The founder said it’s an accomplishment to be a Philly company releasing a major game in stores, as the city’s not really known for being a game developer town ( though the indie scene is strong). “It taught us a lot of lessons about how we’re able to adapt pretty quickly.” “It was stressful at the time, but it’s a testament to the team we had and being able to reconfigure and hit all these milestones,” Madonna said. There were also plenty of technical challenges, King said, like dispersing the tech to test the game on its different platforms like PCs, Xbox or Switch: “Every digital platform has their own set of requirements.” Whereas they’d typically gather around consoles testing the game, they needed to do so remotely, at home. Players can roam the map, where they’ll face puzzles, events and trinkets to create lively game play, he said.Ī post shared by PHL Collective lead up to a project launch is pressure filled for any developer, but back in the spring, as the team was hitting their deadlines and working through bugs, they were forced to go remote because of the pandemic. The game doesn’t follow a fixed point-A-to-point-B arc, said Bren King, art director and co-owner. “We could give the fans of Ben 10 something they hasn’t existed before and give kids an onramp for a great first step into open world genre.” “When this opportunity presented itself, we felt we had a pretty good understanding of what the fans are looking for,” Madonna said. And it’s the first PHL Collective game that involves a release in stores and that’s played in a gaming console. The company recently worked with the cartoon empire on a VR experience at the Cartoon Network hotel in Lancaster, and it’s also produced Tom and Jerry Colossal Catastrophe with the classic characters in a Halloween-themed game.īut the release of Ben 10: Power Trip, which the studio worked on for about two years, is its largest project so far, Madonna said, because of the scale of the game. The relationship with Cartoon Network has existed pretty much since PHL Collective started in 2013, founder and co-owner Nick Madonna told Technical.ly. The storyline includes characters from the show “ Ben 10” and is aimed at a younger audience (with an E10+ rating).
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9, the Old City-based company released Ben 10: Power Trip, a Cartoon Network-licensed open world game where players can roam around, complete tasks, find collectibles and battle enemies in a non-linear fashion. Video game studio PHL Collective probably didn’t expect the 2020 difficulty spike, but the 22-person company just released its largest project to date all the same.
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