Funcom announced today that they have established a subsidiary specifically focused on publishing casual MMOs. The company, named SweetRobot, already has its first project ready; Pets vs Monsters. This free to play title is aimed at children aged 8 to 12 and has been worked on by a team of 15 people for the past 2 years.
“Our passion and dedication for high-end online games remains the same, and `Age of Conan’ and `The Secret World’ are still our primary focus”, says Aas. “But we are also eager to explore new opportunities within the industry, and it felt natural for us to step into the social gaming segment especially considering our outstanding experience with making online worlds and communities. `Pets vs. Monsters’ is very much an exciting project for us, our first attempt at creating an online game for a younger target audience with gameplay mechanics and production values that differ from what we have done before. The fact that these productions require significantly lower budgets and smaller teams to develop is very attractive to us, as it allows us to try out several concepts instead of placing all our resources into one single bet.”
To read about SweetRobot and Pets Vs Monsters, visit their respective websites. The game is currently in beta which is expected to run until the end of January 2010.
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