Funko Partners with Former Lego Game Dev to Create AAA Platformer Around the Pop Culture Brand

After a number of unsuccessful dives into the gaming business, popular culture phenomenon Funko, finest recognized for his or her unblinking Pop vinyl figures, is attempting once more with their first triple-A title (although we don’t know its title simply but). At this 12 months’s San Diego Comic-Con, Funko CEO Andrew Perlmutter made a press release relating to the corporate’s partnership with the newly created 10:10 Games: 

Creating iconic merchandise that emotionally join followers to their favorite fandoms is important to every product portfolio choice.

As a consequence, this partnership with 10:10 Games and “utilizing the best creators in the business” will enable Funko to “deliver games that reflect Funko’s unique look and feel across its lines and varied products.” While there’s a number of cross-promotional popular culture jargon that fills these statements, 10:10 Games appears very well-equipped to deal with the “major third-party studio integration” inherent to the AAA Funko sport and Funko model total.

Leading 10:10 Games, based simply final 12 months, is British developer Jon Burton, founding father of Traveller’s Tales and its mother or father firm TT. For these unfamiliar, Traveller’s Tales was based in 1989 and has been making varied action-adventure video games since. However, probably the most notable and most profitable of those platformers embody the Lego Star Wars sequence, constructing upon a relationship with Disney after the event of Mickey Mania in 1994. Though Traveller’s Tales merged with Giant Interactive to create TT in 2005, Burton and Warner Brothers Interactive formally bought each TT and Traveller’s Tales in 2007, ultimately creating the Lego Batman sequence, for which Burton served as inventive director. Though he served as producer for the 2015 battle thriller Man Down, Burton’s solely latest gaming entry has been Lego Dimensions, additionally from 2015. Since then, the developer has been attending to a YouTube channel the place he teaches tips of the programming commerce, so it’ll be thrilling to see how his abilities have advanced within the final 7 years. 

We are so excited to lastly reveal that we have now teamed up with Funko for our first sport! pic.twitter.com/CKbyNK6FwO

— 10:10 Games (@1010Gamesltd) July 24, 2022

While the official 10:10 Games Twitter account launched a teaser for the title, that includes Funko mascot Freddy Funko celebrating the partnership, not a lot else has been hinted at relating to gameplay, apart from its standing as an “action platformer” – proper in Burton’s wheelhouse. With its launch slated for 2023 on each PC and consoles, followers received’t have to attend lengthy to see their favourite popular culture figures take the platformer stage. However, if Funko’s previous gaming makes an attempt have been any signal, the sport would possibly want a bit greater than bug-eyed popular culture tie-ins to attract an viewers, hopefully containing stable gameplay that includes the signature Funko model.