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Press release:
Madrid, February 27, 2020. Sony Interactive Entertainment España (SIE España) announces today the indie studios that will join its PlayStation®Talents Games Camp this 2020, along with the support of Lanzadera, which will bring their model of talent scouting, selection and mentoring to the Madrid, Barcelona, Málaga, Bilbao, and Valencia Game Camps offices.

Besides, the University of Deusto joins the PlayStation®Talents initiative, through their Unit of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. They will offer networking, mentoring, legal counsel and access to funding.

On top of all this, and as was announced in the VI Edition of the PlayStation®Talents Awards, Z by HP and Tangram Solutions will be the exclusive technological partners of the PlayStation®Talents program, providing with last-gen professional workstations, workshops, training and access to mo-cap and facial-capture equipment in Tangam Madrid.

A total of 9 studios, focused in different genres, join the PlayStation®Talents Games starting in March. This is the full list of new projects to join the PlayStation®Talents line-up:

BARCELONA

The Library of Babel (Tanuki Game Studio)

The Library of Babel is a dark adventure of platforms, stealth and investigations, set in a futuristic world. In this adventure, players take control of Ludokiv, a robotic entity sent to gather data about the human race, extinct for centuries. Ludovik will habe to interact with the jungle people and explore its more dangerous places in order to solve the dark mistery of the Library.

Corbid! A Colorful Adventure (CuCurry)

A 3D shooter- and puzzle-platformer where the player has to help Corbid in becoming the new champion, using his color-related abilities to win the rest of contenders.

BILBAO

The Five Covens (rBorn Games)

This adventure and puzzle game, set in a medieval fantasy world, joins this year the Bilbao PlayStation®Games Camp. Paying homage to the classic 3D adventure games of the first generations of consoles, but with an art style and gameplay aligned with current standards, this game (set in the witchcraft folklore) offers an adventure where players will have to escape from a castle by overcoming all of its dungeons.

MADRID

Clid the Snail (Weird Beluga Studio)

The winners of this year’s Best Game Of The Year award in the VI Editoin of the PlayStation®Talents Awards will develop this action-adventure game where the player becomes Clid, a humanoid snail, always with his loyal companion the talkative firefly Belu by his side. This dual stick shooter takes the player through many different scenarios where they will fight their enemies with a wide variety of weapons.

Inner Ashes (Calathea Game Studio)

Inner Ashes is a story-driven adventure where players become Henry, a forester affected of Alzheimer who has to take a soul-searching journey to his own mind in order to discover the secrets of his past.

MÁLAGA

Walls of Lies (Snowy Jellyfish)

This 2.5D game brings together such different genres as Metroidvania, Brawlers and some touches of roguelike. From 1 to 4 players have to pick a character, each with its own story, and try to get out of a dungeon alive. Fierce enemies populate every level – among them, other players! Once they find the exit, players will fight between themselves in epic arenas full of platforms and traps.

VALENCIA

Operation Highjump (Mansion Games)

Operation Highjump is a 2D run & gun, an action game with some tactical and adventure elements, based in the mysterious legends of World War II – a game that will surely appeal to nostalgic players. This game will update the classic gameplay of old-school games to a new generation of players.

Do Not Open (QUASAR DYNAMICS)

Do Not Open is a VR survival horror game, inspired by the mechanics and experience of escape rooms. Its story evolves within the confines of a room that will bring the player’s mental and physical condition to the limit. The main character wakes up in their own house to the sudden realization that something has changed – the house is locked up and it keeps changing as the game progresses, in an analogy of what is happening within the character’s own head. Do Not Open is a non-linear game, and players will get different endings depending on their decissions, as well as the results of the tests they overcome through the game.

Lethal Honor Essence (Viral Studios SL)

This action-adventure roguelite recently achieved its funding goal in a Kickstarter campaign. Lethal Honor is based on a strategic and precise hand-to-hand combat system against Eldritch creatures, with a wide variety of skills. The player fights as an agent of Lethal Honor, an organization devoted to finding and stopping paranormal events and creatures all across the world.

ABOUT PLAYSTATION®TALENTS

Launched in 2015 by Sony Interactive Entertainment Spain, the PlayStation® Talents program aims to unify all the initiatives put together by the local Spanish branch in order to develop the Spanish creativity. The goal of the PlayStation Talents program is to support the local industry as well as to create video games fully developed in Spain to be sold around the globe. The PlayStation Talents program is formed by:

Two educational areas: PlayStation® Future Talents and PlayStation® First
The PlayStation® Awards, aimed at independent studios.
PlayStation® Games Camp, a business incubator that is present in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Valencia, Málaga, and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
PlayStation® Alliances, where different projects with well-known local studios that have been sold overseas come together.

More information at http://www.playstationtalents.es/

ABOUT SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT

Recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is responsible for the PlayStation® brand and family of products and services. PlayStation has delivered innovation to the market since the launch of the original PlayStation in Japan in 1994. The PlayStation family of products and services include PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Vita, PlayStation®3, PlayStation™Store, PlayStation®Plus, PlayStation™Video, PlayStation™Music, PlayStation™Now, PlayStation™Vue, and acclaimed PlayStation software titles from SIE Worldwide Studios. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, SIE is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation and has global functions in California, London, and Tokyo.

Jonas “O.J” Ek
The Gaming Ground
Twitter: @TheGamingGround