We are Twirlbound, a small entertainment game development studio based in Breda, The Netherlands.
We punch above our weight to craft colorful open worlds to transport any player to, and we are dedicated to master that craft.
Our nimble team consists of around 15 people in which everyone knows each other’s strengths well, allowing us to do more with less.
Our values
Highly involved and broadly interested
We embrace the multidisciplinary nature of our team members and encourage stepping over the boundaries of one’s responsibility to learn from and engage with all fields of game development. Everyone should feel free to speak their mind, inquire about decisions made and build on each other’s ideas.
We find a way
Through a strong sense of ownership over the content we make, everyone understands that success is in our own hands, rendering us a responsible, dependable and reliable team to work in and with. We pride ourselves in doing more with less, embracing ambition with a small but everlasting team.
Work hard, stay playful
In our friendly and informal environment, we are able to make anyone feel welcome while retaining focus on our work. We maintain a heartwarming, playful atmosphere where kindness and respect lead to committed, productive work.
Healthy people make healthy games
Even though we’re committed to our work, it should never overtake the assurance of well-being, protected through a strong awareness and an environment where this can be discussed and supported. We work by the realization that if we don’t have a good work-life balance, our games will suffer for it.
History
Twirlbound was founded on the 6th of August 2013 by high school friends Marc Peyré and Matthijs van de Laar while they were both in game dev school, studying for a bachelor’s degree in programming and design & production respectively. During this time, they dabbled in the art and business of game development, while looking for more partners in crime to hit the ground running with their company after graduation.
With Pine as their last school project and first commercial project, they continued development on their ambitious open world title, all the while they reached out to a few more ex-classmates who had now gotten some important AAA experience on their portfolios.
The 7 of Twirlbound were finally ready to launch their now award-winning open world title in October 2019 to great success. The team knew that the genre and technical challenge of action adventure games is what they wanted to become good at, and they started development on their second title soon after.