Armed and Ready: Combat Waffle Studios Emerges as Leader in VR Gaming

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Production nonetheless from Ghosts of Tabor. Provided photograph.

When Scott Albright created Combat Waffle Studios in 2022, it was finished with a objective: to launch the sport improvement studio’s flagship title, Ghosts of Tabor. “We always knew that Combat Waffle might become something, but our biggest focus was just making it through those first 11 months and hoping to make a paycheck at the end of every month,” says Albright, founder, CEO, inventive director and U.S. Army veteran. “We could be a total flop as long as we had enough users buying the game to where we didn’t have to get rid of any original IP and we made the minimum that we needed to live.”

Three years later Albright and Combat Waffle Studios have finished extra than simply scrape by. Ghosts of Tabor, a VR, first-person extraction shooter, was an prompt hit after its early entry launch in March 2023 and has grossed over $30 million in income to this point. Ghosts of Tabor’s success has coincided with Combat Waffle’s exponential progress. The studio, primarily based in Nokomis, has two different video games in early entry—Grim and Silent North—and extra titles in improvement. In February, Combat Waffle Studios—named after the army jargon for a landmine—moved areas from a 7,000 sq. foot house to a 23,349 sq. foot constructing to accommodate a quickly rising workers and elevated manufacturing calls for.

“We have room to hire an extra 100 people, which is great,” says Albright, who presently leads a workers of fifty staff. “It also gives us room to grow our media team—we currently have a team of eight on staff. We do all of our own motion capture, trailer creation and CGI work in house. Now we have space to bring in voice actors for studio recordings, which is something that no other game VR studio does.”

The elevated measurement, nevertheless, provides Albright a special perspective on management. While his drive has not subsided—the prospect to impression gamers’ lives and create a legacy is what brings him into the workplace as early as 3am some mornings—the scope of his firm is one thing that he’s nonetheless adjusting to. “I like to be involved in everybody’s lives at my company, to know their families and for them to know they can talk to me, because that’s how it was for me in the military. Once you hit 50 people, you can’t do that as much as you’d like to,” admits Albright.

Combat Waffle Studios, 195 W Triple Diamond Blvd, Nokomis, 34275.

Production nonetheless from Ghosts of Tabor. Provided photograph.

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