- Collection Leisure acquired Pixelberry Video games to “ship a various catalogue”
- Pixelberry is greatest identified for making cellular video games the place story and customisation take centre stage
Excessive Faculty Story creator Pixelberry Video games has been acquired by AI video games developer Collection Leisure for an undisclosed sum.
The deal marks the most recent transfer within the latter’s mission to “ship a various catalogue of various genres” whereas leveraging its AI-driven software referred to as Rho Engine. The tech goals to automate many points of sport improvement as a multi-modal, full-stack platform for video games improvement.
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Pixelberry was acquired by Nexon in 2017 and is greatest identified for making cellular video games the place story and customisation take centre stage, with Decisions: Tales You Play an enormous hit within the interactive storytelling style. In response to AppMagic information, the romantic journey sport has generated $544 million so far with over 100 million downloads.
Collection Leisure CEO Pany Haritatos implied that by way of the deal to purchase Pixelberry off Nexon, new chapters in Decisions: Tales You Play will start to be made with AI expertise – delivering on many fan requests from story branches to a number of love pursuits.
“Pixelberry has been a class chief within the interactive fiction style,” Haritatos mentioned.
“We love story-based video games and Decisions has lengthy been a frontrunner within the style. With our cutting-edge expertise, we will take Decisions to the following degree, with larger books, new interactive options, and ever-improving story high quality, all designed to ship the issues the Decisions group desires.”
In the meantime, the Pixelberry workforce expressed pleasure surrounding the acquisition and entry to the brand new tech:
“We’re glad to announce that our studio is now a part of Collection Leisure, a fast-growing sport improvement firm. It’s an thrilling new chapter for our studio and we stay up for empowering our artistic groups by way of the Collection Leisure expertise, which is able to enable us to convey to life plenty of our high fan requests, similar to style variety, a number of love pursuits, predominant character customisation and extra intricate story branches.
“We thank all of our followers on your help and we are able to’t wait so that you can see what’s in retailer for our tales with coronary heart.”
Talking on the world of AI, Nintendo simply revealed its choice for “many years of know-how” fairly than counting on new expertise.