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MASKMAKER TAKES VR MAGICAL STORYTELLING OF A FISHERMAN’S TALE STUDIO TO NEW REALMS,
COMING TO META QUEST 2 ON DECEMBER 15TH

Explore your way through the mask realm to seek the mighty MaskMaker and unravel the secret of his identity


Rotterdam (NL), November 10th, 2022 – Vertigo Games, the VR specialist publishing and development arm of PLAION and VR developer Innerspace VR today announced that MaskMaker, the spiritual successor of A Fisherman’s Tale, is coming to the Meta Quest 2 platform on December 15th. MaskMaker  takes the studio’s industry-favorite flavor of magical storytelling and best-in-class VR puzzle design to a range of new realms, in their largest VR adventure game yet.
 
Vertigo Games released a teaser trailer to celebrate the announcement, as well as a selection of magical screenshots captured on Meta Quest 2.

Trailer

“Since we started to work on Maskmaker we were hoping for a release on Quest 2 as we've always been convinced that this title, an adventure full of wonder and mystery, would perfectly fit with the Quest 2 audience. Thanks to our publishing partnership with Vertigo Games and our work with the Incarna team on tightening performance for Quest 2, we're really excited to see the game finally coming on this platform and looking this great!” said Balthazar Auxietre, Creative Director at Innerspace VR.
 
“We’re incredibly excited about this magical addition to our line-up of VR adventure games from none other than the talented team at Innerspace, who previously brought us the industry-favorite A Fisherman’s Tale,” said Kimara Rouwit, Director of Publishing at Vertigo Games. “We’re incredibly excited to expand our successful publishing partnership with them further.”

About MaskMaker
In an all new mysterious universe from the developers of the award-winning A Fisherman's Tale, you play as a Maskmaker's apprentice and learn the magic of crafting masks - gateways to exploring mysterious realms. From mask-to-mask and puzzle-to-puzzle, explore your way through the "mask realm" to seek Prospero who appears to rule it and ultimately unravel the secret of this identity. Maskmaker provides a captivating VR adventure full of mystery and a sense of constant wonder.
 
Will you become... the MASKMAKER?


Developed by Innerspace VR (A Fisherman’s Tale) and published by Vertigo Games, MaskMaker will debut on Meta Quest 2 on December 15th.
 
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About Innerspace VR
INNERSPACE is a cutting-edge VR creation studio based in Paris, dedicated to leveraging the power of VR to build games and entertainment with a strong creative identity. We imagine gaming mechanics, worlds and stories for casual VR users to enjoy on all major devices, and craft experiences using our own development frameworks. With experiences and games fitting various forms, from online platforms to LBE, and are available in English and Chinese, as well as French and German for selected titles. http://innerspacevr.com
About Vertigo Games
Vertigo Games is a multi-platform VR entertainment company with offices in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Los Angeles, California. With teams in the areas of development, publishing and LBE (location-based entertainment) distribution, the company offers a growing portfolio of quality VR games that provide novel, powerful and full-featured gaming experiences both in- and outside of the home. Current games include Vertigo Studios’ evergreen brand Arizona Sunshine®, critically acclaimed VR titles such as A Fisherman’s Tale, and LBE-exclusive VR experiences like Ghost Patrol® VR. Among six upcoming releases for 2020/2021 is Vertigo Studios’ next VR action FPS game After the Fall®. Vertigo Games is a Koch Media Group company.
About PLAION
PLAION is a leading independent developer and producer of games and entertainment products, with ten development studios and five publishing units based all over the world. Founded in 1994 as Koch Media, PLAION offers a unique breadth of services and solutions, dynamically growing its business to push ourselves and our partners to the forefront in all the segments we operate in.

PLAION runs a multi-label strategy, with fully owned publishing units, such as Deep Silver, Prime Matter, Milestone, Vertigo Games and Ravenscourt, publishing games for consoles, PC and VR platforms across all physical and digital channels.

Additionally - as a global publishing partner - PLAION has formed long-term multinational publishing collaborations with numerous game publishers including Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, Capcom, Focus Multimedia, Giants Software, Koei Tecmo, Paradox, Sega, SNK, Square Enix, Techland, THQ Nordic, Tripwire, Warner Bros and many others.

With its parent company in Höfen, Austria - and the HQ in Munich, Germany - PLAION owns local publishing companies in Germany, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Australia, the United States as well as Japan and Hong Kong.

PLAION owns ten game development studios: Deep Silver Volition (Champaign, IL, USA), Deep Silver Dambuster Studios (Nottingham, UK), Fishlabs (Hamburg, DE), Warhorse Studios (Prague, CZ), Milestone (Milan, IT), Voxler (Paris, FR) , DigixArt (Montpellier, FR), Flying Wild Hog (Warsaw, Kraków, Rzeszów, PL), Free Radical Design (Nottingham, UK) and Vertigo Games (Rotterdam, Amsterdam, NL). Additionally, PLAION collaborates with numerous independent development studios around the world.

Part of PLAION is also PLAION PICTURES, a leading independent film distributor in Europe with a library of more than 1.400 titles. Further business operations include Sola Media, a sales agency and production company for family entertainment, Spotfilm Networx, a multi-channel streaming network, and a sub-label dedicated to Japanese animation.

PLAION also owns the leading video game merchandise company DPI Merchandising (Denver, Roseburg, USA and Munich, DE) and a Quality Assurance Facility in Olomouc, CZ.

PLAION is an Embracer Group company.