KRAFTON Inc., a collective of impartial sport growth studios, is proud to announce at this time the opening of its first Canadian AAA sport studio positioned in Montréal, Quebec. KRAFTON Montréal Studio can be led by Patrik Methe, a distinguished determine within the gaming business with over 20 years of expertise in management roles on a number of the world’s most famous franchises.
A crew of business veterans together with Benoit Frappier, Producer; Frédéric Duroc, Game Director; and Martin Paradis, Technology Director; has already joined Méthé. The studio is seeking to rent 150 folks within the subsequent 3 years with key positions together with animation, programming, and Head of HR.
KRAFTON Montréal Studio’s first mission would be the adaptation of the acclaimed fantasy novel collection The Bird That Drinks Tears, created and written by Yeong-do Lee, who’s broadly acknowledged because the pioneer of the Korean fantasy style. As one of many best-selling fantasy authors in Korea, Mr. Lee is an exceptionally imaginative author who builds elaborate worlds and fills them with advanced characters.
The Bird That Drinks Tears has been beloved by readers for the previous 20 years for its elaborate worldview and three-dimensional characters. It is characterised by its distinctive settings and characters that exquisitely embody the East and West, and it tells the story of 4 races, people, Leckorn, Dokkaebis, and Nagas, which start as they turn out to be entangled by means of occasions.
Since 2021, KRAFTON has been engaged on visualizing the world and characters of the novel to increase the IP of The Bird That Drinks Tears. In specific, the artwork e-book, ready in November 2022 to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the serialization of The Bird That Drinks Tears, topped the weekly bestseller checklist of main Korean Internet bookstores inside 4 days of pre-sale.
“We are thrilled to open our first Canadian AAA studio in Montréal, one of many world’s high cities for online game manufacturing. The native pool of artistic and specialised expertise is spectacular, and we hope that many will be a part of our crew. KRAFTON Montréal Studio can be our third studio in North America and we have now discovered an important chief in Patrik who has intensive expertise bringing franchises to new heights,” explains CH Kim, CEO at KRAFTON, Inc.
“Our crew is presently made up of seasoned abilities with a confirmed observe document of profitable video games. We share a typical purpose: to ship the best adaptation of the novel and to supply an distinctive expertise to avid gamers. As a fan of medieval fantasy since my teenage years, I’m excited to deliver to life a fantasy masterpiece as an formidable and memorable sport. We couldn’t be extra thrilled to be part of the KRAFTON household,” shares Patrik Méthé, Head of Studio, KRAFTON Montréal Studio.
