By January 2016, they had enough confidence in their progress to leave game-studio jobs in San Francisco and move to Seattle. In 2014, the friends began working after-hours on their first game. Brian Parnell, Tim Wiese (glasses) and Hung-Chien Liao. Praey for the Gods is being created by No Matter Studios a tiny studio of 3. Luckily, you can leave footprints in the snow and follow your footsteps back if you are lost. The remnants of an ancient civilization lie before you, but don't let awe turn into carelessness - snow storms can crop up at any moment and bury you in a blizzard. A Beautifully Frigid WorldĮxplore a landscape of unending winter framed by snow-capped peaks and crawling fog. To restore balance and reclaim the land, you will be faced with questions that not even the gods know the answer to. Why won't the winter stop? Why has no one returned? Cryptic paintings left behind allude to a story once thought forgotten.

While destiny will give you a nudge, virtually all the large beasts can be attempted in any order allowing you to set the course. Praey for the Gods is a non-linear game where you choose who you battle and how. Triumphing over these trials will prepare you for the impossible odds that wait. Nature isn't the only danger, so craft weapons, defeat minions for better gear, and venture into long forgotten caves to discover their secrets. Make fires, hunt for food, and find the equipment you need to make it through an eternal winter. 2015 No Matter Studio revealed Praey for the Gods with a short trailer on. You'll arrive on a frozen island with only the clothes on your back - it's up to you to survive. Praey for the Gods is an action-adventuresurvival game being developed by No. Swim in frigid water to uncover hidden locations that contain secrets and treasure, but don't stay in too long or your swim could become your last. Ascend to the tops of mountains and then glide over the open world to reach previously inaccessible locations. You can climb on virtually anything you can get your hands on, from ruins and mountains to the massive beasts that inhabit the land. Overcome impossible odds to climb atop and defeat the massive beasts that are bound to this land. To restore balance and reclaim the land from the brink, you will be faced with questions that not even a God knows the answer to. Arriving with only the clothes on your back, you must survive the colossal dangers that you encounter. One that will no doubt shape our company moving forward.Praey for the Gods is a boss climbing open world adventure game where you play as a lone hero sent to the edge of a dying frozen world to discover the mystery behind a never-ending winter. So the fact that we came out the other end intact still developing the game was a win. This is additional content for Praey for the Gods, but does not include the base game. This is really something no starting company should have to deal with let alone a tiny team of 3. Worrying about the outcome if we went to trial, if we’d lose our fans or walk away from the mark and still potentially get sued for millions on trademark infringement. It was something that kept me up many nights, and no doubt shifted our focus from our game frequently. While we disagree with their opposition we were able to come to an agreement. Unfortunately, Zenimax chose to oppose our mark, as they felt both were too similar to their mark ‘Prey’. We figured people would have a hard time trying to type in the symbol in search engines etc. The logo has both the woman praying against the duality of prey, and thankfully we get to continue to use that. The truth is we initially thought about naming the game Pry for the Gods prior to our initial trailer. Using backer money towards something that doesn’t go towards the development or backer rewards felt horrible to us. We didn’t want to spend our precious Kickstarter funds, nor did we want to have to ask for additional funds to fight this in court. Something like a trademark opposition can be long and depending on how far someone wants to fight it can be very expensive. We could’ve fought this and we did think about it for quite a while. Thankfully we get to keep the logo but we will spell it ‘Praey for the Gods’. It was Zenimax, the owners of Bethesda, who forced them to change from Prey to the Gods to 'Praey' since, in their words, 'Prey for the Gods' would make people mistake it for their brand of Prey games. We didn’t want to do this but we had to change our game name from Prey for the Gods to Praey for the Gods,” developer No Matter Studios said.

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