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19-590: In Windblown, the player controls a Leaper, an anthropomorphic creature in a world made up of floating islands. The Leapers, who live in the Ark—a village of their kind—work together to explore the nearby Vortex, fighting off Sentinel robotic creations that patrol the islands within it, while locating survivors, materials, and gear to bring back to the Ark. The character can use up to two weapons with various combination attacks, along with other gear and powerups they gain while exploring

38-579: A new development team called Evil Empire that would take over development and support of Dead Cells , allowing other Motion Twin developers to start on their next project. Evil Empire is run by Steve Filby, Motion Twin's former head of marketing, and is not a cooperative, since the company wanted to scale beyond ten employees. Motion Twin continues to maintain creative control over Evil Empire's work on Dead Cells . In 2020, lead designer Sébastien Benard left Motion Twin to found his own solo studio. The game's first paid expansion, Dead Cells: The Bad Seed ,

57-525: A trailer at The Game Awards 2023 . The game is characterized as a fast-paced isometric action game. On February 9, 2024, Motion Twin announced it would stop creating new content for Dead Cells, and Evil Empire would be moving on to new projects. In April 2024, it was revealed that Evil Empire's next game is The Rogue Prince of Persia . It released into Early Access in May. Following the success of Dead Cells , Motion Twin abandoned its web-based offerings. With

76-615: Is an independent video game development studio, that initially specialized in online video games and has most recently worked on roguelite games. Founded in 2001, the company is a worker cooperative enterprise based in Bordeaux , France. Motion Twin was founded in 2001 as a private limited company in France. In 2004, they became a workers cooperative with equal salary and decision-making power between its members. The name Motion Twin refers to an animation technique, called motion tween , and

95-564: Is at the origin of various tools and programming languages which it uses for its own developments, and which it makes available under a free license. Under the impetus of one of its co-founders, Nicolas Canasse, the Bordeaux company is, for example, at the origin of the MTASC compiler, or Motion Twin ActionScript 2 Compiler, the first free ActionScript 2.0 compilers. Haxe, a technology considered to be

114-583: Is both a high-level, dynamically typed programming language whose source files, once compiled, can be run on the NekoVM virtual machine. The company is also the initiator of various libraries for the OCaml and PHP programming languages, such as the SPOD library, which allows persistence within a PHP environment. Evil Empire (company) Evil Empire is a French video game developer based in Bordeaux, France . The company

133-563: The Vortex. If the Leaper dies, they are returned to the Ark, losing their gear but retaining materials, which allow them to unlock new gear and abilities for future exploration. Motion Twin achieved success with their roguelike Dead Cells , first released in 2018. As they transferred ongoing development of the game's expansions to Evil Empire , the group began to brainstorm on what their next game would be. While they initially wanted to move away from

152-408: The end of Adobe Flash Player support on January 1, 2021, those games would be rendered unplayable. In order to keep the games online, a group of hobbyist set up Eternal-Twin (with Motion Twin's consent), which aims to re-create as many games as possible without using Adobe Flash Player. Thus, those who still want to play after Flash Player's end of life will be able to do so. Motion Twin has also made

171-554: The player can unlock new weapons and gear that will randomly appear during a run by spending materials collected from previous runs. Motion Twin also wanted to improve on the dual-weapon system from Dead Cells ; while the player could switch between one of the two weapons they carried at any time within Dead Cells , there was no other benefit from this switch. Within Windblown , they added an "Alterattack" system that allowed extra boosts when

190-770: The player switches between weapons. The team also looked to the Monster Hunter games to expand on what abilities they could incorporate into their weapons. Windblown was first announced in December 2023 as part of The Game Awards . Motion Twin began alpha testing with about 300 users in February 2024. The game had its early access release on October 24, 2024, following the success of early access in refining Dead Cells before its release. The game will be co-published by Motion Twin and Kepler Ghost . Motion Twin Motion Twin

209-572: The red star in the logo was chosen due to its revolutionary connotations. In the studio's early years, it made web-based games for its social gaming platform Twinoid. Motion Twin initially gained notice through the release of games such as Hammerfest, My Brute , Mush , Die2Nite , and AlphaBounce . By 2009, Motion Twin had 10 million registered users and 15 games. As the market for web games dried up, it attempted to move into mobile games, with little success. By this point, Motion Twin had briefly considered disbanding. Left with one "last chance" for

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228-429: The roguelike genre, they decided to build upon what they learned through Dead Cells to create a new roguelike. One goal with Windblown was to introduce cooperative multiplayer, compared to the single-player Dead Cells . Another was to give the player the ability to quickly move about the game's levels, placing islands that they could reach in sight and providing routes to get there using a dash ability. Initially this

247-474: The source code for many of its game available to the public under a creative commons license. Nicolas Cannasse, a former developer at Motion Twin, has been responsible for the creation of freeware and open source compilers and multimedia technologies, many of which build on the Adobe Flash platform. His published products include: The company, although known to the public for its browser games in flash,

266-444: The studio, Motion Twin developed Dead Cells . It was made as the developers' "passion project" and "something hardcore, ultra-niche, with pixel art and ridiculous difficulty" that they thought would be a potential risk for gaining player interest. Motion Twin initially attempted to make a follow-up to tower defense game Die2Nite, but most of the game mechanics were ultimately stripped out to focus on action-based combat. Dead Cells

285-516: The successor to the MTASC compiler, also invented and developed by Motion Twin, is a cross-platform language that makes it possible, from a single standardized language, to compile the same source file by targeting different platforms such as JavaScript, Flash, NekoVM, PHP or C++. This language was the subject of a book, Professional Haxe and Neko, by Franco Ponticelli and L. McColl-Sylveste, released in 2008 by John Wiley & Sons. Motion Twin has also developed its own virtual machine, called Neko. Neko

304-443: Was an ability with a cooldown but they found the game's pacing was improved by allowing the player to dash indefinitely without any cooldown. They wanted to maintain the same goal as Dead Cells , in which each run for the player would feel different, and tried a variety of metagame systems such as ideas borrowed from The Binding of Isaac and Hades , ultimately returning to a similar approach they had used in Dead Cells , which

323-481: Was created in 2019 by former Motion Twin employees to provide long term support for Dead Cells , and to let the former company focus on developing new IPs. Evil Empire worked on DLC and updates for Dead Cells until 2024, when it launched its first original title, The Rogue Prince of Persia , in early access . Following the success of Dead Cells , Motion Twin desired to move on to new projects, while other team members wanted to keep supporting it. An agreement

342-534: Was released on February 11, 2020. A second paid DLC expansion, Dead Cells: Fatal Falls , was released on January 26, 2021. The game's third paid expansion titled Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea was released on January 7, 2022. A fourth paid expansion, Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania , was released on March 6, 2023. There have also been over 30 free updates since the game's initial release. On December 7, 2023, Motion Twin announced its next game, Windblown , debuting

361-660: Was released to Steam Early Access in May 2017 and macOS and Linux on June 26, 2018. It was released on Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch August 7. An iOS version was released on August 28, 2019, and an Android version was released on June 3, 2020. About a year from its early access release, Dead Cells sold over 730,000 units, and exceeded 850,000 units just prior to its full release. By May 2019, within ten months of its full release, Dead Cells had accumulated sales of two million units. In March 2021, Dead Cells had sold 5 million copies. It reached 10 million copies sold in 2023. In 2019, Motion Twin created

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