Press Release · March 2nd, 2023
Introducing Studio Koi Koi
Introducing Studio Koi Koi – a new game studio on Roblox that promises to deliver some of the best games for its players. Despite being a small and independent studio, we are committed to creating games that not only raise the bar and inspire people on Roblox. We plan to use our studio to make more things that we love, to make games that are more fun, and to create prosperity for ourselves and those around us.
Why it’s time to brand our studio
We’ve been working together for 3 years now, but at this point, we’ve realized brand is an important part of operating as a studio. We’ve been able to make almost every game we've made in under 24 hours, and so marketing is less important. As we bring up our commitment to players, we think it’s time to brand now because:
- We have a significant amount of impact on Roblox that isn’t obvious to Roblox employees or our players
- Branding will make additional games we create easier to launch
- We want to have a brand to explain what we do to people at Roblox and across the Roblox community
- Hiring will become easier as we establish ourselves as a well respected brand on Roblox and in the gaming industry.
At Studio Koi Koi, we believe that by working together as a team, we can make our dreams come true. By forming a studio, we plan to execute interesting and artistic ideas better while having fun in the process.
What about Frobulate, Sketchy Labs, and Quenty Studios?
We’ve got two other labels we’ll still be keeping around. Frobulate will continue to be our premier wacky and fun physics games, and Sketchy Labs will continue to be action based competitive games.
Additionally, Paintball League will move under Sketchy Labs label, and we may release a more competitive driving game in the future. We may rename groups to reflect our parent brand of Studio Koi Koi. Additionally Quenty Studios will continue to remain a brand which is a mix of personal branding and open source branding.
Are we hiring?
Not yet! We aren’t hiring right now, as we’re focused on growing our internal team’s workflow, communication, and skillsets. We will need to hire to eventually build everything we want to build. Once we figure out some better financial structures, we’re planning on hiring the following:
- Software engineer (late summer 2023): A multidisciplinary programmer that we can have full-time and pay a large onboarding costs. We’re committed to both code quality (because otherwise making stuff isn’t fun), and also shipping stuff (because otherwise no one ever sees what we make).
- Animator (late summer 2023): A quality animator with multidisciplinary skills and let Martin take a more leadership and programming role.
We plan to keep our team multidisciplinary, and to continue to invest in our culture, workflows, and design intuition.
We’re hoping to being this search around RDC (late summer 2023), but we’ll try to keep you updated.
We plan to grow, however, we’re self-funded and we plan to stay that way for now as we value stability and creative freedom over extrinsic business pressure to succeed at this point in our journey.
What does this mean for you as a player?
As a Studio we have a few core promises we’d like to deliver on over the next year.
- Create clarity with players - Many of our games have a less-than-consistent release schedule. We aim to change that and deliver better updates, faster, to you. This website is part of our long-term goal to communicate more clearly about updates. In the upcoming days, look for more updates about different games we own.
- Commitment to improving our workflow - As part of delivering clarity to our players, we’re also committed to being more efficient, more effective, and to do more with what we have. Our team is always learning!
- Commitment to making more games (and more fun) - We’re committed to making more games, both artistically interesting ones ones with better design, that are more fun. We want to both explore interesting concepts, and get better at making fun games.
Our goal is to make games that are not only enjoyable to play but also push the boundaries of what is possible on Roblox. We are constantly improving our skills and learning from our past successes and failures to ensure that each game we make is better than the last.
In short, this should mostly mean better updates, faster updates, and better communication on this website, and in-game.
We’ll also be working hard behind the scenes to improve our workflows so please be patient.
So, whether you are a casual or hardcore gamer, we invite you to join us on this journey as we continue to make the best games possible. Keep an eye out for our upcoming releases, and we promise not to disappoint!
Best regards, The Studio Koi Koi Team