Avalanche Studios Founder Builds New Elemental Games Studio, Make Creative Dreams Come True

JAKARTA - A group of former Avalanche Studios developers, Linus and Viktor Blomberg, have set up a studio to create high-quality open world gaming experiences from a position of being creatively and financially independent.

Elemental Games, based in Stockholm, formed in August 2021. Other founding teams come from "leading positions" at companies such as Avalanche Studios, DICE., Epic games, and Ubisoft.

"We will continue to develop systemic gameplay and the open-world genre, using all the knowledge we have gained from Just Cause, Mad Max, Rage 2, and other Avalanche games," said Linus Blomberg quoted from Gematsu, March 16.

Blomberg says that large companies are often constrained by their ability to break the mold, because investors' focus is on short-term finance. Meanwhile, in that environment, it is difficult to carry out exploratory and innovative development.

"We've seen in the past how technology, art, and design often contradict, rather than elevate one another," Bloomberg explains.

For that reason, they end up creating an environment where neither one can dictate the other. Blomberg also confirmed that they will use each member's experience and expertise in a collaborative way.

“Our ambition is to bring together the best of AAA and Indie development, by having a team with extensive blockbuster experience, but driven by their personal passion for craft, and with complete creative and financial independence,” added Bloomberg.

Here is a complete list of the names of the founding members of Element Games:

Linus Blomberg Viktor Blomberg Oskar Blomberg Kristofer “Loffan” Labedzki Robert Krupa Martin Kritan' Bergquist Christian Nilsendahl Emil 'Humus' Persson Andreas Tillema Tobias Ekholm.