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Xbox possibly announcing new studio based in NZ, October 30th

LeftThumbstick

LeftThumbstick

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This is purely based off of a few tweets, but it looks pretty obvious.
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Looks to be a brand new IP.
 
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chonga

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LeftThumbstick said:
This is purely based off of a few tweets, but it looks pretty obvious.
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Looks to be a brand new IP.
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Looks to be some random Twitch streamer and someone who works for a PR firm who have a history of doing Xbox PR...

Anyway, she has a Patreon to fund her making a studio.

www.patreon.com

Get more from LoriiPops on Patreon

creating Chromatic Pie Games
www.patreon.com www.patreon.com

I have recently incorporated an indie game development company here in New Zealand! There will be an official reveal of the name soon which I will update this Patreon accordingly.

Now this isn't just "another indie studio" but one that the global industry needs more essence of, especially here in NZ.

My mission is to utilize my personable and professional skills that I've garnered over the past 5+ years in the industry, to focus on cultivating an inclusive and diverse environment for women, LGBTQ+ and POC game developers. Of course men are welcome, too! Another very important aspect of the games I want us to develop, are that they are as accessible as possible.
Games are for everyone, and representation matters.
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This is either an indie initiative or another case of being an overhyped nothing.
 
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GiJoint

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Interesting. She’s in Wellington, my home city. That’s where Weta Digital, Weta Workshop, and Peter Jackson’s studios are based, they’re currently working on the Avatar sequels there.
There’s a suburb in the city called Miramar where they are all bunched together.

There’s also another big studio around 20 mins out from the city and another one under construction 30 mins out.
 
Nikana

Nikana

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Bout of these people are not developers from what I'm seeing. One is a twitch streamer and the other is a community manger for EA.
 
jigglet

jigglet

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Nikana said:
Bout of these people are not developers from what I'm seeing. One is a twitch streamer and the other is a community manger for EA.
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Developers can be easily found. Twitch streams though, gotta start with the most important part.
 
Jigsaah

Jigsaah

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Secret studio? Xbox is involved...how do people get excited about this?

It's a secret studio, assuming a new one. I mean they can't just come out and say, "And now the moment you've all been waiting for" if nobody anticipated the announcement before.

They are doing the viral marketing thing wrong. I blame Aaron Greenberg.
 
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KingdomHeartsFan

KingdomHeartsFan

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chonga said:
Looks to be some random Twitch streamer and someone who works for a PR firm who have a history of doing Xbox PR...

Anyway, she has a Patreon to fund her making a studio.

www.patreon.com

Get more from LoriiPops on Patreon

creating Chromatic Pie Games
www.patreon.com www.patreon.com



This is either an indie initiative or another case of being an overhyped nothing.
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So a Twitch streamer that has no experience making games is gonna be the director at a new studio? Forgive me if I'm not confident in the quality of this new studio's output.
 
IDappa

IDappa

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Basing a studio around hiring poc and woman feels scummy to me. Why not base your hiring off of people's merits and experience. I know if the only reason I was hired because of my skin tone or if I call myself a woman (even if I'm not) I wouldn't feel as if I earned the position.. idk call me old fashioned I suppose..

Overall a studio led by a twitch streamer really doesn't interest me at all and the messaging around how they hire definitely does not instill any confidence in them.
 
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h00ters

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The Xbox ANZ Community Manager (Jiggsy) has tweeted "The studio Lorii is a part of has nothing to do with what we’ve been working on."

It'll be something about a launch related promotion. They do one every time.
 
Xenon

Xenon

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GiJoint said:
Interesting. She’s in Wellington, my home city. That’s where Weta Digital, Weta Workshop, and Peter Jackson’s studios are based, they’re currently working on the Avatar sequels there.
There’s a suburb in the city called Miramar where they are all bunched together.

There’s also another big studio around 20 mins out from the city and another one under construction 30 mins out.
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Ooooo. Maybe we will get a remaster of King Kong. Those achievements in 4k will be awesome!
 
BeforeU

BeforeU

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
Okay great, new studio. When is all this going to materialize?
Sorry but I am still so fucking salty that we don't have a good launch title after all the work MSFT was doing for past few years
 
Clintizzle

Clintizzle

Lord of Edge.
Gabe Newell was in NZ for a while in the past few months. Some rumors floating around about Xbox +Valve. Hmmm.

Dont hype yourselves too much.
 
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