"And the games we loved were not interesting for bigger publishers, so we had no choice but to leave and create our own company." "We were more like bosses, away from why we wanted to join video games," de Waubert de Genlis recalls.
By the time they left Ubisoft in 2010 along with some like-minded colleagues, the developers had become so senior they no longer did the kinds of hands-on work they enjoyed. "They tend to be made by few creators with analytical but not very artistic minds."ĭe Waubert de Genlis and Girard thought they could bring some freshness to the genre. "Most of the games we liked in strategy were ugly as hell, and we never understood why," de Waubert de Genlis says. The pair became familiar with the bewilderment: Friends staring at their impenetrable mosaics of muddy tiles, their expressions silently accusatory: You spend eight hours a day on this? "Most of the games we liked in strategy were ugly as hell, and we never understood why." Amplitude Studios co-founder Romain de Waubert de Genlis is a massive strategy fan before launching the successful independent studio that most recently launched the hit Endless Legend, he produced the Might & Magic games at Ubisoft.īack then, he played multiplayer strategy titles fervently and regularly with Mathieu Girard, with whom he'd go on to start Amplitude.
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