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Krzysztof and Greg Ciach founded Second Chamber, a studio that creates double-A games in Wanderer Adventure Game (WAG) genre. This allows you to live in an independent world and experience new adventures. The modular design of WAGs allows for optimization of production costs and will enable the creation of future titles. The company will eventually be listed on NewConnect rather than Pixel Crow Games.
Second Chamber will operate in the area AA games. Krzysztof and Grzegorz Czulec are both experienced specialists who were previously involved with Techland and Amber Studio. The project was co-created with triple-A game developers who previously worked on top-rated hits (The Division and The Division 2, Frostpunk and Frostpunk 2, Pure Farming 2018, Motorstorm), Torment: Tides of Numenera. After their binding contracts expire, other key players will be made public.
Movie Games, together with Damian Gasinski (president of Pixel Crow Games) and Maciej Miasik (chairman of the Supervisory Board at Pixel Crow Games), reviewed strategic options. They decided to sell shares in the daughter company for the mutual benefit of cooperation.
Movie Games will support the new entity by offering opportunities to use Pixel Crow Games to help develop the studio. Pixel Crow Games will be owned by the creators of Second Chamber. Movie Games will own a 12.5% share in the new entity.
“As a consequence of the current review, Pixel Crow Games’s debts have been discharged and significant funds will be returned to the Movie Games capital. Movie Games will not consolidate Pixel Crow Games’ losses resulting from reverse acquisition. This will have a significant effect on the consolidated result ,” comments Mateusz Wczesniak (president of the Movie Games capital company). “We will be able to share in large projects that will feature world-renowned experts. Movie Games will play an advisory role, but will also benefit from the know-how in the capital group ,” Wczesniak says.
Movie Games’ new Chairman, Mateusz Wczesniak, Dr. Kamil Gemra and Piotr Gryp will be sitting on the Supervisory Board for Second Chamber.
The Supervisory Board will also include legendary gaming journalist Dariusz Michalski (or “Sir Haszak”). He was a prominent Polish gaming journalist, having been associated with “Top Secret”, “Bajtek” and “Gambler”.
Dr. Kamil Gemra is the Chairman of the Supervisory Board for Movie Games.
Second Chamber created a three-stage plan of development for approximately. The plan is based on Paradox Development Studio, the pioneering and leading developer of grand strategy. It will take 5 years to complete. Second Chamber will work in the specific area it has identified.
“An unnamed type is a game that has millions of players. Mount&Blade 2 Bannerlord and Sid Meier’s Pirates are examples of this type of game. These titles share more than great reviews and loyal fans. You can enjoy a thrilling adventure in a multi-layered, vibrant world thanks to the variety of genre features linking them. These games can still be described using a few generalities, such as RPG, survival and open-world, simulation, and so on. Second Chamber has its own title for this genre: Wanderer Adventure Game em>. Greg Ciach is the CEO of Second Chamber.
The following are the main features of Wanderer Adventure Game titles:
- A dedicated gaming community that produces many mods and ensures the games last a long time.
- Open world is cheaper to create than other solutions due to the symbolic representations of the journey on a map rather than a fully modelled world.
- Emergent gameplay and narrative (i.e. Situations and scenarios that are naturally a result of the actions of both the player and NPCs in the game.
- The game’s sandbox allows you to create hundreds of different campaigns over the course of hundreds of hours.
- A narrative mode that supports the Sandbox. The player gets a concise, many-hour story using the same systems.
Initial plans call for 40 employees. Within three years, the studio will have developed a second team, and increased staff to approximately. 100 to manage three teams totaling around 150 people over five years. The modular approach to producing games in this genre will be tested with the first game. The second game will test the modular approach to producing games in this genre. The Third Title is intended to define the genre, and establish Second Chamber as its dominant force.
Movie Games will support its managers in the areas of marketing, production and quality control. To ensure that all activities are coordinated and synergized, cooperation will begin at the concept stage.
“For Movie Games this is another step in the implementation of the strategy to move the company towards the AAA area that was announced a while back. Mateusz Wczesniak (President of the Management Board of Movie Games) said that this, along with the enormous monetization potential of such games, will eventually distinguish us in a market rich of companies creating indie gaming em>.
“It is clear that the game development market is saturated with indie developers. Observation of listed businesses, however, shows that AA studios are more often noticed and appreciated. The cooperation around Second Chamber is in line with our business strategy ,” comments by Dr. Kamil Gemra.
Greg and I met years ago when we were both working at another publishing house. We have always wanted to work together so when I heard he was planning to open his own studio, I instantly thought of movie games as a capital group that would allow me to implement these ideas. After several weeks of discussions, I am happy that this idea has become a reality ,”, says Piotr Gryp, CMO Movie Games.
Second Chamber has been quietly recruiting for its first production for some time.
