Company:Room 8 Studio

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Short description: Video game art studio
Room 8 Studio
IndustryVideo games
Founded2011
ServicesGame art services and development
Number of employees
700+ around the world
DivisionsArt Division, Games Division
Websiteroom8studio.com

Room 8 Studio is a 360-degree art studio that supports the world’s largest developers of games and game-based solutions by producing everything from look development to final in-game integration for PC, console, and mobile.

With 640+ artists on staff, locations on 3 continents, and more than a decade of experience in the gaming industry, Room 8 Studio is one of the leading creative powerhouses in Europe.

Room 8 Studio is part of Room 8 Group, a parent company that specializes in external game development services.

Company history

2011

  • Room 8 Studio was founded as a product company in Kyiv, Ukraine

2013

  • Delivered first own titles
  • Cyto's Puzzle Adventure – studio’s first own game published by Chillingo and featured in Best New Games on the App Store in 68 countries
  • Cyto selected by Starbucks and Apple for worldwide in-store promotion
  • Shifted to co-development

2014

  • First co-development titles delivered with DeNA and G5
  • Created art for Cookie Jam by Jam City, Facebook’s 2014 Game of the Year, and World of Tanks for Xbox
  • Piano City published – #1 music game in 126 countries
  • G5 published Mahjong Journey, which later became one of the App Store’s top 100 grossing games

2016

  • Started video production
  • First porting projects
  • Established long-term relationships with AAA game publishers
  • Started to work with licensed IPs: Family Guy, Power Rangers, Kubo, Independence Day

2018

  • Room 8 Group established
  • Added VFX service line
  • Certified by major consoles: PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch
  • Established partnerships with the best local and international art schools
  • Dragon’s Lake Ent., a PC/Console co-development studio founded

2020

  • Room 8 Studio collaborated and released 3 full mobile game products. Contributed to Call of Duty: Cold War, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Fall Guys and more.
  • Dragon’s Lake Ent. Port of Indivisible for 505 Games, co-development of an unreleased AAA 3rd person shooter, co-development for a semi-open world AAA game (under NDA).
  • Full projects released and more AAA titles coming
  • Added Art Direction & Visual Development as a service

2021

  • Contributed to Deathloop, Returnal, Age of Empires IV, Halo Infinite and more
  • Opening offices worldwide
  • Creative center in Canada
  • Creative center in the UK
  • Expansion in Japan
  • Massive Black joins Art Service Line

2022

  • Room 8 Studio rebranding, new website
  • Puga Studios joins Art Service Line

Studio structure

Art division

  • AAA game art production (Concept art, 3D characters, 3D environment, Animation and VFX, Game trailers, Art direction, Level building, In-engine integration)
  • End-to-end art support
  • Game trailers & UA videos

Games division

  • Full game development
  • Game porting
  • Game co-development (Game Economy Design, Engineering, Level Design)

Selected games developed by Room 8 Studio

Year Title Developer Platforms
2023 SpongeBob SquarePants Purple Lamp PC, Console
2022 Syberia Koalabs PC
2022 Trivial Pursuit Live 2 Ubisoft Console, Cloud
2022 Apex Mobile Respawn Mobile
2022 Spellslingers Wizards of the Coast Mobile
2022 CrossfireX Remedy Console
2021 Monopoly Ubisoft PC, Console
2021 Flight simulator Meta Immersive Synthetics PC
2021 Halo Infinite 343 industries PC, Console
2021 Just Dance 2022 Ubisoft Console, Cloud
2021 Age of Empires IV Relic Entertainment PC
2021 Doctor Who Maze Theory PC, Console, Mobile
2021 Back4blood Turtle Rock Studios PC, Console
2021 Far Cry 6 Ubisoft PC, Console, Cloud
2021 New World Amazon games PC
2021 Deathloop Arkane Studios Lyon PC, Console
2021 Rise of Cultures InnoGames Mobile
2021 Hitman Sniper 2 Square Enix Mobile
2021 Returnal Housemarque Console
2021 Overpass Zordix PC
2021 Bloodlines Hardsuit Labs PC, Console
2020 Outgun MyTona Mobile
2020 Cyberpunk 2077 CD Projekt RED PC, Console, Cloud
2020 Frostpoint InXile VR
2020 Call of Duty Cold War Activision/Treyarch Studio PC, Console
2020 Runescape Jagex PC, Mobile
2020 Rogue Company Hi-Rez PC, Console, Mobile
2020 Spellbreak Proletariat PC, Console
2020 Wasteland 3 InXile PC, Console
2020 Tom Clancy's Strike Force Owlient Mobile
2020 Fall Guys Mediatonic PC, Console
2020 Orcs Must Die 3 Robot Entertainment PC, Console, Cloud
2020 Fortnite Epic Games PC, Console, Mobile
2020 Crucible Amazon games PC
2020 Old World Mohawk Games PC
2020 TT2 Kylotonn PC, Console
2020 The Walking Dead Skydance PC, Console, VR
2019 Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Respawn Entertainment PC, Console, Cloud
2019 Overwatch 2 Blizzard PC, Console
2019 Control Remedy PC, Console
2019 NFS: Heat Criterion Games PC, Console
2019 FIATRC Neopica Console
2019 The Grand Tour Game Amazon games Console
2018 Mortal Kombat Nether Realm PC, Console, Mobile
2018 Star Trek Trailers Scopely PC, Mobile
2018 Trailers Assassin's Creed Ubisoft PC, Console, Cloud
2018 The Walking Dead: Our World Next Games Mobile
2018 Jurassic World Frontier Developments PC, Console
2018 The Crew 2 Ivory Tower PC, Console, Cloud
2018 Train Sim World Dovetail Games PC, Console
2018 KittyHawk Xbox Game Studios PC
2017 Hello Neighbor TinyBuild Games PC, Console, Mobile, Cloud
2017 Ark Studio Wildcard PC, Console, Mobile, Cloud
2017 Brawl Stars Supercell Mobile
2017 Gwent CD projekt RED PC, Console, Mobile
2016 ROM Extraction First Contact PC, Console
2016 Paladins Hi-Rez Studios PC, Console
2016 Dead By Daylight Behaviour Interactive PC, Console, Cloud
2014 Sims 4 Maxis PC, Console
2014 Hearthstone Blizzard Entertainment PC, Mobile
2014 Popcorn Party DeNA Mobile
2014 Piano City Room 8 Studio Mobile
2014 Escape Quest MobiGrow Mobile
2014 Hollywood Escape MobiGrow Mobile
2014 Horror Escape MobiGrow Mobile
2014 Bank Escape MobiGrow Mobile
2014 War Escape MobiGrow Mobile
2014 Can You Escape 3 MobiGrow Mobile
2014 Scary Escape MobiGrow Mobile
2013 Cyto's Puzzle Adventure Chillingo PC, Mobile
2013 Riot Runners Room 8 Studio Mobile
2012 Guild Wars 2 ArenaNet PC
2010 Call of Duty Treyarch PC, Console

Game Awards

2012 Cyto's Puzzle Adventure, Best Future Mobile Game[1]
2013 Riot Runners, "#1 Upcoming Game Of The Year" by SlideDB [2]
2013 Riot Runners, Best game in show - Audience Award at Casual Connect Kyiv 2013[3]
2014 Piano City, “One of the stand-out games of the Very Big Indie Pitch 2014” by Pocket Gamer.[4]

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