Jeff Strain, founding father of Undead Labs and co-founder of ArenaNet, has launched one more studio. Crop Circle Games would be the second subsidiary for Prytania Media, a growth agency he launched with Annie Strain that focuses on new properties. 

“It’s a real delight to be utilizing my many years of efficiently managing the enterprise behind making video games in order that builders can deal with the creation of video games,” wrote Strain in a press launch. 

Jessica Brunelle will function the studio director. Additional workers contains Doug Williams (artistic director), Ocala Scott-Bellows (artwork director), Nick Mhley (design director), Josh Scherr (narrative director), and Braeden Shosa (tech director).

Crop Circle is backed by a $25 million funding spherical primarily led by Transcend Fund. The enterprise fund’s earlier observe file has gone in direction of funding studios headed up by veterans, corresponding to Ruckus Games from earlier this 12 months. 

The Strains based Prytania in 2021, with its first subsidiary studio being Possibility Space. Staff at that developer contains names corresponding to Austin Walker (Friends on the Table podcast) and Jane Ng (Valve, Campo Santo). 

Similar to Possibility Space, Crop Circle will run on a distributed mannequin whereby staff “can dwell and work wherever they’re happiest.” Per its web site, the studio intends to “create compelling experiences, construct immersive shared worlds, and join with others via curiosity and journey.”