Motion Twin

What Motion Twin is

Motion Twin describes itself as a small game development studio based in France, organised as a worker cooperative with no hierarchy, where the members choose their projects, objectives and working structure together. The studio's website states that it was founded in 2001, more than twenty years ago. Its contact details, published on the Dead Cells privacy policy page, give an address of 9 rue Andre Darbon, 33300 Bordeaux, France. The company page describes a team of eight people that makes one game at a time.

The cooperative structure is part of how the studio presents itself rather than a side detail. Motion Twin states that it is a worker cooperative without hierarchy and that decisions on projects and on working structure are taken collectively. Privacy information for Dead Cells describes the game as developed and published by Motion Twin, a cooperative French company, and notes that the iOS and Android versions are published by the studio's partner Playdigious rather than by Motion Twin itself.

Web games before Dead Cells

For more than ten years the studio made browser games rather than commercial PC titles. Motion Twin states that it produced more than 150 web games over that period, ranging from one-week game jams to projects that ran for a year. Those games are no longer available online, and the studio says it has made most of the sources available on GitHub instead. The studio's games page presents Dead Cells alongside that earlier web catalogue, with the older browser titles listed separately from the commercial release.

Dead Cells

Dead Cells was the studio's first PC release. According to the studio's games page, it arrived in 2017 on Steam Early Access, followed in 2018 by Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 versions, and in 2019 by iOS and Android releases. The studio's homepage states that the game has reached more than 11 million players across PC, consoles and mobiles. That same games page describes it as a rogue-lite action platformer with exploration across a large, changing castle, and Motion Twin developed and published the game itself. The console versions followed the PC early access period, with mobile releases handled by a partner.

Dead Cells is the title our database connects to Motion Twin. The studio presents the game as its move from free web games into a commercial release that it develops and publishes, with a partner handling mobile distribution. Store and platform details for the game are hosted on the studio's own game site, which points to the Steam release and to the studio's press kit.

What the studio is working on

The studio's website states that it is currently working on Windblown, described there as its next game. Motion Twin presents the team as deliberately small, at eight people, and says the group makes one game at a time rather than running several projects in parallel. Dead Cells remains the title associated with Motion Twin in our database, and the studio continues to describe itself as a cooperative in which members set the direction of the company together. The site does not name any parent company or outside owner.

Games

• AlphaBounce
• Dead Cells
• Dead Cells: Fatal Falls
• Dead Cells: The Bad Seed
• Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea
• Die2Nite
• La Brute
• Mush
• My Brute
• Windblown

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