The team from Old City game studio Cipher Prime has a new venture.
It’s a game studio called Deep Dark Hole, made up of Cipher Prime cofounders Dain Saint, William Stallwood and ex-Cipher Prime developer Andrei Marks. Their first game, Elbow Room, is a finalist at Indiecade next week.
They’ll be focused on “small, experimental titles” that won’t be driven by monetary goals, Stallwood said. “It’s more of a purist thing.”
The crew started Deep Dark Hole for two reasons, Stallwood told us.
- Stallwood and Saint wanted to keep working with Marks, who left Cipher Prime three months ago.
- “Cipher Prime has a brand and makes a certain type of game,” Stallwood wrote in an email. “For instance, if CP made a title with characters and blood, people might be very caught off guard. DDH doesn’t have a boundary and we don’t want to create one.”
Cipher Prime is still going strong, though, he said. It just launched a redesign of its website, will be showcasing Auditorium Duet at GamerCamp in Toronto later this month and plans to release Splice, for Playstation 3 and Playstation 4.
Oh, and Stallwood just set off on a cross-country bike tour with Drexel game developer Greg Lobanov and a few others. You can follow along at nerdsacrossamerica.com.
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