Ama Studios SA

Ama Studios was a game development studio based in Gosselies, Charleroi (Belgium). It was founded in 2009 by Yves Grolet, previously with 10Tacle Studios Belgium, but best known as one of the co-founders of Appeal S.A. responsible for Outcast (1999).

The studio's first title was Fighters Uncaged (2010), a launch title for Microsoft's Kinect peripheral and made for publisher Ubisoft. The thirty people who worked on the game were all freelancers along with the fellow Belgian studio Fishing Cactus (also founded by former employees of 10Tacle Studios Belgium). The game was met with poor reviews, with an average score of about 30%.

A second Kinect title, Self-Defense Training Camp, was released in November 2011. It was announced only a month before, in October 2011. It was met with equally disappointing reviews, scoring a critic average of about 20%.

The team then worked on a third title, Duality, initially announced to be released in 2012. On 3rd July 2013 it was announced that Duality would become the official successor to Outcast as Yves Grolet, along with the other two original Appeal founders Franck Sauer and Yann Robert, bought back the rights from Atari. Sauer and Robert would work for AMA through their own company Fresh3D S.A.R.L.

The company was owned by Advanced Mobile Applications Ltd, a sister company to Ubisoft, Gameloft, Guillemot Corporation and Longtail Studios.

In 2013 the name Ama Studios was no longer used. The company separated from mother company Advanced Mobile Applications and resurfaced as Daoka SCRL teaming up with a number of other developers who previously worked at Appeal but then established Fresh3D, to collaborate on projects.