Two guys with plenty of online gaming experience just started a new studio.
The men are J. Todd Coleman and Gordon Walton, and the studio is called ArtCraft Entertainment, Inc. While the Austin-based ArtCraft hasn’t announced a game yet, you can sign up for the beta for their first project here. A press release from the new company does state that the game will be an MMO.. The studio currently has 17 in-house employees. It has raised $2.35 million through funding, including a seed round earlier in the year.
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Coleman started working in the industry in 1985 and previously worked on massively multiplayer online games like Shadowbane and Wizard 101. Walton was the executive producer for Ultima Online, Star Wars: Galaxies, and Star Wars: The Old Republic. He published his first game in 1978, Trek-X for the Commodore PET 2001.