With the goal of creating captivating multiplayer experiences and shaking up the survival genre in the process, brand new studio Red Rover Interactive has announced its future plans.
The new outfit — which has already established bases in the Norwegian capital Oslo and Newcastle in England’s North East — has been founded by games industry veterans who collectively worked on series such as Conan Exiles, Dune Awakening, DayZ, Avakin Life, Crysis 2, Ryse, and Ghost Recon, amongst others.
Red Rover’s goals are to initially utilize the studio’s considerable collective experiences working with successful multiplayer-focused IP to catapult the survival genre in a new direction, placing player agency and drama front and center. In the long term, the developer wants to “create the most novel and engaging multiplayer experiences on the market.”
“We believe multiplayer interactions are fundamentally more powerful than PVE ones,” says Red Rover Interactive CEO Fred Richardson. “This is something most persistent online games don’t leverage, often being built as single-player experiences that support many players. We plan to lean into this, starting with the survival genre, which we are intimately familiar with, taking it in a genuinely new direction.”
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Red Rover Interactive is headed up by:
- CEO Fred Richardson (Funcom, Ubisoft Reflections)
- COO Joe Stevens (Lockwood Publishing, Ubisoft Reflections)
- Design Director Marek Zilavy (Bohemia Interactive, Funcom)
- Technical Director Daniel Ratzer (Funcom)
- Art Director Sebastian Zimmermann (Nordeus, Jagex, Crytek)
Red Rover Interactive is focused on cultivating mid-sized, close-knit, co-located teams. This begins with the foundational team of 17 members, most of whom have collaborated previously, leveraging their significant shared experience. From a creative standpoint, the studio aspires to produce titles designed for infinite engagement, perfectly suited to the age of content creation.
The studio has already secured significant seed investment from Behold Ventures and The Games Fund, as well as other participating investors such as Lifelike Capital, GEM Capital, Acequia Capital, and a suite of angel investors, coming in at just under $5 million.
Now, with its sights set on the horizon, Red Rover Interactive is calling on developers in Oslo or Newcastle to join its ranks. Visit the website to learn more.
