Thursday, April 22, 2021, Manchester, UK - Merge Games, together with Blackstaff Games and Northern Ireland Screen, is delighted to announce the unique city-management/puzzle game, Buildings Have Feelings Too! is out today on PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Traditional city-sim games involve players building and developing a metropolis for their digital community to inhabit. Buildings Have Feelings Too! tuns the genre on its head with the buildings taking centre stage and the inhabitants reduced to a mere currency in a game that’s all about regeneration and urban planning. Brick by brick buildings must band together as over time communities and neighbourhoods are constructed with new purpose and shared goals. Do you have what it takes to turn this city into the metropolitan empire it yearns to be? Remember, Buildings Have Feelings Too!
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Buildings Have Feelings Too! is proud to have received funding support through Northern Ireland Screen’s Assembler Programme (http://www.northernirelandscreen.co.uk/).
Buildings Have Feelings Too! is available now on PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One priced $19.99 / €19.99 / £14.99.
For more information please contact: Nick Clarkson (nick@mergegames.com).
Press assets can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/by1diqcj0qhjbff/AAAvluvAjiQTWGfuRVOpoquIa?dl=0
About Blackstaff Games
Blackstaff Games is a Belfast-based studio of collaborative designers working across animation, interactive and games content. Blackstaff Games has both Children’s Bafta and Develop nominated projects under its belt. The team focuses on creating exciting new experiences through relatable characters and vibrant worlds. Blackstaff Games believe true creativity comes from their environment and its newest project, Buildings Have Feelings Too!, is no exception, drawing inspiration from the local city and its rich history. More information about Blackstaff Games can be found at www.blackstaffgames.com.
About Merge
Merge is an independent video game publisher and distributor based in Manchester, UK. The company publishes and distributes interactive software worldwide for personal computers and video games consoles. Merge also specializes in publishing collectable games for retail and worldwide digital distribution for independent developers. More information about Merge products can be found at www.mergegames.com.
About Northern Ireland Screen
Northern Ireland Screen is the government-backed lead agency in Northern Ireland for the film, television and games industries, driving global growth through boosting our economy, celebrating our culture and enhancing our children’s education.
In our strategy, Opening Doors (Phase II), launched in 2018, we have a clear vision to transform the screen industries in Northern Ireland, ensuring that we have the strongest screen industry outside of London in the UK and Ireland within 10 years, supported by vibrant and diverse cultural voices that are recognized and celebrated equally at home and abroad.
This mission, to accelerate the development of a dynamic and sustainable screen industry and culture in Northern Ireland, is supported by intervention in the following areas:
- Production and development funding for film, television and digital content;
- A free information service and production support for filming in Northern Ireland, including locations FAM trips for incoming productions; help with sourcing crews and facilities; studio facilities Titanic Studios and Belfast Harbour Studios, as well as excellent alternative build space;
- Marketing Northern Ireland as a worldwide production location and promoting its product and talent;
- Financial assistance for training and skills development;
- Production funding for Irish Language and Ulster-Scots programming;
- Investment in film education, heritage and archive, film festivals and cultural cinema.
Northern Ireland Screen is a company limited by guarantee, currently employing 28 people and governed by a Board of thirteen Directors. The Chairwoman is Rotha Johnston and Kenneth Branagh is Honorary President.
Northern Ireland Screen is funded by the Department for the Economy and by the Department for Communities and is delegated by the Arts Council of NI (ACNI) to administer Lottery funding for film in Northern Ireland.
www.northernirelandscreen.co.uk