Mytona
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| Industry | Video games |
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| Founded | 2012 |
| Founders | Alexey and Afanasiy Ushnisky[1] |
| Headquarters | New Zealand |
| Website | www |
Mytona is a video game company headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand.
History
[edit]Mytona was founded in 2012 by brothers Alexey and Afanasey Ushnitsky in Yakutsk, Russia and has offices in Singapore, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Georgia and Serbia.[2][3] The brothers said to have started developed casual PC games in 2004 and by 2020, they stated to have 1,000 employees, mostly in Yakutsk.[4]
Games
[edit]Seekers Notes
[edit]In 2015, Mytona released a hidden object game titled Seekers Notes. It is a mystery genre game set in the town of Darkwood. Users play as the Seeker, the chosen one, the possessor of a powerful artefact — the Magical Map, and the aim is to save Darkwood from an evil curse.
Ravenhill: Hidden Mystery
[edit]This hidden object game was released in 2015.[5] The game was shut down in 2020.
Cooking Diary
[edit]In 2018, Mytona released a time management game. In 2019, Cooking Diary[6] won "People's Choice Award" at the 15th International Mobile Gaming Awards.[7] in San Francisco. In 2020, Cooking Diary won "People's Voice" at the Webby Awards 2020.[8] In October 2020, Mytona collaborated with the streaming service Netflix, resulting in the Cooking Diary x Stranger Things Halloween update.[9]
Propnight
[edit]In 2021, the company published the 4v1 physics-based prop hunt survival Propnight,[10] a multiplayer game, for the developer Fntastic. The game was shut down in 2024.
The Day Before
[edit]Mytona published on Steam an MMO survival game The Day Before developed by Fntastic, which was panned by critics.[11] The game was released in 2023 and shut down soon after its release.
Mytonaverse
[edit]At the end of 2021, the company launched its own metaverse, Mytonaverse.[12]
Other games
[edit]In 2023, Mytona released two new projects: Outfire (a multiplayer competitive top-down shooter) and Chef & Friends (a time management game).[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ "Two Siberian twin brothers in New Zealand want to build the metaverse". 10 December 2021.
- ^ "Even in Siberia, you can make a game with 30M downloads in today's global game market". VentureBeat. 2015-10-27. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
- ^ Obedkov, Evgeny (2022-06-21). "Report: up to 2500 Russian devs lost jobs over last month following mass layoffs at top game studios". Game World Observer. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
- ^ "GI 100 | Game Changers -- Part Nine". GamesIndustry.biz. 17 December 2020.
- ^ "15th IMGA - RAVENHILL®: HIDDEN MYSTERY".
- ^ "4 best cooking game apps". Softonic. 19 September 2018.
- ^ "Cooking Diary fans vote MyTona for People's Choice Award!". 11 April 2019.
- ^ "NEW Webby Gallery + Index". webbyawards.com.
- ^ Partleton, Kayleigh; Writer, Staff (13 October 2020). "MyTona teams with Netflix to bring Stranger Things to Cooking Diaries". pocketgamer.biz. Retrieved 2023-05-13.
- ^ Purslow, Matt (2021-10-15). "Propnight Is a New Multiplayer Horror That Crosses Dead By Daylight With Goosebumps". IGN. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ^ The Day Before: Exclusive New Gameplay Trailer and More! - IGN, 15 October 2021, retrieved 2022-03-18
- ^ Obedkov, Evgeny (2021-12-09). "Developer and publisher MYTONA soft-launches its own metaverse". Game World Observer. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
Further reading
[edit]- Черникова, Настя (8 April 2015). "Якутский квест: Братья Ушницкие зарабатывают миллионы на играх". Секрет фирмы (in Russian).
- "Якутяне в соцсетях спорят о том, любят ли братья Ушницкие из MYTONA родину". Sakhaday.ru (in Russian). 23 March 2022.
- Keall, Chris (12 December 2023). "The Day Before, published by Auckland's MyTona, was the world's most anticipated video game. Four days after launch, it was shut down". The New Zealand Herald.
