Overcooked, but other games similar to that - like Moving Out. But we didn’t want to be pigeonholed, to be the family company or the small indie publishing company.” It’s a note that all CEO’s in game
publishing strike, but for Pattison Team17 should be about the quality of the game, not what type of game it happens to be. “We just look at content,” he says. “I was the same when I was at PlayStation. I looked at content as content. “I think we’ll keep people guessing
on an ongoing basis about what are the specialisms of Teams17, because there aren’t any, you know, we want to specialise across as many genres and cater to as many different consumer types as we can, because
TURNING THE TIDE In spite of January 2022 being a milestone month in Team17’s 32-year history for all the wrong reasons, the acquisition of Hell Let Loose could represent as much of a turning point for some of the right ones, helping to transform the image of Team17 as a creator and publisher of bright and breezy entertainment, into one that’s prepared to mix it up with the FPS big boys, or go to places that others might fear to tread, such as with the recently announced Autopsy Simulator (above). Not that Team17 hasn’t released darker games, but they have been rather outnumbered by the lighter ones “We feel like the acquisition of this IP puts a new
marker out for Team17 in terms of our ambition,” says Pattison proudly. “It’s fair to say that Worms is and has been the brand of note. I think, when we partnered with Ghost Town games and brought Overcooked, it painted a picture of family co-op and we’ve had many titles in that genre and we’re really proud of that and we will continue to invest and support, not only in
we think that’s the that’s the best approach for us. We want to keep people guessing because we’re very open to just great games. That’s the bottom line really, irrespective who they’re for and what they are.”
NOT FOR TEAM17
Despite the Metaworms website still being up at time of writing (though not for much longer we suspect), it doesn’t look like Team17 will be revisiting NFTs anytime soon. The decision that was made to embrace them, whether rashly taken or not, is not one Michael Pattison is keen to dwell on or condemn, on the basis that he wasn’t involved in making it.
“I want us to focus on what we’re doing going forward,” he says. “It was fair to see that there was a lot of concern and a lot of negativity around NFTs, blockchain, impact on the environment. And what I wanted us to do was to get our focus back on delivering games. I think if we keep it really simple at Team17, deliver great games, whether that’s for the metaverse in the future, or whatever platforms come about. If we focus on games and our IP, then I think we’ll be in a good place.”
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