Located just north of Dallas, Texas, Stray Kite Studios was founded by industry veterans with credits from some of the most successful and well known franchises in the industry including Borderlands, BioShock, Saints Row, Age of Empires, Fortnite, and Destiny. At Stray Kite Studios we exist to enrich lives by kindling the imagination, building camaraderie, and making memories that last a lifetime. Our mission is to unlock the potential of interactive media to tell the most important story: yours.
Our Strengths
Tech
Highly experienced team of generalists
We’ve put together a diverse engineering team with AAA experience on games like Saints Row, Age of Empires, and Destiny and broad expertise across all areas of game technology from rendering to analytics to GaaS architecture.
Invest heavily in our tools in order to create efficiencies
Generalized game systems can be used across titles
Highly iterative processes that place a lot of value on feedback
Art
Experts in every specialization of game art
With experience on titles like Borderlands, Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, and Halo Wars, we’ve built our art team to have leaders in every art discipline: concept, modeling, tech art, animation, VFX, UI/UX, and environment.
Ambition to innovate and develop never-before-seen-styles
Highly technical art team capable of breaking down complex styles and making them performant
90+ years combined industry experience
Design
From the Creative Direction of BioShock and Borderlands
With the leadership of a creative director with over 30 million units sold on his resume, our designers have a robust sense of vision as well as technical acumen.
Turn visions into worlds, systems, and mechanics that form a cohesive whole
Experts in emergent systems design and player agency
Deep technical knowledge for both rapid prototyping and implementation
