Not so long ago a Polish studio People can fly was nothing more than an appendage to Epic Games and was engaged in the creation of assets for Fortnite… It was even renamed to Epic Games Poland… But in 2015, the studio gained freedom again, released Bulletstorm: The Full Clip Edition and successful Outriders…
At the end of April, People Can Fly announced the purchase of an American studio Phosphor Gamesknown for Warhammer 40,000: Dakka Squadron and The brookhaven experiment… The Warsaw team also bought the Canadian Game on creative, which dealt, in particular, with motion capture and animation for Baldur’s Gate 3 and Control…
Currently, the People Can Fly group, in addition to the head office, has seven branches. They employ about 350 people. And this is not the final: the studio intends to expand further. And for this, at the next meeting of shareholders, it will request an increase in the authorized capital.
In an interview with a Polish publication Parkiet Head of People Can Fly Sebastian Voitsekhovsky confirmed that new purchases are planned. And mainly American and British studios. As for compatriots, according to the president, their cost is often out of touch with reality: Polish studios are too expensive.
Currently, there are about four hundred game studios operating in Poland. About 60 of them have already entered the stock exchange, and this number is gradually growing. People Can Fly itself debuted on the exchange last December.
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