Hibernian Workshop

Factsheet

Developer:
Hibernian Workshop
Based in Angoulême, France

Founding date:
September 7th, 2017

Website:
https://hibernian-workshop.com

Press / Business contact:
contact@hibernian-workshop.com

Social:
Steam Creator Page
Discord server
twitter.com
facebook.com
youtube.com

Releases:
Astral Ascent
Dark Devotion

Address:
Hibernian Workshop
12 Avenue du Général de Gaulle
16800 Soyaux, FRANCE

Phone:
N/A

Description

Hibernian Workshop is a french indie games studio that focuses on delivering high quality gameplay oriented games with beautiful pixel art.

History

Late 2015, Louis Denizet and Alexandre Magnat met on a really small french forum of game development based on Clickteam Fusion 2.5 software. Louis had a prototype named "Dark Devotion" but did not know anything about pixel art and, on his side, Alexandre was making nice pixel art but had troubles with programming. What happened next is no surprise, they teamed up with another member to create Hibernian Workshop in september 2017 after a successful kickstarter campaign. They then teamed up with The Arcade Crew which allowed to make of this small initial game a solid entry among indie games.

Dark Devotion is a 2D roguelite game with emphasis on demanding fights, beautiful pixel art and dark ambiance. The game does not allow players to jump to force players to fight and the level design is not randomly generated allowing a better control on player experience. The game was originally meant to be a really small game and was inspired not by "Dark Souls" as everybody thinks, but by an indie game named "Shadowcrypt", it was also meant to be a roguelike but that idea was abandoned after a time. Team was aiming for such a small game that they initially wanted to ask 10.000€ for their Kickstarter campaign. At the end, Hibernian Workshop teamed up with the publisher The Arcade Crew and scaled the project ambitions. Game released in several languages with more features than planned and with PS4 and Nintendo release! After shipping this project project, team learned so much during the process and is prepared to deliver even better experience for their next games.

Exhausted by the release of Dark Devotion, it took some time for the team to find what they wanted to do next. After a few months of research the new direction was settled for an even more ambitious and promising project: Astral Ascent. New members were added to the team and everybody works toward a clear and exciting vision.

Projects

• Astral Ascent
• Dark Devotion

Team & Repeating Collaborator

Louis Denizet
Creative Director & Programmer

Alexandre Magnat
Lead Artist & Pixel Artist

Gaël Giudicelli
Concept Artist & Pixel Artist

Renan "Relixes" Rodrigues
Gameplay Programmer

Contact

Inquiries
contact@hibernian-workshop.com

Twitter
https://twitter.com/HibernianWS

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/HibernianWorkshop

Web
http://hibernian-workshop.com