The information comes from a Game Developer interview with Alan Patmore, Executive Vice President of Humble Games. The interview reveals that the publisher wants to forge much closer ties with their usual partners, long-term ties, a marriage, what. “We must invest in products that have the potential to become a franchise“, comments Patmore.”Ideally, we will expand and build on our core franchises, and Wizard of Legend 2 is the spearhead of this initiative. So we will continue to acquire intellectual properties and we would also like to slightly upgrade“.
The law of the market
Logical conclusion of this economic extension: the acquisition of entire studios. “It makes sense from an economic point of view. Right now, we’re focusing on second-party development, which means we own the intellectual property but have a developer build the product for us. The natural evolution is to own the studio.” Alan Patmore specifies that these acquisitions will have to be made on the basis of “transparency and trust“, meaning that “if a developer is having difficulty – perhaps a lack of capital to achieve their goals – we will do our best to help them as long as we believe that developer is fulfilling their end of the bargain“. In short, a normal publisher-studio relationship after all.
Despite this expansionist policy, Humble Games will continue to support charities and other positive projects. Patmore notably mentions the recent charity DLC of the farm sim Coral Island, which raised $50,000 for the seabed protection association Coral Guardian. Other initiatives in the same vein are to be expected at Humble. wait and see.
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