For Studios Signs Impossible
INDUSTRY NEWS posted on 16 JAN 2008 by Chris Abele
Impossible Signs with FOG Studios to Bring Warlords: Castles and more to gamers.
Czech mobile game developer Impossible has signed an exclusive, multi-year representation agreement with leading business management firm FOG Studios.
Established in July of 2003 by Zdenek Šmarda, Impossible has since gone on to develop and publish numerous titles for the Java and Symbian platforms including the very first mobile real time strategy game YERS. Over the past five years Impossible has steadily grown, establishing subsidiaries outside of its core Czech studio, and beginning to work with some frontline, high profile intellectual properties.
Impossible has been hard at work on Warlords: Castles, a title based in the universe of the highly popular Warlords franchise created by Infinite Interactive founder Steve Fawkner, who also created last year’s award winning hit title “Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords”.
Impossible COO Miklós Csémy said, “As the mobile industry begins to consolidate and focus on branded IP it takes a truly unique intellectual property to rise to the top. We’ve been fans of the Warlords franchise for a while now and quickly identified it as having huge potential for the mobile space. Although our game mechanic differs from that of Puzzle Quest, I think we’ve stayed true to the Warlords standard of high quality entertainment and we can’t wait to get the game to market. We identified FOG Studios as an integral partner in getting Warlords: Castles and our other concepts the attention they deserve.”
“The mobile games landscape is dynamically evolving at a rapid pace. With carriers reducing the number of direct publishing relationships they wish to maintain, which is pressuring even some longstanding publishers to rethink their product mix, it is increasingly more difficult for solid independent developers to self publish their works and receive a meaningful return on their investment,” says FOG CEO Ed Dille. “Our role as their exclusive business management firm will be to assist them in obtaining additional high profile intellectual properties to showcase their development skills, and also to foster a number of repeat business relationships with North American publishers who will find their skill sets and cost basis very attractive and competitive.”
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