Supercell’s Frank Yan, a key figure in this year’s Brawl Stars comeback, has joined stealth startup Antihero as cofounder and chief product officer.
He joins Antihero CEO and former Supercell creative director Brice Laville Saint-Martin and CTO Andre Parodi, formerly technical director at King, at the startup.
The studio is technically still in stealth mode, but according to various social media posts from CEO Brice Laville Saint-Martin, Antihero appears to be gearing up for a seed round and has already been backed by Sisu Game Ventures. It has also received funding from the Finnish government, and has offices in Barcelona and Finland.
Laville Saint-Martin has also previously said that the goal of the firm is to build “socially engaging multiplayer games”. So hiring Supercell, Blizzard and East Side Games veteran Frank Yan, one of the figures who drove Brawl Stars’ remarkable comeback earlier this year, will certainly help.
According to LinkedIn posts, Antihero has previously recruited Scopely, GSN and Ubisoft veteran Hadrian Semroud and ex-Socialpoint developer Gonzalo Martinez, though Semroud no longer works with Antihero.
Yan’s LinkedIn post about his move says: “At Antihero, our mission is clear: to create ‘Games Worth Sharing’ by building multiplayer games that not only to connect people, but allowing them to become lifelong friends.”
We’ve asked the studio for more detail, and will update this article if or when we get it.
