Two Point Studios, based in Farnham, Surrey, was founded in 2016 by veterans from legendary UK studios Bullfrog and Lionhead.<\/p>\n
Its comedic simulation games, which put players in charge of managing hospitals and university campuses, found a dedicated audience thanks to their British humour, unique visuals and ease of play.<\/p>\n
“We wanted to be in that more niche space and and do really good games that aren’t necessarily trying to be a household name,” director and co-founder Gary Carr tells BBC Newsbeat <\/p>\n
The studio’s latest game, Two Point Museum, earned a nomination in the British game and family game categories at this year’s Baftas.<\/p>\n
It’s also had commercial success too, and allowed the studio to grow to about 50 employees – a modestly sized developer.<\/p>\n
“We haven’t tried to blow the company up because we’ve had some successes,” says Carr.<\/p>\n
“We’ve kind of wanted to stay a very bijou, boutique studio… we’re not too big, we’re quite keen to stay a sensible size where everyone can feel like they’re involved.”<\/p>\n
Carr also believes the UK industry is “resilient” and supportive of others working within it – a sentiment shared by Two Point design director Ben Huskins.<\/p>\n
The studio is down the road from Guildford, one of the UK’s major game development hubs and home to multiple studios.<\/p>\n
“There’s so many,” says Huskins.<\/p>\n
“We all have worked together at some point in our careers, so we look after each other and we look out for each other.”<\/p>\n
Huskins says game development is now more accessible than ever, which creates more competition but can also mean “amazing games” come out.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s fairer that everyone’s got a crack of the whip,” he says. <\/p>\n
Carr says there has been a tendency to “wave the banner of success” when things are going well in the industry, but it’s important for support to be there when things aren’t so good. <\/p>\n
“I definitely don’t like to see game studios struggle when we are such an important part of what Britain does well,” he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Point Studios, based in Farnham, Surrey, was founded in 2016 by veterans from legendary UK studios Bullfrog…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-535210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}