Reaching the Peak of Potential
Copa Gaming
Copa Gaming is a breakaway business from Copa Cymru, a BAFTA Award-winning business with over 13 years of experience in film and TV.
During the pandemic, they successfully pivoted into animations for their clients and naturally evolved into the game dev scene, and have begun work on their procedurally generated detective game The Department.
Copa Gaming is a new game development studio based out of Cardiff, who are working on their first game The Department.
"Having Welsh language and themes present in our game and what we produce is super important... there's a great interest outside of Wales for Welsh themes, characters and stories."
Osian Williams - Founder
"This methodology behind creating stories and creating the game is still being developed, so being a part of that from the ground is great."
Connor Simmons - Narrative Designer
"The support from Barclays has been invaluable. They have a specialist games team and it just helps us open so many doors."
Osian Williams - Founder
In addition to its unusual origins, Copa Gaming has something else it believes will help it stand out from the crowd: its games will be, to quote Williams, “uniquely Welsh.”
We interviewed Copa Gaming as part of our Games Industry Report 2024. Find out more below:
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