that game company now fully independent
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http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/14/journey-dev-goes-multiplatform-fully-independent/
Having completed its three-game contactual stint with Sony Computer Entertainment America, the team behind Flow, Flower, and Journey is breaking free from the chains of Sony platforms with a $5.5 million infusion of capital from Benchmark Capital's Mitch Lasky. "Today I am please to announce thatgamecompany has raised funding to develop and release our games independently," company co-founder Jenova Chen wrote on the TGC blog.
"This enables us to bring our games to more platforms and provide our players the highest quality experience at every point of contact," Chen added. He stopped short of revealing what TGC's next big project is, but said the team is "very excited about our new adventure" and will offer more news about that next project "soon." Unfortunately, TGC's first three games are owned by Sony, so don't expect to see them going multiplatform anytime soon.
thatgamecompany celebrated its sixth year in operation this past May with two new hires, and said goodbye to several employees earlier in the year. Chen said in May that TGC is currently courting publishers for its next game, and that we'll likely hear more at some point in 2012.
Having completed its three-game contactual stint with Sony Computer Entertainment America, the team behind Flow, Flower, and Journey is breaking free from the chains of Sony platforms with a $5.5 million infusion of capital from Benchmark Capital's Mitch Lasky. "Today I am please to announce thatgamecompany has raised funding to develop and release our games independently," company co-founder Jenova Chen wrote on the TGC blog.
"This enables us to bring our games to more platforms and provide our players the highest quality experience at every point of contact," Chen added. He stopped short of revealing what TGC's next big project is, but said the team is "very excited about our new adventure" and will offer more news about that next project "soon." Unfortunately, TGC's first three games are owned by Sony, so don't expect to see them going multiplatform anytime soon.
thatgamecompany celebrated its sixth year in operation this past May with two new hires, and said goodbye to several employees earlier in the year. Chen said in May that TGC is currently courting publishers for its next game, and that we'll likely hear more at some point in 2012.