Have you ever looked at the video games industry and said, “Man, that just looks really f’ed up”?

Yeah, we have too. We’ve collectively been laid off eleven times. And there are only two of us.

Dos. Zwei. 二人. Cha.

We’re kinda over it, to be honest. Carnage on the screen is all well and good. Real life human carnage - that’s a different matter entirely. And watching what’s been happening in the western AAA space in the post-pandemic period has been nothing short of horrific.

Watching a bunch of legacy companies respond to emerging market challenges by laying off tens of thousands of our peers (and us!) to juice up quarterly numbers. Watching them announce “strategies” that are entirely dependent on a dwindling list of over-used IP, sugar coated with hackneyed pablum like, “surprise and delight our fans.” Watching them run away from innovation like it was the plague. And watching them continue to fail and continue to double down.

To lift a Noel Gallagher quip, they’re like people with forks in a world of soup.

So, rather than turning ourselves over to our next corporate overlords/future severance granters and saying, “Thank you sir, may we have another?”, we decided to try something a little different.

Well…maybe A LOT different.

Hi! We’re Brock and Justin, and we are AIRLOCK GAMES.

We’ve worked on huge brands. We’ve moved mountains to ship big, unwieldy, AAA projects. But we miss the weird, wonderful magic of taking creative risks. The same risks that used to be the life blood of the industry for every publisher.

We’re here to blow stuff up. To make games that we’re excited to make - namely horror games. And to prove that this industry can do things differently. That it can value things like [gasp] people and fresh ideas. That there are smarter ways to make new experiences for players.

But mostly…we’re here to blow stuff up.

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