People Can Fly, Sp. z o.o.
Overview
People Can Fly is a development studio founded in February 2002 and located in Warsaw, Poland. The company is known for the
Painkiller franchise but also collaborated with
Epic Games, Inc. on the PC version of
Gears of War. On 20th August 2007 Epic announced to have obtained a majority interest in the company.
For Epic, People Can Fly assisted with the design of multiplayer maps for
Gears of War 2. In February 2011
Bulletstorm was released, an entirely new first-person shooter franchise. Immediately following the release the team started working on the sequel
Bulletstorm 2, but Epic eventually decided the studio should work on another project, putting the sequel on hold. In May 2012 it was revealed the team is working on
Gears of War: Judgment, a prequel to the first game in the
Gears of War series.
On 13th August 2012 Epic Games announced to have acquired the company. Just the day before Epic confirmed that founder and creative director
Adrian Chmielarz left the company, along with lead artist
Andrzej Poznanski and principal artist
Michal Kosieradzki.
Trivia
The history behind the company's name:
We were trying hard to come up with something good for a couple of days, and even though some proposals sounded catchy, nothing really clicked. Then we came up with this strange idea of checking the names of various ambient/techno/house albums and songs. We figured these people, with the help of more or less legal substances, may have already come up with something good. After a couple of hours, boom, a song called "People Can Fly". Even though we continued our little research, that phrase didn't want to let go and we realized we have a winner. Only later we have found this quote from X-Files' Fox Mulder: "When you dream there are no rules, people can fly, anything can happen". Couldn't have said it better ourselves!
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