Gameloft

But Ghost Town Games announced Stage Fright, published by Hello Games, for Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2, a two-player co-op puzzle adventure from the creators of Overcooked, built around escape room style challenges and teamwork, coming out in 2027.

Gameloft showcased Disney Dreamlight Valley: The Keepsake Sea for Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2.

It's a paid expansion, uh, introducing content inspired by Atlantis: The Lost Empire, including Milo, coming out in November.

And Bandai Namco Entertainment Asia announced Ondé Ondé: Kaya's Tasty Tale for Nintendo Switch 2, a colorful platforming adventure inspired by Southeast Asian culture and traditional Malaysian kueh desserts, coming out 2027.

And so I think that sort of led to a plan being cooked up to sort of say, hey, we could expand into Barcelona, access all of the great talent there is here, not just through all the great universities and so on, but also because there's a really established gaming industry here in Barcelona.

So you have companies like King and Ubisoft and Gameloft and so on who have had offices here for years.

And so what was the context when you joined the company?

The Barcelona office was relatively recently founded and we were starting to build out, you know, there had been a platform team, including some data and analytics in the US, but in the process of moving that all over to Barcelona.

It's set in Ravenloft, blah, blah, blah.

But apparently, Gameloft Montreal is going to be developing a survival sim game that is set in Forgotten Realms.

So I did not know about that.

It's kind of cool.

It's

set in the Forgotten Realms by Gameloft Montreal.

I wasn't making a joke about it being in the Forgotten Realms and I've forgotten about it.

I genuinely had.

How has this not been done? I swear

we were working on a version of a Lego game like this at Gameloft like 10 years ago, but it never got made.

Crazy.

Yeah, it looks really good.

Launched in the depths of a crypto winter in one of the most challenging markets of the past decade, four years later, it's a franchise.

Hundreds of millions of views, a mobile game in development with Gameloft, and as of this summer, animated episodes available on Amazon Prime and Apple TV.

So Nick, Andrew, welcome to the podcast.

It's great to have you both.

We do gaming, as you mentioned.

So we have many sort of small gaming experiences.

We also have a co-development with Gameloft for a mobile game.

We have products in retail, so just physical products.

They get to make a rev share.

Now, the upside's more limited, but if they just see it as an extension of bringing people to other parts of the flywheel, then maybe they're just kind of, uh, resolved to that being okay, right? Um, like, would you have thought Gameloft would have made a really popular cozy sim game? No.

I mean, would Disney Dreamlight Village? No.

But, like, here you are.

Oh, okay.

Um, the developer and publisher is Gameloft, which makes sense 'cause it's Disney.

Um-

Mm.

So it was fun.

Mm-hmm.

[laughs] Uh, so like I said, uh, Gameloft did create it.

It is not only just a published game on, uh, different platforms, but you can also play it on your phone or your iPad, um-