Ember lab team12/18/2023 “We set out to create a game that we wanted to play as brothers. We grew up playing and enjoying action-adventure games, but also tried to lean into our strengths as animators and storytellers,” said Josh Grier, Chief Operating Officer and Producer at Ember Lab. From there, we started building some conceptual mechanics.” “We wanted to craft a tale of forgiveness and play on the theme of rebirth. In Kena: Bridge of Spirits, players step into the role of a young spirit guide named Kena who seeks an ancient sacred mountain shrine that has been taken over by corruption. Accompanied by adorable little creatures known as the Rot, Kena travels the lands surrounding an abandoned village, battling deadly monsters, and guiding lingering spirits to their next life. Kena: Bridge of Spirits’ story began humbly, a conversation over lunch. “We started talking about what it would be like if we made our own game. We could do something special: tell a great story and get people emotionally invested in a world that they connect with,” said Mike Grier in his role as Chief Creative Officer. We wanted to create some of those experiences for others.” “We were doing a lot of great work in the video commercial space and a lot of narrative storytelling with short films, but creatively, many of the team members, and even myself, always found a lot of inspiration coming from the video game space. From there, and after getting some ideas on paper, the Ember Lab team thought they had something great in their hands. People saw what we were doing and they got excited about it,” continued Mike. “So the machine just kept turning and then eventually we landed on the final game that shipped.”Įmber Lab was founded in 2009 by the Grier brothers as an animation and digital content studio. Focusing on creating immersive stories through technical innovation, compelling characters, and cinematic worlds, the Ember Lab portfolio soon sported commercials and animated shorts for The Coca-Cola Company, Hisense, and MLB which have been seen all over the world. In addition to Ember Lab’s work in commercials, they have also created a number of short films including Dust, a Sci-Fi fantasy inspired by anime and classic horror, and Terrible Fate, an animated short inspired by from the game world of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask.
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