Starbreeze Studios

Chronicle of Riddick game.

Oh no, Starbreeze.

Starbreeze.

Did they later become Monolith? Um...

No, but they did make Payday 2.

I forget who did that.

Yeah, that was Starbreeze.

That was the Riddick people.

That went offline shockingly recently, actually.

And then this was the 2012 reboot of it.

I don't know about anything more recent than Syndicate.

Oh, and Starbreeze went on to publish Payday 2.

Mm-hmm.

The reason that people have kind of attached to thinking that this might be their names is this is the sound that...

they make when they're trying to like call each other in the game so they'll just kind of make like a noise and this is kind of the closest name that you've got uh to each of them so the game itself is called yeah like a brother's a tell of two sons uh it's like a puzzle adventure game and it was released in 2013 by Starbreeze and essentially it's like a little adventure that you go on playing as your two brothers so you've got an older brother the one Nya that they think and then you've got younger brother Nei and you leave the house to save your dying father so you're looking for a potion to save him he's dying on his deathbed and there's no one else around so you've gotta off you go as young boys off into the adventure There's also like, it's like one of those ones where it's like a fun little puzzle game.

You're basically controlling both of the brothers on like each thumb stick, which makes them for some fun puzzles.

So it's half like you've got to do some controls, but it's like more really like thinking about where to maneuver one of them to then like stand on something to then get the other one around and those kinds of things.

Oh, really? Yeah.

As in the same development team?

Yeah, well, it's Starbreeze, and I don't know if Starbreeze still exists in the same way.

I believe Joseph Fez is the person in charge of the other games since then.

And so I did...

the very first north american distribution deals for this little company called paradox um did the first publishing deal for for high lamont studios which is going on still to this day uh the first deal for starbreeze and that was like one of my How good are your sales techniques? We sold a development publishing agreement to, I believe it was Crave at the time.

There was no playable demo of this game that Starbreeze was creating.

It was simply a mirrored cube floating down a hallway.

And it was not that impressive these days because you have Unity and Unreal and all that stuff.

But obviously, there were several other video game projects that were announced previously, but got canned, even though they are still in development.

And most notably, there was a couple, one from Starbreeze Studios, one from Giant Skull.

Which, who was it? There was a very famous video game developer.

Well, somewhat famous video game developer that headed up Giant Skull, so what a shame.

So there are other D&D video games.

So there are some that were cancelled, like Starbreeze and Giant Skull were making games and they got cancelled.

But we didn't even know what that was.

It was an untitled project.