{"id":30106,"date":"2018-07-03T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/rising_star_games_joins_indie_game_development_supergroup_thunderful"},"modified":"2018-07-03T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T15:00:00","slug":"rising-star-games-joins-indie-game-development-supergroup-thunderful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/03\/rising-star-games-joins-indie-game-development-supergroup-thunderful\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Star Games Joins Indie Game Development Supergroup Thunderful"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/rising_star_games_joins_indie_game_development_supergroup_thunderful\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/rising_star_games_joins_indie_game_development_supergroup_thunderful\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/rising_star_games_joins_indie_game_development_supergroup_thunderful\/attachment\/0\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/rising_star_games_joins_indie_game_development_supergroup_thunderful\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Newly appointed Rising Star Games managing director Ed Valiente (left), and Thunderful\/Image &amp; Form CEO Brjann Sigurgeirsson (right)\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Newly appointed Rising Star Games managing director Ed Valiente (left), and Thunderful\/Image &amp; Form CEO Brjann Sigurgeirsson (right)<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Thunderful Group, which is already made up of development studios Image &amp; Form and Zoink Games, has\u00a0announced that it has now acquired publisher Rising Star Games.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Sweden-based group was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/image_and_form_and_zoink_games_join_forces_under_new_company_thunderful\">established<\/a> in December 2017,\u00a0by Bergsala Holding (the sole distributor of Nintendo products in the Nordic region), Image &amp; Form CEO Brjann Sigurgeirsson, and Zoink Games CEO Klaus Lyngeled. Former Nintendo of Europe staffer Ed Valiente <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/former_nintendo_of_europe_staffer_ed_valiente_joins_thunderful\">joined the team<\/a> shortly after, and has now gone on to be the new managing director for Rising Star Games.<\/p>\n<p>Rising Star has offices in the UK and the US and describes itself as\u00a0\u201cthe home of Japanese games\u201d; Thunderful now plans to use Rising Star Games&#8217; expertise to bring strong Japanese titles to the west. The company has already released several titles in the western Switch market, and now sits alongside Image &amp; Form (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/steamworld_dig\"><strong>SteamWorld Dig<\/strong><\/a>) and Zoink Games (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/fe\"><strong>Fe<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/stick_it_to_the_man\"><strong>Stick It to the Man!<\/strong><\/a>) in what is fast becoming an indie developer supergroup.<\/p>\n<p>Thunderful and Image &amp; Form CEO Brjann Sigurgeirsson had the following to say about Ed Valiente&#8217;s role in the team:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOnce he knew what we were planning, getting Ed hooked on the idea was easy. It\u2019s the first time we recruit from outside Sweden, so it\u2019s been a good exercise in dealing with Swedish red tape, housing and what have you. Having him on board is absolutely delightful.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The partnership certainly seems to be of great benefit to all involved and we&#8217;re hopeful that this will also be great news for players. If joining forces allows these great studios to grow further, that can only really be a positive thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly appointed Rising Star Games managing director Ed Valiente (left), and Thunderful\/Image &amp; Form CEO Brjann Sigurgeirsson (right) The Thunderful Group, which is already made up of development studios Image &amp; Form and Zoink Games, has\u00a0announced that it has now acquired publisher Rising Star Games. The\u00a0Sweden-based group was established in December 2017,\u00a0by Bergsala Holding (the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}