’s biggest game publishers (Ubisoft, Square Enix, CDProjekt Red, among others).

“Image Games combines Movie Games’ know-how in game development and Platige Image’s experience in visual storytelling. For me personally, Anshar Studios is a dream partner to create our first game. In my opinion, it’s one of the strongest European studios specializing in indie premium RPGs. Their portfolio is full of games appreciated by players and critics,” says Piotr Gnyp, Image Games co-founder and board member and CMO Movie Games.

Piotr Gnyp, Image Games Member of the Board,
and Lukasz Hacura, CEO Anshar Studios
Anshar Studios is a game developer realizing both its own productions (Gamedec, Detached) and cooperating on some of the highly acclaimed external productions. The team participated in works on such well-known titles as Observer: System Redux (Bloober Team), Divinity: Original Sin 2: The Four Relics of Rivellon (Larian Studios) or Dead by Daylight (Behaviour Interactive).

“As a studio that specializes in narrative system games, we are excited to work with Image Games to create a tactical RPG. We will be telling the story of human relationships through the lens of gangs, doing so through both gameplay and story. Marta Fijak, who previously worked as a designer for Frostpunk, will be the creative director of the project,” says Łukasz Hacura, CEO of Anshar Studios.

“Cooperation with Anshar Studios is another step towards our goal of providing players with entertainment of the highest quality. The competences and experience of the team involved in the project are a guarantee that our production will be perfected both from the narrative and technical point of view,” adds Karol Żbikowski, CEO of Platige Image.

David Jaffe, cooperating with Movie Games, will be a creative consultant for the project. Jaffe is a legendary game creator previously working for Sony Santa Monica, the originator and director of God of War and Twisted Metal series known from PlayStation.

About Image Games
Image Games is an indie premium developer focused on producing AA-class period crime games. The studio was founded by the game development and publishing studio Movie Games and Platige Image, a production and post-production studio known for video game cinematics for the world’s biggest game publishers. The company’s creative consultant is David Jaffe, formerly of Sony Santa Monica, the developer of the legendary series God of War and Twisted Metal.

About Movie Games
Movie Games is a Polish game developer and publisher, listed on Warsaw Stock Exchange’s alternative investment market – NewConnect. The company has been funded by game enthusiasts with experience in the financial, gaming, and media sectors. Movie Games’ portfolio includes horror games (“The Beast Inside”, “Lust for Darkness”, “Lust from Beyond”) and simulators, which show all the different aspects of various occupations (“Drug Dealer Simulator”, “Plane Mechanic Simulator”, “MythBusters” and “Alaskan Truck Simulator” produced in association with Discovery, Inc.). The company operates in Warsaw and a few offices across Poland.

About Platige Image
Platige Image is a production and post-production studio. It specializes in computer graphics, animation, and visual effects for the film, entertainment, and advertising industries, production of mass events, and broadcast design for TV studios using Vizrt technology. It is especially renowned for cinematics for world-known game developers. The team comprises over 200 creative professionals: directors, art directors, graphic designers, animators, and producers. For over 20 years the studio collected numerous awards and distinctions i.a. BAFTA, EFA, Goya Award, SIGGRAPH Awards as well as nominations to Oscars, Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival, and Leone d’Oro at The Venice Film Festival.