Teotl Studios

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Teotl Studios
Type Private
Industry Video game development
FoundedMarch 2010 (2010-03) [1]
Founder Sjoerd De Jong, Markus Arvidsson
Headquarters
Sweden
Website teotlstudios.com

Teotl Studios is an independent video game development studio located in central Sweden. [2]

The studio released its debut-game The Ball in October 2010 and its second game Unmechanical , jointly developed with Talawa Games, in August 2012. Their latest Unreal Engine 4 game is The Solus Project that was co-developed by Grip Digital. [3] [4]

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