Pocketpair clarifies the situation of the "Sleepless Realm: Witches and Curse" project

2025-04-21 19:18:10|Myriagame |source：minecraft skins

Pocketpair, a developer of Phantom Palu, has finally clarified the situation with its upcoming rogue City of Warriors game, which looks a lot like a combination of Death Cell and Hollow Knight -- as one developer said, "We've always been very bad at explaining it."

Long story short, this beautifully graphic "Sleeping: The Witch and the Curse" was developed by a now independent team who were former Pocketpair employees.Although it was initially announced that Pocketpair was only marked as the publisher, the studio's distribution department, Pocketpair Publishing, is actually supporting the work.

As Communications Director and Distribution Manager "Bucky" John Buckley said at the 2025 GDC: "The situation in "The Unsleeping" is a bit complicated."

In detail, according to Barkley, the developer of "Insomnia" Frontside 180 is a group of people who "had worked at Pocketpair" who left because they "wanted to do their own things."Pocketpair was just a surprise success with its popular bio-capture survival game, so he decided to "fund" this project - both because of the abundant funds and because of the original team.Speaking of Frontside, Barkley said, “We know you and love you.”

More complicated, Frontside 180 is still "working in Pocketpair's office because all resources are there" and the team is "basically in quarantine" - a slightly unconventional model of the issuer and the development team.Usually, studios arrange different teams to develop different games in the same space, but these teams usually belong to the same company, and Pocketpair is almost "hosted" Frontside.

In any case, the distribution philosophy of Pocketpair's "funding excellent game development" seems to have started indirectly with "Insomnia" - a game signed at the time of its release, even before the public heard of Pocketpair Publishing.

“It’s a very cute little project, and from the beginning when you’re doing character art, everyone said ‘this is so cute’,” Barkley explained. “We all said ‘you guys should definitely make it.’ We’re looking forward to it and it’s going quite well at the moment.”

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