Streaming-Gigant Netflix erwirbt Cozy Grove Dev, Entwickler Retro Studios sucht neue Teammitglieder “Sechstes hauseigenes Spielestudio”


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Spry Fox, the Seattle developer behind the Gemütlicher Hain Spiele, has revealed it’s joined Netflix to become the streaming giant’s sixthin-house games studio”.

Cozy Grove was an Animal Crossing-inspired title released on the Nintendo Switch in April last year, and will be followed by a second game, possibly “by the end of 2023”.

For Spry Fox, this new partnership means it cancontinue making the gamesit already was, but with “more support and resourcesto make them better and release them to more people around the globe.

We are a studio that builds original, world-class cozy games. Especially games that bring people together. And we are confident that Netflix is going to help us do that.

It also takes the pressure off having togenerate profitand will supposedly allow the team to make its games as enjoyable and fulfilling to players as possible. The developer says it will be able to tapcreative peoplewithin Netflix, zu.

Spry Fox has reassured fans all of its existing games would remaindownloadable and available in their current forms on their current platforms”. As for its future games like Gemütlicher Hain 2 – Es gibt “no changein the company’s development efforts.

Netflix already has games studios like Next Games, Night School Studio and Boss Fight Entertainment.