Board game maker Fantasy Flight Games is moving into digital.
In improver to its pop X-Wing spin-off, board game fellowship Fantasy Flight Games has produced a let on of tabletop products based on videogames, including Doom, Fallout, Civilization, together with XCOM. Now it's moving inward the other management amongst the launch of a novel videogame studio called Fantasy Flight Interactive, which volition hold out headed upward Tim Gerritsen, formerly the manager of describe of piece of occupation concern evolution at master Prey studio Human Head.
Fantasy Flight Interactive volition convey existing board games to digital, exactly it volition too create "fresh, novel digital experiences based on Fantasy Flight Games’ love brands," the fellowship said inward a statement. "Fans tin sack anticipate richly strategic experiences amongst easy-to-understand UI, built from the soil upward for Steam."
"We're focused on the bigger moving-picture exhibit of the experiences our fans tin sack induce got on novel platforms, together with this volition accept our brands inward novel directions," Fantasy Flight Games founder Christian T. Petersen said.
Having Gerritsen caput upward the novel studio lends it existent together with immediate credibility: Aside from his five-year operate at Human Head, he too spent 4 years at Irrational, serving equally an executive producer on BioShock Infinite.
“We’re incredibly excited to hold out bringing Fantasy Flight Games’ best game properties to life equally amazing video game experiences,” Gerritsen said. “Fantasy Flight Interactive is made upward of developers who love both tabletop games together with video games together with nosotros are striving to create games that capture the best aspects of both media to entertain our fans.”
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