‘Palworld’ Creator Explains Secret Sauce of Indie Game Sensation
- Pocketpair is in talks to release ‘Palworld’ on more platforms
- Studio will consider partnerships or takeover bids, but no IPO
WATCH: Takuro Mizobe, a former JPMorgan tech engineer who funded game studio Pocketpair in 2015, explains why he created ‘Palworld,’ this year’s biggest independent sensation in the industry.
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This year’s biggest independent game sensation, Palworld, was crafted from the outset to be a conversation starter, according to its creator Takuro Mizobe.
Being fun to play is not enough for a game in the modern social age, the 35-year-old said in an interview. A game must also be fun to watch, include multiplayer elements and encourage people to talk about it. That was the premise from which Pocketpair, a small 55-person studio in Tokyo that Mizobe founded in 2015, started when crafting Palworld.